I found myself specifically noticing how much the focus of all the things the authoritarian trenders want to radically redesign or eliminate from daily life seems to be things people ENJOY. Notice the loudest trumpeting about what we need to do to stop climate change or vaccine injury sudden death or racism is stuff that makes us happy? It’s never anything most people are indifferent to or ignorant of; it always seems to be about sacrifice.
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“How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?“
Winston thought. “By making him suffer”, he said.
“Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing."
To your last point, we are dealing with genuinely evil people. They happily trampled fundamental human rights and pretended that the Nuremberg Codes never existed during the Beubonic Plague cosplay we just endured. And they're just getting started.
Do you have a book or website that you'd recommend to learn more about raising chickens? Any help would be appreciated.
The 46 + 2 cover was a gift, and I thank you! You gave me shivers, you sexxay thang! (just messin with ya, I'm old, married, and practically dead).
The chickens ... we keep hearing dire warnings about them. First the bird flu was going to get us all, and apparently now eggs cause blood clots. 🤣🤣🤣
We're doing our best to keep our flock of 1 dozen hens off the radar.
In the meantime, our 6 Isa's, 3 barred rocks and 3 astralorps are collectively chucking anywhere from 6 to 9 eggs per day at us. Hubby's Shorin-Ryu group is happy to help us dispose of them, though, and we've received gifts back so far of some really sugary homemade granola (tasty dessert!) and lovely home canned tomatoes from one of their gardens.
Thanks for the Lansdale and 1440 tips, both look promising. One caveat about 1440: 'ware the potential future influence of some of their 'partners'. Today's feed showed a partner company "RadarUSA", which appears to be energetically working toward connecting residential surveillance systems to law enforcement in order to reduce 'crime'.
Congrats on having powered through P.T. to functionality on your knee! I had an idea whilst reading of your deep mud problem. Does anyone make/sell a mud version of a snowshoe? If not, it might be worth considering fashioning something like that, to save your knee the added stress.
What method(s) will you likely be using RadarUSAto preserve your meats? We are nowhere near that sort of production ourselves, but I need to absorb info.
Maynard and the boys would be proud. I was feeling sorry for myself, those damn kids knocked me right out of that nonsense. Effing awesome, smiling the whole time.
Congrats on the freezer of meat, improved mobility, and sensible taste in music.
Re: 1440, here's the best news flow I've come up with so far:
1. Read the NYT Morning newsletter. Learn today's current outrage.
2. Read 1440. See if the NYT outrage is really news. Note 1440 stories that NYT chose to ignore.
3. Head to Substack for the analysis of the current outrage or NYT-ignored news.
4. Back to 1440 for the excellent frivolous Etcetera section (Scottish spinning ice disk? Yes please).
As for the WEF... it strikes me as just another aspect of social activism as a replacement for old-time religion. Self-flagellation and giving up one's earthly possessions never goes out of style for the true believers.
Your description of Pulp in the opening paragraph has left me with a question... If the American political arena is the father of Pulp, then who's the mother?
"If I were a despotic social engineer, I would think you’d have to occasionally promote changes that people are actually excited or happy about amidst taking away all their rights and stuff. "
And you'd be wrong, because you are a nicer person than they. Depriving people shows two things: who is in power, and who is not.
Doing so after the person has grown up inundated with messaging to th tune of "You are bad! You are doing wrong! It is your fault X is happening!" (consider that this thing started in the West in 1960s/1970s depending on where we look) means that person will feel gratitude for you depriving them, because you are helping them do right, even against their will, feelings and instincts. That those three essential characteristics protest only further proves that you are intrinsically wrong, but also that you can make amends and be absolved by being as obedient as you can.
It is in essence a paired down bare-bones model of how children and puppies are raised, but on a makro-level, thus devoid of any and all empathy, sympathy or love and so on that goes into family/pack/herd.
And of course, near total deprivation makes it much easier and profitable for power to reward obedience. Look at any large office and the internal politicking around who gets a cubicle with a view, or close to the AC for a small-scale example, and how common almost ubiquitous the mindset is.
You're right about the forced austerity thing. The guy I saw ahead of the curve on this one was Tucker Carlson a fews years back. I thought it was a bit hyperbolic at first but... Today's conspiracy theory, tomorrow's accepted reality
The leftoid globalist cultist are all about the manipulation of behaviour. Did anyone see those graphics demanding men sit to pee in solidarity with trans what-ever-the-fuck?
They love those small, innocuous behavioural rituals that you're expected to perform, even in the privacy of a cubical or you're own damn bathroom. Behaviour that is equally utterly ridiculous to refuse but vitally important you perform.
It's like they think they're dealing with fucking dogs that just need "training".
