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Post-Impressionism / Suzanne Valadon/ The Blue Room
OK: This will probably cause some pearl-clutching, but theburningplatform.com is a daily read of mine. Probably the finest right-wing whackadoodle site out there short of QAnon. It probably rides the line (and frequently crosses the line) into everything that the left is trying to eradicate from our lives.
But like all whackadoodles, they always put out for display the unpleasant parts of the other side's worldview for ridicule and analysis. Because both right and left have whackadoodle parts of their theologies. After all, trying to force the myriad of belief systems into two opposing camps makes for some pretty big tents and some pretty strange bedfellows.
The reason that I bring TBP up today is one of their more blatantly truthful bits of whackadoodle. They have identified me as an enemy, we can discuss the divide. Now, lets be honest. This is a subset of the right. This is definitely a fringe belief from someone who is running their mouth to get some clicks. But, since the folks he is pitching to are probably getting poorer by the day and getting progressively (HAHAHAHA) more likely to start acting out.
The article is pretty well thought out, despite the unpleasantry it foretells. It is the way that well armed survivalist types will assess the world around them in one of the possible futures facing us.
So that is the uncomfortable part. The world that they envision is not one we prefer, but I can’t for the life of me remember when my desires had any effect on the nature of the world that landed on me. There is a worrisome trend here in the US (and worldwide for that matter) over the past forty years of rich folk getting richer and impoverishing and immiserating the less fortunate to do so.
The news media doesn’t really show the day to day. They like idolizing rich folks because they pay the bills. They like their disasters big so that they can get folks to tune in and watch other peoples misery in a closed ecosystem so that the misery appears to be transient. The news media is in the entertainment business and they realize saleable product. More importantly they know where their checks come from. The media is class conscious. They are bourgeois first and foremost and their loyalty to the boogies is unquestioned.
So you have to go out trolling the whackadoodle sites. This is where the people who are deemed surplus to a failing economy and don’t understand how the world is a’ changin’ go. Since I have a sneaking hunch that they will be the majority soon in an putative democracy I think that, unpleasant as it is and despite any “triggers” that you will have pulled, it is an important part of living in the here and now.
Ya see, you have to always take the time to hear things. All things. Even if you don’t think that they are true. Because sometimes the truth comes out in the oddest ways. Examples of this are rife in your life, mine today came in a e-mail conversation about numbers and atonal music and š¯˛¹ and math and meaning. 17 might just be onto something. From Chesterson’s “Orthodoxy”
The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues.. . and the virtues wander more wildly, and the virtues do more terrible damage. The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. Thus some humanitarians only care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful.
WHEN FINDING FRIENDS IS IMPOSSIBLE, MILITIAS CAN HELP
Date: 2021-02-28 07:18 pm (UTC)Maybe did not occur to the author Llpoh, that the 65 million Americans who get SS checks, have paid into the system for their entire working life. Thus, when he threatens the income of 65 million Americans, he is relying on 65 million people to be kindhearted and not eliminate him and his big mouth on the spot - just like they would a violent thief who announces his intention while pounding on the front door.
The problem with the internet, is it makes people delusional. This author seems to imagine himself in a war wandering around looking for friends. He will not have far to wander given his big yapper.
Perhaps there should be a militia branch of AARP. The social mission would be to give old men something to do, and the military mission would be to address the problem of people like the author.
Out of 30 million old men who rely on SS, many are veterans, many are hunters, many are crazy, and probably more than half do not care if they die tomorrow; so, my point is that, realistically, the authorā€™s militia is not big enough for his grand plans.
Good advice for Llpoh would be 1) more time on the monkey bars, and 2) less time on the keyboard. When assembling a militia, it is not a good idea to warn the 65 million people you plan to attack until you are really ready to go ā€“ and that includes clearing it with your wife.
Whackadoodle
Date: 2021-02-28 08:01 pm (UTC)I consider his telling me that I am a three-times enemy to be quite courteous. The police and the military (who he has also defined as enemies) probably appreciate the heads up as well.
I think that keeping an eye on fuckballs like llpoh is a great means of taking the temperature and monitoring overall mental health. From my daily bath of whackadoodles at TBP, I am getting the idea that the temperature us going up.
Remember, these folks have guns and they vote. There bear close watching in order to stay out of range.
A PLEA TO WOMEN
Date: 2021-02-28 09:15 pm (UTC)I would ask women everywhere, please do not make fun of men like Llpoh. A simple no will do; we need less patriots today, not more.