Do you think someday some of these people with the COVID mind virus will wake up and realize how thoroughly they were duped?
I live in the suburbs and all my neighbors are armed, many with concealed carry permits. We have no crime. We have an excellent police force but my neighbors are a whole lot closer if I was in trouble.
It seems appropriate to repost this comment from a couple of months ago:
"There is hope in rural America. And amongst the peasantry around the world. Country folk, people in rural communities, are re-learning the skills our parents and grandparents took for granted. Some never lost those skills! We tend our gardens, and 'put-up' our harvests in the fall. We kill and cure a hog or two every fall. And stock our freezers with beef, or game.
We are not afraid to socialize, after church. We help our neighbors. And they help us. We still teach our kids how to hunt and fish. And to tolerate the "not us". And to avoid the urban hellholes that seem to breed the ills that plague society.
Yes, there are tough times coming. Yes, many people are going to see a reduction in their standard of living. Many are experiencing them now! But the heartland is still strong. In the words of one of our modern-day poets, "Country folk will survive!"
We all know it but is important as an intellectual exercise to repeat as often as possible (and make sure to tell your friends and family):
Our elite class and its 2-headed attack dog of "journalist" aka commissar aka Narrative Manager and their Siamese twin the "academic expert" aka Postmodern priest aka Ms. Manners of Woke Etiquette hate their own country and its citizens, hate its culture and history and traditions, hate any group or institution it does not explicitly control, hate any form of dissent and disagreement, hate the idea that any of us could live by an ethos or worldview that is not overseen and dictated by them, hate any outcome of 'democracy' that goes against their wishes.
Not since the days before the French Revolution has a ruling class been fuller of disdain for poor people, for free thought and free expression, for the rights of others to live without their wise and benevolent guidance.
May they all be cursed to live forever inside the punitive and sterile digital panopticon they want to construct for the rest of us.
(Also, shout out to Count Floyd: owwwwooooooooooooo!!)
One must avoid rural America if one clings to the government narrative. That’s the takeaway. I’ve never wanted to live in rural America more in my life.
I'm in a rural heavily agricultural county. Our neighbors are all in one family and are the best. They fish (one's a commercial captain), hunt, grow food and can, one's a gun smith. We call him our "mayor". At the local gas station, during the height of covid insanity (mostly red state made purple by 2 metro areas) you'd never have known anything was going on. No masks, no "distancing," people helping each other. Lots of guns, trucks, fishing boats, large gardens, family farms, boat factories, and family. I don't know what will happen to the urban areas, but the rural areas are still functioning, thankfully.
I wonder whether the "retired grandmother" who wore a mask to "fend off COVID" hoped the unvaccinated and unmasked died, and cheered for them to be arrested, unemployed, homeless, or coerced?
Those poor, poor maskers. I can't remember a single one with a cruel, hateful, hysterical animal thought in their minds.
We loved taking trips to Shasta County during Covid. Such a stark difference from crazy Bay Area where people were afraid of letting their children IN THE BACKYARD. It's crazy how stupid the highly educated are. I learned to never underestimate how stupid people can be as a 911 operator. They called the police when they didn't have power, they had no clue who the utility provider was or how they got power. It was eye opening.
Shasta County, my childhood home, where some of my friends came to school with rifles in the gun racks of their trucks and teachers in a few districts can conceal carry at school. Always felt perfectly safe there. Can’t say the same for where I live now.
Interestingly, my Property Law professor used an analysis of Shasta County to illustrate how social norms work as well or better than law in ordering property rights between people.
Many pseudo-sophisticated urban dwellers have completely lost their connection to the temporal-spatial concept previously known as reality. One of the worst aspects of modern life / “progress” is that people can completely insulate themselves and delude themselves into thinking that somehow the laws of the jungle, physics, and biology don’t apply to them, until they do…. And then it’s shocking to them.
Some of my favorite patients are farmers and ranchers. They see the cycle of life. They tend to see their place in the universe and are at peace with it. They make common sense decisions without histrionics and narcissism. They cope. There’s no free lunch and nobody gets out alive. They understand these basic laws.
Bureaucracy/technocracy didn’t make this country great. People who took serious personal risk and braved great adversity are owed a great debt of gratitude. We’ve dishonored our history and shared cultural inheritance by allowing the current crop of intellectually and morally bankrupt degenerates and authority junkie beta conformists to distort and debase our nation. Sooner than later, reality is going to spank them hard.
Do you think someday some of these people with the COVID mind virus will wake up and realize how thoroughly they were duped?
I live in the suburbs and all my neighbors are armed, many with concealed carry permits. We have no crime. We have an excellent police force but my neighbors are a whole lot closer if I was in trouble.
