We've been groomed. We've been lied to. We've been manipulated.
It took me a long time, probably 3-4 years working in the 'business world' to realize I hated every single task of every single day. Once I 'got it', maybe 10 months into the job as GM--then it became work I despised.
You know what actually gives me pleasure? Seriously? When I scoop up the dog poop off of my lawn knowing no one will step in it. There is an immediate reward for honest work. I love mowing my lawn. In 2017, we refinanced our home. I had to replace some stairs, laminate flooring, one toilet, and a ton of other stuff. I had NEVER used a power tool before then. (Thanks public schools...)
It was so exhausting--but I learned every day. I had to figure out how to do a nose at the top step & the landing--couldn't figure it out for a few days--then BAM! I had an idea. It was hard, but I did it.
I slipped into a coma each night for about 6 weeks while I did all this remodeling--and loved it. Loved myself, my wife, my family--I was a better human being because I was doing something productive.
It makes sense that sex is the final 'nail in the coffin' of civilization. I voted for legal weed and gay marriage in 2012. I'd take them both back if I could. Slippery slopes, it turns out, are often vertical. Wanted to be cute and say, "the slope of slippery slopes is zero.."...but I'm a liberal arts guy and would have screwed it all up.
Empty sex is the point. Empty lives is the point. Depression/Anxiety is the point.
Lies: Go to college. Trades are for losers. Don't get married. Sleep around. Take the pill. Take the vaccine. Eat more carbs. Fat makes you fat. Take this pill. Oh, I see, you are, "_________________" DSMV diagnosis--take this pill for the rest of your life, and you'll be normal. Statins. Take this prescription if you're fat. Take this if you're skinny.
I encourage everyone to re-read (or listen...I'm an Audible early adopter) "Brave New World". They describe 'erotic play' for children under 5. That and SOMA (could be weed, internet, games, alcohol--but certainly your phone) that makes you high without a hangover. Screw, get drunk, sleep--produce at inane factory...
We have been and continue to be groomed, lied to, and manipulated. We are living in a post truth, post betrayal America.
One of the commenters on Steve Sailer's blog, after the Obergefell decision, asserted that gay marriage was the starting line, not the finish line. 100% correct. The Holy Grail for the sexual revolutionaries is to eliminate the age of consent. It's coming, if we sit idly by.
Totally, heard a gay commentator say one time, "Make no mistake, it is and always will be about lowering the age of consent." They run out of holes to use, always wanting something not warn out.
12 years ago, I would rolled my 'libertarian-ish' eyes and said, "Pedophilia?!?! Seriously? Come on man...this is so gay people can see their lovers/partners in the hospital..."
That libertarian-ish guy has had his thoughts and beliefs pulverized with reality. Read "Chasing the Scream" by Johann Hari--all about the war on drugs. Again, legalize it all...
Portland, Seattle, SF, all big cities...and I bet we can correlate the increase in drug ODs to legal weed.
I saw somewhere that the per capita ODs were less in states with legal weed--but I'm curious about national 'apathy' measurements. Anyway--it is all by design. They want us fat, drunk/high, stupid, titilated and distracted.
And let's not forget they altered the education system top to bottom to ensure total compliance...
This was to ensure the mob would not unhinge... as we are exterminated.
And as The Plan is reaching its final phase ... we are seeing no violent push back... those who oppose it are busy typing away on Substack (which is why they gave us Substack)
oh the cabal want the violent "push back" and they'll false flag it if needed. The violence is exactly what they want. What they don't want is to be completely ignored and made irrelevant as we invent new systems without them.
It’s not yet time to push back though. I suspect within 18-24 months this will happen, and when it does, those who do will be isolated and shunned by the majority who wish for it. The opening salvos of the pushback were Killdozer, and the guy who flew his Cessna into the irs office in Austin Texas around 2002-3(I don’t exactly remember what year but he actually entered his reasoning for his actions to one of the talk radio stations in Austin which was quickly overshadowed by the calling the man crazy). The problem is people who lean to the left grasp to talking points and never go further or try to figure out why the talking points are being used. Centralists will lean towards whoever is in charge and who really cares what fence sitters think. The majority of those who lean to the right are more concerned to what the optics appear to be that they will throw anyone under the bus who doesn’t meet the approval of the others within their social circle. Which is why it’s so easy for the government to stamp out pushback. Call someone who in another language/culture would be titled mujahideen by citizens a crackpot white supremacist terrorist and the American public will turn their collective back on that person in a nanosecond. For nothing more than the reasons I stated above.
Thanks John...I've had a freaking cold for the past 10 days or so...driving me crazy. I think I'm getting well, then I do something productive--then start getting chills or something cold/flu-ish.
Could be the angst of 10 days of very limited PT sneaking into my thoughts/writings.
The decline in the morality of decisions made by ordinary citizens in their personal lives (that are 100% under their own control) is a depressing development for any well-adjusted person to contemplate.
Yes. And they start very small. One bite of an apple.
We cheated in school because it was more fun trying to figure out a good cheating program than actually learning the material--also--it was so easy that we were generally copying our answers for my buddies who struggled.
So, for years in school, I thought it was fun to 'beat the system', only harming myself.
It takes a while to reflect and learn, which is why I now think Huxley was more of a prophet than Orwell--they want us high & titillated. So much easier to control, and zero reflection is possible when high.
However, as I'm redoing the Bible in a Year, the Old Testament is just a constant shitshow of us screwing it up again and again and again...
Is this on Substack? I'll check it out. Thank you.
I honestly thought legalization of drugs could be a game changer for Conservatives--recognizing the damage of over-jailing people, and eliminating the cost of the war on drugs (personnel cost for enforcement that is)--but holy cow, people are simply being devoured. I could not have been more wrong.
Addiction is no freaking joke. I came off of nicotine in 2023--couldn't sleep for about 3 months. Was an absolute shitshow. Anxiety surfaced. BP skyrocketed.
Actually, Dr John Henry, the starting line, in the legal arena, was probably the 19th Amendment.
Once they had the vote, it took them a while to gather their forces, but they've been dragging us full speed ahead, down the slippery slope, ever since.
the cabal 100 uses legitimate conscious movements to their own ends. They find a way to redirect the folks who are in the streets about something important and real straight down their dark alleys toward their anti-human agenda. It's hard to name a movement that hasn't been subverted in this way. They're experts at it with probably hundreds of years of success. We need far better discernment to understand the difference and the signs of the redirect.
Wonderful comment. I assign Brave New World and 1984 to my civics students every year. During the Bush and early Obama years, they all gravitated to 1984. Then they started seeing more parallels in BNW. Even during the Trump years (despite the "Trump is a dictator" drumbeat they were all exposed to) they still thought BNW was more frightening, and that has only increased since then. Every year someone volunteers, "social media=soma" and there is nearly unanimous agreement. They also say that about the 2 Minutes of Hate in 1984, but it's BNW that they find more disturbing, especially the ending, which always surprises me.
My students do not trust institutions of any kind. What they fail to realize is that, by getting their news from Instagram and TikTok and YouTube, they're just trusting different institutions. But govt and corporations and churches... that trust is shot and isn't coming back.
I applaud you for continuing to assign those books. I think it is safe to say that less than 15% of the people under 40 haven't read either. They think Big Brother is a reality TV show.
I found the discussion between the 'savage' and the 'president' (or whatever title he had) to be one of the most fascinating pieces of writing of all time. Close to Ayn Rand's rant about the value of money in Atlas Shrugged (the copper mine guy, Fransisco or something--anyway, super interesting about how it is the only way transactions can be honorable--she makes a great argument).
