I know what you are on about GC, even though I am not familiar with any of the names. I suppose that is the result of being both old, and a hermit of sorts, but I have known that western culture is on a fast slope downward, and personally I hope that happy horizon is not a decade away, but arriving much sooner. Just pray that that horizon is not loaded up with mushroom clouds.
Like you, I try to avoid the camera, (even have a piece of black tape over the one on my computer since I believe they can be remotely activated), but having never visited any of my daughter's facebook pages, I have no idea what they have posted in my name. I do know that most every intersection has cameras, and the denser populated a city is, the more eyes that are on you.
Meanwhile, here on the hunkerdown the circle of life goes on, and I have a week old goat that I'm bottle feeding---such things do happen with new mamas ---so I best get up off my ass, and get to work again.
Thanks for the good writing GC, world needs more of it.
Black electrical tape is a must on the laptop. Started it about a decade ago after Snowden. Sounds like you're far enough away from all the madness surrounded by beautiful new life. Enjoy!
" Just pray that that horizon is not loaded up with mushroom clouds. "
I used to do the same, JVC, but I've changed my thinking about nuclear power and weapons. Have you ever heard of Galen Winsor? He worked at a fairly high level in the nuclear power industry post WWII, and he had a very interesting perspective on the "dangers" of nuclear waste and radioactive fallout.
Essentially, he acknowledged that a nuclear bomb like the ones dropped on Japan are powerful and dangerous - but in the short term, not the long term. (Note that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are both safe, healthy cities to live in today.) He also argued that nuclear power is far safer than we've been told, and that nuclear "waste" is really an extremely valuable energy source.
If you're interested, this 45 minute video from a talk he gave in 1982 will give you some food for thought:
So don't worry about the mushroom clouds (unless you are really close by!), but do, definitely, keep that black electrical tape on your computer. I do the same! No one needs to know what I look like when I stumble onto my computer first thing in the morning, except my poor husband.
Is there NOTHING our Governments haven't lied to us about??
Galen Winsor was a safety officer at the Hanford Nuclear site - location of the first U.S plutonium-producing reactor.
He spent the next 35 years processing plutonium across several nuclear facilities, and was recognised by the Atomic Energy Commission as one of the world's foremost authorities on nuclear radiation management, before later dedicating his career to Public Speaking/Whistleblowing.
He describes the cesium-contaminated pool containing the spent fuel rods as quite beautiful with its submerged lighting, water the colour of a Tahitian lagoon, and maintained at a balmy 38°C.
He swam in it every day.
He also kept a glass of drinking water from it on his desk.
When the reactors at Hanford were decommissioned at the end of the cold war, the site housed 177 storage tanks containing hundreds of thousands of tons of high-level radioactive waste.
His offer to Industry Reps to remove and properly dispose of the waste at no cost, was immediately rejected because they indicated it was highly valuable as a commodity and highly profitable to the Government.
(Hasn't the same government told us it's so dangerous it needs to be entombed for 100,000 years??).
An article titled "Fukushima and Reflections on Radiation as a Terror Weapon" published in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons in 2014 discusses the irresponsible fear mongering and intentional misleading of the Public, and quotes the late Theodore Rockwell: "Apocalyptic consequences from a reactor mishap are not just highly improbable, but impossible".
Like free energy before it (shutdown when TPTB recognized that it denied them otherwise billion dollar profits) they also came to understand the potential of utilising fear to first weaponize, then monetize, resources on the backs of "public safety" fear mongering campaigns.
Article "Fukushima and Reflections on Radiation as a Terror Weapon"
I spent so many years of my life anxious about nuclear power. I already had a sense it was a pack of lies, but this article really exposes the propaganda that low level radiation (such as that from nuclear power) is any kind of danger.
The next thing you have to ask yourself after reading this information is, why are they so interested in keeping us fearful of a form of energy that could literally transform our world for the better?
I was exactly the same Anna. Despite hearing so many background murmerings for years, that nuclear energy was one of safest, cleanest energy sources we have, I - like most people - bought the lie. It has not been until recently that doubts around the mainstream narrative have entered my consciousness. Galen Winsor's statements, the article I linked above, plus the one I link below (ESPECIALLY the one I link below - which raises a strong case that the damage in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was much more likely to be attributable to incendiary devices, not to an atomic bomb) have given me a whole new perspective.
