Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Energy is Everything

Before today I spent the last 3 and 1/2 days in my apartment.

The first and second day were Christmas-Eve and Christmas respectively.  The last day I was isolated by a torrential blizzard of 40+mph winds and over 2 feet of snow.  If you have never experienced something like this and you would like to, I suggest you have your friend grind up the remainder of your ice-tray into the margarita maker and throw the remnants into your face.  Imagine that 60x over for every minute you dare to venture outdoors.

I eagerly anticipated the 2 days off for Christmas.  I didn't have anyone here; all my good friends have left, and I just wanted some peace and quiet to enjoy what I enjoy.

Alas, 48 hours of talking to old friends on the phone and researching interesting topics leaves you with...well, it leaves Me with a sense of "Okay.  But who wants to talk about it"?

The third day was bad.  I was left alone to my own thoughts for too long.  I noticed that I love to think deeply about things but without feedback from my friends and family I am but a negative energy consuming my own life-force:  I am self-destructive.

After this realization I couldn't wait to get back to work today.  I had a rush of energy unlike what I typically feel after a weekend.  I wanted so much to perform my job to perfection:  And I did.  And it didn't amount to shit.

I was removing snow for 3+hours and I had 2 customers I worked with for 6+ hours combined and nothing came from it.  Aside from the snow removed it was an abject failure.

But I learned something very important.  I would rather fail constantly while trying to succeed than never try at all:  I'll even die early for it.

Sitting at home and doing nothing is no longer desirable to me as it once was.

Perhaps it took this isolation to consolidate that perception.  Whatever it was, even if I'm paralyzed from the waist down, I'd rather die young than be scattered to the dust without making an attempt at impacting the civilization that I owe so much to.



Friday, December 9, 2016

Nobody Cares

Most people are complacent.

I don't begrudge them entirely.  Modern westernized society is a society of abundance.  Considering that people of these societies no longer have to worry about being eaten by bears they have a lot of time and resources to pursue a life outside of bear-trap making.

The reality of nature has escaped most people.  The nature of man for most is now just a will to exist unmolested in its consumption.

Most people in Western countries don't think about the rest of the world or the dynamics that are forming their reality.  They are constantly distracted by what they need to purchase next.  Once their lives become difficult or the true nature of existence smacks them in the face, they will quickly turn their heads and ignore the reality in an effort to avoid the inevitable feelings of displeasure - and thus action against the offending party - by consuming more.

Think of the expression "From rags to riches to rags".  Because of the riches accumulated by our fore-fathers' blood, we are able to live in a society of abundance.

Abundance breeds weak men.

In a sea of zombies primordially motivated to acquire new trinkets it's nice to see the occasional glimmer of intelligence searching for knowledge.

Unfortunately, like a mirage after a hundred mile trek through the desert, most of those glimmers turn out to be just an illusion.

Regardless of IQ most people in the west have such deep-seeded indoctrinations that no level of facts or statistics can sway them from their firm belief on certain observable and provable topics.

So you find yourself in a spat with a smart idiot.  Again and again and again.  How many glimmers will you visit until you find your Oasis?  How many can you suffer before you die from mental-dehydration?



Monday, December 5, 2016

"B..B...But, That's Not True"!

I sell things.

I'm not yet an expert, but I can read people well.  I can portray myself to a person's liking with very little understanding of their cultural background.

You may perceive that as dishonest.  I disagree.  I see that as adapting to a situation.  Ask any military brat that had 9 different schools and they will tell you that without adapting, you will die.  Starting with a positive first impression is key to making anyone like you.

Stagnant communities, rather, communities that don't receive many outsiders are mentally stunted in their ability to adapt to new scenarios.  Sure, they have to occasionally adapt to economic issues, but rarely new faces and cultures.

Much like facial and physical gestures of "thank you" or "I'm sorry" are noticeable among all languages, the emotions and motivations are noticeable to the perceptive empathizer.

If, for example, you come to buy a car from me but you protest that the price is too high, my body language and tone of voice will subdue and I will show you competing prices in the region.  I do this subconsciously.  I am understanding your emotions and empathizing with you while maintaining my integrity by offering transparency.

Once you realize the complexities of this unspoken language you start to pick up on some disturbing things.  People fucking lie.

It happens ALL THE TIME.  It happens face-to-face.  Someone wants you to believe something about themselves because that will temporarily improve their social status or a plethora of other reasons.  Fret not, these people are easily rooted out.  If they lack the means to move themselves they will be shunned by the community.  People that are genuinely dishonest don't last long in communities where they say outright lies to people's faces.

Online in text, though?  There's an odd disconnect.  Otherwise honest people feel obliged to link distracting, false or otherwise incomplete articles and then state them as a matter of fact.  They have no problem not even linking this sites and concluding what the headline told them to.  If they were to have a discourse in person I imagine they would be much less bold in their assertions.