I think I'm still trying to process my own feelings of betrayal from our govt--but I agree there cannot be any trust coming back--unless the own up to the lies. I don't see that happening. Too much to risk...and sadly, it is endemic in ALL institutions.
In some ways I'm like your students, now getting all my info from podcasts, substack, --and a few news aggregators. At least I have the time to sniff out who I want to follow...
"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."
"In fact," said Mustapha Mond, "you're claiming the right to be unhappy."
"I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."
"Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen to-morrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind." There was a long silence.
"I claim them all."
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That chapter (between John Savage and the Mustapha Mond) is one of the most important pieces of 20th century literature. It's why you slog through those hideous 3-way, simultaneous but split, conversations that (I think) end chapter 3.
The "pursuit of happiness" is impossible without the right to be unhappy. Maybe I'll write-in John Savage on my ballot for President this year.
It's hard for people today to comprehend how universal support for eugenics was in the early 20th century. In 1923, announcing to your upper-middle-class friends that you disapproved of "sterilization of the unfit" was the social equivalent of questioning whether "transwomen are women" in 2023.
Once the Holocaust was discovered, the entire ruling class collaborated to memory-hole their complicity in the movement that had spawned that atrocity.
You da man, Brian. I’ve taught myself to do everything I can. Fix my own vehicles, do all my own house work and Reno’s, including building my own deck furniture.
Best nights sleep I ever get are after a weekend of working with my hands. I have a job in a once proud profession that is currently being choked to death with ESG/DEI and general Wokism.
Thanks Beezy, but not exactly da man...it was learning out of necessity--which is quite a motivator. I'm a retired Soldier. Spent 8 years active duty while completing undergrad/grad school-then leapt out at the world to take it over--and found it empty.
I stayed in the National Guard-mostly as a hobby-but after 9/11 was able to return to active duty in the Guard. It was great--all the Army without all the moves.
Retired in 2015, and would likely be under investigation within 48-72 hours of being back on active duty.
ESG/DEI/WOKE is not just misguided, I'm pretty certain it comes directly from the pits of Hell. Seriously. It is evil.
I know you are 100% correct. This is a spiritual war and we had better begin identifying and learning to use spiritual weapons if we have any hope of enduring. All glory to God.
I ran a half marathon a couple years ago. I’m not a great runner, but it was a goal. I was at the back of the field. I relearned that I can endure a not insignificant amount of physical discomfort in pursuit of a goal; something I learned at 18 in army basic training. I finished, I achieved my goal. But fuck me running, it was
So
Fucking
Boring!
This past April, our basement flooded. For five+ hours, while my wife was running around the county piecing together a pump system to use in our too-small sump, I vacuumed water out of the hole and dumped it into the slop sink. About two hours in, the 5-gallon shop vac bucket slipped out of my cold-stiff hands and shattered on the basement floor. I had to switch to the 1-gallon vacuum. From then on, I was working constantly to keep ahead of the inflow. I was soaked in cold water from my nipples to my toes. There was nothing else to do but vacuum water and dump it, over and over and over.
There’s something about being fully committed to a single purpose; no choices, no options, no excuses.
Yeah, but like Chris wrote about last week--what we see and what we hear are two different things. It is constant. Like his Ground & Pound essay--but about EVERYTHING.
It is nearly impossible to remain unscathed in this battle.
You are so on point with this comment. As years go by, it has become more and more apparent that those at the top of the pyramid have intended this all along. I have not yet read 'Brave New World' but reading that it describes 'erotic play' for children under 5 set off yet more alarm bells. I read last week somewhere that the WHO is including in its new guidelines for sex ed just such a recommendation for pre-school through K children; I have also recently learned that the 4-year-old granddaughter of a friend had another 4-year-old sidle up to her during nap time and put his hand down her pants. Where does a pre-schooler get ideas like this? The offending child's parents apparently told the victim's parents that they had 'no hard feelings' that that they had brought this to the attention of the administration at the quite expensive private Pre-school.
I am convinced that much of the psychotic behavior that I see now, especially with regard to the transgender tsunami that has occurred in just the last decade can be directly attributed to the early and constant exposure to all things sexual. A lot of this started with the Kinsey Institute in the 40's, and the push to normalize all of this 24/7/365 obsession with sex has continued unabated since.
A difficult read, but an enlightening book is 'The Last Closet', by Moira Greyland. It is the author's story of persistent sexual (as well as physical and emotional) abuse at the hands of both parents. She was not the only victim of their abuse. Her mother had been repeatedly raped by her father, and ultimately became a lesbian. Her father was a serial pedophile, who she ultimately reported to police after catching him in the act. He died in prison. In her introduction to the book she says this:
"I could never tell my parents that their revolving door of sexual insanity made me wish that I was dead. I could never, ever admit my opposition to the way they chose to live. My feelings, my anguish, and my pain all had to be locked safely away in a closet."...
"What is The Last Closet? It is the last thing I am not supposed to be allowed to think or to feel, is the bundle of facts that lead me to oppose gay marriage and nontraditional relationships. I know from personal experience that these relationships are social constructs which only exist to create sexual anarchy and to confuse sex with love. Since sex is good, freedom is good, and love is good, sexual libertines believe we should provide sex, freedom, and love all to our children.
"And then hope they don’t kill themselves as a result."
Thank you Victoria. I encourage you to read Brave New World, as well as 1984, Animal Farm, Atlas Shrugged, Fahrenheit 451, any and all of the mid-20th century dystopian novels. Actually, get a Libby account or Audible--you can listen as 1.5, 2x the speed and tear through some books.
They were all prophets. No one was exactly correct, but I think Huxley is closest to the truth with titillation & intoxication as the primary 'weapons' of the elites. It seems we are in a hybrid of Huxlean, Orwellian, and Randian nightmares.
I tried to re-read 1984 during the summer of love (2020), and had to put it down. It was too accurate. Only Orwell had not predicted the corporate world would be so eager to join the tyranny.
For some reason I was thinking about the poster of Farah Fawcett the other day. Oh, someone posted it on X about how she was the most beautiful woman of all time...
I remember that poster. I'm GenX. Charlie's Angles was essentially soft-porn for prepubescent/teen-age boys. Not like we need any more help in thinking about sex ALL OF THE TIME. I did not have that poster on my wall, but some of my buddies did--this is in like 7th grade!
Also, I started chewing tobacco around that age. I was able to purchase chewing tobacco when I was 11 years old--that damn habit took 40 years to undo--but it was this permissiveness. Liquor store owner wanting to sell a product, not worried about what he was doing to his own community.
It was a slow nudging of the Overton Window over the past 50+ish years. Normalize everything aberrant, make the healthy (values/virtues that have served mankind for millennia) seem quant/silly/old-fashioned--and Shazam--we have an 800% increase in GenZ kids 'identifying' as somewhere on the LTGBTQ+whatever spectrum. Just do the math...we'd have never populated the world in 1 in 5 deliberately pulled themselves out of the mating game...
But, talk to a leftist (willfully blind, otherwise 'normie') and they will answer, "well, now there is no stigma..."
800%!!!!!! You've gotta be outta your fbomb mind!!!
I'll look up that book. Moira sounds like a brave woman. Thanks again for the kind words and interesting post.
Moira quietly became a Christian even in the midst of all that and became caretaker to her mother - the woman who so cruelly abused her all those years. That takes conviction and strength.
This is tough. I've literally been an advocate to legalize weed since I was sophomore/junior in high school doing the YMCA's youth in government...
The Drug War does suck. Nearly every drug was made illegal was pointed at one minority population or another. It is evil in its genesis, for sure.
We are 12 years with legal weed in Washington.
My libertarian-ish roots (truly just a problem with authority most of my life, wrapped into a political philosophy of stay out of my life..) have come up against the facts that I'm seeing on the ground--and some deeper intuitions that I cannot truly say have any evidence--but more of a pattern I'm beginning to sense.
