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@ Farmer McGregor
““Collapse now and avoid the rush”.”
Let’s put a ‘c’ at the start of “rush”. 😉 (I want to invoke a Sampson metaphor here, but I wince at the name Sampsonella that my gender would require. Sounds wrong. 😉 )
I agree that resource depletion is always the primary problem for critters whose existence is based on regular and reliable consumption of what the planet provides. That’s a given. Not enough equals dead. Not to mention that anthropogenic global climate disruption (AGCD) is caused exactly by our extravagant hyper-use of fossil fuels.
That said, it doesn’t matter if one is killed by a neutron bomb or a mere sliver infection. Dead is dead. Too much bad weather is probably what will finally crush us, imo (barring the unpredictable yet probably inevitable event of a major thermonuclear exchange). The weather disruption will go on for many many decades, long after we’ve run out of fossil energy, and will continue to place overwhelming survival pressure on us in a mostly random and unpredictable way.
Another way of looking at it: if we had fossil energy abundant enough to last another century at the current consumptiion rate, AGCD would be that much worse and cause even more disruption. (This is not to disagree that running out of energy isn’t by far our most immediately pressing problem. It’s just to say that the cold rain only gets worse where fossil fuels end.)
It is not a matter of resource availability. That is a primary requirement but a secondary attribute. The primary attribute is human social cooperative behavior, a primary resource that has been in insufficient supply since our mythical forebears ate of the forbidden fruit and Pandora opened that box. You could give us cheap clean unlimited power and we still wouldn’t avoid global catastrophe.
We are not fit to govern our powers to alter reality. We’re clever but deranged monkeys who look in the mirrors we’ve made and see gods. Intelligence is great fun but not a viable long-term species survival rate for us. ‘scuse the quasi-pun, but all intelligence does with us is go to our heads. ouch
It’s enough to make a person pray for some kind of answer or help. It’s like a bunch of blind men wearing super-loud bright suits so they can find their way through their darkness.
@ Dr. D
“100% of everything said is fake. So be very, VERY afraid.”
While it’s true that virtually everyone is a chronic liar including you and me, sir, it’s also true that we tell the truth a good bit of the time as well. Are you masochistic? Do you enjoy making an illogical ass while also demonstrating that you are obviously highly intelligent, deeply/widely informed, and capable of deep rumination?
Do you want us to laugh, applaud, throw rotten tomatoes, or all these and more? Or just be very VERY afraid? (In which case you would be more f a sadist than masochist. I enjoy poetic license as much and much more than the average hausfrau, but not as a replacement for accuracy and honesty.
I don’t mind a bit of hysteria, a bit of paranoia, a bit of whining. But mix all 3 together without distinction and what brews is a crock of shit despite the use of otherwise mostly excellent ingredients.
It’s fascinating to watch.
“A senior scientist at Oxford University has warned the global rollout of Covid-19 vaccines will prompt the virus to mutate, driven by “immunological selection” rather than the adaptations we have seen so far.”
Before, fears of rna vaccines were more theoretical and oriented on long-term aspects: we’re messing with the genome, and that can turn things inside out. Feral DNA running amok like something from a Michael Chrichton novel. But this is a practical aspect affecting people in the more or less immediate future while also demonstrating why the genomic distortion fears are wise to consider.
Immunological selection sounds is far more efficient a means for a bug to grow fangs than mere random mutation, jah?
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@ Raul:
“How is he still in office?”
Passivity, hypnotic compliance, social conditioning… that is rapidly unraveling and will at some point end, we fear, with guys like Cuomo hanging from the lamp posts while we fight among ourselves for what can be had.
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@ Basseterre Kitona
“What fans? Kamala got less than 1% support in the Democrat primary.”
But she is now annointed. I have spoken with intelligent, reasonably informed quote/unquote liberals who think “we’ll be just fine” (verbatim quote) now that Joe and Kamala are in charge. This was said after I mentioned Harris’ enthusiasm not just for prison-for-profit schames, but corrupt sentencing to keep said slave labor at work.
It’s not about “being fans” of Harris or Biden, it’s about shielding their cognitive dissonance from distrubing facts.
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Sub-zero interest rates amid a financial climate where a major inflationary front is colliding with a major deflation front. By the time this is over, money will be falling from the skies like snow… that evaporates upon touching the ground.
