Jeremiah Donaldson's Blog: This and That, page 6
October 18, 2019
‘Crevice’ cover
Full cover for ‘Crevice’ with art by Jon Wells:
https://www.facebook.com/Wellsyart
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Post-apocalyptic Adventures of Ott & Ren: Crevice rough draft complete
The rough draft of the second Ott & Ren novella is finished as of about 5 minutes ago. Release date will be in December or January, depending on how long it takes me to edit.
October 9, 2019
Social Media: Time Waster and Mental Health Destroyer
I never had a Myspace account because I recognized that long ago that there were inherent issues with anything like this. That's because it's social engineering masquerading as 'social media'. Perhaps it even started off as something innocent, but it's became a time and sanity vampire. Yeah, it's great because you meet people you'd never have met before, but it's also terrible because at least half those people are so toxic they leave holes in the floor behind them as they walk. It's also a massive time waste and distraction.
A smart, curious person on a site like this is like walking a dog into a vet without a leash: they're going to sniff someone's ass and possibly start a fight and there's nothing you or the dog can do about it because it's the nature of the beast. Do you smack the dog for doing it? yourself for not stopping it? or do you recognize that the less the dog is there the less of a problem it is? I like to get to the bare basics and fix things from the ground up. The bare basics are that Facebook serves no useful purpose to me except as a messaging service and distracts the hell out of me. And there's no reason for the distraction because there's a dozen other ways to contact me. It's also nearly useless for advertisement.
Yeah, you can get likes. All kinds of likes. But do you think they translate into profit? No. Why, I don't know, but I have some suspicions: 1. A great number of FB accounts are fake. 2. FB is clearly bias against conservatives and anyone else not on the sinking Liberal boat, and I expect that would extend to ads also. 3. Conservatives and non-Liberals have been jumping ship from FB and a cross section of a FB crowd no longer represents the same cross section you'd get by pulling a group of the same number off the street and therefore doesn't have the same buying power. 4. Too many have been affected by the political wrangling inflicted by pathetic politicians that don't know enough psychology to know how bad they're fucking people up, which knocks people off their game, changing their behaviors.
As of now, FB is essentially on probation. 90% of the feeds that made it through the last purge have been cut, and the last purge cut 90% of the feeds at that time. That is why the majority of my political posts stopped months ago: there's nothing to comment on if you don't see it and that rule can be applied to anything and anyone. So basically, FB is now knocked down to only those people I like, which means only to people, and we'll see if that changes things enough so that I don't ditch it completely at the turn of the new year.
I won't get into other issues I believe social media causes, such as neurosis, anxiety, depression, political dissidence, normalization of evil such as pedophilia, normalization of fantastical delusions of being things people aren't and can never be, and the normalization and promotion of victim mentality just to name a few of the worst, except to say I've barely touched the tip of the iceberg.
A smart, curious person on a site like this is like walking a dog into a vet without a leash: they're going to sniff someone's ass and possibly start a fight and there's nothing you or the dog can do about it because it's the nature of the beast. Do you smack the dog for doing it? yourself for not stopping it? or do you recognize that the less the dog is there the less of a problem it is? I like to get to the bare basics and fix things from the ground up. The bare basics are that Facebook serves no useful purpose to me except as a messaging service and distracts the hell out of me. And there's no reason for the distraction because there's a dozen other ways to contact me. It's also nearly useless for advertisement.
Yeah, you can get likes. All kinds of likes. But do you think they translate into profit? No. Why, I don't know, but I have some suspicions: 1. A great number of FB accounts are fake. 2. FB is clearly bias against conservatives and anyone else not on the sinking Liberal boat, and I expect that would extend to ads also. 3. Conservatives and non-Liberals have been jumping ship from FB and a cross section of a FB crowd no longer represents the same cross section you'd get by pulling a group of the same number off the street and therefore doesn't have the same buying power. 4. Too many have been affected by the political wrangling inflicted by pathetic politicians that don't know enough psychology to know how bad they're fucking people up, which knocks people off their game, changing their behaviors.
As of now, FB is essentially on probation. 90% of the feeds that made it through the last purge have been cut, and the last purge cut 90% of the feeds at that time. That is why the majority of my political posts stopped months ago: there's nothing to comment on if you don't see it and that rule can be applied to anything and anyone. So basically, FB is now knocked down to only those people I like, which means only to people, and we'll see if that changes things enough so that I don't ditch it completely at the turn of the new year.
I won't get into other issues I believe social media causes, such as neurosis, anxiety, depression, political dissidence, normalization of evil such as pedophilia, normalization of fantastical delusions of being things people aren't and can never be, and the normalization and promotion of victim mentality just to name a few of the worst, except to say I've barely touched the tip of the iceberg.
September 12, 2019
Death Derby tutorial video
The first tutorial race for my game Death Derby: A Post-apocalyptic Card Game is complete. Now I'll be doing a second, because this was a test run to learn some things.
Youtube: https://youtu.be/ipRZrNQCRgo
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JeremiahDona...
Bitchut: https://www.bitchute.com/video/S2dCHJ...
Death Derby: A Post-apocalyptic Card Game
Win the race. Kill your opponent. Whatever works.
Available on The Game Crafter: https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/...
And on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Death-Derby-Po...
Youtube: https://youtu.be/ipRZrNQCRgo
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JeremiahDona...
Bitchut: https://www.bitchute.com/video/S2dCHJ...
Death Derby: A Post-apocalyptic Card Game
Win the race. Kill your opponent. Whatever works.
Available on The Game Crafter: https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/...
And on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Death-Derby-Po...
July 3, 2019
Death Derby: A Post-apocalyptic Card Game
Available on The Game Crafter and Amazon.
https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/...
Win the race. Kill your opponent. Whatever works.
The year is 2200 and survivors of man-made and natural disasters struggle to live in a world poisoned and devastated beyond recognition. The new extreme sport and source of income for many are Death Derby races in which competitors vie to win or just to survive.
