I stumbled across Proenneke's 'Alone in the Wilderness' documentary very late at night on a public access channel, probably 15 years ago. I think fell in love with a man for the first time and I credit him with my lifelong pursuit of toxic masculinity.
Oh boy, I could go on quite a bit along those lines but will only add a few more. "The Filthy Thirteen" by Richard Killblane. Traces a group of "misfits", main character McNair, during WW2. The movie "The dirty dozen" was loosely based on this (only cleaned up a good bit). Another good one is "The Life of Hon William Cody Known as Buffalo Bill" autobiography.
The social media age is like getting to live through a perpetually reoccurring conformity experiment:
Person A lies and tricks you in order to deceive, manipulate and control;
Person B tries to helpfully explain how you've been deceived and why Person A should not be trusted.
And every day we get the same result: 9 out 10 humans will do everything they can to ignore and discredit Person B, up to including harming them, personally, physically or otherwise.
People will do just about anything to save face and not admit their credulity, and are also terrified of changing an opinion until the rest of their peer group does the same.
Twain said it more simply: "How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!"
Yep. A combination of the behaviorist experiments of Asch and Milgram sums up a lot of it. Laura Dodsworth gave a good breakdown of the nuts and bolts of behaviorist constructed nudging through fear in 'A State of Fear ...'.
Remember, "The Emperor's New Clothes" is obviously sanitized for children. In reality, the little boy at the end would be set upon and beaten to death by the upstanding, right-thinking GoodPeople all around him.
Watching masked parents and children exit the indoctrination center (ie elementary school) I live across from here in Portland OR. About 25% cling to the masks, though most don't. I suppose when the teachers checks stop being good, this will all stop. They are all so jabbed up, as well, the cabal will be saving buckets on their cancelled retirements. Wishing that I could explain this to them in a compelling way.
The /r/COVID-19Positive forum on Reddit is filled with reports of people who have isolated for two years and are furious that as soon as they go out, they catch Covid. From 4 hours ago: "First trip since Covid hit and I caught it for the first time.".
r/Covid19positive is a terrifyingly beautiful collection of the most deranged hypochondriacs on the planet. Every day is a dozen gifts of just pure unadulterated insanity.
He ate at a restaurant. He knew he shouldn't take such risks, but he was stupid, made a mistake, and now he learned that one of the friends he went with tested positive so now he will be self-isolating another 10 days (just to be safe) and has bought a bunch of antigen tests to monitor his progress.
He lamented the fact that he has been so cautious and only caught Covid once this pandemic (3 months ago), but such a stupid mistake might cost him speaking at a wedding next week (which he was already terrified of attending but had building up the courage).
He is RAGING at all the assholes that have turned the world into unhealthy pathogen vectors. He dumbfounded people stopped wearing masks. He is tired of riding his bike everywhere but won't dare to get in the car with people let alone ride mass transit, so walking and biking are his only options.
He JUST WANTS THIS NIGHTMARE TO END
As a consolation, this gem was in my feed too. This sub is like crack to me.
The insanity of living like that and driving the people around them crazy. Dumbfounded at how germ averse people are and then wonder why they have a shitty immune system.
My goodness, those people are f-ed up! 😂 I don't know any unjabbed people that freak out like this! I've been sick a couple times in the last couple years but have never taken one single covid test! Not one! I'm so thankful I am sane!
The mask scold has no idea how great it is to not be her. If I'm having a bad day I'll remember that I'm still not her, which will be a source of infinite solace. In whatever the opposite of solidarity is, I vow to never wear a mask again, in her honor.
Lucky me, I live in Ontario. It is filled with people who can’t let go of the fear, most are women. For some it has become magical thinking as if nothing else can get you , if you are safe from COVID. As if cancer, heart disease, accidents, etc. will also respect the COVID mask of protection. I watch that person trying to impose safety on all and wonder if a cancer is silently eating away at her, fed by her fear.
I deeply feel much of human happiness stems from the ability to impose discomfort on one’s self - mentally and physically. To tie in the book you mentioned in your piece, this is a lesson I really internalized when we moved from CA to AZ. You often need to be more deliberate about finding beauty here where it is harsh and stripped down, but it’s then an earned gift the desert gives you if look for it and somehow feels more meaningful. Everyday mundane things somehow feel riskier during the summer months, and yet people live fully. It’s a place that calluses over your “soft spots” in the best of ways - I can’t begin to fathom what it must feel like to live so raw and with such cowardice. I used to be optimistic for these people that they could eventually hop back off the crazy train, but my miscalculation was the large portion that don’t want to.