What better boogieman to keep up their sleeve than "total planetary annihilation". One couldn't wish for a more powerful threat to humanity. And fear of it keeps us all afraid of nuclear energy, and subservient to paying ever-increasing energy bills by exploiting our fear and ignorance (and making those doing the exploiting exceedingly wealthy in the process, because they've convinced us the alternatives are just too dangerous).
The Duke Report article you linked to was very interesting - thanks for sharing it. I'd heard the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings were likely incendiary, not nuclear, but that article was pretty thorough!
A few parallels to more recent psy-ops that occurred to me while reading:
- using mustard gas to mimic radiation sickness reminded me of the way respiratory illnesses were mis-characterized as "a novel illness" during covid;
- developing weapons-grade uranium in an incredibly short time period reminded me of how they "miraculously" developed the covid vaccine in months, instead of years;
- the eye-witness reports of multiple explosions in the Japanese cities reminded me of the multiple blasts heard when "airplanes" hit the Twin
Towers on 9-11.
And of course, all the money thrown at the Manhatten Project to supposedly develop nuclear bombs reminded me of the money-laundering project known as Landing on the Moon.
EDIT: from the final chapter (which nicely ties to the premise of all the events in your comment above):
"Why was it done?
The war might have ended weeks earlier, he [MacArthur] said,
if the United States had agreed, as it later did anyway, to the
retention of the institution of the emperor. [Norman Cousins, 311, p. 71].
Several hypothetical motives for staging the ‘atomic’ bombings are considered. The most widely espoused motive—namely, shocking Japan into surrender—is rejected for the following reasons:
1. Japan was not surprised but colluded in the bombings, and
2. Japan had long been ready to surrender on terms similar to those implemented after the war.
The alternate explanation that the bombings were staged in order to intimidate Stalin is dismissed, not only because Stalin was not intimidated, but also because such a plan could not even have been expected to work.
We propose that the ‘atomic’ bombings were acts of state terror, directed at the international general public: general fear of impending nuclear war should induce the people to voluntarily surrender their national sovereignty and submit to a world government. The motives behind this plan and the reasons for its failure are examined."
I'm jealous that you were able to ignore all of it for 20 years... as the Mom of a "millenial" and a "Gen Z'r" - I'm surrounded by this shit - especially with the 21 year old whose face is becoming permanently implanted in his phone screen with Tik Tok videos coming out the wazooo..... I have talked to both my kids - as in "do you know what China is doing with your images/information when you post to Tik Tok" - and yes it is videos of them dancing - but fully dressed, thank God.. and both say to me "it doesn't matter, they already know everything about us anyway". These kids truly don't understand the potential implications and have been so bombarded by these sick cultural "influencers" like the gross Cardi B that their brains are warped. When my daughter went to see "Duo Lipa" last year - I literally said to her - who the fuck is that? Yet - still I try.... because I'm that naive Mom - thinking I could forestall the inevitable reach of cultural rot - who monitored every tv show they watched, had parental controls on tv's and all devices, neither of my kids had a phone until they were 14 and even then - it was a track phone with no internet access and only for my peace of mind.... (and to think, I would be sent out the door with a dime in my shoe for the pay phone....and my mother giving me strict orders not to return home until it was lunch time or if it was winter - until I my mittens were soaked - all to be sent right back out the door after a quick tuna sandwich and a change of mittens and told to be home when the streetlights came on). My idea of cultural heroes was David Cassidy - whom I would kiss full on the lips of his giant poster adorning my room and tell him I loved him and reading the Partridge Family album covers from front to back over and over..) My kids do love "my music" as they say - the great 70's groups like Fleetwood Mac, Led Zepplin, Queen,..... and they do tell me all the time that the wish they grew up in the 70's and 80's like me...... similar, in many ways to a post Soviet Russia..... Oh -- but they have ....no....idea.....
Lol "who the fuck is that sweetie?" I remember the dime in the penny loafers trick. The good ole days. One day they'll see the rot too and remember mom was right.
Lol...the language I use with my kids....has progressed over the years. Probably wouldn't have dropped the f-bomb when she was 15 but at 25 - it works well. There's really no other word as apt when you want to highlight a specific level of befuddlement.....as in - what the Fuck, who the Fuck, how the Fuck..... my kids tend to know I mean business at that point! Good news though - both my kids often agree with me when it comes to the cultural shit storm of their generation....not 100% - but I take my wins where I can get em.....!