Previously I'd say there were 'victimless crimes'. I no longer believe this. Everything is contagious. Everything. Our thoughts, behaviors, emotions--all contagious. When someone in Boise, Idaho cheats on his taxes--I believe (again, no evidence--but tinglings) it is then easier for me to cheat in Tacoma.
The crimes against non-violent drug users were egregious, shit still are egregious--but what we have now is a photographic negative of the broken window theory. Now everything is permissive, and the likelihood violence or other nefarious behaviors are much more likely to happen.
AND--if all the damn world is stoned, no one cares! We have to care.
Always, it is tough, but I don't think we (US population) are emotionally responsible/mature enough for legal pot. I'm not sure exactly where I'd come down --but I do not like what I have witnessed so far.
Brian, thank you for the thoughtful reply. I too am rethinking stuff. I am really uneasy about, for example, the "harm reduction" stuff (like in Vancouver). It seems to follow a pattern. Unleash free drugs to whoever shows up, the area falls to druggies who flock there from all over, with all the attendant squalor, then crack down because it all gets out of hand. Rinse and repeat.
Then, there is weed. Colorado has gone all legal, which is mostly cool. But... the capitalist modus operandi is all wrong for drugs. Capitalism is good at churning more of everything, and some things, we are better off having less. The Colorado "cannabis industry (!)" is complaining of a slump, people are not buying more and more! Jeez. That should be a good thing, no?
And like you say, the feel of it is wrong. It should not be "oh now anything goes."
On the other hand, people were not mature enough for the Prohibition to end. But they came around. I hope we keep talking about this. I don't want to go back to people's lives being ruined for a dime bag of weed.
I live in Oklahoma where cannabis is legal. It was intended to be a boon for the local people. Instead, the Chinese swooped in and bought the cannabis world and then paid the politicians to regulate the heck out of everything and make doing business so expensive, no Oklahoman could stay in the business.
Oklahoma has now become the leading illegal supplier of cannabis to all other states and much of the rest of the world. All the other ills that organized crime are involved in such as child sex trafficking, etc., have placed Oklahoma at the top of the heap.
The Chinese already owned the Native American casinos so those are used for trafficking of all sorts as well as cash cows for the Chinese investors.
Oklahoma is primarily populated with sweet naive people. Perfect to run this sick crap through without many noticing. Especially now that so many are high day in and out. You can't walk through the Walmart in the little town I live in without the tangy smell of pot filling your nose aisle after aisle.
AND, this is a poor little town. And the weed is expensive.
How awful! I am not sure who does most of the business in Colorado, but mostly it's not the locals either. This was a big mistake from the get-go. Sounds like the Chinese are indeed taking over everything....
Colorado has a very lucrative export business to other states as well. (And most of it goes out from illegal (unpermitted) farms that just don't care! It shows that problems caused by the drug war cannot be all cured while the drug war continues elsewhere.
Smoke in shops? Why is it not covered by the non-smoking laws? I am not noticing it here in CO.
Now you might say “yeah but these are hard drugs not lower level stuff like marijuana”. Alex has written extensively about the harmful and deadly effects of today’s industrial produced, high THC product being distributed today.
Randy, I saw it. Problem with Berenson is, he's a fanatical drug warrior. You can't get decent info from someone who takes that stance, unfortunately. It's hard to get creative and even-handed info on this topic.
No, that's not what I meant. It makes him heavily biased, a lot of the time.
Normally, when people are given clean drugs of certain dosage, overdoses go down, steeply. But as he says, giving people an out with naloxone, they take risks outside of the "safe space" provided by the activists.
erin, thanks for the clarification on your thoughts, I appreciate it. A problem, as I see it, is that people who are addicted to harmful drugs typically don't stop at a "certain dosage" since once they are at that level they need more to reach the high they are seeking so they up the amount/dosage.
I will readily admit that this is a very challenging topic and one that doesn't come with easy or simple solutions. I am of the belief that we should treat people in this conditions as "patients" and not "criminals". This country's whole approach on this topic has been "ass backwards" for well over sixty years.
These people can't even fuck without turning into another type of dreary DEI seminar where everyone just repeats "I'm ok, you're ok" and "I'm special, you're special" in sterile jargon while constantly neurotically making sure they haven't accidentally uttered an unapproved word or thought or stepped on someone's ego. The polyamorists of Brooklyn make the polygamists of Utah seem like unhinged libertines on vacation at the Playboy mansion.
Social Justice is really starting to reek like a death cult at the end of the world, their ideal state seems to be to become one uniform undistinguishable lump of Nietzschean Last They/Thems who are happy to die off in misery as long as all feelings and pronouns are respected.
Nice comparison between polyamory (of the Brooklyn hipster kind) and polygamy (of the Utah Mormon kind). I know scores of hipster leftists who would scoff at the idea of having multiple brides, yet not bat an eye at the idea of having multiple girlfriends/boyfriends/insert-neogender-of-your-choice.
Excellent. But these people are the tools of the Billionaire-Bosheviks. I think this is a huge strategic mistake on part of the B-Bs. Like with most everything else they do, they look to capitalize on others’ ideas. they bought these pseudointellectual Marxists and adapted their bullshit half baked social engineering theories so they could make even more money and have more control. And that has worked. But the wokesters are neurotic, weak, and frangible. They will not endure any kind of sustained opposition, especially involving personal risk. It’s a self-limited strategy and it’s starting to backfire.
The problem is not the sex toy. The problem is these peoples’ brains are plugged. Their perspective is overwhelmingly self-referential. They can’t find anything of interest outside hedonic pursuits and what they ironically consider “safety”, which apparently now means turning your life over to Machiavellian government officials and pharmaceutical company executives.
* Appoint puppet leaders who can be controlled by blackmail
* Abolish all rights and freedoms, except the right of force by us
* Sacrifice people (including Jews sometimes) when necessary
* Eliminate religion; replace it with science and materialism
* Control the education system to spread deception and destroy intellect
* Rewrite history to our benefit
* Create entertaining distractions
* Corrupt minds with filth and perversion
* Keep the masses in poverty and perpetual labor
* Use gold to manipulate the markets, cause depressions etc.
* Introduce a progressive tax on wealth
* Replace sound investment with speculation
* Make long-term interest-bearing loans to governments
* Give bad advice to governments and everyone else
"I care not what puppet is placed on the throne of England to rule the Empire, ... The man that controls Britain's money supply controls the British Empire. And I control the money supply." Nathan Rothschild https://twitter.com/KirbySommers/status/1567945974537936897
“Once a nation parts with the control of its currency and credit, it matters not who makes the nation’s laws. … Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most sacred responsibility, all talk of the sovereignty of parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.” — Mackenzie King, Canadian Prime Minister 1935-1948.
"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men." - Woodrow Wilson, after signing the Federal Reserve into existence
“Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.” ― Woodrow Wilson
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. …We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.” – Edward Bernays – Propaganda
I have suddenly, due to your comment, realized that, yes, I can put the word butt up against the word plug and, yes, an image comes to mind, but then I’m stopped short. What comes next? Please refrain from answering me.
And "What began as sexual thrill-seeking led unexpectedly to self-discovery."......I think that must be a new, more trendy, way of talking about masturbation?
People are seeking to fill a spiritual emptiness with the misuse of their bodies and relationships. This will not result in happiness and fulfilment for them or society. We have to nourish our spiritual lives. Our bodies serve their particular purpose and our proper devotion to God would center us on the narrow path which provides joy and peace.
