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January 27, 2019
The Shootings Will Continue Until Morale Improves
There you have it. Three shootings this week (in case you want more than a meme, here is the 2nd one and 3rd). I actually hadn't heard about any of them. It appears that if shootings don't reach double digits, we're not going to mention them. Not when the act is carried out by a white male, at least.
The same thing happened in the veteran community when some asked for common sense laws others jumped on them and called them names (or the veteran equivalent of "shitbag") even if critical reading doesn't seem to be many people's strong suit.
Indeed, there's a kind of instransitivity and intersectional aspect to this one front of the culture war. And if people of the 2nd amendment claim that they need only one (more recent) interpretation of the 2nd amendment, I know they don't care about the Constitution when it comes to other amendments they find inconvenient [2].
I'll be the first to admit that I never thought it would last this long, these attacks on suburban America (the vast majority of these are just that).
See, I was solely in the Eminem camp, thinking "And look where it's at. Middle America, now it's a tragedy, now it's so sad to see, in upper class cities havin' it happenin'" (my own take on the words, not sure if they're accurate).
Now I see it's not so. Or the idiotic pervasiveness of white supremacy is so widespread that no one is willing to take a stand.
Every single one of these shootings you have people claim they never believed it could have happened here.
And so it keeps happening that people don't seem to make a connection between shootings in leafy suburb X and their own.
Sure the stats are on the side of it not happening in your area, but when compared to the reactions to other minor things like other forms of terrorism, one does see that odd discrepancy that can only be explained by white supremacy (white males are doing it, so it's fine).
I don't say this with ease. There's a part of me that knows to track the money and so gun companies must be behind this push and propaganda. Yet there's more to it because other industries do deal with public outcries (as they usually should in a democracy) and the only way to describe that odd shift is white supremacy. Why else would people cut off their nose to spite their face?
[1] Note that I am against the odd focus on solely assault rifles when we should be talking about handguns as well, since those kill more people than assault rifles, to say nothing of suicides which are a problem as well.
[2] Look up civil forfeiture if you want some insomnia. Reading a few of those cases, then reading Gulag Archipelago , one is struck by how tame some of those cases are, especially when compared to how minority groups have and continue to be targeted here in the US.
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The same thing happened in the veteran community when some asked for common sense laws others jumped on them and called them names (or the veteran equivalent of "shitbag") even if critical reading doesn't seem to be many people's strong suit.
Indeed, there's a kind of instransitivity and intersectional aspect to this one front of the culture war. And if people of the 2nd amendment claim that they need only one (more recent) interpretation of the 2nd amendment, I know they don't care about the Constitution when it comes to other amendments they find inconvenient [2].
I'll be the first to admit that I never thought it would last this long, these attacks on suburban America (the vast majority of these are just that).
See, I was solely in the Eminem camp, thinking "And look where it's at. Middle America, now it's a tragedy, now it's so sad to see, in upper class cities havin' it happenin'" (my own take on the words, not sure if they're accurate).
Now I see it's not so. Or the idiotic pervasiveness of white supremacy is so widespread that no one is willing to take a stand.
Every single one of these shootings you have people claim they never believed it could have happened here.
And so it keeps happening that people don't seem to make a connection between shootings in leafy suburb X and their own.
Sure the stats are on the side of it not happening in your area, but when compared to the reactions to other minor things like other forms of terrorism, one does see that odd discrepancy that can only be explained by white supremacy (white males are doing it, so it's fine).
I don't say this with ease. There's a part of me that knows to track the money and so gun companies must be behind this push and propaganda. Yet there's more to it because other industries do deal with public outcries (as they usually should in a democracy) and the only way to describe that odd shift is white supremacy. Why else would people cut off their nose to spite their face?
[1] Note that I am against the odd focus on solely assault rifles when we should be talking about handguns as well, since those kill more people than assault rifles, to say nothing of suicides which are a problem as well.
[2] Look up civil forfeiture if you want some insomnia. Reading a few of those cases, then reading Gulag Archipelago , one is struck by how tame some of those cases are, especially when compared to how minority groups have and continue to be targeted here in the US.
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January 20, 2019
The Aliens are here.
So apparently, with out much fanfare, aliens paid us a visit. Okay, maybe it's still up in the air, but hearing what's being said: UFOs have been sighted and people are trying to best explain them. Maybe we don't have enough of a picture (or knowledge of physics? I'm not sure) to explain, but how else do you explain such things?
Still, the short story I wrote, "The Great Peace", doesn't seem to cut it anymore, now does it? What are your thoughts on aliens?
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Still, the short story I wrote, "The Great Peace", doesn't seem to cut it anymore, now does it? What are your thoughts on aliens?