It seems appropriate to repost this comment from a couple of months ago:
"There is hope in rural America. And amongst the peasantry around the world. Country folk, people in rural communities, are re-learning the skills our parents and grandparents took for granted. Some never lost those skills! We tend our gardens, and 'put-up' our harvests in the fall. We kill and cure a hog or two every fall. And stock our freezers with beef, or game.
We are not afraid to socialize, after church. We help our neighbors. And they help us. We still teach our kids how to hunt and fish. And to tolerate the "not us". And to avoid the urban hellholes that seem to breed the ills that plague society.
Yes, there are tough times coming. Yes, many people are going to see a reduction in their standard of living. Many are experiencing them now! But the heartland is still strong. In the words of one of our modern-day poets, "Country folk will survive!"
We all know it but is important as an intellectual exercise to repeat as often as possible (and make sure to tell your friends and family):
Our elite class and its 2-headed attack dog of "journalist" aka commissar aka Narrative Manager and their Siamese twin the "academic expert" aka Postmodern priest aka Ms. Manners of Woke Etiquette hate their own country and its citizens, hate its culture and history and traditions, hate any group or institution it does not explicitly control, hate any form of dissent and disagreement, hate the idea that any of us could live by an ethos or worldview that is not overseen and dictated by them, hate any outcome of 'democracy' that goes against their wishes.
Not since the days before the French Revolution has a ruling class been fuller of disdain for poor people, for free thought and free expression, for the rights of others to live without their wise and benevolent guidance.
May they all be cursed to live forever inside the punitive and sterile digital panopticon they want to construct for the rest of us.
(Also, shout out to Count Floyd: owwwwooooooooooooo!!)
So, Shasta County in the last decent place to live in California? That's what I'm getting out of the Guardian story.
One must avoid rural America if one clings to the government narrative. That’s the takeaway. I’ve never wanted to live in rural America more in my life.
I'm in a rural heavily agricultural county. Our neighbors are all in one family and are the best. They fish (one's a commercial captain), hunt, grow food and can, one's a gun smith. We call him our "mayor". At the local gas station, during the height of covid insanity (mostly red state made purple by 2 metro areas) you'd never have known anything was going on. No masks, no "distancing," people helping each other. Lots of guns, trucks, fishing boats, large gardens, family farms, boat factories, and family. I don't know what will happen to the urban areas, but the rural areas are still functioning, thankfully.
I wonder whether the "retired grandmother" who wore a mask to "fend off COVID" hoped the unvaccinated and unmasked died, and cheered for them to be arrested, unemployed, homeless, or coerced?
Those poor, poor maskers. I can't remember a single one with a cruel, hateful, hysterical animal thought in their minds.
We loved taking trips to Shasta County during Covid. Such a stark difference from crazy Bay Area where people were afraid of letting their children IN THE BACKYARD. It's crazy how stupid the highly educated are. I learned to never underestimate how stupid people can be as a 911 operator. They called the police when they didn't have power, they had no clue who the utility provider was or how they got power. It was eye opening.
One thing that must be noted is how fragile The Ruling Creatures are...
Whenever I see someone with a mask, it just makes me wanna cough. A little tickle in the back of my throat...
Best. Sentence. Ever.
“There were far-right peaches, and some ultra-conservative lettuce, and a cucumber that was suspected of having ties to militia groups.”
Shasta County, my childhood home, where some of my friends came to school with rifles in the gun racks of their trucks and teachers in a few districts can conceal carry at school. Always felt perfectly safe there. Can’t say the same for where I live now.
Interestingly, my Property Law professor used an analysis of Shasta County to illustrate how social norms work as well or better than law in ordering property rights between people.
Forget it, Jake, it's the Guardian.
Many pseudo-sophisticated urban dwellers have completely lost their connection to the temporal-spatial concept previously known as reality. One of the worst aspects of modern life / “progress” is that people can completely insulate themselves and delude themselves into thinking that somehow the laws of the jungle, physics, and biology don’t apply to them, until they do…. And then it’s shocking to them.
Some of my favorite patients are farmers and ranchers. They see the cycle of life. They tend to see their place in the universe and are at peace with it. They make common sense decisions without histrionics and narcissism. They cope. There’s no free lunch and nobody gets out alive. They understand these basic laws.
Bureaucracy/technocracy didn’t make this country great. People who took serious personal risk and braved great adversity are owed a great debt of gratitude. We’ve dishonored our history and shared cultural inheritance by allowing the current crop of intellectually and morally bankrupt degenerates and authority junkie beta conformists to distort and debase our nation. Sooner than later, reality is going to spank them hard.
It's not "news" anymore; it's infotainment. And PS: a gun in your hand is better than a cop on the phone.