The heating system of the future. You can make it yourself except for the metal fab parts, and those are fairly low-tech.
@ WES
“So colder is warmer!”
No. More extreme is more extreme, at both ends of the temperature scale. You’re an engineer. You know some physics. A tiny touch can make a top spinning at high RPMs go wonky. It doesn’t go wonky one way or another, it just goes wonky. When it falls, will it fall on the warmer side or the colder side? We don’t know. But we know for damn sure that it’s wobbling.
“Eyes are constantly rinsing and wiping themselves.”
Also, eyes and sinuses travel very closely. Cry and your snot runs. Runny noses often mean watery eyes.
@ John Day
“I was fairly seriously asserting that nasal saline irrigation with neti pot or Sinu Cleanse or bulb syringe would do the same job, but it’s all hard to do at work. I can’t even drink green tea and eat dried fruit and nuts at work these days. Hidden costs abound…”
I figured that. Just playing both sides of the devil’s advocacy, is all. Full-spectrum information, something like that.
If you, a seasoned MD, can’t drink green tea etc. at work, then it’s game over. Last person out, turn off the lights, please? Seriously. If it’s that bad, somebody’s ass needs kicking. The real physical kind. Life is violence sustained by nurturing. We raise our kids on someone el;se’s dead kids. How the genuine game is p;layed.
But no one kicks ass anymore except for fun, money, or furious fear, so the invasion of sane civil liberties spreads even as we champion ever more categories of civil liberties. (There’s only one civil liberty: leave me alone or get hurt. ’twere ever thus, said Gomer Pyle.)
I swear, modern men are such pussies! And the women are such pricks! 😉 but fwiw, Dr. Day, I assume that a squeeze bottle of Ocean Spray is permissible everywhere except maybe a nursery at naptime. Keep the sinuses moist, keep the snot moving. Vitamin D can’t do its work without sufficient transport media, right?
Neti-Pot is just industrialized snot movement. Throughout the day, saline moisture should mostly do the trick.
@ chett
“re nasal spray…
If you assume that you were exposed to the coronavirus and there is enough virus in your nasal cavities to make this nasal spray effective then doesn’t it also imply that there was plenty of virus around to enter your body through your mouth and eyes?”Not necessarily, but to follow your line of inquiry: diligent hydration keeps your lungs moist, where their version of snot does similar things. Eyes are constantly rinsing and wiping themselves.
Hydrate. Vitamin D. Reasonable exercise. Eat well. Eat all the cake you want but get plenty water and healthy food as well so you don’t clog your body serum with all that sticky starch and dehydrational sugar. Diligent hydration. And $20 in an envelope to my address, pls. 😉
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@ MIchael Reid
I feel OLD. Either way, I most def ain’t young. I know. I didn’t waste my youth. I spent it furiously until it was all gone. I’m old and only stick around in this shivery old carcass to accompany the ex-wife of Colonel Sherburn as far as I can and as much as she deserves (that’s a tautology in this case).
Off our rockers, actin’ crazy
With the right medication we won’t be lazy
Doin’ the old folks boogie
Down on the farm
Wheelchairs, they was locked arm in arm
Paired off pacemakers with matchin’ alarms
Gives us jus’ one more chance
To spin one more yarn
And you know that you’re over the hill
When your mind makes a promise that your body can’t fill
Doin’ the old folks boogie
And boogie we will
‘Cause to us the thought’s as good as a thrill
Back at the home,
No time is your own,
Facillities there, they’re all out on loan
The bank forclose, and your bankruptcy shows
And your credit creeps to an all-time low
So you know, that you’re over the hill
When your mind makes a promise that your body can’t fill
Try and get a rise from an atrophied muscle,
And the nerves in your thigh just quivers and fizzles
So you know, that you’re over the hill
When your mind makes a promise that your body can’t fillHope someone likes it. My old ears can hardly hear the trebley stuff.
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@ my parents said know
Chicago had some magnificent suburbs.
@ WES
“I have enough of this winter! I want global warming and I want it now!”