But they do it anyway.  There's an odd line that I think is blurred between truth and narrative online.  People believe what they want to believe and then look for sources to reinforce their narrative.  They don't take any time to fact-check these narratives.  They only espouse from "trusted" sources what they are so damn sure was the truth without having seriously looked into it.

Unfortunately, though my empathy and inter-personal skills are high, I guess more often than not that a person's objectives online are simply to win an argument.  There is no intention to learn, to share, to emote:  If there were, a dialogue instead of an insult/reframing war would ensue.

The ultimate response for people that won't respond to your logical arguments is to respond in whatever way they chose to attack you.  Snarky comment followed by innocuous article?  Link the Onion and call them a Cunt.

Whatever you do, don't let a person that is being obviously dishonest leave the table thinking they have won the minds of anyone.  Call out their bullshit, don't let them bait and switch and most importantly, don't let them de-rail any valid point you've made with a dismissal and a shitty link.










Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Don't Insult People

This seems like a good general rule.  Right?  There have got to be countless religions with tomes of theocratic wisdom thought up by very smart people or even possibly a divine being that tell you this law.  "Do unto others".

It seems like a good universal truth.  The "Golden Rule" many atheists and theists alike refer to it.  "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you".

This would be great if it was followed by everyone and anyone who disobeyed it was admonished accordingly.

Unfortunately, that is not the case.

Entering the realm of political discourse at a young age immediately draws scrutiny from intelligent, senior (in terms of age) peers.  I don't mind this, I think it's healthy and natural.

Interestingly, though, is that when "Senior" peers play word-games to make snarky, illogical quips to discredit the younger people they are debating with, they are shocked when the youth revolts with crude name-calling.  "NAME CALLING" *gasp*

Calling someone an idiot through pre-suading the audience with clever rhetoric is no more morally acceptable than dismissing someone's arguments by calling them retarded.

Both are wrong.  Start your arguments with some humility.  If you get slimed by bullshit, respond in kind.

Thursday, October 27, 2016

Why I'm Mad that I'm Dumb - And You Probably Should be Too.

I have a decent IQ:  Above average but not close to genius.  I'm what a genius would call a mid-wit.

But I'm dumb.  And so are most of you.

Public School is useless.  Here's my anecdotal evidence.

How many useless days did you spend watching videos so you could "write down 20 facts" on a sheet that the teacher would then lazily gaze at and confirm that, indeed, you wrote down 20 things.  How many days did you spend memorizing useless bullshit that you don't remember.  I know from reading most people's posts that the HUNDREDS of hours spent literally conscripting grammar textbooks didn't do you any fucking good.

And yet, after spending 11 YEARS in school, I learned nothing about the REAL knowledge necessary to understand the outside impacts on my life.  I didn't learn personal finance.  I didn't learn corporate finance.  I didn't learn how to tell what my dollar is worth.  I didn't learn what inflation or deflation was.  I didn't learn about hot vs cold wars.  I didn't learn how our nation declares war.  I didn't learn anything about the Civil War except it was slavery vs non-slavery (bullshit).  I didn't learn anything about the tax code or Teachers Unions or corporate bailouts.

Yet, I skated through all that.  High relative IQ and I got the grades I needed to keep alive and do well enough on tests to meet societal standards.  I felt smart.

Then I met the internet.  In a real fashion, I started seeking out smarter people than me, and I realized how much I had been mislead - how stupid I was.  My teachers were not paragons of wisdom, they were idiots fed by a bloated state that is intentionally keeping people dumb and making it impossible to fire dumb teachers.

Think it's all bullshit?  Well, here's Bill Ivey, former Clinton Administration Official E-Mailing current Clinton campaign head John Podesta

"And as I've mentioned, we've all been quite content to demean government, drop civics and in general conspire to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry"

Or, as Lupe put it -

"Your childs future was the first to go with budget cuts
If you think that hurts then, wait here comes the uppercut
The school was garbage in the first place, that's on the up and up"

Monday, October 10, 2016

You Can't Force Memes

Married couples try to show interest in their partners preferred interest.  A man, for instance, will know his wife's favorite singer on X-factor.  A woman, for instance, will know her Husbands' favorite team in football.  They don't REALLY know that Celo was a fantastic artist or that Devin Hester holds the world record for touchdowns scored on kick-off and punt returns.  They just have a vague idea of where their spouse is mentally.

That's kind of how America is.  Politics and political decisions that effect all of us are really just an after-thought to most people.  I don't begrudge them, it's easy to see it as boring.

But now we're in the final stages.  Celo has his last chance at making his girl a star and Devin is in the Super-Bowl ready to run it in for a win - The spouse is paying attention.

So now that you're paying attention, I have some HILARIOUS shit to share with you.

Most millenials don't watch TV like their parents did.  Most news is preferred over text, that is, social media.  Donald had a HUGE following on social media sites.  Bernie did too.  Take a look at www.reddit.com/r/the_donald and compare it to www.reddit.com/Hillary_clinton

It's no contest.  That's a problem for Hillary Clinton.  We produce thousands of memes a day and we're influencing people with those memes.

