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.
They are starting to. A coworker, on his fourth vaxx, was complaining to me how everyone on his heavily-vaxxed family had Covid. He was sounding pretty jaded and sour.
I’ve stopped trying to discuss the issue with people. The main reason is that these people refuse to believe anything other than a talking point. It appears the gene that enables one to have critical thinking never developed in them. I’ve resorted to the idea that the entire Covid scam, along with Trumps Vaccines (his words, not mine) are in simple terms, a tax on the willingly stupid. I have better things to do than argue with someone who will not attempt to use logic in a discussion. I can have a wonderful in depth conversation with the greeter at our local Walmart who coincidentally has Down Syndrome about his day, than I ever can with one of the Covid Minded over the survivability rate of Covid without getting a vaccination.
By all means knock yourself out. I’m not Gene Simmons and try to copyright a simple phrase for financial gain. To be totally honest, I added “willingly” in this post just to make is sound nicer than how it usually exits my mouth.
I worked for one of the two airline catering corporations before the initial lockdown. We were hearing about Chinese cities being militarily cordoned off the August of 2019 due to some plague. When the airlines started to cancel flights it was a little nerve wracking. I mean we were entering planes between 2-5am loading meals and drinks into the planes. Nothing is ever cleaned in an airplane regardless what you are told. Cleaned meaning more than picking up loose trash and vacuuming the floor that is. Planes that aren’t connected to the concourse have all power shut off and a lot of the job was done by flashlight. Meaning, no ventilation or filtration of the air. I never have gotten sick aside from two days during this past February and that was due to juniper pollen which I am allergic to. How do I know it’s not Covid? I’m sick the same month for the same timeframe every year for the past 30+ years as I live in central Texas. I know what it feels like. The initial lockdown did have me scared when I was let go from work. Two weeks to flatten the curve. The second that became three months more, I knew it was all a scam. Actually the semi being loaded with a body in New York triggered my doubt in a major way.
If you’ve ever stacked bodies in a semi truck used as a hasty mortuary, the bodies are bagged tagged and stacked to ensure maximum use of room, not placed neatly as those play actors were. The other thing is that a hasty mortuary truck is refrigerated. The one in New York wasn’t. Anyone who helped clean up Louisiana and Texas after Katrina know this.
America is filled with idiots of all educational levels. I just never could and still can’t believe just how gullible they are.
I have a jabbed friend diagnosed with two different cancers at once. Our local hospital has seen an uptick in new cancers. Of course I don't want to connect the dots for my friend. But if the opportunity comes up, I will say, even scream, NO MORE BOOSTERS!
There is a connection between mRNA shots and boosters and cancers. Definite connection.
I have a friend who reluctantly got the mRNA vaccine, but not boosters. She was 2 years past due for a colonoscopy and finally got her GP to schedule it. They found early cancer and she had a few inches of her colon removed.
We talked about how lucky it was she hadn't had the colonoscopy done within the previous 2 years, before the shots, because she would have been normal and you can only get a colonoscopy every 5 years or so.
There are big upticks in several different cancers including colon cancer, breast cancer and brain cancer. The cancers also grow faster.
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!"
This past Saturday I taught my 4 year old grandson to cast the fishing pole I got him for his birthday. We fished in our pond stocked with crappie, blue gill, bass, and catfish. He caught a couple crappie and blue gill and threw them back, even though they were "GIANT!" He was tickled pink. On the way back we stopped and picked a bunch of giant blackberries and admired the baby tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, and cantaloupe in the garden. Life is fine here in the country, but I do wonder for how long.
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!!)
The best book on the French Revolution is “The Origins of Contemporary France” by Hippolyte Taine. Book 3 the Jacobins was very instructive- to Lenin and then Hitler.
TBH the view many have of the French Aristocracy is very much from Dickens, who I suspect was really talking about and to the 19th century London bourgeoisie. It really isn’t an accurate portrayal of the French Aristocracy at all - their real problem was they were collecting rents as absentee landlords at Versailles - mind you LouisXIV forced that after the Fronde. They simply were superfluous and expensive- not unlike our elites. But nowhere near as contemptuous of the commons or as contemptible as ours.
Nor were they cowards.
Indolent and spoiled, useless yes - not cowards. Never mind purveyors of porn, drugs , divorce.
We have Ruling Creatures the like of which history has never seen.
"We have Ruling Creatures the like of which history has never seen."