Death Derby features random courses formed from 15 track sections, 12 vehicles that can be upgraded with 37 different modifications, and 40 action cards that can influence the outcome in multiple ways.
Be the first to finish the race or the last one standing as you try to out think, out race, and out shoot your opponents. Modify your vehicle into a death machine or speed demon to survive while hampering everyone's efforts with well timed action cards.
Can be played in a group from a single deck or a single modified deck, or you can modify your own to take on someone else's.
https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/...
Win the race. Kill your opponent. Whatever works.
The year is 2200 and survivors of man-made and natural disasters struggle to live in a world poisoned and devastated beyond recognition. The new extreme sport and source of income for many are Death Derby races in which competitors vie to win or just to survive.
Death Derby features random courses formed from 15 track sections, 12 vehicles that can be upgraded with 37 different modifications, and 40 action cards that can influence the outcome in multiple ways.
Be the first to finish the race or the last one standing as you try to out think, out race, and out shoot your opponents. Modify your vehicle into a death machine or speed demon to survive while hampering everyone's efforts with well timed action cards.
Can be played in a group from a single deck or a single modified deck, or you can modify your own to take on someone else's.
April 1, 2019
Dehellenization of the West
“A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke.” ― Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or, Part I
People like to think that things always move forward. That progress is always made. That once something is learned it can't be lost. None of those things are true. Things can and do move rapidly in reverse. Progress can be halted. Knowledge can be lost. And sometimes those things are due to intentional actions. Pope Benedict XVI first used the term 'dehellenization' first in a speech called “Faith, Reason, and the University: Memories and Reflections” when speaking of separating Christianity from Greek philosophy. The word has come to refer to the rejection of the use of reason in particular, which has befallen many in history. Currently, it appears the Western world, led by the US, has headed, at least partially, down such a road.
The biggest crack in logic is the first I'll touch on: climate change denial. Sure, Trump doesn't believe climate change. Neither do most the people relying on oil and other products that are implicated in the increase of green house gases. But also, neither do most other US citizens. Why? Well, basically, the problem is bigger than their TVs and cars and they don't understand, just use, those things, so why would they understand climate change? Especially with such common sense wisdom going around as 'it's cold today, so there's no climate change' and thinking that creating carbon emissions by manufacturing signs to wave is going to help anything. Reading between the lines on such things indicates the majority of people fall short of understanding the problem we face. Then there are those that deny to escape responsibility. They'd have to do something other than exist if they sat down and realized that their ocean front home will be worthless in another decade, or less, depending on the hurricanes. Easier to wait until water is lapping at the foundation to try unloading it on a sucker. Meanwhile, I'll side with the 97% of scientists that think we've screwed up, because it's pretty obvious we have, and if nothing else, the level of denial indicates we have because denial goes up in relation to immediate danger, just like the closer someone lives to a dam, the more in denial they are anything could happen to wash them away. I'll continue to prepare a plot of land to be as self sufficient as possible for when reality crashes down and people realize it's not a joke and their children and grandchildren aren't the only ones who have to worry.
Now to something that is a joke: flat earth. In 240 BC, Eratosthenes measured the circumference of the Earth for the first time. In 1633, Galileo Galilei was charged with heresy, sentenced to imprisonment that was reduced to lifelong house arrest, and all his words were forbidden to be published. All because he defended a heliocentric solar system that contained a round Earth. All total, we've known the Earth was round for about 2250+ years, despite the fact some people have wanted to think otherwise at times. And it's nothing new for someone to think otherwise. The 'Flat Earth Society' was founded in 1956 and has continued into the internet age with their scientific heresy. If anything, Photoshop has increased the idea's popularity. However, if you look into the sky, you'll see a round moon, sun, and stars, so a few sketchy pics aren't going to convince me we're the only flat thing in the universe. Flat Earth theories don't even rank as pseudoscience since there's more chance of finding Bigfoot than of finding the edge of the Earth.
And speaking of sketchy, do you know what can kill up to 30% of patients if they don't have medical treatment and that can infect 90% of nearby, unvaccinated people? Measles! What's making a comeback due to anti vaxxers putting their kids and public in danger? Measles! What can survive in the air for two hours after a sneeze? Measles! Not getting vaccinated for measles is almost worth a Darwin award itself before anything else even happens. Not only are you putting yourself and kids at risk because of trumped up nonsense, but the public as well. Although I'd agree that SOME vaccinations are maybe a bit much, but the tried and true ones will save your butt. Besides, military people can get a lot of vaccines depending on deployment and anything majority wrong with vaccines in general would have showed up in that part of the population first. Anti vaxxers have even come to unbalance a video game since...they get taken out so easily. It's Lemming mentality. I'm not saying no one has the right to run into the sea, I'm just saying no one has the right to take others with them.
And not so easy to tackle is gender fluidity. Is it a fad? Is it a political movement? Is it an attempt to curb population growth? Or is it the offspring of the West's hubris? What it isn't, is real. Or at least as most news portrays it. Oh, it's real as in people get surgery and take hormone pills. But it also would curb population growth if a large part of the population were to buy into it due to jacking junk up so much it doesn't work. But it's also heavily connected to Liberal governments and became more popular as they rose in power. And people are reversing surgeries at a rate that makes one surgeon say there's a trend or regret. However, I personally see it all as hubris. As all great nations before us, we started as nothing, we rose, we plateaued...then we got bored, we started thinking we could do whatever we wanted, including spitting in the face of nature and basic economics until more and more propaganda fed people became consumer weary and more aware of the debt ridden economy and multiple prices racking up. And the prices for this particular fancy are great indeed, up to and including removal from the gene pool.