Then congrats: you have it. Extreme weather oscillations are natural in the early stages of overloading a previously stable dynamic equilibrium. Too cold this winter; too warm next. Nor does “global warming” mean that the climate will become hotter. That is the most likely outcome, and seems to be happening just as predicted, but part of the predictions include the energy retention increase bumping the weather system dynamics in a way that gives some of the world a nifty little Ice Age for awhile.
In 100 years, Labrador should be more like, oh, NYC, in terms of temp averages. But it could go the other way.
It’s global climate disruption. Global warming is a marketing term, little else.
A closing note for the day:
Even underlying the physics driving all this is, alas, what we call politics: groups of humans working together for a goal at least allegedly common. Texas is experiencing its problems because humans are incapable of sane politics except in very small groups, period.
But we speak with some underlying assumption that this isn’t true. There’s a political solution to this, we tell ourselves.
There isn’t. If there was, we would have prevented these problems in the first place. We’ve known about them for many decades. But rather than deal with finite reality, we sniffed the gasoline and got high on the fumes. Result, stuff like this:
And my favorite:
@ Farmer McGregor
” “climate change presents the greatest threat and challenge to humanity.” I disagree; resource depletion is a much larger problem — predicament, actually. Problems have solutions…
Well, underneath it all is overpopulation and massive rersource depletion, as we both already know. It’s a problem ‘solvable’ by a massive dieoff and the bootstrapping of a new culture very different from this one.
But… reliable stable weather is a MAJOR resource for agricultural cilivilization, and that is what we are. Petrofertilizers do squat against weather unable to sustain conventionally prevailing agriculture. We can’t control the sun and Terran weather regulated by it any more than we can reliably harness the sun to power our energy grids.
On one hand, we want to save energy resources to deal with things like climate change; on the other hand, all we do with resources is fight over and squander them.
There’s only one thing to do with our energy grids: learen to live without them. They will not last. James Kuntsler is weird about many things but he is right about this: abandon modernity whiole you still can, or face a VERY high probability of havoing to abandon being alive, period.
@ Dr. D
“I don’t know where everybody lives, but when there’s a snap, you can watch the furnace of whatever type start to get overrun while the poor thing runs flat-out and every hour is colder and colder. ”
That’s just the stupid furnace fan that we spoiled sybarites think is necessary. I used to live in a 1941 home with what’s called a gravity-feed gas furnace.
That means that it used convection and thermal difference to move air around the house. Slowly but plenty fast enough. House stayed plenty warm but with a wider range because it didn’t use motor power to move the air.
It could run all day long and not wear out nor burn out. And one could convert it to burning coal or wood quite easily, just a bit of flue work.
Also: “What I don’t conscience is that, like hurricanes, people don’t have responses and don’t have backup plans. ”
It’s neither your nor your consciences business.This is a crazy culture, and that is because human beings are inherently nuts. But it’s soothingly distracting to point a blaming finger. Knock thyself out. You’re demonstrating a major part of why those backup considerations rarely exist: we’re always too busy concerning ourselves with what other people do to fully grasp what might be in our genuine own best interests, much less those of others.
Like an ancient fiction character said when I was young and wild:
Always Cut Cards<>Mind Own Business (R.A. Heinlein, Have Space Suit — Will Travel)
@ John Day
“Hmmmm… How does this work if you just rinse your nose 3 times a day?”
If you do it throughly and keep some saline spray on hand for when you feel your sinuses drying (pay attention and it’s very noticeable), it should make it very difficult for a significant number of microbes to get through the snot wall and into actual tissue. Yes, snot has DNA and is alive, but it’s always leaving town and taking microbes with it, jah?
I’ll put my marker down and say that I believe that covid propaganda will virtually vanish from our newstreams by fall. That cash cow has been about milked dry and there’s no more political advantage to be whipsawed from it.
There was a time, long ago, when nuclear fallout and The Bomb were the major bugaboos. It got old. Now we only bring out that crusty old fright wig when we need to talk smack about NK or Iran, etc. Otherwise: Bomb? What bomb?
And yet the nuclear war threat is perhaps greater than ever.
No no no no no no no no no… I will not countenance this being equated with covid being a deliberate scam and all that “I want explanations! Now! Neat and tidy ones!” stuff which has become so fashionable.