There is an undeniable truth in that statement. We thought that defeating Hitler, outlasting Stalin, and enduring Mao had ended the nightmare. But the 20th century's nightmare was just a preview to that of the 21st century. And our nightmare will continue until we learn what we should already have learned: identify early, mark indelibly, and limit absolutely those psychopaths whose pathetic birth defect is to imagine themselves to be our superiors. Until we do, the nightmare will only worsen.
I recently finished Carlyle's book on the Revolution, which was mostly about political machinations and the basic outline of events, with some great portraits of the various protagonists. I don't know how accurate it was but it was certainly brilliantly and beautifully written.
I also have Schama's Citizens in my stack somewhere and have been meaning to get to it soon.
HATE IS NOT A FAMILY VALUE. I have noticed for a while now that the only people I knew that said they hated anyone at all were liberals that hate Trump. But they were all to willing to virtue signal about their compassion. Hypocrisy ain’t just a river in Egypt. It’s a strategy!
the liberal has turned the word tolerance into acceptance. You not only have to tolerate there views, but accept them as truths. Meanwhile they will not tolerate nor accept your views, because your views are "dangerous". This is the lefts idea of inclusion, accept every view we have and we will include you, otherwise we willl hate you and labael you in the most vile terms we can until you get on board.
Yes. They have started conflating their opinions with facts. So then if you disagree with their opinions you are, by their definition, a liar and thus evil, and your ideas are not worthy of engagement. A lot of this has been inspired by the news “fact checkers”. There’s a running tally of trumps “lies” however all they really are is just his opinions that his opponents disagree with. It’s quite insidious but very effective method of propaganda.
We have 58 counties, and probably twenty of them would scare the Guardian. The thing about California is that I can be 700 miles from home without leaving the state. A whole lot of that is SO GREAT, by which I mean scaaaaary.
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 do. It’s great. We don’t lock our doors, and we leave our keys in the car. Everyone has guns, and everyone knows everyone has guns. And everyone knows how to use them.
We never see police on our road. We have no crime. Our county sheriff refused to enforce the state’s stupid gun laws and made that public knowledge. I think those laws have vanished in a recent change of government.
When we visited a farmer's market last year, the sheriff and a few deputies were running a little stand with coloring books and collector cards of their new K-9 unit and shaking hands to encourage as many people as possible to get concealed carry permits.
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.
I cannot recall EVER hearing anyone jeer or harass anyone wearing a mask. Out loud. Very revealing bit of projection they exhibit as they accuse us of being hostile to the blessed maskers.
What I HAVE seen is people roll their eyes, scowl, chuckle, or point. And I have absolutely participated on those rare occasions, when possible.
So, what the reality of the situation seems to be, to me, is that a class of people want to be protected from any or all criticism or mockery (but I repeat myself) and want those who peacefully criticize them harshly punished.
There's a word for that somewhere. I can't remember what it is right now. But hey, I ate all my breakfast!
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.
The story I hear is that our 911 operators in suburban Los Angeles were slammed with calls for OH MY GOD I SEE SOMEONE ON THE SIDEWALK NOT WEARING A MASK.
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.
I'm trying to remember who in my own life used to use the term "comfort cage." I think it may have been my mom, in which case I apologize to her for forgetting. Urban life has become entirely a series of services that you buy, and it isn't working.
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.
They are starting to. A coworker, on his fourth vaxx, was complaining to me how everyone on his heavily-vaxxed family had Covid. He was sounding pretty jaded and sour.
I’ve stopped trying to discuss the issue with people. The main reason is that these people refuse to believe anything other than a talking point. It appears the gene that enables one to have critical thinking never developed in them. I’ve resorted to the idea that the entire Covid scam, along with Trumps Vaccines (his words, not mine) are in simple terms, a tax on the willingly stupid. I have better things to do than argue with someone who will not attempt to use logic in a discussion. I can have a wonderful in depth conversation with the greeter at our local Walmart who coincidentally has Down Syndrome about his day, than I ever can with one of the Covid Minded over the survivability rate of Covid without getting a vaccination.
A tax on the willingly stupid...that's fantastic. Permission to use that? 😄
By all means knock yourself out. I’m not Gene Simmons and try to copyright a simple phrase for financial gain. To be totally honest, I added “willingly” in this post just to make is sound nicer than how it usually exits my mouth.