These are just some of the oddest social fads that caught traction in the last decade as it becomes clearer that the 90's and early 2000's were the West's peak, specifically the USA's, and we're coming down from the high. We have a serious arrogance problem that is out of sync with our ability to perform. We lost sight of our old ideals that actually worked. We have no collective goals. We have a bored, entitled population that is putting themselves at the mercy of the government and those that pay taxes. Our military is sprawled across the globe in resource wars. Celebrities want to pretend they have the right to tell people what to do and think...just for attention and a sound bite. Like animals that eat, sleep, and screw, a good portion of the West has regressed to the minimums of eating, sleeping, and screwing. Fewer add work to that. Fewer still add work and secondary goals. This creates a lot of time. You can only watch so much. You can only play so much. You can only buy so much. Eventually, you have to create something to feel of value...and then the focus on weird ideas start because you've not spent any time to develop goals and hobbies. Currently, the East is set to overtake the West in economic terms. This isn't just because those countries are producing more. Not just because they're bringing more of their population into urban living. Not just because they're copying the old things that we did that worked. Not just because they're showing a *gasp* inclination to learn from our mistakes. But also because we're awfully busy wasting time with silly ideas that are better tossed in the hamper and exporting all our work. Like a used car salesman coke addict that wakes up from a month long binge to find $20k in cash and three car titles gone, we need to figure out our next step to get out of the hole we've dug.
Additional reading
Climate Change Denial: Facing a reality too big to believe.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/bl...
More than half of Americans don't think climate change will affect them
https://www.ajc.com/news/science/more...
Psychological Denial and Dams
https://www.jefftk.com/p/psychologica...
Are Flat-Earthers Being Serious?
https://www.livescience.com/24310-fla...
Transmission of Measles
https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/tra...
One More Time, With Big Data: Measles Vaccine Doesn’t Cause Autism
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/he...
Which Vaccines Do You Get When You Join the Military?
https://vaxopedia.org/2018/06/24/whic...
Pandemic Video Game Ushers in the Apocalypse by Adding Anti-Vaxxers
https://slate.com/technology/2019/03/...
Political party is closely tied to views on transgender issues
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/...
Transgender Surgery: Regret rates highest in male-to-female reassignment operations
https://www.newsweek.com/transgender-...
People like to think that things always move forward. That progress is always made. That once something is learned it can't be lost. None of those things are true. Things can and do move rapidly in reverse. Progress can be halted. Knowledge can be lost. And sometimes those things are due to intentional actions. Pope Benedict XVI first used the term 'dehellenization' first in a speech called “Faith, Reason, and the University: Memories and Reflections” when speaking of separating Christianity from Greek philosophy. The word has come to refer to the rejection of the use of reason in particular, which has befallen many in history. Currently, it appears the Western world, led by the US, has headed, at least partially, down such a road.
The biggest crack in logic is the first I'll touch on: climate change denial. Sure, Trump doesn't believe climate change. Neither do most the people relying on oil and other products that are implicated in the increase of green house gases. But also, neither do most other US citizens. Why? Well, basically, the problem is bigger than their TVs and cars and they don't understand, just use, those things, so why would they understand climate change? Especially with such common sense wisdom going around as 'it's cold today, so there's no climate change' and thinking that creating carbon emissions by manufacturing signs to wave is going to help anything. Reading between the lines on such things indicates the majority of people fall short of understanding the problem we face. Then there are those that deny to escape responsibility. They'd have to do something other than exist if they sat down and realized that their ocean front home will be worthless in another decade, or less, depending on the hurricanes. Easier to wait until water is lapping at the foundation to try unloading it on a sucker. Meanwhile, I'll side with the 97% of scientists that think we've screwed up, because it's pretty obvious we have, and if nothing else, the level of denial indicates we have because denial goes up in relation to immediate danger, just like the closer someone lives to a dam, the more in denial they are anything could happen to wash them away. I'll continue to prepare a plot of land to be as self sufficient as possible for when reality crashes down and people realize it's not a joke and their children and grandchildren aren't the only ones who have to worry.
Now to something that is a joke: flat earth. In 240 BC, Eratosthenes measured the circumference of the Earth for the first time. In 1633, Galileo Galilei was charged with heresy, sentenced to imprisonment that was reduced to lifelong house arrest, and all his words were forbidden to be published. All because he defended a heliocentric solar system that contained a round Earth. All total, we've known the Earth was round for about 2250+ years, despite the fact some people have wanted to think otherwise at times. And it's nothing new for someone to think otherwise. The 'Flat Earth Society' was founded in 1956 and has continued into the internet age with their scientific heresy. If anything, Photoshop has increased the idea's popularity. However, if you look into the sky, you'll see a round moon, sun, and stars, so a few sketchy pics aren't going to convince me we're the only flat thing in the universe. Flat Earth theories don't even rank as pseudoscience since there's more chance of finding Bigfoot than of finding the edge of the Earth.
And speaking of sketchy, do you know what can kill up to 30% of patients if they don't have medical treatment and that can infect 90% of nearby, unvaccinated people? Measles! What's making a comeback due to anti vaxxers putting their kids and public in danger? Measles! What can survive in the air for two hours after a sneeze? Measles! Not getting vaccinated for measles is almost worth a Darwin award itself before anything else even happens. Not only are you putting yourself and kids at risk because of trumped up nonsense, but the public as well. Although I'd agree that SOME vaccinations are maybe a bit much, but the tried and true ones will save your butt. Besides, military people can get a lot of vaccines depending on deployment and anything majority wrong with vaccines in general would have showed up in that part of the population first. Anti vaxxers have even come to unbalance a video game since...they get taken out so easily. It's Lemming mentality. I'm not saying no one has the right to run into the sea, I'm just saying no one has the right to take others with them.