I watched "Dark Shadows" everyday after school! I liked it best when they were in the 1800s instead of the 1970s. Best Soap Opera EVER!!! Ask any other 12/13 year old! 😂🤣😂🤣
And Bobby Sherman was so sweet. I even watched the 70‘s series very loosely based on Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, “Here Come the Brides”, in which he played the youngest brother. Be still my heart! Lol
You totally get it! Lol And yes, stories set in the past were typically better than the modern day stuff. All that Angelique stuff was high art soap opera.
I bought the book series, the comics, the bubblegum packs that came with little posters. Went to see both movies at my local cinema. Jonathan Frid was my crush for years.
Love it! Especially because when I was around 5 or 6 and starting to pay more attention to adult music, the very first record that I begged my Mom to buy for me was - Bobby Sherman's "Julie, do ya love me"! I played that record constantly! GC probably realizes now that his excellent and very appropriate rant about today's "culture" - has taken many of us down memory lane!
"It doesn't matter, they already know everything about us anyway" is prevalent among the masses today, particularly the young, who are going to have to live in this prison they're so actively helping to build.
We haven't even fully started "Digital Human Dystopia: the series" yet they're already resigned to their fate and standing down without a whimper.
I can only assume (not knowing how the world was before) that they don't see this as abnormal or alarming.
Reject post modernism. Embrace classicism. Latin, Greek, Gregorian chant, Bach, Euclid, and Euler will heal your mind. This is why they have been deliberately excised from our "education system".
I've had to teach myself advanced math because they don't have graduate level classes at community college and really stupid transfer rules that can have you trapped in community college forever. If my abusive foster parent had only let me apply to a real college...
Disabling all cell phones might help. Alot. With all the hackers that exist, this would not be that hard. The negative effects would be real, but the positive effects would be realer. Children are growing up looking at this stuff, and porn and it warps the mind.
It is a mind warper. Louisiana is requiring an ID for access to online porn sites. Now feds will be able to track and collect law-abiding adults private surfing habits tied to DL IDs instead of parents using those parental controls on their kids soma devices for what they were designed. Religious conservatives... always with good intentions, and terrible solutions.
What teenager won’t find a way to subvert parental controls? Porn is obscenity and is probably already illegal by public standards per Miller v. California (1973). Banning it outright is the solution and only requires political will.
Lead was banned in gasoline 50 years ago, and the ban forced car buyers to pay more for electronic ignition. Where’s the alternate demand for lead gasoline? 😆 The list is endless.
Porn was non-existent prior to Miller and its preceding decision. The masses did not rise up to meet demand. Porn was regarded universally as morally abhorrent, so the pornographers themselves created the demand, starting in the era of videotape, cable, and mass-distributed print, but exploding with the internet.
In my naivety I looked it up. I do believe you're correct in your assessment.
But after further research I've come to the conclusion that she's closely related to the Duo Lipa.
I'll post my findings below. Compliments of Wiki.
Streptococcus is a genus of gram-positive coccus or spherical bacteria that belongs to the family Streptococcaceae, within the order Lactobacillales, in the phylum Bacillota. Cell division in streptococci occurs along a single axis, so as they grow, they tend to "FORM PAIRS" or chains that may appear bent or twisted.
I gave up on the Hollyweird pop culture crap over two decades ago, myself.
Misanthropy hit about a decade ago.
Now. I just try to tend to my dirt and my critters while it seems the stench from this bloated culture just get's worse every day. Thank God I'm upwind.
I’ve never understood selfies and have only taken a few. I’ve never described it as shame but yeah that’s what it feels like and I don’t need anymore of that in my life. Don’t understand the constant need to advertise one’s life to whomever may take a peek. The fact that ppl are making money from this shameful behavior is both brilliant and bogus. When will this end?
The laughable War on Drugs could never contain America's massive dopamine addiction! Hits of this powerful drug are freely distributed by likes/shares & comments on one's craftily scripted "life" as reflected on social media. Influencer or fangirl/fanboy alike. Seriously, were "duck lips" EVER a thing before FB or IG--and did that stupid fad not explode from influencers with botox-gone-bad selfies, pretending it was somehow "sexy"?! Years later, we still see women of all ages mimicking that cringeworthy facial pose any time a camera whips out...