Nice comment, alwayscurious. I see "the misuse of their bodies and relationships" among so many of my fellow NYC millennials, and have come to the same conclusion that it is an impulsive and self-destructive response to spiritual hunger. The truly sad thing is that they don't seem to notice the trap that they're in and they soothe their upsets in life with more of what caused them to be ill at ease in the first place.
Even if you’re an atheist, you can see that the Commandments are logical limitations on individual behavior that assist in fostering a flourishing & positive society. Ergo, those whose life ambition is to be perpetually avant garde find them anathema.
Everyone is equally adjusted! All adjustments are the same when you really think about it which makes them all equally valid. And in that case, there are no adjustments!
Great article and one that makes me profoundly sad that people are being fooled into believing that that that type of lifestyle leads anywhere but to hell. Further, since I read the article and the links entirely, I have to admit, that I feel like that a$$hole that has to stare at the deadly accident on the other side of I-95 so much so that he causes traffic to slow 30 mph while he looks at the carnage.
One of my daughters had a friend in this kind of relationship. It started as a couple, then became a “thruple”, then the original girl became a boy, then the new boy found a friend … From the moment I met the girl at the center of it, I knew she was unbalanced. When I heard about all their meetings, shrink appointments and other therapy, I realized they were all unbalanced.
Bringing another person into an obviously flagging relationship that neither person will admit is flagging because they are too immature/shallow/disordered/selfish(need I go on??) what could go wrong😳
It all just sounds like so much WORK. They make it seem like a burden rather than a pleasurable release.
It often seems like there's a certain kind of person who finds anything conventional or routine to be anathema, and the increasing public platforming of ever more fringe sexual practices just increases the urge to establish oneself farther out on the range of biologically plausible behaviors. If polycules(what a dumb fucking word) ever become anything that hints of mainstream I'm sure that Ms Winter will quickly move along to something even more outlandish. It's sex as a statement, and there's a certain performative nature to it.
Given that polyamorists all appear to be part of the Always Online set, and that the core dynamic of Always Online subcultures is, along the lines of what you described, gradual progress toward extremism via constant one-upsmanship (to both distinguish oneself from the rank & file and to perform fealty & purity), we can be sure that even if polyamory doesn’t become mainstream per se, before long those practicing it will convince themselves that it’s no longer edgy & subversive enough and will invent some new arrangement. There are only so many possibilities for novel transgressiveness remaining though, so whatever the new thing ends up being, it’s likely to involve animals or children.
You're right, the Always Online thing is definitely a factor. A certain set of assumptions and views that don't develop naturally in the real world. And I agree about the animals or children.
My guess is a soft attack on the idea of ages of consent, at least as far as teens go. It's a natural progression from the gender affirming care (i.e., sex changes) for pubescent kids, and dovetails nicely with the general sort of idealization of youth. Certainly if you're old enough and self aware enough to undergo irreversible body alterations of an unproven nature then you're old enough to bang, right?
Easily old enough to be DTF, yes. Having grotesque non-functioning facsimiles of genitalia and permanently losing the ability to reach orgasm after bottom surgery is kind of a drag though. Actually we may have just answered the question of why these cells of polyamorists are having so little sex.
An endless river of shame. This is all an attack on the family. Relationally retarded souls looking for a pseudo intimacy fix only to be left in want. One soul is an infinite source of wonder and fulfillment, but it requires humility and a servant’s heart to unlock its secrets.
"Winter recounts her experiments with butt plugs, fisting and anal intercourse, and catalogs her extramarital relationships —" Got excited there for a second when I misread extramarital as extraterrestrial. Guess that will be next. Great column.
Way back in 2004 an ugly woman I knew, jolly and slightly tipsy, introduced me to her fat and pale male lover and then their equally unattractive female third wheel. “We’re lovers!” she said proudly, handing me, I kid you not, their threesome business card. With three names and three phone numbers.
I find myself filled with sadness when I read about all the poly-whatevers having sexual encounters with all the whomevers because I know that what they’re lacking, and desperately seeking, but will never find on that particular path, is the intimacy that is at the heart of a true one on one relationship.
We've been groomed. We've been lied to. We've been manipulated.
It took me a long time, probably 3-4 years working in the 'business world' to realize I hated every single task of every single day. Once I 'got it', maybe 10 months into the job as GM--then it became work I despised.
You know what actually gives me pleasure? Seriously? When I scoop up the dog poop off of my lawn knowing no one will step in it. There is an immediate reward for honest work. I love mowing my lawn. In 2017, we refinanced our home. I had to replace some stairs, laminate flooring, one toilet, and a ton of other stuff. I had NEVER used a power tool before then. (Thanks public schools...)
It was so exhausting--but I learned every day. I had to figure out how to do a nose at the top step & the landing--couldn't figure it out for a few days--then BAM! I had an idea. It was hard, but I did it.
I slipped into a coma each night for about 6 weeks while I did all this remodeling--and loved it. Loved myself, my wife, my family--I was a better human being because I was doing something productive.
It makes sense that sex is the final 'nail in the coffin' of civilization. I voted for legal weed and gay marriage in 2012. I'd take them both back if I could. Slippery slopes, it turns out, are often vertical. Wanted to be cute and say, "the slope of slippery slopes is zero.."...but I'm a liberal arts guy and would have screwed it all up.
Empty sex is the point. Empty lives is the point. Depression/Anxiety is the point.
Lies: Go to college. Trades are for losers. Don't get married. Sleep around. Take the pill. Take the vaccine. Eat more carbs. Fat makes you fat. Take this pill. Oh, I see, you are, "_________________" DSMV diagnosis--take this pill for the rest of your life, and you'll be normal. Statins. Take this prescription if you're fat. Take this if you're skinny.
I encourage everyone to re-read (or listen...I'm an Audible early adopter) "Brave New World". They describe 'erotic play' for children under 5. That and SOMA (could be weed, internet, games, alcohol--but certainly your phone) that makes you high without a hangover. Screw, get drunk, sleep--produce at inane factory...
We have been and continue to be groomed, lied to, and manipulated. We are living in a post truth, post betrayal America.
bsn
Nailed it.
Right on the money.
One of the commenters on Steve Sailer's blog, after the Obergefell decision, asserted that gay marriage was the starting line, not the finish line. 100% correct. The Holy Grail for the sexual revolutionaries is to eliminate the age of consent. It's coming, if we sit idly by.
Scott Wiener, Scott Wiener, Scott Wiener. They are coming for the age of consent. Very much so.
Totally, heard a gay commentator say one time, "Make no mistake, it is and always will be about lowering the age of consent." They run out of holes to use, always wanting something not warn out.
12 years ago, I would rolled my 'libertarian-ish' eyes and said, "Pedophilia?!?! Seriously? Come on man...this is so gay people can see their lovers/partners in the hospital..."
That libertarian-ish guy has had his thoughts and beliefs pulverized with reality. Read "Chasing the Scream" by Johann Hari--all about the war on drugs. Again, legalize it all...
Portland, Seattle, SF, all big cities...and I bet we can correlate the increase in drug ODs to legal weed.
I saw somewhere that the per capita ODs were less in states with legal weed--but I'm curious about national 'apathy' measurements. Anyway--it is all by design. They want us fat, drunk/high, stupid, titilated and distracted.
bsn
Indeed they do ...
And let's not forget they altered the education system top to bottom to ensure total compliance...
This was to ensure the mob would not unhinge... as we are exterminated.
And as The Plan is reaching its final phase ... we are seeing no violent push back... those who oppose it are busy typing away on Substack (which is why they gave us Substack)
https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=220
oh the cabal want the violent "push back" and they'll false flag it if needed. The violence is exactly what they want. What they don't want is to be completely ignored and made irrelevant as we invent new systems without them.
