I showed a short video called "The Madness of a Lost Society" to students in 2010. It's one of those Black Friday specials showing herds of people maniacally going after $10 toasters and $49 microwave ovens. My guilty pleasure is I love watching those videos.
Even more interesting to me and my students is analyzing not only why people act like crazed wildebeests on Black Friday, but how they can be trained to do so. An interesting concept to think about is sales resistance. It is difficult to sell stuff. I struggle mightily to sell exam services online. Selling is hard. People say 'no' in many different ways. However, on Black Friday, there is no resistance. It's as if someone has surgically come in and removed the Sales Resistance Gene from their brains.
Here is "The Madness of a Lost Society" part 3. Apparently SGT Report made another version. It's one of those short documentaries that makes you wonder how long the Fake America can last. With a nation filled with people like this, what will happen when things go wrong?
This will be my version of a message you'll get numerous times this season. My take is a bit different, as I'm coming to you from Academia and the School Business. I, and we, need to be grateful. There is a lot of nonsense, tomfoolery and arrogance out there, and it's time to stop it and be grateful. I take particular aim at college 'students' who are the most spoiled, arrogant pukes this side of the universe. They need to stop complaining and be grateful.
Vox Day has been de-platformed from just about all of the major platforms. So he created his own video service, his own publishing house, and he's about to launch his own social network. I will join it.
In an interview on UNZ.com, he explained his exploits. Unbelievably, the commenters on the UNZ article, instead of cheering him on for destroying the hateful, intolerant and disgusting SJW Progressives, went after him and bit at his ankles. It was unbelievable. I commented on it as well, as you see below.
ZMAN concisely shows the absurdity of those who Rule Over Us:
"One of the puzzles to the impeachment stuff is why certain elements of the ruling class think this is a productive use of their time. The impeachment show put on by the Democrats last week struck most people as boring and weird. It was mostly a parade of people with funny sounding names babbling about inside baseball. There’s also the fact that the guy appointed to be the master of ceremonies gives people the creeps. Adam Schiff looks like frog peeping through the ice. He is a very odd man.
The bigger issue is no one seems to know what the crime is at the heart of this alleged scandal. We live in an age where the President bombs countries, overthrows governments and sends troops onto foreign soil whenever he likes. Demanding information in exchange for cash hardly seems important. The claim by the outrage mob is that it would have been perfectly fine for Trump to bomb Kiev or overthrow the government, but he crossed the line demanding they investigate criminality."
And there you have it. Bombs, air raids, death, overthrow and destruction are ok. An innocuous phone call is grounds for impeachment. We are truly in Clown World. The Fake America we're in has become a farce.
4GW means "4th Generation Warfare. As These United States bicker and fight, egged on by our clueless Overlords, the 4th Generation Warfare concepts and strategies come into play. This will not be your History Channel type of conflict. Van Creveld is not an intellectual lightweight. He is a spectacular historian and strategist.
The Ruling Class in the Washington DC bubble are not only out of touch, they have contempt for the Regular People. Anyone reading this, regardless of your beliefs, is seen as cattle to our rulers. It's that bad. The Trump Impeachment Circus is the Ruling Class playing with fire, and Lind correctly surmises that they have no idea what they're playing with.
The article is here, and I recommend it as a Red Pill, or a Black Pill - depends upon your current mindset.
The article ends with this:
"That electoral map, the one that shows the results of the 2016 election by county, has significant military meaning. The blue votes are concentrated in cities, which cannot feed themselves. As Chairman Mao said, “Take the countryside and the cities will fall.” Nor can they be supplied from the sea, because most of the people in the military are Trump supporters, which means the red side will get most of the ships and planes. The military problem is really quite simple, and need involve virtually no shooting or destruction. You just put the cities under siege and wait for the starving people to come out. It won’t take long.
The message to Washington is clear and direct: if President Trump is driven from office by anything other than a loss in the 2020 election (if he runs), the legitimacy of the state will be brought into question. That is a dangerous business that politicians of both parties would be wise to avoid. After all, they will be the first people hanged from the nearest lamppost if widespread 4GW comes here. An impeachment that leads to the checkpoints going up all over rural America is a very bad idea."
The Electoral Map referred to is below. Look at it and think about Trump getting impeached. It won't be pretty.