I worked for one of the two airline catering corporations before the initial lockdown. We were hearing about Chinese cities being militarily cordoned off the August of 2019 due to some plague. When the airlines started to cancel flights it was a little nerve wracking. I mean we were entering planes between 2-5am loading meals and drinks into the planes. Nothing is ever cleaned in an airplane regardless what you are told. Cleaned meaning more than picking up loose trash and vacuuming the floor that is. Planes that aren’t connected to the concourse have all power shut off and a lot of the job was done by flashlight. Meaning, no ventilation or filtration of the air. I never have gotten sick aside from two days during this past February and that was due to juniper pollen which I am allergic to. How do I know it’s not Covid? I’m sick the same month for the same timeframe every year for the past 30+ years as I live in central Texas. I know what it feels like. The initial lockdown did have me scared when I was let go from work. Two weeks to flatten the curve. The second that became three months more, I knew it was all a scam. Actually the semi being loaded with a body in New York triggered my doubt in a major way.
If you’ve ever stacked bodies in a semi truck used as a hasty mortuary, the bodies are bagged tagged and stacked to ensure maximum use of room, not placed neatly as those play actors were. The other thing is that a hasty mortuary truck is refrigerated. The one in New York wasn’t. Anyone who helped clean up Louisiana and Texas after Katrina know this.
America is filled with idiots of all educational levels. I just never could and still can’t believe just how gullible they are.
I have a jabbed friend diagnosed with two different cancers at once. Our local hospital has seen an uptick in new cancers. Of course I don't want to connect the dots for my friend. But if the opportunity comes up, I will say, even scream, NO MORE BOOSTERS!
You may want to tell your friend that glucose feeds cancers. She will want to go on a low carb/no carb diet.
There is a connection between mRNA shots and boosters and cancers. Definite connection.
I have a friend who reluctantly got the mRNA vaccine, but not boosters. She was 2 years past due for a colonoscopy and finally got her GP to schedule it. They found early cancer and she had a few inches of her colon removed.
We talked about how lucky it was she hadn't had the colonoscopy done within the previous 2 years, before the shots, because she would have been normal and you can only get a colonoscopy every 5 years or so.
There are big upticks in several different cancers including colon cancer, breast cancer and brain cancer. The cancers also grow faster.
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!"
This past Saturday I taught my 4 year old grandson to cast the fishing pole I got him for his birthday. We fished in our pond stocked with crappie, blue gill, bass, and catfish. He caught a couple crappie and blue gill and threw them back, even though they were "GIANT!" He was tickled pink. On the way back we stopped and picked a bunch of giant blackberries and admired the baby tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, and cantaloupe in the garden. Life is fine here in the country, but I do wonder for how long.
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!!)
Scaaaary, kids!
I don't usually make it through a full week without missing SCTV.
was really one of my favorite shows growing up...what an amazing cast, and that was even before they added Martin Short.
Eugene Levy as Ernest Borgnine never fails to wreck me, and I just showed "The Last Polka" to my wife and now is one of our shared faves.
The best book on the French Revolution is “The Origins of Contemporary France” by Hippolyte Taine. Book 3 the Jacobins was very instructive- to Lenin and then Hitler.
TBH the view many have of the French Aristocracy is very much from Dickens, who I suspect was really talking about and to the 19th century London bourgeoisie. It really isn’t an accurate portrayal of the French Aristocracy at all - their real problem was they were collecting rents as absentee landlords at Versailles - mind you LouisXIV forced that after the Fronde. They simply were superfluous and expensive- not unlike our elites. But nowhere near as contemptuous of the commons or as contemptible as ours.
Nor were they cowards.
Indolent and spoiled, useless yes - not cowards. Never mind purveyors of porn, drugs , divorce.
We have Ruling Creatures the like of which history has never seen.
"We have Ruling Creatures the like of which history has never seen."
There is an undeniable truth in that statement. We thought that defeating Hitler, outlasting Stalin, and enduring Mao had ended the nightmare. But the 20th century's nightmare was just a preview to that of the 21st century. And our nightmare will continue until we learn what we should already have learned: identify early, mark indelibly, and limit absolutely those psychopaths whose pathetic birth defect is to imagine themselves to be our superiors. Until we do, the nightmare will only worsen.
The Origins of Contemporary France by Hippolyte Taine - thank you Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/23524/23524-h/23524-h.htm
perfect, thanks!