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Other People's Perceptions and the Mob
Yeah, even the center left and the left seem to lose perspective when trying to sing in unison. Again, for a grassroots movement this makes sense, but for much out there it's a joke (can't get as crazy as the extreme right, now can we?). Over and over I'm sent to videos that show the truth. I look them over and wonder if people are mad.
And on we go around the world as we use up our resources and destroy the planet. Apes weren't meant to wield such power, I guess.
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And on we go around the world as we use up our resources and destroy the planet. Apes weren't meant to wield such power, I guess.
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January 19, 2019
Don't Build a Wall, Build Anything Else.
It's been a crazy ride to watch the nuts on the right make up facades for their racism and claim to want something else. At least have the balls to say what you are. Here, we have an example of young white racists yelling "build the wall" at Native Americans. It's clear what build that wall means, and the right should own it (note the Democrats want the same funding for border security and that's another matter if we should spend so much on what is essentially a old white "we already spent money on gold and Viagra" paranoid nightmare when there's plenty of building to be done elsewhere in the country).
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January 17, 2019
Ferrante is...
How many of you have read the Neapolitan Novels by Ferrante. I've read one and I liked it. The next three shall be read soon, I hope. Nevertheless, there's been a lot of controversy around the anonymity of the author. Secret, as far as we know and the attempts to do some kind of research has only raised more questions.
Of course, here in this video we see Lahiri claim that the author deserves to be nameless and no one should focus on it too much. A case of the lady doth protest too much, if you ask me. So I'm calling it: she's the author.
I'm kidding, of course, but if I had some twitter power, I would make this a thing.
Later.
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Of course, here in this video we see Lahiri claim that the author deserves to be nameless and no one should focus on it too much. A case of the lady doth protest too much, if you ask me. So I'm calling it: she's the author.
I'm kidding, of course, but if I had some twitter power, I would make this a thing.
Later.
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January 16, 2019
Support the Troops. Or not.
"Support the troops" as a cudgel to beat down on NFL players who take a knee, etc, but never to actually help them is something I've written plenty about. Most of the time, it's really about the power they represent rather than actually helping that individual or the problems facing them as a group.
That Onion article, which had a person claiming not to support the troops (or their son in the Army) but the military industrial complex that stands behind them.
This doesn't mean there aren't grassroots movements helping us, just that this is the discourse of the mainstream (media and a lot of people).
So color me surprised that a judge would rule against people suffering from being in a war zone and essentially being forced to stir burning shit for hours on end. I'm guessing we'll hear nothing from the usual suspects who will be the first to use the cudgel of support the troops to beat down "the other". Also note that KBR may now be able to counter sue these veterans.
This is part of the same attitude by the leaders who will pretend at all moments in front of the camera to support the troops but are now moving to privatize the VA. Note that the issue right now is that the VA needs more financial support, not to be leeched so that it fails (the ability to go to a private place is not being helped by the fact that it's not supplemental money).
As it was so shall it be.
Agent Orange, as you may have heard, had a similar issue where there were denials it was ever bad and after enough veterans died off, some payments were made.
Well that's my rant. As many here may know, I once wrote about TYFYS, and the ideas behind this otherwise forgettable "nice thing to say". The thing I found as odd was that people seemed to take my article as a rant against being nice. Maybe that's a function of my writing. Nevertheless, I sense this is what I'm saying, that people say TYFYS and support the troops with another idea of support in mind.
What I'm saying is that we'll hear words like TYFYS, or "I could never understand what they go through" we're dealing with odd and cliches in the form of some sort of symbolism that are simply social markers of acceptance, not of the individual veteran but of something else.
Another instructive instance is NFL players taking a knee and the reactions (mainly the negative ones) to it. The best article on the matter never gained the traction. [1] It should have, but go ahead and read it. It should be clear that even if there are well-intentioned people who want to support the troops, or who care about our nation, this is not the driving force behind all these actions happening around our country.
Some people know this implicit racism and are the loudest about it, while others act on it in a more subconscious way. If seen through the prism of the odd white-paranoia currently seizing our most dimwitted members of the public (and the grifters in charge taking advantage of them), all of this makes more sense. [2]
[1] Note again that also in cases like this (go ahead and read it, a Marine vet, born here, was almost deported because brown), it is skin color, not service that matters for the chattering right wing masses. So now, TYFYS, We could never understand and support your troops take a different hue, don't they? Same with stand your ground laws and other pro-gun (never for minorities) laws.
[2] don't come at me with "not all TYFYS people think like this because you need to read more then.
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That Onion article, which had a person claiming not to support the troops (or their son in the Army) but the military industrial complex that stands behind them.
This doesn't mean there aren't grassroots movements helping us, just that this is the discourse of the mainstream (media and a lot of people).