Lips so injected with chemicals for bloating. an epidemic of bee stung lips. And the fake asses with implants. Then tattoos. Endless dermal scarring by choice! Now throw in tainted blood and ugliness has never been so ubiquitous.
Culture has floors. And sub-floors. Once not long ago Negro Jazz was thought trash. Then after WW2 Elvis, Blues, Rock on radio. Then came the 60's and flood gates opened. Now we are here.
Transgender male-to-female human identifies as a transgender female-to-male animal of some sort (like that trans Twitch streamer who identified as "deerkin" and wore antlers like a male deer even though they were a mtf transgender so shouldn't antlers give them gender dysphoria?)
I feel like that should be on Tumblr's master list of genders, I'd call it a "gendermatryoshka"
Western Civilization's collapse can be viewed through its art. We've gone from Caravaggio, Rembrandt, and Reubens to the garbage of Pollock, Rothko, and too many other "artists" to mention.
Pope Benedict often mentioned that a pursuit of the good, the beautiful, and the true will lead one to God. It's no surprise that our faithless western world is assailing each path to the transcendent.
Good Citizen, I commented earlier, but after turning off my computer, I just have to come back in and add how much I enjoy your writing and ability to capture reality in a way few others can. I wish I could meet you in person and embrace you. You are a gem, even in this virtual way that we communicate. Love to you.
Welp, they do make it hard. Googled Dua Lipa and, although no lesbian fad, it sure churns out the basest feeling. I guess that's the point, anyway. When you're thinking with the lower head you aren't thinking at all.
»Is Cardi B a microphone or a new clothing brand?« – 😂😂😂 LMFAO!!! (I have been a musician and sound engineer for more than 40 years, and I wholeheartedly agree with your observations about the decline of the entire music and film business. Most of what is 'produced' there is laughable at best when compared substantively to works by Bach, Beethoven, Clapton, Prince, Hitchcock, Coppola, Wenders et al (to name a few). Whereby these guys had only a fraction of today's technical possibilities.)
Nice! I played bass in a rock band in the 90s. Best times were in and out of recording studios for years. I knew there'd be a sound engineer out there to get the joke. 😂 They did accomplish so much more with less which shows how little technology has improved the soul of artistic creation.
Being uncool in this rotting culture is just the best. Welcome to the club. Here's looking at you, kid.
Being uncool is cool.
I know what you are on about GC, even though I am not familiar with any of the names. I suppose that is the result of being both old, and a hermit of sorts, but I have known that western culture is on a fast slope downward, and personally I hope that happy horizon is not a decade away, but arriving much sooner. Just pray that that horizon is not loaded up with mushroom clouds.
Like you, I try to avoid the camera, (even have a piece of black tape over the one on my computer since I believe they can be remotely activated), but having never visited any of my daughter's facebook pages, I have no idea what they have posted in my name. I do know that most every intersection has cameras, and the denser populated a city is, the more eyes that are on you.
Meanwhile, here on the hunkerdown the circle of life goes on, and I have a week old goat that I'm bottle feeding---such things do happen with new mamas ---so I best get up off my ass, and get to work again.
Thanks for the good writing GC, world needs more of it.
Black electrical tape is a must on the laptop. Started it about a decade ago after Snowden. Sounds like you're far enough away from all the madness surrounded by beautiful new life. Enjoy!
I also have black electric tape over the camera on my laptop.
" Just pray that that horizon is not loaded up with mushroom clouds. "
I used to do the same, JVC, but I've changed my thinking about nuclear power and weapons. Have you ever heard of Galen Winsor? He worked at a fairly high level in the nuclear power industry post WWII, and he had a very interesting perspective on the "dangers" of nuclear waste and radioactive fallout.
Essentially, he acknowledged that a nuclear bomb like the ones dropped on Japan are powerful and dangerous - but in the short term, not the long term. (Note that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are both safe, healthy cities to live in today.) He also argued that nuclear power is far safer than we've been told, and that nuclear "waste" is really an extremely valuable energy source.