And not so easy to tackle is gender fluidity. Is it a fad? Is it a political movement? Is it an attempt to curb population growth? Or is it the offspring of the West's hubris? What it isn't, is real. Or at least as most news portrays it. Oh, it's real as in people get surgery and take hormone pills. But it also would curb population growth if a large part of the population were to buy into it due to jacking junk up so much it doesn't work. But it's also heavily connected to Liberal governments and became more popular as they rose in power. And people are reversing surgeries at a rate that makes one surgeon say there's a trend or regret. However, I personally see it all as hubris. As all great nations before us, we started as nothing, we rose, we plateaued...then we got bored, we started thinking we could do whatever we wanted, including spitting in the face of nature and basic economics until more and more propaganda fed people became consumer weary and more aware of the debt ridden economy and multiple prices racking up. And the prices for this particular fancy are great indeed, up to and including removal from the gene pool.
These are just some of the oddest social fads that caught traction in the last decade as it becomes clearer that the 90's and early 2000's were the West's peak, specifically the USA's, and we're coming down from the high. We have a serious arrogance problem that is out of sync with our ability to perform. We lost sight of our old ideals that actually worked. We have no collective goals. We have a bored, entitled population that is putting themselves at the mercy of the government and those that pay taxes. Our military is sprawled across the globe in resource wars. Celebrities want to pretend they have the right to tell people what to do and think...just for attention and a sound bite. Like animals that eat, sleep, and screw, a good portion of the West has regressed to the minimums of eating, sleeping, and screwing. Fewer add work to that. Fewer still add work and secondary goals. This creates a lot of time. You can only watch so much. You can only play so much. You can only buy so much. Eventually, you have to create something to feel of value...and then the focus on weird ideas start because you've not spent any time to develop goals and hobbies. Currently, the East is set to overtake the West in economic terms. This isn't just because those countries are producing more. Not just because they're bringing more of their population into urban living. Not just because they're copying the old things that we did that worked. Not just because they're showing a *gasp* inclination to learn from our mistakes. But also because we're awfully busy wasting time with silly ideas that are better tossed in the hamper and exporting all our work. Like a used car salesman coke addict that wakes up from a month long binge to find $20k in cash and three car titles gone, we need to figure out our next step to get out of the hole we've dug.
Additional reading
Climate Change Denial: Facing a reality too big to believe.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/bl...
More than half of Americans don't think climate change will affect them
https://www.ajc.com/news/science/more...
Psychological Denial and Dams
https://www.jefftk.com/p/psychologica...
Are Flat-Earthers Being Serious?
https://www.livescience.com/24310-fla...
Transmission of Measles
https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/tra...
One More Time, With Big Data: Measles Vaccine Doesn’t Cause Autism
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/he...
Which Vaccines Do You Get When You Join the Military?
https://vaxopedia.org/2018/06/24/whic...
Pandemic Video Game Ushers in the Apocalypse by Adding Anti-Vaxxers
https://slate.com/technology/2019/03/...
Political party is closely tied to views on transgender issues
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/...
Transgender Surgery: Regret rates highest in male-to-female reassignment operations
https://www.newsweek.com/transgender-...
Congrats to the giveaway winners
Congrats to everyone that got a copy of 'The Disturbance Fiction Collection'. Hope you enjoy, or not, as you see fit.
February 24, 2019
A Host of Issues
This is another nonfiction word or two that goes along with 'The Taming of the Pansy' in some way. The other is '1950: The beginning of the death of men'. The story in 'Taming', like most of my essays, touches on sensitive social issues. Issues that need to be dragged out into the open and beat with a stick for all to see. These issues are the root of a vast number of problems. Consolidation of wealth in a few hands. Increased entitlement. Increasing homelessness. An increasing level of drug intake caused by legitimate and illegitimate use along with doctor errors. An increasing number of overdoses. An increasing suicide rate. An increasing infant mortality rate. Along with a corresponding decrease in life expectancy. They are many that any great power past its zenith must face and figure out as the limitless power of money starts to dry up.
Consolidation of wealth is through the roof. We are at the highest level of debt inequity in half a century and there are no easy solutions. Take money from the rich and give to the poor? Wouldn't do any good. Just look at all the money California has thrown at homelessness and still have to clean up Hepatitis infected feces off their streets. Give it to middle class people? Still no good. It'll just be used to pay bills and be funneled right back to the people it was just taken from. Give everyone a Universal Income? That's a zero sum game as proved by Finland's experiment. The only possible solution I can think of would be to give owner/operator incentives to increase the rate of self-employment and business startups. This would, over time, spread consumer money around slightly more evenly as the more competitive people picked up their pace in response. The less competitive people that think they are owed something would be presented with an improved system they could possibly learn something from before all government entitlement agencies go broke. Some people even still believe the money they're getting for their Social Security and what pays for their Medicare is money THEY paid in. Such a concept is naive at best or the system wouldn't be due to start collapsing by 2034 due to unbalanced fundage. Sooner if people keep sucking it dry at all levels.
Meanwhile, prescription drug use is rising. Suicide rate is rising. Obesity rate is rising. We have a bad infant mortality rate compared to other such countries, and that's without counting abortion (which kills 188 per 1000 live births compared to the US mortality rate of 5.8 per 1000, or put another way, 32 are aborted for each one that doesn't make it naturally). Life expectancy is falling. It doesn't take Einstein to see where this will go over the long term. You can't fix a drug problem with more drugs anymore than you can put out a fire with gasoline or revive a drowning person with a bucket of water or keep someone from being an alcoholic by handing them a bottle. The concept that people can be 'cured' of their addiction with the introduction of yet another drug into their system is the medical equivalent of letting Jim Jones pick your evening drink. Likewise, you can't fix an obesity problem without personal responsibility and perhaps clauses for such in health insurance contracts. People think they can shove five pounds of garbage down their throats a day and live to a ripe old age. That's like thinking you can dump sugar in your gas tank and drive across the country. You can't. Your car will die. YOU will die. We need a national fitness program. About 71% of people aren't even fit for the military to send off to be shot at. Maybe insurance contracts don't need a personal responsibility clause, maybe the country does.