Lessons from The Odyssey, Book XII. Scylla and Charybdis
Odysseus talking to Circe. Kirke - Kirk - Circe Church (controller of a flock of animals.
"Three times in the day does she vomit forth her waters, and three times she sucks them down again; see that you be not there when she is sucking, for if you are, Neptune himself could not save you; you must hug the Scylla side and drive ship by as fast as you can, for you had better lose six men than your whole crew.'
"'Is there no way,' said I, 'of escaping Charybdis, and at the same time keeping Scylla off when she is trying to harm my men?' *
Here is one of the lessons we cover. Odysseus wants there to be a third choice. There often isn't a third choice. No one will offer you one, do you have to choose between a bad choice and a worse choice. This is a LIFE lesson. The Odyssey is filled with them. I cover 3 of there here in this Video Lesson.
1) Three times in the day does she vomit forth her waters, and three times she sucks them down again; see that you be not there when she is sucking, for if you are, Neptune himself could not save you; you must hug the Scylla side and drive ship by as fast as you can, for you had better lose six men than your whole crew.'
"'Is there no way,' said I, 'of escaping Charybdis, and at the same time keeping Scylla off when she is trying to harm my men?'*
"'You dare-devil,' replied the goddess, you are always wanting to fight somebody or something; you will not let yourself be beaten even by the immortals. For Scylla is not mortal; moreover she is savage, extreme, rude, cruel and invincible. There is no help for it; your best chance will be to get by her as fast as ever you can, for if you dawdle about her rock while you are putting on your armour, she may catch you with a second cast of her six heads, and snap up another half dozen of your men; so drive your ship past her at full speed, and roar out lustily to Crataiis who is Scylla's dam, bad luck to her; she will then stop her from making a second raid upon you.
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2) "Immediately after we had got past the island I saw a great wave from which spray was rising, and I heard a loud roaring sound. The men were so frightened that they loosed hold of their oars, for the whole sea resounded with the rushing of the waters, but the ship stayed where it was, for the men had left off rowing. I went round, therefore, and exhorted them man by man not to lose heart.
"'My friends,' said I, 'this is not the first time that we have been in danger, and we are in nothing like so bad a case as when the Cyclops shut us up in his cave; nevertheless, my courage and wise counsel saved us then, and we shall live to look back on all this as well. Now, therefore, let us all do as I say, trust in Jove and row on with might and main. As for you, coxswain, these are your orders; attend to them, for the ship is in your hands; turn her head away from these steaming rapids and hug the rock, or she will give you the slip and be over yonder before you know where you are, and you will be the death of us.'
"So they did as I told them; but I said nothing about the awful monster Scylla, for I knew the men would not on rowing if I did, but would huddle together in the hold.In one thing only did I disobey Circe's strict instructions- I put on my armour. Then seizing two strong spears I took my stand on the ship Is bows, for it was there that I expected first to see the monster of the rock, who was to do my men so much harm; but I could not make her out anywhere, though I strained my eyes with looking the gloomy rock all over and over
"Then we entered the Straits in great fear of mind, for on the one hand was Scylla, and on the other dread Charybdis kept sucking up the salt water. As she vomited it up, it was like the water in a cauldron when it is boiling over upon a great fire, and the spray reached the top of the rocks on either side. When she began to suck again, we could see the water all inside whirling round and round, and it made a deafening sound as it broke against the rocks. We could see the bottom of the whirlpool all black with sand and mud, and the men were at their wit's ends for fear.
While we were taken up with this, and were expecting each moment to be our last, Scylla pounced down suddenly upon us and snatched up my six best men. I was looking at once after both ship and men, and in a moment I saw their hands and feet ever so high above me, struggling in the air as Scylla was carrying them off, and I heard them call out my name in one last despairing cry. As a fisherman, seated, spear in hand, upon some jutting rock throws bait into the water to deceive the poor little fishes, and spears them with the ox's horn with which his spear is shod, throwing them gasping on to the land as he catches them one by one- even so did Scylla land these panting creatures on her rock and munch them up at the mouth of her den, while they screamed and stretched out their hands to me in their mortal agony. This was the most sickening sight that I saw throughout all my voyages."