Have you never heard of Operation Crimson Mist? Rwanda 1996?
"They" are praying to their god a violent uprising will spontaneously combust.
Operation Crimson Mist 2.0. Yee-Haw.
Then martial law will be begged for. Easy-Peasy.
We are way past the point in time where violent push back is a viable strategy.
It’s not yet time to push back though. I suspect within 18-24 months this will happen, and when it does, those who do will be isolated and shunned by the majority who wish for it. The opening salvos of the pushback were Killdozer, and the guy who flew his Cessna into the irs office in Austin Texas around 2002-3(I don’t exactly remember what year but he actually entered his reasoning for his actions to one of the talk radio stations in Austin which was quickly overshadowed by the calling the man crazy). The problem is people who lean to the left grasp to talking points and never go further or try to figure out why the talking points are being used. Centralists will lean towards whoever is in charge and who really cares what fence sitters think. The majority of those who lean to the right are more concerned to what the optics appear to be that they will throw anyone under the bus who doesn’t meet the approval of the others within their social circle. Which is why it’s so easy for the government to stamp out pushback. Call someone who in another language/culture would be titled mujahideen by citizens a crackpot white supremacist terrorist and the American public will turn their collective back on that person in a nanosecond. For nothing more than the reasons I stated above.
You’re on fire tonight!
Thanks John...I've had a freaking cold for the past 10 days or so...driving me crazy. I think I'm getting well, then I do something productive--then start getting chills or something cold/flu-ish.
Could be the angst of 10 days of very limited PT sneaking into my thoughts/writings.
bsn
The decline in the morality of decisions made by ordinary citizens in their personal lives (that are 100% under their own control) is a depressing development for any well-adjusted person to contemplate.
Yes. And they start very small. One bite of an apple.
We cheated in school because it was more fun trying to figure out a good cheating program than actually learning the material--also--it was so easy that we were generally copying our answers for my buddies who struggled.
So, for years in school, I thought it was fun to 'beat the system', only harming myself.
It takes a while to reflect and learn, which is why I now think Huxley was more of a prophet than Orwell--they want us high & titillated. So much easier to control, and zero reflection is possible when high.
However, as I'm redoing the Bible in a Year, the Old Testament is just a constant shitshow of us screwing it up again and again and again...
bsn
You are not alone. The "cold" is doing the same to people everywhere.
Read "Unreported Truths" this week to see the waste land that British Columbia has become since the legalization of opioids.
Maria,
Is this on Substack? I'll check it out. Thank you.
I honestly thought legalization of drugs could be a game changer for Conservatives--recognizing the damage of over-jailing people, and eliminating the cost of the war on drugs (personnel cost for enforcement that is)--but holy cow, people are simply being devoured. I could not have been more wrong.
Addiction is no freaking joke. I came off of nicotine in 2023--couldn't sleep for about 3 months. Was an absolute shitshow. Anxiety surfaced. BP skyrocketed.
bsn
Yes, it’s Alex Berenson’s Substack.
Actually, Dr John Henry, the starting line, in the legal arena, was probably the 19th Amendment.
Once they had the vote, it took them a while to gather their forces, but they've been dragging us full speed ahead, down the slippery slope, ever since.
They've been warning us for years that "the future is female." That effeminate future won't last long, if it's any consolation.
the cabal 100 uses legitimate conscious movements to their own ends. They find a way to redirect the folks who are in the streets about something important and real straight down their dark alleys toward their anti-human agenda. It's hard to name a movement that hasn't been subverted in this way. They're experts at it with probably hundreds of years of success. We need far better discernment to understand the difference and the signs of the redirect.
Wonderful comment. I assign Brave New World and 1984 to my civics students every year. During the Bush and early Obama years, they all gravitated to 1984. Then they started seeing more parallels in BNW. Even during the Trump years (despite the "Trump is a dictator" drumbeat they were all exposed to) they still thought BNW was more frightening, and that has only increased since then. Every year someone volunteers, "social media=soma" and there is nearly unanimous agreement. They also say that about the 2 Minutes of Hate in 1984, but it's BNW that they find more disturbing, especially the ending, which always surprises me.
My students do not trust institutions of any kind. What they fail to realize is that, by getting their news from Instagram and TikTok and YouTube, they're just trusting different institutions. But govt and corporations and churches... that trust is shot and isn't coming back.
Brian,
I applaud you for continuing to assign those books. I think it is safe to say that less than 15% of the people under 40 haven't read either. They think Big Brother is a reality TV show.
I found the discussion between the 'savage' and the 'president' (or whatever title he had) to be one of the most fascinating pieces of writing of all time. Close to Ayn Rand's rant about the value of money in Atlas Shrugged (the copper mine guy, Fransisco or something--anyway, super interesting about how it is the only way transactions can be honorable--she makes a great argument).
I think I'm still trying to process my own feelings of betrayal from our govt--but I agree there cannot be any trust coming back--unless the own up to the lies. I don't see that happening. Too much to risk...and sadly, it is endemic in ALL institutions.
In some ways I'm like your students, now getting all my info from podcasts, substack, --and a few news aggregators. At least I have the time to sniff out who I want to follow...
bsn
"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."
"In fact," said Mustapha Mond, "you're claiming the right to be unhappy."
"I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."
"Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen to-morrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind." There was a long silence.
"I claim them all."
-----
That chapter (between John Savage and the Mustapha Mond) is one of the most important pieces of 20th century literature. It's why you slog through those hideous 3-way, simultaneous but split, conversations that (I think) end chapter 3.
The "pursuit of happiness" is impossible without the right to be unhappy. Maybe I'll write-in John Savage on my ballot for President this year.
May I suggest adding Boye's "Kallocain" and Zamjatin's "We" to those two?
"Kallocain" puts a different twist on "utopia via chemicals" and "We" was Orwell's blueprint for "1084".
I get more interesting book recommendations from substack commenters. I put both of them on hold from my library. Thank you.
Thank God there are still teachers like you!
I've read arguments that those books were predictive programming par excellance. Good discussion topic for your students.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/escaping-brave-new-world-transhumanism-utopia-eugenics/5745624
It's hard for people today to comprehend how universal support for eugenics was in the early 20th century. In 1923, announcing to your upper-middle-class friends that you disapproved of "sterilization of the unfit" was the social equivalent of questioning whether "transwomen are women" in 2023.
Once the Holocaust was discovered, the entire ruling class collaborated to memory-hole their complicity in the movement that had spawned that atrocity.
very good point, and also very disturbing.
You da man, Brian. I’ve taught myself to do everything I can. Fix my own vehicles, do all my own house work and Reno’s, including building my own deck furniture.
Best nights sleep I ever get are after a weekend of working with my hands. I have a job in a once proud profession that is currently being choked to death with ESG/DEI and general Wokism.
Thanks Beezy, but not exactly da man...it was learning out of necessity--which is quite a motivator. I'm a retired Soldier. Spent 8 years active duty while completing undergrad/grad school-then leapt out at the world to take it over--and found it empty.
I stayed in the National Guard-mostly as a hobby-but after 9/11 was able to return to active duty in the Guard. It was great--all the Army without all the moves.
Retired in 2015, and would likely be under investigation within 48-72 hours of being back on active duty.
ESG/DEI/WOKE is not just misguided, I'm pretty certain it comes directly from the pits of Hell. Seriously. It is evil.
bsn
Call me crazy but this fallen world is on borrowed time. It actually is Satanic - all of it.
I don't think you're crazy. so where does that leave us?
bsn
We are in a spiritual battle. I'm new to God's word but I'm seeking him. 💖
I know you are 100% correct. This is a spiritual war and we had better begin identifying and learning to use spiritual weapons if we have any hope of enduring. All glory to God.