Shit happens, and the Big Boys exploit it as ruthlessly and self-aggrandizingly as possible, because that’s what a ruling class heavy on toxic narcissists and psychopaths do. It’s all they’ve ever done, and it can resemble them having master plans and plots, etc. But I’ve known several narcos, socios, and psychos, and most of them are worse at following plans than your average McDonalds trainee.
The Taliban Could Launch Major Offensive Against US if Biden Stays in Afghanistan
Looks like it’s Russia’s turn again.
@ upstateNYer
Viruses are really easy to kill outside of a host. Vaccines and similar products are good for the much more difficult job of killing microbes that have integrated into our body, using it, in effect, as a “human shield”.
Part of the French virus spray’s effectiveness is, I am 99% 😉 sure, simply that it rinses the sinuses. Period. Flushes the virus out before it can get into the DNA factories. Physically removes them before they can infiltrate. It’s easy to kill bugs out here. But in the body, different story. Sinuses are not really “in the body” but, rather, “of the body”.
fwiw, this old broad thinks we’d be wise refocusing on TAE’s founding poremise: Peak Oil and its corollaries. covid is a spent force. It has swarmed the planet and has done what it will. It’s just another part of the mocrobial scenery. But the dire implications of Peak Oil are very close at hand.
““Mitch is a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack, and if Republican Senators are going to stay with him, they will not win again,” the former president said elsewhere in his statement. “He will never do what needs to be done, or what is right for our Country. Where necessary and appropriate, I will back primary rivals who espouse Making America Great Again and our policy of America First. We want brilliant, strong, thoughtful, and compassionate leadership.” ”
The New Trump apparently lets professionals turn his press releases into sophisticated language. This could be fun. Madamski rows off singing a sea chantey about nattering nabobs of negativity…
Waxing paranoiacally old-school, I’ll wonder if, now that the Trump-derived click-bait revenue stream is drying up (and fast), we aren’t due for our next phony false flag “Pearl Harbor”, something that will keep the media monoliths in business and therefore continuing their relentless propaganda war.
Meanwhile, the French anti-covid nasal spray is right on time. The contracts are cashed, Fauci is a 1 million dollar quisling hero, and the covid narrative is proving increasingly uncontrollable now that they don’t have Trump as scapegoat. It’s time to move on to a new War on Something.
I suppose Biden will, ironically, get out of their way, his usefulness rapidly dwindling, via a fatal attack of covid.
No animal has extended its mouth so long or so wide as humanity. Giraffes and large whales currently occupy both categories in (oh, this is going to hurt) the Species Without Prostheses contest.
I eat/use stuff from halfway around the world on a daily basis.
And we want to terraform Mars.
“It kind of reminds me of a story about a Belgium man during WW2. He worked in an industrial plant. At quiting time he would put his lunch bucket into a wheelbarrow and wheel it to the guard house. The guards would check his lunch bucket and his clothes to see if he was stealing anything. Then he left with the wheelbarrow. Ever day, at quiting time, he put his lunch bucket into the wheelbarrow, and left. Nobody seemed to noticed that he was stealing wheelbarrows!”
Deep moral or something in that.
“The U.S. could return to full employment in 2022 if President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus rescue package is passed, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Sunday. “There’s absolutely no reason why we should suffer through a long slow recovery,” Yellen said during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “I would expect that if this package is passed that we would get back to full employment next year.” Long-term unemployment is nearing a historical peak nearly a year since the pandemic began. Nearly 40% of unemployed workers have been out of work for six months, the Bureau of of Labor Statistics reported on Friday, with nearly 9 million fewer Americans working now than last February. The unemployment rate fell to 6.3% in January.” Janet Yellen
money quote: “There’s absolutely no reason why we should suffer through a long slow recovery…”
I agree. Let’s turn on the money pumps and turn it into a quick disaster.
Let’s get fundamental:
Thanx for the Willie Nelson chestnut.
And yes, smog is bad for the lungs but great for sunsets.
By fall, covid will be passe and we’ll be on to some new fad.
Now seems a good time to lay down our bets. What will be the new Great Danger next Xmas? Seems to me the weather’s poised to be become bigger than any of this stuff.
@ Raul
“Still, censoring Senate hearings should be out of the question for Big Tech.”
But they’re censoring only their own forum. C-SPAN still works. I find us confusing business with government again and again. It’s more semantic than intellectual. We all know that functionally, the distinction has become moot at best.