There comes a time when it is time to tell the truth, to talk about things the way they are. Oftentimes, particularly these days in America, people talk not only in a strange SJW code, but also only about approved topics. In this video essay, I discuss instances where the reaction to spoken words or topics have caused serious reactions.
These events are spoken of through the lens of our Overlords' behavior in recent years. For reasons unknown, our Keepers of the Narrative are OK with protecting serial molesters, warmongering politicians, liars, and peddlers of ignorance. When someone who has never gotten a speeding ticket (me) is kicked off Twitter, or a big shot like Owen Benjamin, who has never hurt anyone, is denied all Social Media, one must wonder about the power of Calling Things By Their RIght Name.
I urge you to do that. Truth is powerful. Young people love honesty. If you wish to have a legacy, be known as someone who is honest and speaks the truth. It will set you apart.
Facebook will violate every aspect of your privacy, both for profit, and for nefarious, Deep State related motivations. They need you on Facebook. A document dump shows how awful this company is. I'm planning on dropping my seldom read, business FB page next month. My personal FB page was deleted a year ago.
If "they" need FB to use your information, and you don't like that - don't use Facebook. Makes sense to me.
Here are some of the key revelations from the document dump, including from reports published from earlier leaks:
While the rest of the world, in this case China and Turkey, are doing this:
The first freight train to make its way from China to Europe has passed through the Turkish capital. The China Railway Express is also called the "Iron Silk Road." It's part of Beijing's far-reaching 'Belt and Road' infrastructure project. China aims to use the train to transport goods across the two continents in less than two weeks. Shamim Chowdhury travelled to Ankara to meet it. #SilkRoad#BeltandRoadInitiative#China
The United States is working on this:
San Francisco is the heart of the Progressive Experiment, and much of America looks to it as a bellwether introducing the next chapter of the American Story. What is important to you, or to your country, or to your overlords? I look at the action - not the rhetoric.
G. E. D. Report #36 - Bad People Don't do Good Things - Corporate Media Edition
The Epstein Affair may never be closed. However, it's good to see how your Corporate Media Overlords behave. Because Project Veritas exposed ABC news as a completely fraudulent organization, useful knowledge is right in front of you. The Corporate Media was willing to protect power, in this case a man who ran point for a young woman molestation ring, to the point of burying a story that fell into their lap.
The reaction to watch (as it is the reaction that is always more valuable), is that ABC and CBS teamed up to find the whistleblower and get that person fired. Think about that. Ms. Robach was told her story lacked credibility and importance, and ABC did nothing. When their bad behavior was exposed, all of a sudden they want to do due diligence and root out a whistleblower. Suddenly they want to ... be journalists and put in work. Unbelievable. Bad people don't do good things. They'll do bad things all the time, and Corporate Media has been completely exposed.
If you follow any corporate media source, or take them seriously - you're idiotic and naive.
I did a post and an email about the restored 1918 Junior Classics the other week. There were some people who didn't understand what I was talking about. One woman even unsubscribed from my email list in frustration. "I don't understand why I'm getting these emails and I don't understand what they're about." That's a direct quote from a mother of one of my students who not only volunteered to get put on the email list, but wrote her address personally by hand.
But I digress.
What I am trying to tell those of you who see what is happening, is that there is a backlash against the Great Dumbing Down of American schoolchildren. This fundraiser for Colliers Junior Classics wanted to raise $28,000. It has reached almost $400,000 and there are 3 days to go.
This set of books replaces the difficult to read and pro-western culture pieces that were taken out beginning in the post WWII era. Why and who took them out is the subject of a huge discussion, with many books to read - on your part. The two best books on this are John Taylor Gatto's The Underground History of American Education and The Iron Curtain Over America by John Beaty. Gatto's book changed everything for me.
You can skip the history lessons and get yourself and your children up to speed not only by getting exam and English Literacy prep at my site, but also by reading the literature that forged the rigid, monumental, and airtight intellects of the past.
I don't make money from this fundraiser - I'm a contributor. I find these events amazing as we've been told so many nonsensical things about the education and school in the past it isn't even funny. It's good to see the Dirt People (that's us) rise up again and feed ourselves a hearty meal of intellectual nutrition.
My SUPA Presentational Speaking class is giving Informational Presentations. I went first. "How to Fix YOUR Education" was my presentation to the class. While I am not comfortable with how it sounded or looked, this recording has given me insight as to how I can improve future presentations.