Hilldawg (as she will henceforth be known) needs an opposition to the meme warfare.

So she hired them.  Literally.  There's a bunch of people in their cubicles typing away trying to out-meme Trump supporters.

They're called "Correct The Record" (much Orwellian, jeez).

They are literally paid to out-meme Trump Supporters.

Today, hilariously, a group called Wikileaks (Notorious group that leaks classified/secret/hidden documents to the public) released a batch of emails from the Hilldawg campaign.  Among those emails was this tidbit describing the people that make up Correct The Record team:

"Correct the Record’s staff (18 and counting) is crammed into a newsroom-style bullpen in the back corner of the offices of American Bridge 21st Century, Brock’s Super-PAC. “They’re always there; they’re always working around the clock,” former Clinton White House adviser Paul Begala says of the crew. “I always tease David that he finds all of these nerd virgins and locks them away in a vault where they never see sunlight or have a drink or get laid. But God Bless them!”


HAHAHAHAHA.  THEY TRIED TO FORCE MEMES AND THEIR OWN PEOPLE VIEW THEM AS VIRGINS THAT DON'T SEE SUNLIGHT.

Forcing memes is anti-memetic warfare 101.  We do it for free because we love our country, and those savages have just been sacrificed by their own employers.  Throw their corpses on the pyre of political correctness.

THE RECORD HAS BEEN CORRECTED

Friday, September 23, 2016

How to Spot a Racist on Social Media

If at least 1% of your internet browsing habits don't include porn or video games, it'd be hard to miss the posts about black people being shot by the police.  Ask people who are pissed off about it enough questions and the problem, as they see it, is systemic white racism.

This week, a black man was shot by a black officer in North Carolina.  Very angry black people saw this as sufficient reason to riot and attack white people.  I'm not kidding.  Look up the videos yourself.  In one video, gaggles of black men run after ONE white guy in a parking lot.  They beat the shit out of him while he was begging for mercy.  A white photographer in a button-up and and utility belts holding camera stuff was knocked out.  He was totally unconscious a few feet from a burning dumpster fire.  A group of black people tried to drag his unconscious body on top of that fire.  Police finally intervened.  A white CNN reporter was violently body-checked into the ground LIVE ON AIR as he was "reporting" the news.

There is no question, these rioters were out for the blood of white people.

Since I'm a fan of justice, and assumed my Facebook friends were too, I anticipated a HUGE amount of outrage on my feed.  Racism is bad.  Black droves of anti-white hate mobs were surely going to incite  AT LEAST the same amount of outrage as a black man getting shot by a black cop, right?  Wrong.  All of the people showing the racial injustice in these cop shootings didn't post anything.  Why?

3 possibilities.

1.  They're brain-dead media zombies caught in an echo-chamber of leftist race-baiting news sources.

2.  They saw the racism, felt bad, but worried about being called racist for bringing it up.

3.  They saw it.  They saw it all.  They saw more than most.  And they're smiling on the inside.  They have a real sense that white people are evil and revel in the suffering of whites.  After all, we deserve it.  Because white privilege.

If you know of someone who is constantly posting outrage videos about a black person being shot by police and claim to be fighting for justice!; but they refuse to even acknowledge that hundreds of black men were beating the shit out of white people for being white, you have spotted a racist.

These people don't care about justice.  They care about disparaging white people.  Why do they hate white people?

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Why are Millennials Retarded?

My peers don't pay attention to anything important.  They will latch on to an idea that makes it look like they care about something important, but once that topic has depleted the maximum FB likes and RTs it can, it's over.  They walk into the bathroom with their new outfit, make sure the lighting is right, then snap a selfie in the mirror.  I suspect the Men In Black exist and they started putting their memory-correction devices into all new smartphones.  "Whoops, looks like no one cares about that thing anymore.  Let's go take a selfie. *flash* Wow, look at all the likes my selfie is getting".

 Here's a recent example.

My FB peers were recently supporting Bernie Sanders.  Everyday I saw pro-Bernie stuff.  I it'd be a disaster to vote another Marxist into office, but at least people were interested in arguably the most important non-personal decision they can make in their lives:  Who is going to make decisions on behalf of the ENTIRE country for the next four years?

I went back and forth with these people, happy to engage in dialogue about why socialism is a horrible idea.  Mostly I got contrived rhetoric and links to articles 95% of them didn't read, but at least there was a discussion.

When you looked over the barren, grey plane of dust and wind that is typically social media, you could see a tinge of green -individual buds slowly struggling out of the infertile soil - until it almost looked like a field would finally produce the fruit of mental labor.  And then Bernie endorsed Hillary Clinton and fire-bombed the whole goddamn thing.  You can still see remnants of ash floating around, reminding you of the fruits that could have been, but it looks like the dust will settle - back to the barren wasteland of fake outrage and societal degradation.

I have a few theories, but I'd like to know, why are they so retarded?