Knowing us (humans), what we do to remedy this will be worse than the problem.
I like to think about the unthinkable. Sooner or later, those nukes will be used. Humanity! While supplies last! Internal extinction event included!
“Every day Tech Oligarchs are squelching the free speech rights of more Americans, removing them from the social town square—turning our democracy into an autocratic oligarchy, undermining the heart and essence of our constitutional republic.”
Ahem: “ ‘the’ social town square”?
God bless Tulsi. She’s cute. She also legitimizes a corrupt institution. Well, two: Congress and the military. There is no “the” social town square. There are opportunities to engage in what’s loosely called free speech. Lately, all the cool kids go to online brand-name sites.
No one’s touched the 1st Amendment, inlcuding Tulsi with her ludicrous comment above.
Those who say, ‘But those are the only “town squares” that matter’, make the same argument that says vote for the lesser evil because any truly good cndidate can never win.
In other words, invest your energy in this brand name evil rather than that lesser-known good, because good that loses is bad, and eveil that wins, is good!
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“As long as you pay 25% of your rent, you’re fine. Do we call this deflation?”
Government subsidized deflation.
My, what a lot of mighty moral presumptions you wield, Dr.D.
Society has been built of individual collectivists and collectivist individuals since long before our tails started shrinking as our brains fattened. They are as interwoven as Ron Carter and Tony Williams in this chestnut of the canon:
It’s a symbiotic and very broad Venn overlap genetically/culturally as old as warm-blooded vertbraes (and yes, natural evolution IS gynoconcentric, why do you ask? 😉 ). Any one of us is personally more individual than collectivist. Anyone of us is “politically” way more collectivist than not, something to do with the ‘polis’ whence comes politics.
The difference is technology and resoure quality/availability. Wealth is energy and matter manipulated by intelligence, and wealth is power relatively proportional to its size. So we have had, for a good decamillennia, a history of a very few INDIVIDUALS ruling a very large COLLECTIVE via concentration of wealth into their fisty little fingers. The common man wouldn’t know what to do with a Visi-Sonor if Hari Seldon handed one to him in a package signed With Love, Ayn Rand and a manual on PsychoHistory by William Vidal and Gore Buckley. But your average sociopath, like Ayn Rand, does: empower ME over the crude unruly lazy masses who “just want to be left alone”, is their answer. The Royal Me.
Yeah, we all just want to be left alone. What about it? The whole existence of politics is that humans will not leave other humans alone. Period. If only for some new genes to replenish their tribal stock. (Ah, grown men fighting for pussy. Ain’t it romantic? *sigh*)
So you’re farming your furburger patch or whatever your tribe grows for food, and a buncha yahoos from over the hill ride down on their horsies and do as they will. Well then, Something Must Be Done. We form protective coalitions that soon turn into the collection rackets we’ve been calling government since long before Yahweh first decided it would be interesting if those monkey-men would cut off their weiner-tips as a kind of loyalty love tattoo to Him. (Think of circumcision as a kind of vaccine passport.)
Ah, yes. Ideologies. The pouting peripheries we peek out from when we’re willing to dare a peek at raw reality:
When the internet was just mainstreaming in the mid-90s, and I was young and gay, I rhapsodized about an online tax revolt via the ability of peer-to-peer broadcast allowing consensus in the tens of millions to form overnight.
Instead, we got spam.
However competent and honest this financial storming of the Bastille proves to be overall, it’s making my day. And I have a toothache. And I’m old. And I was sick as a child.
Black swans are becoming so commonplace we hardly recognize them anymore.
Giddiness unnerves me. I’ll listen to this to bring me down. It sounds as bad as its name:
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
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This is now the dark winter wonderland of our discontent?
Where are they strong? Other than the internet/grid, only in our minds, really. Which we can change. Meanwhile, their internet/grid is increasingly susceptible to hostile foreign manipulatiion.
Evaporating their funny money is unsettling and embarrassing to them, but it’s only funny money. Evaporating its foreign reserve status, why, that might get someone’s attention. If the earnest players behind this Attack of the Rhemorae are looking to cascade such an effect to a negotiated surrender between USA/China’s de facto currency war with Russia happy to play counterbeam balance via its solid physical resource base/currency/industry/technosphere/military advantages, I’m way too happy.
