One of the downsides of writing and talking about the current scene is that you often want to kill yourself or kill someone. There are only so many stories about a crazed judge issuing an equally crazed rulings you can read before you want to spit on your hands, raise the black flag and start slitting throats. To paraphrase the late comic George Carlin, there are a lot of people who need to be killed.
It is why it is a good idea to look away from the daily car wreck that is the public square from time to time. It is why I quit Twitter. I will post links to my work there, but otherwise it is on mute. The most popular figures on that platform exist to irritate everyone else, so being active on that site is like inviting people into your home so they can break things and urinate on your carpets.
It is also why this week’s show is deliberately lighthearted. I randomly selected questions from big book of questions and answered them without preparation. I am not sure how many I got through, but it is probably about twenty. The book has three hundred questions in it, so I will probably revisit this format in the future when I feel like raising the black flag and slitting throats.
I have not read all of the questions. For the show I started at the first one and kept going until I ran out of time. I skipped some of them because they were not interesting to me, but that still leaves plenty of material. The interesting thing about the ones I cover in the show is that they have no link to current events, but they relate to things far more important to daily life.
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This Week’s Show
Contents
- Intro
- Anger Management
- The Book Of Questions
- The Questions
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I’ll listen to the show on the way to the farm later. However, the environment that you outlined in the written intro is something that I think about often. While I think that ignoring the judiciary is acceptable, seeing as they are simply political operatives and not calling balls and strikes, it is just a matter of time before enough people are pushed over the edge and hoist the black flag. If you think about it, life right now in the US is still the best in history, even as upside down as it is. Things have to get much… Read more »
“If you think about it, life right now in the US is still the best in history, even as upside down as it is.” Astute observation. Despite all the lunacy of the culture, our civilization continues to function exceptionally well. I think we have far too much media. Wackiness and tumult sell better in a media environment than do factors of stability. Thus, the more media one consumes, the more one tends to buy into the illusion that things are especially screwed up today, like they never have been before. The reality is that the human race has always been… Read more »
“If you think about it, life right now in the US is still the best in history, even as upside down as it is.”
Depends where you live and how old you are. Also, not sure it’s better than living in other parts of the West or Japan,South korea etc.
A transcript would be like a gift from Heaven.
Why wait for Heaven to move when the Interdragnet is waiting for you search for the string ‘video transcription’?
https://restream.io/tools/transcribe-video-to-text?conversionId=64818151-9828-4ee7-9697-bfec0c896b3f
Well now I feel stupid. I plead old age.
It’s a good plea. Sometimes I invoke also the head injury I experienced while skiing in Colorado ca. 2000. I was in some moguls which ran parallel to a groomed part of the run. Lost my groove, veered onto the hard corduroy, lost my balance, and wham!. Hit the back of my head. Felt woozy and nauseous for hours afterwards.
I do not use a script or much in the way of notes, so producing a transcript would be a lot of work. That and I am firm believer that the spoke word should be consumed with your ears. Just as Shakespeare is best experienced live, the Power Hour should be heard, not read.
The individual vote matters in a jury trial, because it can decide the verdict, especially when a unanimous verdict is required. But when millions vote and a bare majority is decisive, the value of the individual vote is near zero. One economist has calculated that you are more likely to be run over on your way to the polls than to make any difference with your vote. No wonder democracy has been defined as “two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.” So much for the idea that voting is a fundamental freedom, or that it… Read more »
“So much for the idea that voting is a fundamental freedom, or that it protects freedom.’ True, but an argument to that conclusion is a fundamental sophistry of “our democracy”. If you accept the argument and its conclusion, you are much less likely to ask potentially confusing questions about how democrats could have established democracy democratically. “The more democratic,…the larger and more rapacious it has become.” According to an old cliché, usu. attributed to JQ Adams, I think, every democracy wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. A better cliché would hold that every democracy wastes, exhausts, and murders the people in… Read more »
Even if voting functioned as promised, it is completely useless. The managerial class simply is not interested on our opinion on any subject. “Democracy” simply means rule by the managerial class. No matter what we vote for or tell pollsters or letters we write to the editor, we get “more of the same” Some study came out a couple years ago which found that the more public wanted something, the less likely the elite were to implement it, but that the elite always got what it wants. Voting is to government what commercials are to products. It’s nothing more than… Read more »
I think there is really something to twitter and keeping up with the news in general, or current events, as a way to prevent most people, not mr man of course, from thinking deeply. Keeping up with current events makes you constantly locked in the “now” and not in the good way! From old Joe: When you internalize an author whose vision or philosophy is both rich and out of fashion, you gain a certain immunity from the pressures of the contemporary. The modern world, with it’s fads, propaganda, and advertising, is forever trying to herd us into conformity. Great… Read more »
Cheer up Z. And, uh, do what I say not what I do. It is bleak. That said, I think when leftists like this say the same things you said a couple of days ago, we are not far from flags hoisted. I think there are those of the old liberals, who got bamboozled by the GAE’s Imperial Leftism, who have come around. It is interesting to listen to them talk this way, and also to walk over the history and the people behind it. I post this to perhaps find something to take heart in. Even old liberals are… Read more »
Z, I have to strongly disagree with you on the anonymous posting answer. Do you realize that 90% of your comment section would disappear if it wasn’t anonymous? Maybe it’s because I look at that question through the lens of dissident politics and our current regime, but posts that disagree with the establishment position on race or homosexuality can make someone lose their jobs and livelihood.