I know many more people will die premature deaths caused by all matter of preventable issues before the rest really start getting the picture because people are already dying while obesity and drug use continues to increase. Many of them are people taking prescriptions given to them by a doctor, and they will argue until they overdose or go psychotic that it's okay because the doctor gave it to them. The more people that die and go batshit crazy, the more that will take notice. Long term prognosis says it will fix itself. In the long run, only the ones that keep their heads together will remain. The short term outlook is far messier. People will continue denying that what they get from doctors will hurt them. People will continue denying that they need to get more exercise. People will continue to deny that our economic system can't support masses of non-producers latched onto it like ticks bleeding a host dry. And the longer they deny, the more will die earlier than they should, the lower our life expectancy will go, the more serious the retirement problem will be in two decades, and the farther the country will sink before righting itself.
Additional reading:
The richest 1 percent now owns more of the country’s wealth than at any time in the past 50 years: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/w...
San Diego Washing Streets With Bleach To Combat Hepatitis A Outbreak: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-w...
Basic income: world’s first national experiment in Finland shows only modest benefits : http://theconversation.com/basic-inco...
Entitlement Mentality Still Destroying America: https://www.newsmax.com/finance/andre...
Social Security must reduce benefits in 2034 if reforms aren't made: https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/05/politi...
2018 Prescription Drug Abuse Statistics You Need To Know: https://talbottcampus.com/prescriptio...
How does infant mortality in the U.S. compare to other countries?: https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/c...
CDCs Abortion Surveillance System FAQs: https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealt...
The decline in U.S. life expectancy is unlike anything we've seen in a century: https://www.popsci.com/life-expectanc...
THE U.S. SUICIDE RATE IS AT ITS HIGHEST IN A HALF-CENTURY: https://psmag.com/news/the-suicide-ra...
U.S. Obesity Rates Have Hit An All-Time High: https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmcc...
The Looming National Security Crisis: Young Americans Unable to Serve in the Military: https://www.scribd.com/document/37253...
Consolidation of wealth is through the roof. We are at the highest level of debt inequity in half a century and there are no easy solutions. Take money from the rich and give to the poor? Wouldn't do any good. Just look at all the money California has thrown at homelessness and still have to clean up Hepatitis infected feces off their streets. Give it to middle class people? Still no good. It'll just be used to pay bills and be funneled right back to the people it was just taken from. Give everyone a Universal Income? That's a zero sum game as proved by Finland's experiment. The only possible solution I can think of would be to give owner/operator incentives to increase the rate of self-employment and business startups. This would, over time, spread consumer money around slightly more evenly as the more competitive people picked up their pace in response. The less competitive people that think they are owed something would be presented with an improved system they could possibly learn something from before all government entitlement agencies go broke. Some people even still believe the money they're getting for their Social Security and what pays for their Medicare is money THEY paid in. Such a concept is naive at best or the system wouldn't be due to start collapsing by 2034 due to unbalanced fundage. Sooner if people keep sucking it dry at all levels.
Meanwhile, prescription drug use is rising. Suicide rate is rising. Obesity rate is rising. We have a bad infant mortality rate compared to other such countries, and that's without counting abortion (which kills 188 per 1000 live births compared to the US mortality rate of 5.8 per 1000, or put another way, 32 are aborted for each one that doesn't make it naturally). Life expectancy is falling. It doesn't take Einstein to see where this will go over the long term. You can't fix a drug problem with more drugs anymore than you can put out a fire with gasoline or revive a drowning person with a bucket of water or keep someone from being an alcoholic by handing them a bottle. The concept that people can be 'cured' of their addiction with the introduction of yet another drug into their system is the medical equivalent of letting Jim Jones pick your evening drink. Likewise, you can't fix an obesity problem without personal responsibility and perhaps clauses for such in health insurance contracts. People think they can shove five pounds of garbage down their throats a day and live to a ripe old age. That's like thinking you can dump sugar in your gas tank and drive across the country. You can't. Your car will die. YOU will die. We need a national fitness program. About 71% of people aren't even fit for the military to send off to be shot at. Maybe insurance contracts don't need a personal responsibility clause, maybe the country does.
I know many more people will die premature deaths caused by all matter of preventable issues before the rest really start getting the picture because people are already dying while obesity and drug use continues to increase. Many of them are people taking prescriptions given to them by a doctor, and they will argue until they overdose or go psychotic that it's okay because the doctor gave it to them. The more people that die and go batshit crazy, the more that will take notice. Long term prognosis says it will fix itself. In the long run, only the ones that keep their heads together will remain. The short term outlook is far messier. People will continue denying that what they get from doctors will hurt them. People will continue denying that they need to get more exercise. People will continue to deny that our economic system can't support masses of non-producers latched onto it like ticks bleeding a host dry. And the longer they deny, the more will die earlier than they should, the lower our life expectancy will go, the more serious the retirement problem will be in two decades, and the farther the country will sink before righting itself.
Additional reading:
The richest 1 percent now owns more of the country’s wealth than at any time in the past 50 years: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/w...
San Diego Washing Streets With Bleach To Combat Hepatitis A Outbreak: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-w...
Basic income: world’s first national experiment in Finland shows only modest benefits : http://theconversation.com/basic-inco...
Entitlement Mentality Still Destroying America: https://www.newsmax.com/finance/andre...
Social Security must reduce benefits in 2034 if reforms aren't made: https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/05/politi...
2018 Prescription Drug Abuse Statistics You Need To Know: https://talbottcampus.com/prescriptio...
How does infant mortality in the U.S. compare to other countries?: https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/c...
CDCs Abortion Surveillance System FAQs: https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealt...
The decline in U.S. life expectancy is unlike anything we've seen in a century: https://www.popsci.com/life-expectanc...