What to do? What one will wish one had done when the power becomes unreliable, likewise, water. Be near fuel and water. Lots of things are edible… if you have fuel and water.
“I’m proposing a National Law or executive order that requires the wearing of a clown hat and flip flops nationwide for 100 days. In Minnesota. In January.”
I remember well those crazy days of the Red Pill Laws, when they tried to make consensual reality too weird to believe anymore. What is often forgotten is that we had to wear the flip-flops on our hands and the clown hats on our faces not the tops of our heads. We learned again that we can’t legislate reality, only the delusions we’ll allow others to share about reality.
The Movement to Restore Clown Hats to Heads and Flip-Flops to Feet was given abundant sympathetic press coverage until the first beheadings and behandings went viral, which led to the Pink Fuzzy Mittens riots in the coastal cities while the Headless Underwearers wreaked brief havoc in the Rustcorn Belt.
By then, the original offending Red Pill Laws had been repealed, but nobody cared. They were too busy figuring out what they were fighting for to remember why they started fighting. Something about not wanting to wear masks in public.
A populist dictator, a Native American New Age shaman reality TV star who wore a tinfoil codpiece, restored order by promising 40 acres and a mule to anyone who voted for him.
Land prices are in an almost universal global frenzy bubble. There is time to buy land later when the bubble pops.
For now, one is wise to gather organic matter of all wholesome stripe while it is still mostly free and still mostly affordable to transport. Compost will be like gold by decade’s end.
Distilleries, and water/fuel to drive them and material to process in them, will be the acme of wealth by then.
A sign of our times is how we ever beg the question: are they too stupid to know they’re evil or too evil to know they’re stupid?
Answer: we are foolish at best to believe that a tiny per cent of a per cent of a percent of an 8-billion human population can manage that population’s affairs in ways that are merely stupid or evil rather than an indisinguishable froth of both stupid and evil.
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However, stupid multiplied times stupid seems as productive of evil as stupid multiplied times evil:
” “It’s time to stop this whole nuke con job,” said Erica Grey, nuclear issues chair of the Virginia Sierra Club. There is “no solution” to dealing with nuclear waste, she said. It is “unethical to continue to make the most toxic waste known to mankind.” And, “renewable energy” with solar and wind “can power the world.” ”
No, renewable energy can’t, and actually, micro<>nano-scale plastic particles, as well as good old greenhouse hasses, seem to be doing plenty of damage without significant isotope decay lasting centuries or millennia.
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Escape to the Frozen North…… with modern amenities and soft polyester clothing.
This, from Mr. Kunstler’s article, needs further attention, I feel. Never mind the arrow and the ominously Asian Masked Man in Black (such a sensationalist, that Jimmy!). I bid us focus on the haunting of Biden’s head by the ghost of Trump’s Combover Floss Halo as styled by Boris Johnson:
It is like a bed-head comet of dire portent. Joe looks like he really has to pee. Amateur. Pros wear Depends.
This life allegedly being “democratic” or similarly magical word, I’ll flex my hippy hooters high and submit my personal choice for vox populi:
@ WES
“Clearly they don’t want to suddenly lose their new found powers over us.”
Forgive my devilish advocacy as I observe that they generally want whatever power is available so long as they don’t have to take much genuine responsibility. Just the dressing-like-mommy&daddy kind. It’s a constant in any such equation, oui?
“They are now saying everyone must continue masking, social distancing, and staying locked down.”
This too, I must, I do, I feel compelled *to respond to (the voices they won’t let me stop!). Monkey see-monkey do, CYA, whistle past the graveyard, follow the guy in front of you and trust the leader knows where the cherry pitfalls and molasses swamps are, is historically as good an explanation of this uncanny coordination of evil-by-chaos, as Everything Is Going According to Their Master Plan is.
*no particular reason; I just get compulsive sometimes. 😉Certain elite types are very good at scamming the people. Elon Musk is a stellar example all around. He could get Kanye booed off a stage in 3 minutes of a debate or charm contest. But for the most part, an overwhelmingly major most part, the elites and their rhemorae are just frizzy, fussy, sissy knaves like you and I doing what they’re told to some degree or another.