I agree with you Greek.
I remain anonymous not because what I say is incorrect.
But because what I say IS correct, albeit socially taboo in clownworld.
I did not read the question in the narrow context of recent politics. I was reading it very generally. If you can put aside the pogroms against dissident over the last decade, then my answer makes sense. Imagine a world free of crazies. Would you then be a different poster as anonymous versus your real name?
Setting aside what is in favor of what ought to be is the libertarian/communist/utopian disease. The crazies and sociopaths will always be with us. And they will be drawn toward power, so anonymity will always be useful. They’re not going to suddenly invent a new type of human being … and if they did, that would be a whole new type of dystopia.
“If you set aside all the reasons why this is a bad idea, it’s a really good idea!”
It’s no just jobs and livelihood. There were bloggers I used to read who had to quit because kids – nieces and nephews- were attacked. The wives will be verbally confronted in the grocery store, and banned from the public school grounds (where her kids ought not to be anyhow). It affects every family member. Heck, look at Tucker Carlson, whose DC/MD home was attacked when his wife and kids were there. He had the money and family roots to relocate to Maine. That state is politically a disaster, but in the more rural areas ‘down east,’ it’s still a… Read more »
The comment section is only anonymous to the extent that we are unimportant enough to not waste the resources on de-anonymizing us. One of the stupidest ideas that oldsters are bringing forward into the present is that anything on the internet can be truly anonymous if someone with sufficient resources wants to make it un-anonymous. Feel free to believe that your handle or your VPN are protecting you, but it’s only true to the extent that it’s not worth leaning on the VPNs owner to find out the identity of Joe Schmoe for saying bad thoughts in some small corner… Read more »
“One of the downsides of writing and talking about the current scene is that you often want to kill yourself or kill someone. There are only so many stories about a crazed judge issuing an equally crazed rulings you can read before you want to spit on your hands, raise the black flag and start slitting throats. To paraphrase the late comic George Carlin, there are a lot of people who need to be killed.” It can’t be coincidence that so many of us all arrive at this exact same conclusion. Looking around at the current state of things, I… Read more »
That first paragraph….amen!
Something is going to give soon.
It isn’t just that productivity gains are going into the pockets of oligarchs, the productivity gains are going into the pockets of the useless via government programs, non-profits and useless jobs like diversity consultants, human resources employees, lawyers and various paper shufflers.
Sports: Athletics is a way for society or tribe to discern which boys and young men are fit for war, and which are not. That was always its purpose. In fact, we need MORE athletics at young ages for boys, and none or few for girls. . . and before dotter-daddy hits the roof, consider again the prime reason for athletics, which is NOT television or commercial revenue or stroking the egos of females, but to identify which of your young men have the fighting spirit. Hanging the Occasional Politician: Would change exactly nothing. Modern politicians are largely frontmen and… Read more »
Your take on AI and it’s repercussions seem a bit different than your conversation with Paul Ramsey. What you say today about how irrelevant AI creative content will ultimately be because of the unhuman part. I don’t even like to watch a decent youtube video narrated in a pleasing robot english voice. Good art and music will always find an audience even if by some standards crudely done. Just because Paul can generate cute art for his daily shows doesn’t eliminate the use of most human created artist. People like that never invest or purchase our work. Obviously a lot… Read more »