I recently finished Carlyle's book on the Revolution, which was mostly about political machinations and the basic outline of events, with some great portraits of the various protagonists. I don't know how accurate it was but it was certainly brilliantly and beautifully written.
I also have Schama's Citizens in my stack somewhere and have been meaning to get to it soon.
I will check out the Taine, thanks for the tip.
HATE IS NOT A FAMILY VALUE. I have noticed for a while now that the only people I knew that said they hated anyone at all were liberals that hate Trump. But they were all to willing to virtue signal about their compassion. Hypocrisy ain’t just a river in Egypt. It’s a strategy!
the liberal has turned the word tolerance into acceptance. You not only have to tolerate there views, but accept them as truths. Meanwhile they will not tolerate nor accept your views, because your views are "dangerous". This is the lefts idea of inclusion, accept every view we have and we will include you, otherwise we willl hate you and labael you in the most vile terms we can until you get on board.
They are leftists, not liberals.
Do not play their game with language.
actually they are democrats
Yes. They have started conflating their opinions with facts. So then if you disagree with their opinions you are, by their definition, a liar and thus evil, and your ideas are not worthy of engagement. A lot of this has been inspired by the news “fact checkers”. There’s a running tally of trumps “lies” however all they really are is just his opinions that his opponents disagree with. It’s quite insidious but very effective method of propaganda.
So, Shasta County in the last decent place to live in California? That's what I'm getting out of the Guardian story.
We have 58 counties, and probably twenty of them would scare the Guardian. The thing about California is that I can be 700 miles from home without leaving the state. A whole lot of that is SO GREAT, by which I mean scaaaaary.
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 do. It’s great. We don’t lock our doors, and we leave our keys in the car. Everyone has guns, and everyone knows everyone has guns. And everyone knows how to use them.
We never see police on our road. We have no crime. Our county sheriff refused to enforce the state’s stupid gun laws and made that public knowledge. I think those laws have vanished in a recent change of government.
Not going back to the city.
When we visited a farmer's market last year, the sheriff and a few deputies were running a little stand with coloring books and collector cards of their new K-9 unit and shaking hands to encourage as many people as possible to get concealed carry permits.
Nice! It makes sense. Crime among concealed-carry permit holders is close to zero.
He (the sheriff) seemed to be focusing on approaching women to encourage CCPs as self-defense, which I thought was a good approach.
Agreed. Our police are part time in town.
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.
If you find a reporter from the Guardian asking questions down at that gas station....
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.
WHERE'S YOUR FUCKING MASK, YOU SELFISH PIECE OF SHIT!?!?!? And also, why are you being so uncivil?
Yeah, there's a little bit of a self-awareness problem there.
Ya think?
I cannot recall EVER hearing anyone jeer or harass anyone wearing a mask. Out loud. Very revealing bit of projection they exhibit as they accuse us of being hostile to the blessed maskers.
Nope, I've never personally seen this ever.
What I HAVE seen is people roll their eyes, scowl, chuckle, or point. And I have absolutely participated on those rare occasions, when possible.
So, what the reality of the situation seems to be, to me, is that a class of people want to be protected from any or all criticism or mockery (but I repeat myself) and want those who peacefully criticize them harshly punished.
There's a word for that somewhere. I can't remember what it is right now. But hey, I ate all my breakfast!
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.
The story I hear is that our 911 operators in suburban Los Angeles were slammed with calls for OH MY GOD I SEE SOMEONE ON THE SIDEWALK NOT WEARING A MASK.
Not shocking, from an outsider in a Red State, who knows dumb asses in Kalifornia. Snotty people who think their brilliant. 🤢🤮
One thing that must be noted is how fragile The Ruling Creatures are...
"Ruling Creatures" - great phrase! That "fragility" is is simple cowardice. Physical and moral cowardice.
Absolutely they are utterly craven
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.”
Did it wear... a pickelhaube?
Agree.
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.
Yes! Incredibly important book:
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674641693
Indeed. Btw, project veritas just released this clip from Newsome’s office: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NzbhbetwYFU
It's all fine until some sociopath comes along and ignores "social norms." Look what it's done for Xiden. He's already running two systems of justice.
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.
I'm trying to remember who in my own life used to use the term "comfort cage." I think it may have been my mom, in which case I apologize to her for forgetting. Urban life has become entirely a series of services that you buy, and it isn't working.
It's not "news" anymore; it's infotainment. And PS: a gun in your hand is better than a cop on the phone.