If you're interested, this 45 minute video from a talk he gave in 1982 will give you some food for thought:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VvGw1tkT1Q
So don't worry about the mushroom clouds (unless you are really close by!), but do, definitely, keep that black electrical tape on your computer. I do the same! No one needs to know what I look like when I stumble onto my computer first thing in the morning, except my poor husband.
Indeed.
Is there NOTHING our Governments haven't lied to us about??
Galen Winsor was a safety officer at the Hanford Nuclear site - location of the first U.S plutonium-producing reactor.
He spent the next 35 years processing plutonium across several nuclear facilities, and was recognised by the Atomic Energy Commission as one of the world's foremost authorities on nuclear radiation management, before later dedicating his career to Public Speaking/Whistleblowing.
He describes the cesium-contaminated pool containing the spent fuel rods as quite beautiful with its submerged lighting, water the colour of a Tahitian lagoon, and maintained at a balmy 38°C.
He swam in it every day.
He also kept a glass of drinking water from it on his desk.
When the reactors at Hanford were decommissioned at the end of the cold war, the site housed 177 storage tanks containing hundreds of thousands of tons of high-level radioactive waste.
His offer to Industry Reps to remove and properly dispose of the waste at no cost, was immediately rejected because they indicated it was highly valuable as a commodity and highly profitable to the Government.
(Hasn't the same government told us it's so dangerous it needs to be entombed for 100,000 years??).
An article titled "Fukushima and Reflections on Radiation as a Terror Weapon" published in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons in 2014 discusses the irresponsible fear mongering and intentional misleading of the Public, and quotes the late Theodore Rockwell: "Apocalyptic consequences from a reactor mishap are not just highly improbable, but impossible".
Like free energy before it (shutdown when TPTB recognized that it denied them otherwise billion dollar profits) they also came to understand the potential of utilising fear to first weaponize, then monetize, resources on the backs of "public safety" fear mongering campaigns.
Article "Fukushima and Reflections on Radiation as a Terror Weapon"
https://www.jpands.org/vol19no2/orient.pdf
The article you linked to is a gem.
I spent so many years of my life anxious about nuclear power. I already had a sense it was a pack of lies, but this article really exposes the propaganda that low level radiation (such as that from nuclear power) is any kind of danger.
The next thing you have to ask yourself after reading this information is, why are they so interested in keeping us fearful of a form of energy that could literally transform our world for the better?
I was exactly the same Anna. Despite hearing so many background murmerings for years, that nuclear energy was one of safest, cleanest energy sources we have, I - like most people - bought the lie. It has not been until recently that doubts around the mainstream narrative have entered my consciousness. Galen Winsor's statements, the article I linked above, plus the one I link below (ESPECIALLY the one I link below - which raises a strong case that the damage in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was much more likely to be attributable to incendiary devices, not to an atomic bomb) have given me a whole new perspective.
What better boogieman to keep up their sleeve than "total planetary annihilation". One couldn't wish for a more powerful threat to humanity. And fear of it keeps us all afraid of nuclear energy, and subservient to paying ever-increasing energy bills by exploiting our fear and ignorance (and making those doing the exploiting exceedingly wealthy in the process, because they've convinced us the alternatives are just too dangerous).
https://open.substack.com/pub/thedukereport/p/exposing-the-real-story-of-hiroshima?r=nll84&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
The Duke Report article you linked to was very interesting - thanks for sharing it. I'd heard the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings were likely incendiary, not nuclear, but that article was pretty thorough!
A few parallels to more recent psy-ops that occurred to me while reading:
- using mustard gas to mimic radiation sickness reminded me of the way respiratory illnesses were mis-characterized as "a novel illness" during covid;
- developing weapons-grade uranium in an incredibly short time period reminded me of how they "miraculously" developed the covid vaccine in months, instead of years;
- the eye-witness reports of multiple explosions in the Japanese cities reminded me of the multiple blasts heard when "airplanes" hit the Twin
Towers on 9-11.
And of course, all the money thrown at the Manhatten Project to supposedly develop nuclear bombs reminded me of the money-laundering project known as Landing on the Moon.
Very prescient observations - all of them with a common denominator of public deception.
The Duke Report article was eye-opening.
One of the commenters kindly posted the link to a free pdf of the book on which the article is based if you're interested.