So color me surprised that a judge would rule against people suffering from being in a war zone and essentially being forced to stir burning shit for hours on end. I'm guessing we'll hear nothing from the usual suspects who will be the first to use the cudgel of support the troops to beat down "the other". Also note that KBR may now be able to counter sue these veterans.
This is part of the same attitude by the leaders who will pretend at all moments in front of the camera to support the troops but are now moving to privatize the VA. Note that the issue right now is that the VA needs more financial support, not to be leeched so that it fails (the ability to go to a private place is not being helped by the fact that it's not supplemental money).
As it was so shall it be.
Agent Orange, as you may have heard, had a similar issue where there were denials it was ever bad and after enough veterans died off, some payments were made.
Well that's my rant. As many here may know, I once wrote about TYFYS, and the ideas behind this otherwise forgettable "nice thing to say". The thing I found as odd was that people seemed to take my article as a rant against being nice. Maybe that's a function of my writing. Nevertheless, I sense this is what I'm saying, that people say TYFYS and support the troops with another idea of support in mind.
What I'm saying is that we'll hear words like TYFYS, or "I could never understand what they go through" we're dealing with odd and cliches in the form of some sort of symbolism that are simply social markers of acceptance, not of the individual veteran but of something else.
Another instructive instance is NFL players taking a knee and the reactions (mainly the negative ones) to it. The best article on the matter never gained the traction. [1] It should have, but go ahead and read it. It should be clear that even if there are well-intentioned people who want to support the troops, or who care about our nation, this is not the driving force behind all these actions happening around our country.
Some people know this implicit racism and are the loudest about it, while others act on it in a more subconscious way. If seen through the prism of the odd white-paranoia currently seizing our most dimwitted members of the public (and the grifters in charge taking advantage of them), all of this makes more sense. [2]
[1] Note again that also in cases like this (go ahead and read it, a Marine vet, born here, was almost deported because brown), it is skin color, not service that matters for the chattering right wing masses. So now, TYFYS, We could never understand and support your troops take a different hue, don't they? Same with stand your ground laws and other pro-gun (never for minorities) laws.
[2] don't come at me with "not all TYFYS people think like this because you need to read more then.
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January 11, 2019
Free Audiobooks
While they last, of course. Will the real humans please raise their hands? Well, dear reader, here's a chance for you to win a free audiobook! Mainly this short hour long one. Satan's Plea, my friends. Just email me (subject line: I want an AudioBook!). And in the body tell me your favorite story of mine. I'll send it right away while supplies last!
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January 10, 2019
1000001 American Nights
Been a while since I mentioned this book, 1000001 American Nights. A solid book with more than a handful of fans.
Nevertheless, here's an intro to it (its reason for existing):
Once upon a time there was a billionaire who made an AI to rule the world. Through methods of finance, evictions and gig-economy, (aka one life-time contract for room and board methods) the AI did just that. And so our hero, a woman watched as the AI forced writers to tell a story, then sent them to the streets to die.
So she took it upon herself to take on the AI, rather than have other writers die off. And so she did press a button on the app and the AI accepted her into the gig. And each day when the AI turned to her, she told it a story that was enough for it to want to hear more. She did this until she learned the right verbal virus to speak to the AI and she killed it.
Those stories, my friend, are here in this book. Enjoy.
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Nevertheless, here's an intro to it (its reason for existing):
Once upon a time there was a billionaire who made an AI to rule the world. Through methods of finance, evictions and gig-economy, (aka one life-time contract for room and board methods) the AI did just that. And so our hero, a woman watched as the AI forced writers to tell a story, then sent them to the streets to die.
So she took it upon herself to take on the AI, rather than have other writers die off. And so she did press a button on the app and the AI accepted her into the gig. And each day when the AI turned to her, she told it a story that was enough for it to want to hear more. She did this until she learned the right verbal virus to speak to the AI and she killed it.
Those stories, my friend, are here in this book. Enjoy.
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I'm an old man
Which means most of the new music I get to hear is not from the radio, but from Pandora (sometimes) and at other times (most times, these days) I'll hear something at a cafe and it will be good enough to ask.
So I just found Angel Haze. Brilliant rapper and brilliant (and some damn haunting ones too) lyrics. Check it out.
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So I just found Angel Haze. Brilliant rapper and brilliant (and some damn haunting ones too) lyrics. Check it out.
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January 9, 2019
More on Quitting Twitter
I've already discussed in full the weaknesses of social media [1] and how I left Twitter. One thing I didn't get into is how it does seem like a high school clique in many ways. One can only preach to the choir and also one needs to be quick and say witty things to the choir. Brevity is the soul of the wit, some say, but I sense that twitter essentially disproves part of that.