Globalization naturally dumbs even the top tier down. When everyone knows everyone’s business, nobody knows anything. We are headed to that state of affairs, very close to it, in fact “Approaching asymptotic orbit, Captain.”
The sudden briskness of the wind that will strip away the emperor’s Officially Not Nekkid Suit will take our breath away, some temporarily, some for the duration. Sort of a domino effect.
No, I don’t know why I feel compelled to make the too-dumb-to-know-better argument, but it seems like such an under-appreciated aspect of human affairs large and small, group and singular.
Let me illustrate:
Seems to me that Trump did what he always does: make a deal that settles out of court.
Looks to me like he delivered his mostly right-wing fans to the media jackals and the plutocracy that works with them.
As for the right wing: they were foolish enough to trust in him.
As for the GOP, it will probably breed a real populist dictator who wins the election in 2024. It’s what it’s been trying to do since Reagan.
As for the left, it will suffer the burden of victory.
As for the DNC, it is even more toast than the GOP. The GOP can now “purge” itself of its Trumpian sins, and run an Obama of its own, some cross-partisan charismatic who takes on the burden of presiding over the final destruction of what’s left of our constitution and the federation built on it.
For now, let’s see how Uncle Joe does in getting money to the people. It’s all he has to offer, really. Sans that, we’ll see real insurrectional riots.
As for that deal that I assume Trump made: keeping deals is not his trademark. I assume that some embarrassment will be dished out as revenge when Trump finds the opportunity.
“Sadly, I’ve concluded that this election was more or less honest as modern elections.”
That is indeed sad, given that NOV 3 2020 was the most fraudulent election in American history; fait accompli
You might read my remark you quoted and ask yourself: how honest ARE most modern elections? Answer that, Batman, and then wonder what exactly you are so sad about? I didn’t say this election was honest. Honest as…
See? The urge to fight, to disagree, to make someone appear wrong so you can appear to be right, is like some invisible, oh, I don’t know, virus? You end up swinging your fist at your own straw man. I’d rather hunt for truth. It’s one of my hobbies. Thanx for making my point.
Ta-ta, merry misanthropes! It was fun!
Big Dick Kennedy: you are indeed a big dick and proud of it, but you pay your way with nicely transgressive news analysis and history tidbits. Be good, or at least as good as you know how to be.
Sadly, I’ve concluded that this election was more or less honest as modern elections. What convinced me?
This:
NBA get-out-the vote effort results in unprecedented voter registration
“After just 22% of players voted in 2016, the league is up to 96% registration”
How sad. I was happier thinking it was another ballot-stuffing. But I can now see how it is possible that, this being the Election of a Lifetime (sounds like a boxing match promo), people could come out in waves to, uh, replace one piece of shit with a slightly different piece of shit with a VP who never met a prison slave complex she didn’t want to expand. (The surge in laws allowing same-day voter registration, sort of a just-in-time political economy, explains how such a fad could translate into actual voting.)
But then, part of the Tragedy of the Commons is that while we steadfastly fail to manage our resources for the long-term reasonable benefit of all dependent on those commons, we’ll come together and work in unison to FIGHT any dirty buggers who want a piece of those commons or, heaven forbid, dare suggest to us a better way of managing them
We will fight to oppose far more readily than work to compose; and that is human history in its essence.
It’s been fun, y’all, but there’s too much fighting here (just like everywhere else), too much rush to blame rather than move to remedy. I enjoy venting my despair as much as the next hollowed out old hag, but not contentiously; rather, in healing commiseration without recourse to agreeing on Whom we should deploy our Daily Hate.
Take care and try not to confuse your love with what you do to survive.
Watch out. I’ve got an old Boomer nostalgia machine and I’m not afraid to use it:
Christ on a cracker, a kullervo. NO ONE is inncoent. But let’s point fingers anyway. In case you didn’t know it, this world is full of creeps like me and you. We can point these fingers all day. Few look at the moon, avoiding it because it has our face on it.
Yikes. Can we find another pointless blame game to play? Something serious like who is the most street cred rapper or are Kim Kardashian and Kanye West nice people or media assholes? Thanx for teaching me the same old lesson I forget over and over again: human beings will argue any old thing to death before bringing something new to life.