I ran a half marathon a couple years ago. I’m not a great runner, but it was a goal. I was at the back of the field. I relearned that I can endure a not insignificant amount of physical discomfort in pursuit of a goal; something I learned at 18 in army basic training. I finished, I achieved my goal. But fuck me running, it was
So
Fucking
Boring!
This past April, our basement flooded. For five+ hours, while my wife was running around the county piecing together a pump system to use in our too-small sump, I vacuumed water out of the hole and dumped it into the slop sink. About two hours in, the 5-gallon shop vac bucket slipped out of my cold-stiff hands and shattered on the basement floor. I had to switch to the 1-gallon vacuum. From then on, I was working constantly to keep ahead of the inflow. I was soaked in cold water from my nipples to my toes. There was nothing else to do but vacuum water and dump it, over and over and over.
There’s something about being fully committed to a single purpose; no choices, no options, no excuses.
It was so peaceful.
I had’t been that happy for years.
performative sexuality = empty sex. This kind seems to go for the empty at every level. Sheesh. What a way to go through what should be life.
Yeah, but like Chris wrote about last week--what we see and what we hear are two different things. It is constant. Like his Ground & Pound essay--but about EVERYTHING.
It is nearly impossible to remain unscathed in this battle.
bsn
Well said of what it all is .
Thank you Brian Nelson
You are so on point with this comment. As years go by, it has become more and more apparent that those at the top of the pyramid have intended this all along. I have not yet read 'Brave New World' but reading that it describes 'erotic play' for children under 5 set off yet more alarm bells. I read last week somewhere that the WHO is including in its new guidelines for sex ed just such a recommendation for pre-school through K children; I have also recently learned that the 4-year-old granddaughter of a friend had another 4-year-old sidle up to her during nap time and put his hand down her pants. Where does a pre-schooler get ideas like this? The offending child's parents apparently told the victim's parents that they had 'no hard feelings' that that they had brought this to the attention of the administration at the quite expensive private Pre-school.
I am convinced that much of the psychotic behavior that I see now, especially with regard to the transgender tsunami that has occurred in just the last decade can be directly attributed to the early and constant exposure to all things sexual. A lot of this started with the Kinsey Institute in the 40's, and the push to normalize all of this 24/7/365 obsession with sex has continued unabated since.
A difficult read, but an enlightening book is 'The Last Closet', by Moira Greyland. It is the author's story of persistent sexual (as well as physical and emotional) abuse at the hands of both parents. She was not the only victim of their abuse. Her mother had been repeatedly raped by her father, and ultimately became a lesbian. Her father was a serial pedophile, who she ultimately reported to police after catching him in the act. He died in prison. In her introduction to the book she says this:
"I could never tell my parents that their revolving door of sexual insanity made me wish that I was dead. I could never, ever admit my opposition to the way they chose to live. My feelings, my anguish, and my pain all had to be locked safely away in a closet."...
"What is The Last Closet? It is the last thing I am not supposed to be allowed to think or to feel, is the bundle of facts that lead me to oppose gay marriage and nontraditional relationships. I know from personal experience that these relationships are social constructs which only exist to create sexual anarchy and to confuse sex with love. Since sex is good, freedom is good, and love is good, sexual libertines believe we should provide sex, freedom, and love all to our children.
"And then hope they don’t kill themselves as a result."
Moira Greyland - The Last Closet
Thank you Victoria. I encourage you to read Brave New World, as well as 1984, Animal Farm, Atlas Shrugged, Fahrenheit 451, any and all of the mid-20th century dystopian novels. Actually, get a Libby account or Audible--you can listen as 1.5, 2x the speed and tear through some books.
They were all prophets. No one was exactly correct, but I think Huxley is closest to the truth with titillation & intoxication as the primary 'weapons' of the elites. It seems we are in a hybrid of Huxlean, Orwellian, and Randian nightmares.
I tried to re-read 1984 during the summer of love (2020), and had to put it down. It was too accurate. Only Orwell had not predicted the corporate world would be so eager to join the tyranny.
For some reason I was thinking about the poster of Farah Fawcett the other day. Oh, someone posted it on X about how she was the most beautiful woman of all time...
I remember that poster. I'm GenX. Charlie's Angles was essentially soft-porn for prepubescent/teen-age boys. Not like we need any more help in thinking about sex ALL OF THE TIME. I did not have that poster on my wall, but some of my buddies did--this is in like 7th grade!
Also, I started chewing tobacco around that age. I was able to purchase chewing tobacco when I was 11 years old--that damn habit took 40 years to undo--but it was this permissiveness. Liquor store owner wanting to sell a product, not worried about what he was doing to his own community.
It was a slow nudging of the Overton Window over the past 50+ish years. Normalize everything aberrant, make the healthy (values/virtues that have served mankind for millennia) seem quant/silly/old-fashioned--and Shazam--we have an 800% increase in GenZ kids 'identifying' as somewhere on the LTGBTQ+whatever spectrum. Just do the math...we'd have never populated the world in 1 in 5 deliberately pulled themselves out of the mating game...
But, talk to a leftist (willfully blind, otherwise 'normie') and they will answer, "well, now there is no stigma..."
800%!!!!!! You've gotta be outta your fbomb mind!!!
I'll look up that book. Moira sounds like a brave woman. Thanks again for the kind words and interesting post.
bsn
Moira quietly became a Christian even in the midst of all that and became caretaker to her mother - the woman who so cruelly abused her all those years. That takes conviction and strength.
Saint like.
bsn
Yup...sadly, unfortunately, but...yup!
Outstanding comment.
Same feeling here.
I agree with the gay stuff slippery slope, but why weed? Drug war sucks.
I am still with "legalize, regulate, everywhere." Why keep handing it on a silver platter to the organized thugs?
Erin,
This is tough. I've literally been an advocate to legalize weed since I was sophomore/junior in high school doing the YMCA's youth in government...
The Drug War does suck. Nearly every drug was made illegal was pointed at one minority population or another. It is evil in its genesis, for sure.
We are 12 years with legal weed in Washington.
My libertarian-ish roots (truly just a problem with authority most of my life, wrapped into a political philosophy of stay out of my life..) have come up against the facts that I'm seeing on the ground--and some deeper intuitions that I cannot truly say have any evidence--but more of a pattern I'm beginning to sense.
Previously I'd say there were 'victimless crimes'. I no longer believe this. Everything is contagious. Everything. Our thoughts, behaviors, emotions--all contagious. When someone in Boise, Idaho cheats on his taxes--I believe (again, no evidence--but tinglings) it is then easier for me to cheat in Tacoma.
The crimes against non-violent drug users were egregious, shit still are egregious--but what we have now is a photographic negative of the broken window theory. Now everything is permissive, and the likelihood violence or other nefarious behaviors are much more likely to happen.
AND--if all the damn world is stoned, no one cares! We have to care.
Always, it is tough, but I don't think we (US population) are emotionally responsible/mature enough for legal pot. I'm not sure exactly where I'd come down --but I do not like what I have witnessed so far.
bsn
Brian, thank you for the thoughtful reply. I too am rethinking stuff. I am really uneasy about, for example, the "harm reduction" stuff (like in Vancouver). It seems to follow a pattern. Unleash free drugs to whoever shows up, the area falls to druggies who flock there from all over, with all the attendant squalor, then crack down because it all gets out of hand. Rinse and repeat.
Then, there is weed. Colorado has gone all legal, which is mostly cool. But... the capitalist modus operandi is all wrong for drugs. Capitalism is good at churning more of everything, and some things, we are better off having less. The Colorado "cannabis industry (!)" is complaining of a slump, people are not buying more and more! Jeez. That should be a good thing, no?