You give me hope. That masked raving woman makes me worry for my children’s future. What kind of human being takes pleasure in covering prople’s faces and doesn’t comprehend how debilitating this is for human beings and relationships?
Go back to the first law requiring a bicycle helmet and use that as a starting point for where we are as a society. For that matter go back to the first time we curbed our speech no matter how ridiculous the word was that was substituted for something deemed offensive or hurtful. Those are the moments we opted for zero risk. We (I say we intentionally) have taken the concept that we have to "protect the kids" and have allowed it to be inverted as we must "protect the people in charge".
Society (we) has allowed the elites to take control and they have enacted laws that protect only the status quo and their privileges. The options we are presented with are to go along to get along and take whatever crumbs that fall off the table or live as independent citizens and deal with the consequences of our decisions from the powers that be. Now I have no problem with coping with the consequences of my decisions but now the consequences include the loss of my livelihood, loss of free speech, assembly along with baseless charges of racism and whatever else they choose to impose on me. These consequences can be incurred based on my medical decisions, personal beliefs, political beliefs and any number of situations that are in opposition to the orthodoxy of our current society. This has occurred in our country because a large portion of the population has decided in the interests of zero risk to accept the crumbs from the table rather than work and fight for a better life based on our own merits. Well in case anyone is paying attention there are less and less crumbs falling from the table.
Now regarding the kids, we as a society don't give a damn about them. We have allowed absolute morons who have no interest in educating our children but they do want to indoctrinate them to dictate education standards. What's with you people it's perfectly normal that a nine-year-old should want to change their sex and be able to do so without the parent's knowledge. Why it's racism to believe you should arrive on time for a job and 2+2=4 and don't forget the police are here to kill you based on your color. Let's see our children can barely read and write, we have allowed them to be medicated for behavioral problems that in the past would have been handled with parents, teachers and the child working through it to a solution (I know not always). Sometimes a kid needs a quiet place not Ritalin, Adderall or a whole range of anti-depressants to keep them under control. The drugs may not help the kids, but they sure do help big pharma. This is how our society shows it's love for our children or is their children? Remember...just go along because parents don't want to risk their place in society or the crumbs off the table. Once again, I think I have lost my point must be time for my dose of Adderall.
As always, a well written observation of the current madness in certain parts of the country. I see this daily living in the DC area, while visiting my family in friends in Florida, it's a different, sane world. It's a bit troubling at times, dealing with the severe juxtaposition. I am inclined often to stop strangers and ask why they are wearing a mask, outside, far away from anyone.
That woman in that video could cut glass with that voice.
Ed Abbey was my first favorite writer. I read Desert Solitaire and headed for the desert. I devoured every one of his books, taking them into various wildernesses with me. I ended up loving the Boundary Waters Wilderness in northern Minnesota more than the desert, but I brought a few of his books there in 2002 when I spent the entire paddling season there, solo. May 01 - Oct 14, snow to snow.
I stumbled across Proenneke's 'Alone in the Wilderness' documentary very late at night on a public access channel, probably 15 years ago. I think fell in love with a man for the first time and I credit him with my lifelong pursuit of toxic masculinity.
Stop that at once!
Oh boy, I could go on quite a bit along those lines but will only add a few more. "The Filthy Thirteen" by Richard Killblane. Traces a group of "misfits", main character McNair, during WW2. The movie "The dirty dozen" was loosely based on this (only cleaned up a good bit). Another good one is "The Life of Hon William Cody Known as Buffalo Bill" autobiography.
William check my 2 posts on a couple books you would like.
The social media age is like getting to live through a perpetually reoccurring conformity experiment:
Person A lies and tricks you in order to deceive, manipulate and control;
Person B tries to helpfully explain how you've been deceived and why Person A should not be trusted.
And every day we get the same result: 9 out 10 humans will do everything they can to ignore and discredit Person B, up to including harming them, personally, physically or otherwise.
People will do just about anything to save face and not admit their credulity, and are also terrified of changing an opinion until the rest of their peer group does the same.
Twain said it more simply: "How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!"
Yep. A combination of the behaviorist experiments of Asch and Milgram sums up a lot of it. Laura Dodsworth gave a good breakdown of the nuts and bolts of behaviorist constructed nudging through fear in 'A State of Fear ...'.