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
I found myself specifically noticing how much the focus of all the things the authoritarian trenders want to radically redesign or eliminate from daily life seems to be things people ENJOY. Notice the loudest trumpeting about what we need to do to stop climate change or vaccine injury sudden death or racism is stuff that makes us happy? It’s never anything most people are indifferent to or ignorant of; it always seems to be about sacrifice.
---------------
“How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?“
Winston thought. “By making him suffer”, he said.
“Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing."
To your last point, we are dealing with genuinely evil people. They happily trampled fundamental human rights and pretended that the Nuremberg Codes never existed during the Beubonic Plague cosplay we just endured. And they're just getting started.
Do you have a book or website that you'd recommend to learn more about raising chickens? Any help would be appreciated.
The 46 + 2 cover was a gift, and I thank you! You gave me shivers, you sexxay thang! (just messin with ya, I'm old, married, and practically dead).
The chickens ... we keep hearing dire warnings about them. First the bird flu was going to get us all, and apparently now eggs cause blood clots. 🤣🤣🤣
We're doing our best to keep our flock of 1 dozen hens off the radar.
In the meantime, our 6 Isa's, 3 barred rocks and 3 astralorps are collectively chucking anywhere from 6 to 9 eggs per day at us. Hubby's Shorin-Ryu group is happy to help us dispose of them, though, and we've received gifts back so far of some really sugary homemade granola (tasty dessert!) and lovely home canned tomatoes from one of their gardens.
Thanks for the Lansdale and 1440 tips, both look promising. One caveat about 1440: 'ware the potential future influence of some of their 'partners'. Today's feed showed a partner company "RadarUSA", which appears to be energetically working toward connecting residential surveillance systems to law enforcement in order to reduce 'crime'.
Congrats on having powered through P.T. to functionality on your knee! I had an idea whilst reading of your deep mud problem. Does anyone make/sell a mud version of a snowshoe? If not, it might be worth considering fashioning something like that, to save your knee the added stress.
What method(s) will you likely be using RadarUSAto preserve your meats? We are nowhere near that sort of production ourselves, but I need to absorb info.
Maynard and the boys would be proud. I was feeling sorry for myself, those damn kids knocked me right out of that nonsense. Effing awesome, smiling the whole time.
Thanks so much for suggesting the Hap and Leonard series, enjoying so far... best I can offer in return are Travis McGee and Aubrey/Maturin
Congrats on the freezer of meat, improved mobility, and sensible taste in music.
Re: 1440, here's the best news flow I've come up with so far:
1. Read the NYT Morning newsletter. Learn today's current outrage.
2. Read 1440. See if the NYT outrage is really news. Note 1440 stories that NYT chose to ignore.
3. Head to Substack for the analysis of the current outrage or NYT-ignored news.
4. Back to 1440 for the excellent frivolous Etcetera section (Scottish spinning ice disk? Yes please).
As for the WEF... it strikes me as just another aspect of social activism as a replacement for old-time religion. Self-flagellation and giving up one's earthly possessions never goes out of style for the true believers.
Your description of Pulp in the opening paragraph has left me with a question... If the American political arena is the father of Pulp, then who's the mother?
From your neck of the woods: https://reclaimthenet.org/dan-miller-pennsylvania-digital-id/
Children nailing Tool & your healing knee just gave me a bright start to the day.
"If I were a despotic social engineer, I would think you’d have to occasionally promote changes that people are actually excited or happy about amidst taking away all their rights and stuff. "
And you'd be wrong, because you are a nicer person than they. Depriving people shows two things: who is in power, and who is not.
Doing so after the person has grown up inundated with messaging to th tune of "You are bad! You are doing wrong! It is your fault X is happening!" (consider that this thing started in the West in 1960s/1970s depending on where we look) means that person will feel gratitude for you depriving them, because you are helping them do right, even against their will, feelings and instincts. That those three essential characteristics protest only further proves that you are intrinsically wrong, but also that you can make amends and be absolved by being as obedient as you can.
It is in essence a paired down bare-bones model of how children and puppies are raised, but on a makro-level, thus devoid of any and all empathy, sympathy or love and so on that goes into family/pack/herd.
And of course, near total deprivation makes it much easier and profitable for power to reward obedience. Look at any large office and the internal politicking around who gets a cubicle with a view, or close to the AC for a small-scale example, and how common almost ubiquitous the mindset is.
You're right about the forced austerity thing. The guy I saw ahead of the curve on this one was Tucker Carlson a fews years back. I thought it was a bit hyperbolic at first but... Today's conspiracy theory, tomorrow's accepted reality
The leftoid globalist cultist are all about the manipulation of behaviour. Did anyone see those graphics demanding men sit to pee in solidarity with trans what-ever-the-fuck?
They love those small, innocuous behavioural rituals that you're expected to perform, even in the privacy of a cubical or you're own damn bathroom. Behaviour that is equally utterly ridiculous to refuse but vitally important you perform.
It's like they think they're dealing with fucking dogs that just need "training".