And like you say, the feel of it is wrong. It should not be "oh now anything goes."
On the other hand, people were not mature enough for the Prohibition to end. But they came around. I hope we keep talking about this. I don't want to go back to people's lives being ruined for a dime bag of weed.
I live in Oklahoma where cannabis is legal. It was intended to be a boon for the local people. Instead, the Chinese swooped in and bought the cannabis world and then paid the politicians to regulate the heck out of everything and make doing business so expensive, no Oklahoman could stay in the business.
Oklahoma has now become the leading illegal supplier of cannabis to all other states and much of the rest of the world. All the other ills that organized crime are involved in such as child sex trafficking, etc., have placed Oklahoma at the top of the heap.
The Chinese already owned the Native American casinos so those are used for trafficking of all sorts as well as cash cows for the Chinese investors.
Oklahoma is primarily populated with sweet naive people. Perfect to run this sick crap through without many noticing. Especially now that so many are high day in and out. You can't walk through the Walmart in the little town I live in without the tangy smell of pot filling your nose aisle after aisle.
AND, this is a poor little town. And the weed is expensive.
It is indeed a fallen world.
How awful! I am not sure who does most of the business in Colorado, but mostly it's not the locals either. This was a big mistake from the get-go. Sounds like the Chinese are indeed taking over everything....
Colorado has a very lucrative export business to other states as well. (And most of it goes out from illegal (unpermitted) farms that just don't care! It shows that problems caused by the drug war cannot be all cured while the drug war continues elsewhere.
Smoke in shops? Why is it not covered by the non-smoking laws? I am not noticing it here in CO.
Yeah. Rethinking is in order.
Erin, have you seen this article https://open.substack.com/pub/alexberenson/p/yet-again-the-better-we-get-at-harm?r=b7lv5&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post?
Now you might say “yeah but these are hard drugs not lower level stuff like marijuana”. Alex has written extensively about the harmful and deadly effects of today’s industrial produced, high THC product being distributed today.
Randy, I saw it. Problem with Berenson is, he's a fanatical drug warrior. You can't get decent info from someone who takes that stance, unfortunately. It's hard to get creative and even-handed info on this topic.
So that makes him wrong? I’m interested in facts and data, not personal attacks.
No, that's not what I meant. It makes him heavily biased, a lot of the time.
Normally, when people are given clean drugs of certain dosage, overdoses go down, steeply. But as he says, giving people an out with naloxone, they take risks outside of the "safe space" provided by the activists.
erin, thanks for the clarification on your thoughts, I appreciate it. A problem, as I see it, is that people who are addicted to harmful drugs typically don't stop at a "certain dosage" since once they are at that level they need more to reach the high they are seeking so they up the amount/dosage.
I will readily admit that this is a very challenging topic and one that doesn't come with easy or simple solutions. I am of the belief that we should treat people in this conditions as "patients" and not "criminals". This country's whole approach on this topic has been "ass backwards" for well over sixty years.
Yes. Jesus was NOT an account executive.
Magnificent!!!
Mr. Nelson, if you wouldn't mind, drop me a line at bboychuk -at- blazemedia -dot- com. Thanks.
Sent.
bsn
Dang!!! Summed up perfectly😪
Bravo.
These people can't even fuck without turning into another type of dreary DEI seminar where everyone just repeats "I'm ok, you're ok" and "I'm special, you're special" in sterile jargon while constantly neurotically making sure they haven't accidentally uttered an unapproved word or thought or stepped on someone's ego. The polyamorists of Brooklyn make the polygamists of Utah seem like unhinged libertines on vacation at the Playboy mansion.
Social Justice is really starting to reek like a death cult at the end of the world, their ideal state seems to be to become one uniform undistinguishable lump of Nietzschean Last They/Thems who are happy to die off in misery as long as all feelings and pronouns are respected.
"These people can't even fuck without turning into another type of dreary DEI seminar..."
Yes. Exactly.
Last They/Thems is a fantastic turn of phrase.
thanks!
I was about to type "Last Men" and then realized that using their infantile jargon could describe these people almost as well as Nietzsche did.
Barnyard animals... that's what most people are
True, but society exists because most people get up in the morning and think “I will try very hard to NOT be an animal today.”
I suspect animals get up in the morning trying hard not to be humans
That's where Nietzsche went wrong
Further to your point, animals do not possess guile.
Those...
Nice comparison between polyamory (of the Brooklyn hipster kind) and polygamy (of the Utah Mormon kind). I know scores of hipster leftists who would scoff at the idea of having multiple brides, yet not bat an eye at the idea of having multiple girlfriends/boyfriends/insert-neogender-of-your-choice.
Excellent. But these people are the tools of the Billionaire-Bosheviks. I think this is a huge strategic mistake on part of the B-Bs. Like with most everything else they do, they look to capitalize on others’ ideas. they bought these pseudointellectual Marxists and adapted their bullshit half baked social engineering theories so they could make even more money and have more control. And that has worked. But the wokesters are neurotic, weak, and frangible. They will not endure any kind of sustained opposition, especially involving personal risk. It’s a self-limited strategy and it’s starting to backfire.
“Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. “ -- C.S. Lewis
I have 2 children and somehow don't know what a butt plug is. I'm more than ok with that.
You can...kind of...picture the two words, and then put the images together in your mi-- or, you know what, maybe never mind.
"It's a dirty sex toy for unsuitable places."
🤣
Leave her in her innocence….
My 93-year-old Baptist mother-in-law asked me what a butt plug was.
Our culture is going to hell.
DID YOU ANSWER
The problem is not the sex toy. The problem is these peoples’ brains are plugged. Their perspective is overwhelmingly self-referential. They can’t find anything of interest outside hedonic pursuits and what they ironically consider “safety”, which apparently now means turning your life over to Machiavellian government officials and pharmaceutical company executives.
Please God, say no
Of course, with appropriate vagueness. She doesn't want to really know anything like that.
H ha, nor do I . No interest in imagining or knowing the perversions people get up to regarding a beautiful and God-given experience.
Ask her to google it - with safe search turned off
I would never do that to someone I love!
Mw either and I am 76 next week......understand the wording but can't fathom the reasoning behind it...not that I wish to.
Which reminds me ... sites such as Porn Hub... are a free for all for just about every twisted deviancy known to humans...
That's covered under:
* Create entertaining distractions
* Corrupt minds with filth and perversion
And any child with an internet connection can watch this stuff...
The Protocols Of Zion
Published 1903
* Place our agents and helpers everywhere
* Take control of the media and use it in propaganda for our plans
* Start fights between different races, classes and religions
* Use bribery, threats and blackmail to get our way
* Use Freemasonic Lodges to attract potential public officials – see this https://t.me/downtherabbitholewegofolks/90966 https://t.me/downtherabbitholewegofolks/91036
* Appeal to successful people's egos
* Appoint puppet leaders who can be controlled by blackmail
* Abolish all rights and freedoms, except the right of force by us
* Sacrifice people (including Jews sometimes) when necessary
* Eliminate religion; replace it with science and materialism
* Control the education system to spread deception and destroy intellect
* Rewrite history to our benefit
* Create entertaining distractions
* Corrupt minds with filth and perversion
* Keep the masses in poverty and perpetual labor
* Use gold to manipulate the markets, cause depressions etc.
* Introduce a progressive tax on wealth
* Replace sound investment with speculation
* Make long-term interest-bearing loans to governments
* Give bad advice to governments and everyone else
"I care not what puppet is placed on the throne of England to rule the Empire, ... The man that controls Britain's money supply controls the British Empire. And I control the money supply." Nathan Rothschild https://twitter.com/KirbySommers/status/1567945974537936897
“Once a nation parts with the control of its currency and credit, it matters not who makes the nation’s laws. … Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most sacred responsibility, all talk of the sovereignty of parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.” — Mackenzie King, Canadian Prime Minister 1935-1948.