So when Alice Walker (go ahead and read her blog, the latest is a letter from someone in Israel about her poem on the Talmud) was called out as an anti-semite by Roxane Gay, something that seemed off to me. After all, I was pretty sure i had just heard Norman Finkelstein mention her casually as someone he hung out with. But here came the storm and the mob called her an anti-semite and that's it.
Asking questions, as I did, was met with ridicule.
Not something I care for. Enough for me to know I needed to leave.
The Alice Walker bit I'm going to research because it all comes down to David Icke and the fact that he's an anti-semite. But the thing is, this is thrown around enough (I was essentially called that when I raised doubts about Israel's shooting of unarmed protesters in Gaza) that I wonder about it. I have yet to step into Icke's works.
But I want to just to research it and the idea behind lizard people [3] which is crazy enough that some people believe it and cut down their brothers for it. Yes go ahead and read that. So is David Icke part and parcel into that?
I don't know.
But I sense I've avoided many conspiracy theories to my own detriment as a writer. Even the 9-11 truthers I merely took as crazy.
Not to say a worldview doesn't matter as a heuristic to apply (in the battle of the powerful vs the powerless take the side of the powerless is a good one), but one needs to read what's becoming reality even if it's happening through a kind of madness.
I sense that, like Borges, what was unreal is real by nature of the powers that push a lie and the people who will flock to it.
That's a little tangential, I know, so let's focus, instead on this claim of David Icke and Alice Walker and the world around us. I'm doing more reading and shall continue to do so.
[1] While allowing that it has done good in letting groups like BLM gather steam, though I do wonder how much of that is true, how much is social media doing good propaganda, as they must want to do because, well you know $$. Even today most people don't know how many accounts are fake and how many are not. That being said, even in small town Spokane there were large meetings of occupy activists and BLM activists looking for social justice and none of that needed a Twitter account (though some of the groups had facebook, so that's not to say it's worthless).
[2] Now, I read some Brodsky (who you should read as well) and it was a little telling that he mentions a strong force against evil, the kind we face today, is being eccentric. There is no room to be eccentric on social media.
[3] What I've heard so far is that Icke is not and anti-semite because he talks about lizard people which includes the likes of the Rothschilds and the Queen of England and the Bushes, while others are saying that mentioning the Rothschilds is indicative of anti-semitism. Again, I assume this is all different from the current fight against Corbyn with regard to the
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So when Alice Walker (go ahead and read her blog, the latest is a letter from someone in Israel about her poem on the Talmud) was called out as an anti-semite by Roxane Gay, something that seemed off to me. After all, I was pretty sure i had just heard Norman Finkelstein mention her casually as someone he hung out with. But here came the storm and the mob called her an anti-semite and that's it.
Asking questions, as I did, was met with ridicule.
Not something I care for. Enough for me to know I needed to leave.
The Alice Walker bit I'm going to research because it all comes down to David Icke and the fact that he's an anti-semite. But the thing is, this is thrown around enough (I was essentially called that when I raised doubts about Israel's shooting of unarmed protesters in Gaza) that I wonder about it. I have yet to step into Icke's works.
But I want to just to research it and the idea behind lizard people [3] which is crazy enough that some people believe it and cut down their brothers for it. Yes go ahead and read that. So is David Icke part and parcel into that?
I don't know.
But I sense I've avoided many conspiracy theories to my own detriment as a writer. Even the 9-11 truthers I merely took as crazy.
Not to say a worldview doesn't matter as a heuristic to apply (in the battle of the powerful vs the powerless take the side of the powerless is a good one), but one needs to read what's becoming reality even if it's happening through a kind of madness.
I sense that, like Borges, what was unreal is real by nature of the powers that push a lie and the people who will flock to it.
That's a little tangential, I know, so let's focus, instead on this claim of David Icke and Alice Walker and the world around us. I'm doing more reading and shall continue to do so.
[1] While allowing that it has done good in letting groups like BLM gather steam, though I do wonder how much of that is true, how much is social media doing good propaganda, as they must want to do because, well you know $$. Even today most people don't know how many accounts are fake and how many are not. That being said, even in small town Spokane there were large meetings of occupy activists and BLM activists looking for social justice and none of that needed a Twitter account (though some of the groups had facebook, so that's not to say it's worthless).
[2] Now, I read some Brodsky (who you should read as well) and it was a little telling that he mentions a strong force against evil, the kind we face today, is being eccentric. There is no room to be eccentric on social media.
[3] What I've heard so far is that Icke is not and anti-semite because he talks about lizard people which includes the likes of the Rothschilds and the Queen of England and the Bushes, while others are saying that mentioning the Rothschilds is indicative of anti-semitism. Again, I assume this is all different from the current fight against Corbyn with regard to the
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