Thanks Mathew! I have been pivoting between anger, despair and hope for months now. I know being stuck in the first two is not healthy. The third option is not realistic. Dammit.
My first time here. Fascinating and comforting to know there are more humans cutting through the matrix than I thought fifteen years ago. Yes, pushing the Kunlangeta off the ice is quite an attractive resolution.
"The old game of burying true stories (bought as "exclusives", then enforced by vicious cadres of lawyers) of horror about the rich and famous in rags like the National Enquirer or the Weekly World News next to a picture of bulbous-headed space-farers kidnapping and anal probing children to create negative associations no longer cuts it. Armies of empty nesters with file cabinets full of newspaper clippings spill their guts on webpages just crude enough that you trust that the goal wasn't to impress you with graphic design. The knowledge hobbyists began to turn the tide by eliminating anal swabs from the story."
True stories of psychopathic/sociopathic behavior by leaders and celebrities were, in the past, purchased as exclusives by these kinds of rags. It's called "catch and release" and was explained to me by a lawyer for such a magazine years ago. The goal is to keep the story out of traditional media (who often held off on it to allow those rags to buy it), and put it in a publication that would discredit it by running it alongside absurd fiction.
In the internet age, motivated researchers---sometimes highly qualified people like retired scientists and professors or otherwise smart people---investigate those stories that were made to look absurd or like "conspiracy theory" with detailed analysis. Not all their conclusions are correct because stories with large gaps are challenging to arrange, and resources are often limited. But the result is that far more people understand that horrifying things have gone on in their country that were kept out of the news and history books. This has led to heightened awareness of what is likely going to prove to be an existential conflict that will engulf the world soon.
Better music, yes. I have been working out of a café which has a stereo system that plays contemporary music. Some of it is upbeat and innocuous. Some of it is horrid sad music which I refer to as "music to slit your throat by" because it seems nearly suicidal in it angst. But when I need to concentrate, the headphones go on and the music becomes what I choose. Lately the third and fourth movements of Ludwig von's 9th, especially when reciting prayers.
Beautifully written, and your words well-capture the experiences of many of us, who are trying to make sense of a world that no longer makes sense.
Thank you for the Yupik concept: Kunlangeta.
Modern society has created a great many of them. Globally.
That needs to change.
Thanks Mathew! I have been pivoting between anger, despair and hope for months now. I know being stuck in the first two is not healthy. The third option is not realistic. Dammit.
Crichton didn’t just quote “Gell-Mann amnesia”, he invented it, and the entire speech from which it is excerpted here is worth reading, and then laminating and carrying about with you. https://www.docdroid.net/4wgVecr/why-speculate-michael-crichton-pdf
My first time here. Fascinating and comforting to know there are more humans cutting through the matrix than I thought fifteen years ago. Yes, pushing the Kunlangeta off the ice is quite an attractive resolution.
So true.
"The old game of burying true stories (bought as "exclusives", then enforced by vicious cadres of lawyers) of horror about the rich and famous in rags like the National Enquirer or the Weekly World News next to a picture of bulbous-headed space-farers kidnapping and anal probing children to create negative associations no longer cuts it. Armies of empty nesters with file cabinets full of newspaper clippings spill their guts on webpages just crude enough that you trust that the goal wasn't to impress you with graphic design. The knowledge hobbyists began to turn the tide by eliminating anal swabs from the story."
Don't understand a word of it. Just saying
True stories of psychopathic/sociopathic behavior by leaders and celebrities were, in the past, purchased as exclusives by these kinds of rags. It's called "catch and release" and was explained to me by a lawyer for such a magazine years ago. The goal is to keep the story out of traditional media (who often held off on it to allow those rags to buy it), and put it in a publication that would discredit it by running it alongside absurd fiction.
In the internet age, motivated researchers---sometimes highly qualified people like retired scientists and professors or otherwise smart people---investigate those stories that were made to look absurd or like "conspiracy theory" with detailed analysis. Not all their conclusions are correct because stories with large gaps are challenging to arrange, and resources are often limited. But the result is that far more people understand that horrifying things have gone on in their country that were kept out of the news and history books. This has led to heightened awareness of what is likely going to prove to be an existential conflict that will engulf the world soon.
I used to like magazines like Weekly World News when I was a kid.
Now the MSM is the new Weekly World News, mostly fiction but on the contrary it's not entertaining nor fascinating.
It's the game theory of propaganda.
https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/flooding-the-zone-with-lies
Thanks. Now I understand.
Yer so funny.
Did you forget a: ;) ?
Better music, yes. I have been working out of a café which has a stereo system that plays contemporary music. Some of it is upbeat and innocuous. Some of it is horrid sad music which I refer to as "music to slit your throat by" because it seems nearly suicidal in it angst. But when I need to concentrate, the headphones go on and the music becomes what I choose. Lately the third and fourth movements of Ludwig von's 9th, especially when reciting prayers.
I'm very glad I read this. The map gets clearer, and I'm here with good company! Your link at https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/updates-and-interviews sent me here.