"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men." - Woodrow Wilson, after signing the Federal Reserve into existence
“Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.” ― Woodrow Wilson
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. …We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.” – Edward Bernays – Propaganda
Do you follow Matthew Ehret? I recognize a lot of what you’ve quoted. You’ll be interested in his substack.
I have suddenly, due to your comment, realized that, yes, I can put the word butt up against the word plug and, yes, an image comes to mind, but then I’m stopped short. What comes next? Please refrain from answering me.
And "What began as sexual thrill-seeking led unexpectedly to self-discovery."......I think that must be a new, more trendy, way of talking about masturbation?
I sometimes think it would be interesting and nice to have two wives. But then I think, no, because that would mean I would have two wives.
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing."
"Nothing."
Hahaha! Yeah and none of this Vicky Christina Barcelona bullshit.
OK, that one got me snorting milk out of my nose!
Most excellent response! I laughed out loud.
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Bahahahahahha
“Whose turn is it to take out the trash”
“Not mine”
“I cleaned the kitchen”
“You’re not the boss of us”
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I was trained in IT in the late seventies. So it is second nature for me to ensure I have an off site backup.
True happiness comes with having two knives, as has been commonly established.
https://giphy.com/gifs/season-13-the-simpsons-13x7-3orifasUVYboH9L4YM
And then they give us this https://www.seeking.com/
Encouraging women to prostitute themselves to pay college fees.... or to buy a designer bag...
Alternatively ... the path to wealth is to start your own business --- as a porn star https://onlyfans.com/
Though it might be good for them as they would only have to endure half of you.
People are seeking to fill a spiritual emptiness with the misuse of their bodies and relationships. This will not result in happiness and fulfilment for them or society. We have to nourish our spiritual lives. Our bodies serve their particular purpose and our proper devotion to God would center us on the narrow path which provides joy and peace.
Nice comment, alwayscurious. I see "the misuse of their bodies and relationships" among so many of my fellow NYC millennials, and have come to the same conclusion that it is an impulsive and self-destructive response to spiritual hunger. The truly sad thing is that they don't seem to notice the trap that they're in and they soothe their upsets in life with more of what caused them to be ill at ease in the first place.
Like all addicts everywhere.
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Leo Tolstoy
God created us and has given Commandments that not coincidentally result in happiness and fulfillment.
Even if you’re an atheist, you can see that the Commandments are logical limitations on individual behavior that assist in fostering a flourishing & positive society. Ergo, those whose life ambition is to be perpetually avant garde find them anathema.
And the truly funny thing is - the perpetually avante garde are the most horrendously conformist of all.
I have yet to see a real life polyamorous group that wasn't 2/3s fugly, in emotion and weight
It seems like generally well adjusted people don't go in for the more eccentric lifestyle or "identity" options.
In my experience the actual fraction is 3/3.
“In my experience…”
Hmmm, do tell!
You noticed?
Yes but I think we're not supposed to talk about it.
One of the many, many topics one is no longer allowed to discuss.
If, in fact, there are "well-adjusted" individuals, does that not imply the possible existence of those who may be less "well-adjusted".
A blatant failure of the gospel of equity. Which, of course is not possible. Therefore discussion is forbidden!
Everyone is equally adjusted! All adjustments are the same when you really think about it which makes them all equally valid. And in that case, there are no adjustments!
Bingo!
Great article and one that makes me profoundly sad that people are being fooled into believing that that that type of lifestyle leads anywhere but to hell. Further, since I read the article and the links entirely, I have to admit, that I feel like that a$$hole that has to stare at the deadly accident on the other side of I-95 so much so that he causes traffic to slow 30 mph while he looks at the carnage.
One of my daughters had a friend in this kind of relationship. It started as a couple, then became a “thruple”, then the original girl became a boy, then the new boy found a friend … From the moment I met the girl at the center of it, I knew she was unbalanced. When I heard about all their meetings, shrink appointments and other therapy, I realized they were all unbalanced.
You can see where it's heading long before they can.
Bringing another person into an obviously flagging relationship that neither person will admit is flagging because they are too immature/shallow/disordered/selfish(need I go on??) what could go wrong😳
Mentally ill.
It all just sounds like so much WORK. They make it seem like a burden rather than a pleasurable release.
It often seems like there's a certain kind of person who finds anything conventional or routine to be anathema, and the increasing public platforming of ever more fringe sexual practices just increases the urge to establish oneself farther out on the range of biologically plausible behaviors. If polycules(what a dumb fucking word) ever become anything that hints of mainstream I'm sure that Ms Winter will quickly move along to something even more outlandish. It's sex as a statement, and there's a certain performative nature to it.
Given that polyamorists all appear to be part of the Always Online set, and that the core dynamic of Always Online subcultures is, along the lines of what you described, gradual progress toward extremism via constant one-upsmanship (to both distinguish oneself from the rank & file and to perform fealty & purity), we can be sure that even if polyamory doesn’t become mainstream per se, before long those practicing it will convince themselves that it’s no longer edgy & subversive enough and will invent some new arrangement. There are only so many possibilities for novel transgressiveness remaining though, so whatever the new thing ends up being, it’s likely to involve animals or children.
You're right, the Always Online thing is definitely a factor. A certain set of assumptions and views that don't develop naturally in the real world. And I agree about the animals or children.
My guess is a soft attack on the idea of ages of consent, at least as far as teens go. It's a natural progression from the gender affirming care (i.e., sex changes) for pubescent kids, and dovetails nicely with the general sort of idealization of youth. Certainly if you're old enough and self aware enough to undergo irreversible body alterations of an unproven nature then you're old enough to bang, right?
Easily old enough to be DTF, yes. Having grotesque non-functioning facsimiles of genitalia and permanently losing the ability to reach orgasm after bottom surgery is kind of a drag though. Actually we may have just answered the question of why these cells of polyamorists are having so little sex.
I can’t decide if I need a shower or not. Probably should
Careful -- if I'm reading the New York Times correctly, a bunch of other people might climb in there with you.
Lol
I definitely need to shower, alone.
An endless river of shame. This is all an attack on the family. Relationally retarded souls looking for a pseudo intimacy fix only to be left in want. One soul is an infinite source of wonder and fulfillment, but it requires humility and a servant’s heart to unlock its secrets.
'...requires humility and a servant's heart to unlock its secrets."
Pro-fbomb-found!
bsn
"Winter recounts her experiments with butt plugs, fisting and anal intercourse, and catalogs her extramarital relationships —" Got excited there for a second when I misread extramarital as extraterrestrial. Guess that will be next. Great column.
"ET phone hoooooome."
“…and put your phone on ‘vibrate’.”
ET DID have extraordinarily long fingers…
I thought there might be a reference to "resulting chronic anal leakage" in there somewhere; sadly, you know that's in Winter's future.
Way back in 2004 an ugly woman I knew, jolly and slightly tipsy, introduced me to her fat and pale male lover and then their equally unattractive female third wheel. “We’re lovers!” she said proudly, handing me, I kid you not, their threesome business card. With three names and three phone numbers.
Always. That's ALWAYS it. Grace Kelly is never going to slide up to a third person in a bar and hand over a room key.
That card got to me, for years. What exactly were they trying to communicate.
That without that card they were rather boring. Analogue virtue signalling. Pioneers of sorts.
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I find myself filled with sadness when I read about all the poly-whatevers having sexual encounters with all the whomevers because I know that what they’re lacking, and desperately seeking, but will never find on that particular path, is the intimacy that is at the heart of a true one on one relationship.