Twitter is a giant virtual Skinner Box
'Well summarized' ... I write with a grim chuckle.
thanks!
Remember, "The Emperor's New Clothes" is obviously sanitized for children. In reality, the little boy at the end would be set upon and beaten to death by the upstanding, right-thinking GoodPeople all around him.
and dont forget what they'd do to his family!
Watching masked parents and children exit the indoctrination center (ie elementary school) I live across from here in Portland OR. About 25% cling to the masks, though most don't. I suppose when the teachers checks stop being good, this will all stop. They are all so jabbed up, as well, the cabal will be saving buckets on their cancelled retirements. Wishing that I could explain this to them in a compelling way.
The /r/COVID-19Positive forum on Reddit is filled with reports of people who have isolated for two years and are furious that as soon as they go out, they catch Covid. From 4 hours ago: "First trip since Covid hit and I caught it for the first time.".
I apologize for laughing out loud, but not really.
r/Covid19positive is a terrifyingly beautiful collection of the most deranged hypochondriacs on the planet. Every day is a dozen gifts of just pure unadulterated insanity.
This guy TERRIFIED
https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19positive/comments/x7qg30/im_scared_help_please/
This guy on 3rd dose of Paxlovid in a day!
https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19positive/comments/x8aszl/first_trip_since_covid_hit_and_i_caught_it_for/
This guy "serious this is not just anxiety"
https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19positive/comments/x88rfq/long_term_effects/
This guy thinks he's contagious!
https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19positive/comments/x8ii39/im_losing_my_god_damned_mind/
This guy on re-re-re-upping Paxlovid!
https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19positive/comments/x8fcb9/covid_for_6_days_took_paxlovid_for_two_restart/
This guy, $50 dollars in tests over a sore throat
https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19positive/comments/x83ey8/not_sure_what_to_think/
Wow.
Today gives us this priceless gem of insanity. These people are allowed to vote.
https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19positive/comments/x95ovf/exposed_right_before_a_wedding_and_am_now/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
"Sorry, this post was deleted by the person who originally posted it.
It doesn't appear in any feeds, and anyone with a direct link to it will see a message like this one."
I have the sadz
Damn. It was a good one.
He ate at a restaurant. He knew he shouldn't take such risks, but he was stupid, made a mistake, and now he learned that one of the friends he went with tested positive so now he will be self-isolating another 10 days (just to be safe) and has bought a bunch of antigen tests to monitor his progress.
He lamented the fact that he has been so cautious and only caught Covid once this pandemic (3 months ago), but such a stupid mistake might cost him speaking at a wedding next week (which he was already terrified of attending but had building up the courage).
He is RAGING at all the assholes that have turned the world into unhealthy pathogen vectors. He dumbfounded people stopped wearing masks. He is tired of riding his bike everywhere but won't dare to get in the car with people let alone ride mass transit, so walking and biking are his only options.
He JUST WANTS THIS NIGHTMARE TO END
As a consolation, this gem was in my feed too. This sub is like crack to me.
https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19positive/comments/x9dqws/overheard_in_walmart_i_wanna_do_this_before_get/
The insanity of living like that and driving the people around them crazy. Dumbfounded at how germ averse people are and then wonder why they have a shitty immune system.
My goodness, those people are f-ed up! 😂 I don't know any unjabbed people that freak out like this! I've been sick a couple times in the last couple years but have never taken one single covid test! Not one! I'm so thankful I am sane!
utterly insane people
These folks may be alive, but they aren't really living. Good stuff, as always.
Exactly! What’s the point of living if you are afraid of life?
The mask scold has no idea how great it is to not be her. If I'm having a bad day I'll remember that I'm still not her, which will be a source of infinite solace. In whatever the opposite of solidarity is, I vow to never wear a mask again, in her honor.
sneering?
Face value.
Holy cow! That doctor is cray-cray!
THE EYES
Sanpaku eyes and a voice to match.
Lucky me, I live in Ontario. It is filled with people who can’t let go of the fear, most are women. For some it has become magical thinking as if nothing else can get you , if you are safe from COVID. As if cancer, heart disease, accidents, etc. will also respect the COVID mask of protection. I watch that person trying to impose safety on all and wonder if a cancer is silently eating away at her, fed by her fear.
My condolences to her husband, if she fooled someone into marrying her.