Just a scan of the index was intriguing.
https://archive.is/INd0K
EDIT: from the final chapter (which nicely ties to the premise of all the events in your comment above):
"Why was it done?
The war might have ended weeks earlier, he [MacArthur] said,
if the United States had agreed, as it later did anyway, to the
retention of the institution of the emperor. [Norman Cousins, 311, p. 71].
Several hypothetical motives for staging the ‘atomic’ bombings are considered. The most widely espoused motive—namely, shocking Japan into surrender—is rejected for the following reasons:
1. Japan was not surprised but colluded in the bombings, and
2. Japan had long been ready to surrender on terms similar to those implemented after the war.
The alternate explanation that the bombings were staged in order to intimidate Stalin is dismissed, not only because Stalin was not intimidated, but also because such a plan could not even have been expected to work.
We propose that the ‘atomic’ bombings were acts of state terror, directed at the international general public: general fear of impending nuclear war should induce the people to voluntarily surrender their national sovereignty and submit to a world government. The motives behind this plan and the reasons for its failure are examined."
I'm jealous that you were able to ignore all of it for 20 years... as the Mom of a "millenial" and a "Gen Z'r" - I'm surrounded by this shit - especially with the 21 year old whose face is becoming permanently implanted in his phone screen with Tik Tok videos coming out the wazooo..... I have talked to both my kids - as in "do you know what China is doing with your images/information when you post to Tik Tok" - and yes it is videos of them dancing - but fully dressed, thank God.. and both say to me "it doesn't matter, they already know everything about us anyway". These kids truly don't understand the potential implications and have been so bombarded by these sick cultural "influencers" like the gross Cardi B that their brains are warped. When my daughter went to see "Duo Lipa" last year - I literally said to her - who the fuck is that? Yet - still I try.... because I'm that naive Mom - thinking I could forestall the inevitable reach of cultural rot - who monitored every tv show they watched, had parental controls on tv's and all devices, neither of my kids had a phone until they were 14 and even then - it was a track phone with no internet access and only for my peace of mind.... (and to think, I would be sent out the door with a dime in my shoe for the pay phone....and my mother giving me strict orders not to return home until it was lunch time or if it was winter - until I my mittens were soaked - all to be sent right back out the door after a quick tuna sandwich and a change of mittens and told to be home when the streetlights came on). My idea of cultural heroes was David Cassidy - whom I would kiss full on the lips of his giant poster adorning my room and tell him I loved him and reading the Partridge Family album covers from front to back over and over..) My kids do love "my music" as they say - the great 70's groups like Fleetwood Mac, Led Zepplin, Queen,..... and they do tell me all the time that the wish they grew up in the 70's and 80's like me...... similar, in many ways to a post Soviet Russia..... Oh -- but they have ....no....idea.....
Lol "who the fuck is that sweetie?" I remember the dime in the penny loafers trick. The good ole days. One day they'll see the rot too and remember mom was right.
Lol...the language I use with my kids....has progressed over the years. Probably wouldn't have dropped the f-bomb when she was 15 but at 25 - it works well. There's really no other word as apt when you want to highlight a specific level of befuddlement.....as in - what the Fuck, who the Fuck, how the Fuck..... my kids tend to know I mean business at that point! Good news though - both my kids often agree with me when it comes to the cultural shit storm of their generation....not 100% - but I take my wins where I can get em.....!
It was Bobby Sherman that did it for me! And Barnabas Collins from Dark Shadows.
Bobby Sherman! 💋💘❤💕❣💋
I watched "Dark Shadows" everyday after school! I liked it best when they were in the 1800s instead of the 1970s. Best Soap Opera EVER!!! Ask any other 12/13 year old! 😂🤣😂🤣
And Bobby Sherman was so sweet. I even watched the 70‘s series very loosely based on Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, “Here Come the Brides”, in which he played the youngest brother. Be still my heart! Lol
Yep. My family watched, "Here Come the Brides," every week, until it got cancelled.
Although I was just a kid I thought it was a great program. Loved the historical setting. And the theme song in the opening credits was great!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5L6PWNaZCE
Thanks for that link! 1968.
You totally get it! Lol And yes, stories set in the past were typically better than the modern day stuff. All that Angelique stuff was high art soap opera.