THE U.S. SUICIDE RATE IS AT ITS HIGHEST IN A HALF-CENTURY: https://psmag.com/news/the-suicide-ra...
U.S. Obesity Rates Have Hit An All-Time High: https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmcc...
The Looming National Security Crisis: Young Americans Unable to Serve in the Military: https://www.scribd.com/document/37253...
November 9, 2018
The Taming of the Pansy excerpt
Coming 12.15.18
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J21RPFN
They all looked up as Tony and the unnamed, suited man reentered the room. Tony put his phone on the table and sat down. The suited man sat in the spot beside him.
“Damned women's rights people. Don't say that, don't do that, we were given equal treatment decades ago, don't wave your dick around at interviews.” Tony laughed. “No one treats women better than I do. Ellen! Beer!”
“Yes, dear,” was the reply from the kitchen.
“Just ask my wife.” Tony started shoveling food onto his plate. “She'll tell you.”
Ellen slipped into the room, sat a beer down in front of Tony, and disappeared before anyone could reply.
Tony nodded at the swinging door. “See.”
“Uh, Dad.” Tim leaned forward and put his elbows on the table. “Wesley is going on a date tomorrow, can I get out of the house, too?”
Tony's eyes widened. “Hell, yeah, boy. You can do whatever you want as long as the bastard is out of the house. Get out there and grab life by the tits!”
“Dad, that's a bit...Trump.”
“Then rape it to death with a bayonet and drag it down the street in victory!”
“And that's too Clinton.”
Tony slammed his fist down on the table, making everyone jump. “Dammit, boy! Get in line with the two party, Capitalist system! Democracy is for Communists!” His phone beeped again. He grabbed it and stood up. “Let's see what pussy ass rights group is bitching now.”
Tony and the suited man left the room again.
Tim turned to Ava and they stared into each others eyes for a moment before he spoke. “Tomorrow then?”
Ava giggled and blushed. “Just let me know when.”
Tim nodded and gave her a thumbs up.
Wesley looked at Jennifer. “We getting drunk tomorrow?”
Jennifer picked at a finger nail. “Well, I don't...”
Ava kicked her leg under the table.
“Sure.” Jennifer sneered at Wesley. “Or at least you are.”
Tony and the suited man reentered and sat back down.
“Well, the lawsuit over me jerking off in front of the maid is finally settled.” Tony took a drink of beer. “It'll be cheaper to hire a hooker for it next time.”
Everyone, including the unnamed suited man, looked at their plates and started eating without another word.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J21RPFN
They all looked up as Tony and the unnamed, suited man reentered the room. Tony put his phone on the table and sat down. The suited man sat in the spot beside him.
“Damned women's rights people. Don't say that, don't do that, we were given equal treatment decades ago, don't wave your dick around at interviews.” Tony laughed. “No one treats women better than I do. Ellen! Beer!”
“Yes, dear,” was the reply from the kitchen.
“Just ask my wife.” Tony started shoveling food onto his plate. “She'll tell you.”
Ellen slipped into the room, sat a beer down in front of Tony, and disappeared before anyone could reply.
Tony nodded at the swinging door. “See.”
“Uh, Dad.” Tim leaned forward and put his elbows on the table. “Wesley is going on a date tomorrow, can I get out of the house, too?”
Tony's eyes widened. “Hell, yeah, boy. You can do whatever you want as long as the bastard is out of the house. Get out there and grab life by the tits!”
“Dad, that's a bit...Trump.”
“Then rape it to death with a bayonet and drag it down the street in victory!”
“And that's too Clinton.”
Tony slammed his fist down on the table, making everyone jump. “Dammit, boy! Get in line with the two party, Capitalist system! Democracy is for Communists!” His phone beeped again. He grabbed it and stood up. “Let's see what pussy ass rights group is bitching now.”
Tony and the suited man left the room again.
Tim turned to Ava and they stared into each others eyes for a moment before he spoke. “Tomorrow then?”
Ava giggled and blushed. “Just let me know when.”
Tim nodded and gave her a thumbs up.
Wesley looked at Jennifer. “We getting drunk tomorrow?”
Jennifer picked at a finger nail. “Well, I don't...”
Ava kicked her leg under the table.
“Sure.” Jennifer sneered at Wesley. “Or at least you are.”
Tony and the suited man reentered and sat back down.
“Well, the lawsuit over me jerking off in front of the maid is finally settled.” Tony took a drink of beer. “It'll be cheaper to hire a hooker for it next time.”
Everyone, including the unnamed suited man, looked at their plates and started eating without another word.
November 3, 2018
1950: The Beginning of the End of Men
“A woman should soften but not weaken a man.” ― Sigmund Freud
“When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.” ― William Gibson, Zero History
Few people would ever point at 1950 as the beginning of the end of men in the USA. The US economy boomed, everyone was flushed with victory after the second World War, and people marched forward into a brave new world of nuclear bombs and microwave ovens. The wage to living expenses ratio from the end of the 40's through the 60's was such that a single earner could provide for the family. Which the man of the house did so while women exited the job force after the wartime surge to stay home and care for kids. Personal and national wealth grew at a pace unheard of. But the heights of prosperity hid the seeds of decay that had been planted in society by this same sequence of events.
We know from history that a nation's decline follows it's peak in relatively rapid succession and history has given multiple possible triggers for such a thing. Strategic overstretch such as what happened to the English Empire and others. Dilution of core population groups like what happened to the Roman Empire. Rejection of science and lack of advancement as what happened with the Abbasid Caliphate. Food supply issues of one type or another like with the Mayans. Losing a major war like what happened to Germany twice in the 20th century. There's also agricultural disasters, natural disasters, economic disasters, and infrastructure disasters to contend with. Another scourge needs added to such a list: demasculinity of men.
Now you're asking, where the hell is this nutcase going with this?
Dr. Frankenstein.
Let me explain.
