I did not start out this week with a theme for the show, but one sort of developed as I set about putting it together. My habit is to mail it in the first week after a break from recording, so I can ease back into the routine. A one hour show is two hours of recording and two hours of editing. Research adds to the time. A show based on news items requires less research, so it is an easier show to put together.
The news of late has been dominated by a few big items, all of which are driven by the ruling class commitment to their narratives. As a result, the show this week is about how the Cloud People are living in a simulation. Their reality is not only not our reality, but rather an approximation of it. If you imagine the Cloud People playing a live action role plating game of real life, their rantings make more sense.
They just had Mumbly Joe slur through a speech on Covid that sounded like it was given by an alien in another universe. This great emergency he thinks is happening outside the bubble is not happening at all. For most of the country, life is back to normal, except for the annoying interference of these idiots. Team Dementia, however, is sure the peasants are living through a version of the Black Death.
The thing is, they probably sense that it does not exist, but they need it to be real so they pretend it is real. It feels better to imagine themselves defending their democracy from Covid that to see themselves as wreckers cause the food prices to shoot through the roof due to their meddling. Reality avoidance is a major concern for the Cloud people, so they are fully committed to their own narratives.
For the intensely on-line, this simulated reality crowds out their daily reality. In the case of Covid, the Covidian believe all of the Covid porn that the system beams at him on-line and through the mass media. The reality he sees is not the normal activity around him, but the imaginary hospitals overrun with sick people. He is like someone addicted to video games, struggling to discern fantasy from reality.
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This Week’s Show
Contents
- 00:00: Opening
- 2:00 The Game of LARP
- 27:00 Afghan Narrative
- 42:00 Imagination Land
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I’m reading comments on Youtube on videos related to the mandatory vaccination rollouts, and people are pointing out that the belts of razor wire they’re unspooling in D.C. might not be enough to keep the peasants from charging the palace. These comments aren’t coming from the dissident right, or even the normie right. These are coming from a usually totally apathetic, pop culture-addled center left that usually does whatever the celebrities tell them to do, and is usually easy to cow and cajole. I think the self-hatred, nihilism, and pointlessness of the lives of our rulers has finally caught up with them. I think (whether consciously or not) they want to be put out of their misery. Unfortunately, like a Pharaoh dragging his slave retinue to his tomb, they want us to die with them. I could actually envision brown-nosers like Stephen Colbert or Kevin Williamson begging to be buried in their pyramids with their masters, too.
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I do believe the Cloud’s epitaph will be what the scorpion said to the frog: “It’s me nature, mate.”
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Bwahaha!
Amid all the Covid propaganda, I had forgotten about the ‘front line workers’ or ‘key workers’ as we had here on The Isles. My, did they rinse that one dry. Regular Erwin Rommels and Guderians, the lot of ’em.
Heroes work here.
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You mention the phrase ‘walking dead’ a couple of times. Wouldn’t surprise me if most of the people in HR, government back-offices really wanted The Walking Dead to be true. They thought it was some sort of accurate documentary about the future.
That said, the most inaccurate thing about The Walking Dead wasn’t the zombies. It was the fact that after an apocalypse, the main survivors just happened to be a motley diverse crue consisting of: racist southern whites, battered housewife (later turns into roaring lioness), couple of wogs, a beaner, a homo, a couple of lezzas, a few kids of undetermined sex; oh, and a chink.
It’s probably in it’s 15th season by now. They love to long it out…
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For the sake of friendly debate, I’m going to disagree. Yes, the survivors are Diverse all right, but that’s just central casting doing its thing. The real appeal of TWD to the Cloudies is that it assumes a total Hobbesian war of all against all, immediately, once the leadership of the Cloud is taken away.
In any real crisis, there are always freeloaders and pirates, but the natural instinct of most people is cooperation. In TWD, it’s just assumed that society will revert to brutal warlordism 5 minutes after the air conditioning goes out…
…thus proving how vital and necessary the Cloud People are, to keep you awful “people” in line. (No accident that the leader in the first seasons is a uniformed agent of the state *who never changes his clothes*).
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here’s a thought – somewhere like Montgomery County, MD is in many ways a good place to live. Something like 2/3 of the population went to college and probably 40-45% have advanced degrees. Outside of a few areas (kensington/wheaton) there’s a low crime rate. I also assume the divorce and opioid rates are lower than the national average.
Yet I feel like these types of places might not survive this current crisis. Like if I’m a parent with kids, I would never want to live there.
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I know at least a dozen people who had covid including my son. The kids were sick for a day or two if at all. A couple of the adults had something like the flu for a week. I don’t know anyone who died from it.
I do know people who have had complications from the vaccine including somebody who died two months later from a bizarre disease.
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I know I bang this drum a lot, but the antics of the Cloud People in Tubman DF is exactly what life on a college campus is like. The same frantic reality avoidance, despite being pounded over the head, every minute of the day, with contrary evidence (trust me, college kids are NOT wearing their magic masks as they tailgate and get wasted and hook up; if Covid were even 1% as bad as the Cloudies insist, there wouldn’t be an undergraduate alive between Boston and Berkeley).
If you were ever on the fence about sending your kids to college, just know that Jen Psaki would be a moderate, reasonable, emotionally continent centrist professor on most campuses… and the grad students who actually teach 90% of the classes are much worse.
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At this point, its immoral to send you child to most schools. There may be a few, but CHrisendom College in Front Royal VA maybe
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Hell, I’m struggling to discern fantasy from reality. When I listen to some of these freaking politicians or read stuff from Sailer and some commenters on Unz (for example), I can’t believe what I’m hearing/reading. These people are so invested in this story, it is absolutely stunning. Christ, there are no bodies piling up in the streets or outside hospital ERs. I’m wondering more and more if I’m the one losing my marbles.
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The first thing I noticed among my medical center colleagues was how excited they were by the pandemic. The chance to play hero and scold was like manna from heaven. It was as if every student council president got a chance to brush off their trapper keepers and go for gold. CS Lewis was prescient when he remarked that “those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
20 odd miles north of the Z-man’s hellhole Baltimore is Carroll County MD. Population 180,000. Total Covid deaths, according to the CDC over the past 18 months is 257 or one in seven hundred.
For this, they destroyed the economy.
No. They destroyed the country.
From a no-Whipipo-to-be-seen-anywhere TV commercial during last night’s Nogger Football League Circus:
“Reality and Time are constructs.”
There ain’t gonna be any rebellion coming from the masses. Get Vaxxed, prole. Schnell!