The Carny Train

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I am torn on whether this age should be called the Carny Age, the Crazy Age, or the Age of Hysteria. I like all three and there are probably others that work, but the last one really gets to the heart of the matter. America is like an aging woman, suddenly realizing that her biological clock is running out of ticks. All of that phony confidence she learned from modern feminism is quickly turning into anger and bitterness. Much of the lunacy is driven by early and middle middle-aged women.

Here is a perfect example. This story is written by a middle-aged Indian woman attacking one of the schools in the big basketball tournament. The whole point of the story is so the aging mediocrity can get some attention. Look at her resume and you see that her “I am woman here me roar” life choices did not work out as the lesbians in the woman’s studies department promised. Mx. Jhaveri has never reached higher than an entry level position at small media outfits.

Time after time, what has been termed cancel culture, turns out to be projectile hysteria by early middle aged women. The Huffington Post is nothing but a coven of homely women in terror over hitting the wall. It is why they foment so much of the doxing and cancel culture nonsense. Popular culture is one long night of premium ice cream, Lifetime channel marathons and late night texting. Our women have gone insane and taken the rest of the country with them.

That is why Age of Hysteria seems to work the best. It also implies that the solution is something like this. On the other hand, the underlying cause of this is the carny morality that has taken over the ruling classes. None of our betters has anything resembling dignity now, not even the British royals. That current batch looks like extras from one of those game shows where contestants agree to do humiliating things in order to win some cash prizes. The prize today is an Oprah interview.

Everywhere you look in the ruling classes, the people who should be secure in their position are desperately shouting, “Look at me! look at me!” Despite their wealth and power, they carry on like they need affirmation. That is the carny culture. The engine that drives that sort of society is the willingness to do anything for some applause, some attention, or some laughs. Whatever it takes to get the crowd to perk up and take notice of you is acceptable. There is no bad publicity.

As I said in the show, people living in a period rarely know how it will be viewed from the distance of time. Given the current trajectory, the Zoomers could look back on this time in a generation and call it the Golden Age. How this time is viewed will depend a lot upon how the current crisis concludes. People in the 1970’s thought they were doomed, but then things turned around for a couple of decades. Maybe that is what awaits us in the coming years. A period of relative calm and good fortune.

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14 thoughts on “The Carny Train”

  1. My vote is for “Age of Hysteria”; I’ve been calling it something similar myself.

    I’m sure most of the commenters here already know this, but the etymology of “hysteria” is extremely fitting:

    hysteria (n.) nervous disease, 1801, coined in medical Latin as an abstract noun from Greek hystera “womb,” from PIE *udtero-, variant of *udero- “abdomen, womb, stomach” (see uterus). Originally defined as a neurotic condition peculiar to women and thought to be caused by a dysfunction of the uterus. With abstract noun ending -ia.




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  2. I cast my vote for The Age of Hysteria, mainly because it speaks to the feminization of the West over the past 75 years.




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  3. I’ve always liked “The Age of Anxiety”. I’ve always pictured to myself one of those series of books by historian Will Durant with that title on the last volume.




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    • If I may, the word anxiety brings to mind too much citified jewiness given its association with psychology and pharmaceuticals and even Mel Brooks

      Despite the word’s legitimate history, It’s got a lot of jewy ooze on it

      I doubt will be able to scrub it perfectly clean in our lifetimes







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  4. And which is why I really am not all that concerned about the near future

    In my gut I just cannot bring myself to take these people seriously. Or to conceive of them having lasting effect or imprint on my existence. Out of sight out of mind, and I will be fine. They simply are not worthy of me or any of us Just ride the waves in my own personal life and ignore these weirdos. Because something much bigger, of far greater importance, might hit like a hurricane.




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    • I agree, but you’ve got to have a pretty strong force field around you these days. Between virtually any kind of media and simple public interaction, the hysteria and insanity is all around.







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      • I hear ya. But I’m fortunate in that I don’t have to interact with many women and weirdos. I work from home and have my own gig and get to avoid so much of the nonsense and the poz.

        I Don’t watch tv.

        Avoid the popular sites on the internet

        my wife is totally oblivious to all things feminism. As are all women in my personal life.

        So for me, if I don’t want to deal with crazy womyn it’s my decision. Not to say I don’t thank Z for braving the lunacy for our edification and entertainment

        All of you who have to deal with these women, my hat goes off to you. Godspeed.







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    • I get your point, but it is hard to ignore them. For example, this afternoon my company has a one hour Zoom meeting titled “The Ethics of Anti-Racism Conversation.” This “conversation” will be delivered by Eddie Glaude, chair of the African American Studies Department at Princeton University. According to our British CEO, the distinguished race hustler will lead “a dialog that will challenge all of us to examine our collective American conscience.” I have no doubt this “dialog” will have a positive impact on our Q2 financial performance.




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  5. There are many problems with purity culture but French turned it into a straw man he can beat up.

    No one went out there and changed biblical teaching from “if your right hand causes you to sin ..: cut it off” to “if someone causes you to sin it’s their fault and kill them with your right hand”.







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  6. A New Tomorrow (cont)
    Breaking the taboo.

    History is replete with examples of rebellions, both failed and successful (1776 anyone?). So what does it take to actually justify one? Let me count the ways. Universal firearm confiscation is a no-brainer. How about forced detention of a persecuted class (hello hetero white male patriots). It’s happened before; see Japanese Americans WW2. Or perhaps de facto non border control and 3+ million illegals per annum as far as the eye can see. Or a return of double or even triple-digit inflation & the raiding of 401Ks due to federal fiscal larceny. Not good enough for you yet. What about codifying voter fraud as the law of the land? Or maybe just starting a major foreign war under false pretenses in order to hide DC corruption & degeneracy. If you aren’t angry yet, you’re not breathing.







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