Before WW2, from the 1910's into the early 1940's, women had gained a more equal stance in society if they choose to take it. The advent of the Jazz and Swing era encouraged women to be whom they wanted. War footing for both World Wars put them into new jobs they'd never had access to before, giving many new opportunities never available before. But all that didn't last...
Society took a step backwards in the name of progress after the second World War. Men were encouraged to work all day and put their feet up all afternoon, waiting for their woman to make and bring dinner. They ceased having anything to do with the household beyond mowing the yard and general maintenance, letting their woman look after and pay all the bills with the money the man brought home. Women were once more relegated to the household and weren't expected to have any useful skills beyond housework of all types. Boys grew up watching this and being taught it was normal to only go to work and not much else. This taught them they didn't have to take responsibility. The woman would do it. Everything. That in turn led to an epidemic of single parent homes, most of them ran by women, as those boys grew up into boy-men with weak spines that had to have a mother figure tell them what to do. Now we have 'men', really males since biological equipment technically doesn't make a 'man', wearing lipstick, cutting their junk off to try being women, leading the pack in suicide, leading the pack in addiction, leading the pack in early deaths, not keeping jobs, not taking responsibility, sitting around on disability for relatively minor injuries, not being MEN. And we have a bunch of women that hate men in general.
And why not? Dr. Frankenstein hated his monster, too. Why wouldn't a woman hate men that can't hold a job, can't stand upright against pressure, can't focus on a future, wants to play video games all the time, can't get a woman off right, wants to cut their penis off, and runs and hides behind his woman when it's time to take responsibility for something? Why wouldn't they? Especially when 70 years of women bringing men food and beer has created them? God almighty, I'm repulsed by them myself. I can't imagine the depths of my detestation if I'd had a hand in their creation. Not because men that take no responsibility are useless, but they are. Not because I've dealt with some horrible situations created by these boy-men, but I have. Not because I think the concept of 'dad bod' is a ridiculous form of control, but I do. Not because I think skinny jeans and Moose Knuckles deserve smart ass comments, but I'd eat popcorn to some. No, I'm repulsed because of the stupendous lack of standards such things represent.
Fight a war with Russia and/or China? Good luck since ~70% of everyone in the right age category is useless to the military for various reasons ranging from fat to lazy to stupid to criminal to crazy. Bring all the manufacturing jobs back from China to here? Good luck since everyone wants free money or rock star salaries to pay for overpriced phones and iced coffee and people are short for the jobs available. Snap our fingers and fix the issues that's been created by the inadvertent (or not?) social engineering that's occurred since the 1950's? Good luck since it'll probably take as long to reverse the damage as it's taken to create, assuming people can even see the convoluted mess we've created over the course of nearly four generations from under their mountain of debt.
Men have been increasingly treated like boys for about seven decades now. The reasons why they shouldn't have been can be boiled down to one statement: you take kids their food. Men used to fight each other to the death for the biggest piece of meat on the fire. To take such a creature its dinner on a plate is like taking a lion cat food in a dish and then wondering why it's a shadow of its former self. Of course it would be. It can't not be! I'm not saying every mealtime should be a gladiatorial match, but I'm pretty sure the average man can spoon their own food onto a plate and carry that plate to their spot of dining. Just like they can do a lot of other stuff they don't.
I believe some of the pseudo-mother things originally started as marketing gimmicks that ended up being taken too much to heart as opposed to anything nefarious. But the end result is the same. More women took charge of things, not because they stepped forward, but because men stepped back. Men relegated themselves to being told what to do and when to do it. 'I gotta go ask my wife.' 'The old lady wouldn't like that.' That kind of talk is subservient nonsense. It's putting the woman on level of a maternal parent that has to give permission.
Too many modern Western men are useless because they bought into such cultural conditioning. You don't ask permission, you earn permission by being responsible and trustworthy, and you are that by doing what you say and seeing to your duties without being prodded along like a stubborn beast. It's just that too many men want to act like block headed oxen and trample the garden in search of radishes instead of doing anything useful, getting away with it because their wife/girlfriend mother figure enables them to continue a life of no responsibility without serious repercussions. Then that mother figure freaks out because they're dealing with an overgrown child and the circle persists...
However, neither sign waving nor vagina hats are going to change any of that. Women would need to stop letting men take advantage of them financially and set higher standards instead of lowering their standards. It's just that women have also been conditioned to take on a mother-like role to their man which is being doubled down on because it's failing. You don't get a man to do something by chiding them like a kid as the last 70 years of conditioning has led women to do. It'll just reinforce their position of being child-like. Nor do you get them to do something by withholding sex. It's easy to find that if wanted since half the world's population is female. Nor do you do it by thinking they're stupid and have to be told every little thing. That's why men aren't taking responsibility for anything. It's also not done by making excuses for them to not work or do anything useful. That's just more bad social programming that results in a grown man remaining a child.
It'd be done by women purposely choosing men that work, take care of their kids, that can survive on their own, do what they say, and can climb a hierarchy. Essentially, gravitating to a more conservative view on what men should be. Now, I'm not saying to tell your man to come home victorious or dead or don't, I'm just saying it may not hurt things in the long run. I think both parties would benefit, because it would start to dispel the mother-like, protecting role, women have been programmed into applying towards men along with the boy-man role many have accepted in response.
“When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.” ― William Gibson, Zero History
Few people would ever point at 1950 as the beginning of the end of men in the USA. The US economy boomed, everyone was flushed with victory after the second World War, and people marched forward into a brave new world of nuclear bombs and microwave ovens. The wage to living expenses ratio from the end of the 40's through the 60's was such that a single earner could provide for the family. Which the man of the house did so while women exited the job force after the wartime surge to stay home and care for kids. Personal and national wealth grew at a pace unheard of. But the heights of prosperity hid the seeds of decay that had been planted in society by this same sequence of events.