I bought the book series, the comics, the bubblegum packs that came with little posters. Went to see both movies at my local cinema. Jonathan Frid was my crush for years.
I got a few of the bubblegum cards, but not many. No $$. 😂 They got disappeared over the years.
Love it! Especially because when I was around 5 or 6 and starting to pay more attention to adult music, the very first record that I begged my Mom to buy for me was - Bobby Sherman's "Julie, do ya love me"! I played that record constantly! GC probably realizes now that his excellent and very appropriate rant about today's "culture" - has taken many of us down memory lane!
"Julie, Julie, Julie, do ya love me?
Julie, Julie, Julie, do ya care?
Julie, Julie, are ya thinkin' of me?
Julie, Julie, will ya still be there?"
Swoon!
I had that album. ❤️ Had to have it in my Junior High years. The fact my name is Julie really sold it, obviously. Lol
Yep. Had the album. I'd sit and stare at the cover pic. 😂
50's and 60's were great. Had to comb the Baldwin Hills gully for pix of naked wimmin.
"It doesn't matter, they already know everything about us anyway" is prevalent among the masses today, particularly the young, who are going to have to live in this prison they're so actively helping to build.
We haven't even fully started "Digital Human Dystopia: the series" yet they're already resigned to their fate and standing down without a whimper.
I can only assume (not knowing how the world was before) that they don't see this as abnormal or alarming.
Reject post modernism. Embrace classicism. Latin, Greek, Gregorian chant, Bach, Euclid, and Euler will heal your mind. This is why they have been deliberately excised from our "education system".
I love Gregorian chant and often have YouTube channels with it running to fall asleep to.
I've had to teach myself advanced math because they don't have graduate level classes at community college and really stupid transfer rules that can have you trapped in community college forever. If my abusive foster parent had only let me apply to a real college...
Anyone who claims she has has ended up suicided.
Advent chants: https://youtu.be/flawOw7x3Gg?si=WZsQlVyRgmQr7siW
Disabling all cell phones might help. Alot. With all the hackers that exist, this would not be that hard. The negative effects would be real, but the positive effects would be realer. Children are growing up looking at this stuff, and porn and it warps the mind.
It is a mind warper. Louisiana is requiring an ID for access to online porn sites. Now feds will be able to track and collect law-abiding adults private surfing habits tied to DL IDs instead of parents using those parental controls on their kids soma devices for what they were designed. Religious conservatives... always with good intentions, and terrible solutions.
What teenager won’t find a way to subvert parental controls? Porn is obscenity and is probably already illegal by public standards per Miller v. California (1973). Banning it outright is the solution and only requires political will.
Lead was banned in gasoline 50 years ago, and the ban forced car buyers to pay more for electronic ignition. Where’s the alternate demand for lead gasoline? 😆 The list is endless.
It's said the inventor Thomas Midgley Jr. accidentally killed the most people in history:
https://digg.com/video/how-this-man-accidentally-killed-the-most-people-in-history
I saw that a couple years ago...or so.
Yes, wasn't there a study on the correlation of lead emissions and rise in violent crime, including emergence of serial killers?
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/verbruggen-lead-and-crime-review-evidence
Alternate places like what? Porno dens? Libertarian mumbo jumbo.
Porn was non-existent prior to Miller and its preceding decision. The masses did not rise up to meet demand. Porn was regarded universally as morally abhorrent, so the pornographers themselves created the demand, starting in the era of videotape, cable, and mass-distributed print, but exploding with the internet.
Cardi B is a streptococcus infection isn't it?
Hahaaha. And they said the A strain of it was bad.
In my naivety I looked it up. I do believe you're correct in your assessment.
But after further research I've come to the conclusion that she's closely related to the Duo Lipa.
I'll post my findings below. Compliments of Wiki.
Streptococcus is a genus of gram-positive coccus or spherical bacteria that belongs to the family Streptococcaceae, within the order Lactobacillales, in the phylum Bacillota. Cell division in streptococci occurs along a single axis, so as they grow, they tend to "FORM PAIRS" or chains that may appear bent or twisted.
I would've thought it was an abbreviation for some "rare" cardiac adverse effect of Pfizer/Moderna
lmao.......the clap, perhaps?
And a SUCCUBUS
I gave up on the Hollyweird pop culture crap over two decades ago, myself.
Misanthropy hit about a decade ago.