And they want Dominion over us and the world.
The History of this time will be a bizarre cult took control of America for a time, yes it will end.
As bizarre as Jonestown, the first piece I read here.
I deeply feel much of human happiness stems from the ability to impose discomfort on one’s self - mentally and physically. To tie in the book you mentioned in your piece, this is a lesson I really internalized when we moved from CA to AZ. You often need to be more deliberate about finding beauty here where it is harsh and stripped down, but it’s then an earned gift the desert gives you if look for it and somehow feels more meaningful. Everyday mundane things somehow feel riskier during the summer months, and yet people live fully. It’s a place that calluses over your “soft spots” in the best of ways - I can’t begin to fathom what it must feel like to live so raw and with such cowardice. I used to be optimistic for these people that they could eventually hop back off the crazy train, but my miscalculation was the large portion that don’t want to.
We must go beyond our fake comfort zones to find our real comfort zone.
You give me hope. That masked raving woman makes me worry for my children’s future. What kind of human being takes pleasure in covering prople’s faces and doesn’t comprehend how debilitating this is for human beings and relationships?
Masks may not prevent making friends, or whatever nonsense the credentialed, allopathic hack just said, HOWEVER, they DO prevent proper breathing…
Funny that that bit of obvious trivia was omitted.
I am uncomfortable, really uncomfortable, with the degree of scleral show that masked woman is exhibiting.
Sanpaku eyes are real.
Go back to the first law requiring a bicycle helmet and use that as a starting point for where we are as a society. For that matter go back to the first time we curbed our speech no matter how ridiculous the word was that was substituted for something deemed offensive or hurtful. Those are the moments we opted for zero risk. We (I say we intentionally) have taken the concept that we have to "protect the kids" and have allowed it to be inverted as we must "protect the people in charge".
Society (we) has allowed the elites to take control and they have enacted laws that protect only the status quo and their privileges. The options we are presented with are to go along to get along and take whatever crumbs that fall off the table or live as independent citizens and deal with the consequences of our decisions from the powers that be. Now I have no problem with coping with the consequences of my decisions but now the consequences include the loss of my livelihood, loss of free speech, assembly along with baseless charges of racism and whatever else they choose to impose on me. These consequences can be incurred based on my medical decisions, personal beliefs, political beliefs and any number of situations that are in opposition to the orthodoxy of our current society. This has occurred in our country because a large portion of the population has decided in the interests of zero risk to accept the crumbs from the table rather than work and fight for a better life based on our own merits. Well in case anyone is paying attention there are less and less crumbs falling from the table.
Now regarding the kids, we as a society don't give a damn about them. We have allowed absolute morons who have no interest in educating our children but they do want to indoctrinate them to dictate education standards. What's with you people it's perfectly normal that a nine-year-old should want to change their sex and be able to do so without the parent's knowledge. Why it's racism to believe you should arrive on time for a job and 2+2=4 and don't forget the police are here to kill you based on your color. Let's see our children can barely read and write, we have allowed them to be medicated for behavioral problems that in the past would have been handled with parents, teachers and the child working through it to a solution (I know not always). Sometimes a kid needs a quiet place not Ritalin, Adderall or a whole range of anti-depressants to keep them under control. The drugs may not help the kids, but they sure do help big pharma. This is how our society shows it's love for our children or is their children? Remember...just go along because parents don't want to risk their place in society or the crumbs off the table. Once again, I think I have lost my point must be time for my dose of Adderall.
Sometimes when I write I should maybe edit more and use an occasional paragraph or two.
You can still add them! There's an edit button when you click on the ellipsis.
Thanks!
As always, a well written observation of the current madness in certain parts of the country. I see this daily living in the DC area, while visiting my family in friends in Florida, it's a different, sane world. It's a bit troubling at times, dealing with the severe juxtaposition. I am inclined often to stop strangers and ask why they are wearing a mask, outside, far away from anyone.
That female "doctor" gives me the creeps. Brings to mind a substack I read recently noting the eyes of people you should run from. She is one.
That woman in that video could cut glass with that voice.
Ed Abbey was my first favorite writer. I read Desert Solitaire and headed for the desert. I devoured every one of his books, taking them into various wildernesses with me. I ended up loving the Boundary Waters Wilderness in northern Minnesota more than the desert, but I brought a few of his books there in 2002 when I spent the entire paddling season there, solo. May 01 - Oct 14, snow to snow.