We know from history that a nation's decline follows it's peak in relatively rapid succession and history has given multiple possible triggers for such a thing. Strategic overstretch such as what happened to the English Empire and others. Dilution of core population groups like what happened to the Roman Empire. Rejection of science and lack of advancement as what happened with the Abbasid Caliphate. Food supply issues of one type or another like with the Mayans. Losing a major war like what happened to Germany twice in the 20th century. There's also agricultural disasters, natural disasters, economic disasters, and infrastructure disasters to contend with. Another scourge needs added to such a list: demasculinity of men.
Now you're asking, where the hell is this nutcase going with this?
Dr. Frankenstein.
Let me explain.
Before WW2, from the 1910's into the early 1940's, women had gained a more equal stance in society if they choose to take it. The advent of the Jazz and Swing era encouraged women to be whom they wanted. War footing for both World Wars put them into new jobs they'd never had access to before, giving many new opportunities never available before. But all that didn't last...
Society took a step backwards in the name of progress after the second World War. Men were encouraged to work all day and put their feet up all afternoon, waiting for their woman to make and bring dinner. They ceased having anything to do with the household beyond mowing the yard and general maintenance, letting their woman look after and pay all the bills with the money the man brought home. Women were once more relegated to the household and weren't expected to have any useful skills beyond housework of all types. Boys grew up watching this and being taught it was normal to only go to work and not much else. This taught them they didn't have to take responsibility. The woman would do it. Everything. That in turn led to an epidemic of single parent homes, most of them ran by women, as those boys grew up into boy-men with weak spines that had to have a mother figure tell them what to do. Now we have 'men', really males since biological equipment technically doesn't make a 'man', wearing lipstick, cutting their junk off to try being women, leading the pack in suicide, leading the pack in addiction, leading the pack in early deaths, not keeping jobs, not taking responsibility, sitting around on disability for relatively minor injuries, not being MEN. And we have a bunch of women that hate men in general.
And why not? Dr. Frankenstein hated his monster, too. Why wouldn't a woman hate men that can't hold a job, can't stand upright against pressure, can't focus on a future, wants to play video games all the time, can't get a woman off right, wants to cut their penis off, and runs and hides behind his woman when it's time to take responsibility for something? Why wouldn't they? Especially when 70 years of women bringing men food and beer has created them? God almighty, I'm repulsed by them myself. I can't imagine the depths of my detestation if I'd had a hand in their creation. Not because men that take no responsibility are useless, but they are. Not because I've dealt with some horrible situations created by these boy-men, but I have. Not because I think the concept of 'dad bod' is a ridiculous form of control, but I do. Not because I think skinny jeans and Moose Knuckles deserve smart ass comments, but I'd eat popcorn to some. No, I'm repulsed because of the stupendous lack of standards such things represent.
Fight a war with Russia and/or China? Good luck since ~70% of everyone in the right age category is useless to the military for various reasons ranging from fat to lazy to stupid to criminal to crazy. Bring all the manufacturing jobs back from China to here? Good luck since everyone wants free money or rock star salaries to pay for overpriced phones and iced coffee and people are short for the jobs available. Snap our fingers and fix the issues that's been created by the inadvertent (or not?) social engineering that's occurred since the 1950's? Good luck since it'll probably take as long to reverse the damage as it's taken to create, assuming people can even see the convoluted mess we've created over the course of nearly four generations from under their mountain of debt.
Men have been increasingly treated like boys for about seven decades now. The reasons why they shouldn't have been can be boiled down to one statement: you take kids their food. Men used to fight each other to the death for the biggest piece of meat on the fire. To take such a creature its dinner on a plate is like taking a lion cat food in a dish and then wondering why it's a shadow of its former self. Of course it would be. It can't not be! I'm not saying every mealtime should be a gladiatorial match, but I'm pretty sure the average man can spoon their own food onto a plate and carry that plate to their spot of dining. Just like they can do a lot of other stuff they don't.
I believe some of the pseudo-mother things originally started as marketing gimmicks that ended up being taken too much to heart as opposed to anything nefarious. But the end result is the same. More women took charge of things, not because they stepped forward, but because men stepped back. Men relegated themselves to being told what to do and when to do it. 'I gotta go ask my wife.' 'The old lady wouldn't like that.' That kind of talk is subservient nonsense. It's putting the woman on level of a maternal parent that has to give permission.
Too many modern Western men are useless because they bought into such cultural conditioning. You don't ask permission, you earn permission by being responsible and trustworthy, and you are that by doing what you say and seeing to your duties without being prodded along like a stubborn beast. It's just that too many men want to act like block headed oxen and trample the garden in search of radishes instead of doing anything useful, getting away with it because their wife/girlfriend mother figure enables them to continue a life of no responsibility without serious repercussions. Then that mother figure freaks out because they're dealing with an overgrown child and the circle persists...
However, neither sign waving nor vagina hats are going to change any of that. Women would need to stop letting men take advantage of them financially and set higher standards instead of lowering their standards. It's just that women have also been conditioned to take on a mother-like role to their man which is being doubled down on because it's failing. You don't get a man to do something by chiding them like a kid as the last 70 years of conditioning has led women to do. It'll just reinforce their position of being child-like. Nor do you get them to do something by withholding sex. It's easy to find that if wanted since half the world's population is female. Nor do you do it by thinking they're stupid and have to be told every little thing. That's why men aren't taking responsibility for anything. It's also not done by making excuses for them to not work or do anything useful. That's just more bad social programming that results in a grown man remaining a child.
It'd be done by women purposely choosing men that work, take care of their kids, that can survive on their own, do what they say, and can climb a hierarchy. Essentially, gravitating to a more conservative view on what men should be. Now, I'm not saying to tell your man to come home victorious or dead or don't, I'm just saying it may not hurt things in the long run. I think both parties would benefit, because it would start to dispel the mother-like, protecting role, women have been programmed into applying towards men along with the boy-man role many have accepted in response.
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