Now. I just try to tend to my dirt and my critters while it seems the stench from this bloated culture just get's worse every day. Thank God I'm upwind.
Upwind is always good.
Love being out of the loop in satanic doings.
I’ve never understood selfies and have only taken a few. I’ve never described it as shame but yeah that’s what it feels like and I don’t need anymore of that in my life. Don’t understand the constant need to advertise one’s life to whomever may take a peek. The fact that ppl are making money from this shameful behavior is both brilliant and bogus. When will this end?
Can they create a bioweapon that selects for narcissists, sociopaths, and psychopaths? That would mean targeting themselves. sigh...
Wouldn't that be the best?!
The laughable War on Drugs could never contain America's massive dopamine addiction! Hits of this powerful drug are freely distributed by likes/shares & comments on one's craftily scripted "life" as reflected on social media. Influencer or fangirl/fanboy alike. Seriously, were "duck lips" EVER a thing before FB or IG--and did that stupid fad not explode from influencers with botox-gone-bad selfies, pretending it was somehow "sexy"?! Years later, we still see women of all ages mimicking that cringeworthy facial pose any time a camera whips out...
Lips so injected with chemicals for bloating. an epidemic of bee stung lips. And the fake asses with implants. Then tattoos. Endless dermal scarring by choice! Now throw in tainted blood and ugliness has never been so ubiquitous.
I took 1 selfie once. Then deleted it. I sent it no where. I felt dirty.
Culture has floors. And sub-floors. Once not long ago Negro Jazz was thought trash. Then after WW2 Elvis, Blues, Rock on radio. Then came the 60's and flood gates opened. Now we are here.
Mumble rap, autotune, and face tattoos.
James, I am not far from age 66. My century began in 1957 at the latest.
Me, first seeing the phrase "Megan Thee Stallion" when she apparently promoted a limited offer at McDonald's:
"What the fuck does that mean?"
Searches.
"But a stallion is a male horse."
Pause.
"Fuck, am I old?"
Perhaps Megan Thee Stallion is just another way to confuse kids in terms of gender.
Transgender male-to-female human identifies as a transgender female-to-male animal of some sort (like that trans Twitch streamer who identified as "deerkin" and wore antlers like a male deer even though they were a mtf transgender so shouldn't antlers give them gender dysphoria?)
I feel like that should be on Tumblr's master list of genders, I'd call it a "gendermatryoshka"
Western Civilization's collapse can be viewed through its art. We've gone from Caravaggio, Rembrandt, and Reubens to the garbage of Pollock, Rothko, and too many other "artists" to mention.
Pope Benedict often mentioned that a pursuit of the good, the beautiful, and the true will lead one to God. It's no surprise that our faithless western world is assailing each path to the transcendent.
I've been saying this ever since Billary denied smoking pot: We Are Sooo F@<ked.
There is no putting the horse back in the barn.
Good Citizen, I commented earlier, but after turning off my computer, I just have to come back in and add how much I enjoy your writing and ability to capture reality in a way few others can. I wish I could meet you in person and embrace you. You are a gem, even in this virtual way that we communicate. Love to you.
Thank you alison. 😊
Welp, they do make it hard. Googled Dua Lipa and, although no lesbian fad, it sure churns out the basest feeling. I guess that's the point, anyway. When you're thinking with the lower head you aren't thinking at all.
»Is Cardi B a microphone or a new clothing brand?« – 😂😂😂 LMFAO!!! (I have been a musician and sound engineer for more than 40 years, and I wholeheartedly agree with your observations about the decline of the entire music and film business. Most of what is 'produced' there is laughable at best when compared substantively to works by Bach, Beethoven, Clapton, Prince, Hitchcock, Coppola, Wenders et al (to name a few). Whereby these guys had only a fraction of today's technical possibilities.)
Nice! I played bass in a rock band in the 90s. Best times were in and out of recording studios for years. I knew there'd be a sound engineer out there to get the joke. 😂 They did accomplish so much more with less which shows how little technology has improved the soul of artistic creation.
Maybe because technology can never touch the soul?
Artistic or otherwise. Oooh, maybe wrong? Can technology destroy it?
Many soulless people these days, it seems...
Privation is likely a muse.
Word! 🎸
Neither - it's a Pfizer side effect.