I used the first part of the presentation to explain the origins of school, then I went into the 14 points of Education that the Private Boarding Schools to educate our Overlords. Thanks to John Taylor Gatto, Jonathan Hickman, and Aaron Glazer for presenting me with this information 12 years ago.
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I gave a short presentation, "Why School is Broken and How We Can Fix it Free". Google video edited it into a short video. It's valuable to see how you look when you're presenting, so you get a better view of what to fix, and how to improve your body language.
I'll upload the entire presentation later today. I don't like how I look or sound, but part of the learning process is to deal with things the way they are, not the way we wish them to be.
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I subscribed to GaryNorth.com for 5 years. It taught me a lot and changed my life. While that sounds dramatic, it's true. I learned about libertarian economics, the free market, and politics. North has been around the block a few thousand times, and he shares his knowledge with everyone. He shared the choice bits of information with his subscribers. North was Ron Paul's staff economist - back in the mid 1970's. After a short stint in DC, he became a newsletter writer, columnist, and keeper of the Freedom Torch.
I have followed in his footsteps.
This interview about homeschooling with Ron Paul is worth your time. Dr. Paul is one of the few politicians I listen to. He understands the origins of public schooling, as well as its real purpose. I didn't know anything about any of this until I came across John Taylor Gatto's work and Gary North.
I gave a presentation today to both of my senior classes. I presented an informational, 8-minute talk on school, its origins, and how to fix it.
In the class, the students must rate the speaker and the presentation overall. I got pretty good marks. I also had someone record the presentation, so I could see how I look in real life. I didn’t give myself good marks for that. If you ever want to suffer, force yourself to watch your own presentation. I look like a poorly trained used car salesman, and I sound even worse.
The feedback the students gave me was useful, both for my online side projects, but also for letting me know what piqued their curiosity.
Many students were shocked to learn that:
· School was not created in America. It was birthed in Germany.
· The reason for creating school was to teach Germans to follow orders.
· It takes 15,000 hours to complete your K-12 schooling.
· Literacy in early America was around 97%- and the standards were higher then.
· The Private Boarding schools that produce our leaders follow a very different program.
Because I had only 8 minutes to work with, I wasn’t able to go deeper, but the classes were receptive and, naturally, appreciative of learning. A few even wrote in their evaluations that they had many questions after hearing what I had told them.
This reaction of curiosity is the key. I’ve talked to adults about this and they recoil in anger and frustration. It’s almost as if I had personally insulted them. Usually they call me names (Conspiracy Theorist being the most popular), then they run away.
My belief is that there is hope and salvation when someone is interested in odd, or unorthodox information – and wants to know more.
I never thought I would write this, but perhaps we should act more like teenagers.
James O'Keefe may be the most important journalist of this generation. I think he is. He isn't afraid to show that the Epstein affair is deeper, sleazier and more dangerous than before.
O'Keefe isn't afraid to release incredible findings like this one.
A sitting congresswoman retweeted the information that is now out, that Corporate Media crushed the Epstein story. Powerful people allowed a serial rapist / pedophile loose because..... they wanted it. Then, incredibly, a sitting congresswoman, AOC, unretweeted the post!
Someone very powerful must not want the information out, or at least for her to retweet it. I guess all of that 'girl power' and 'hashtag me too' stuff is for the proles.
Someday the archeologists will look back on these days and wonder what the hell was going on.
The seniors and I have talked a lot about the ‘next step’. They are anxious about going to college – mainly the huge cost that is associated with it. As usual with young people, the time cost of four years isn’t the problem, it’s the monetary cost.
They feel that they are under immense pressure, and I think they’re right.
A few times a week, they ask me what can they do if they don’t go to college. That’s a difficult question to answer because the people who have managed to do well for themselves without a degree usually get into a niche where no one cares about a university diploma. Many have ported their career / job onto the internet, and done ok.
It’s difficult having this conversation because pressure comes from many directions.
I use my second career teaching online as an example of thinking about options. Coming from the pre-www generation, I have taken what I do and moved it to the Web. My latest $19 SAT Verbal class is here:
If you think that’s a shameless plug for my class, you’re right.
But the benefit of showing teens that I am trying to make a go of an old profession that is running out of runway, teaching, and putting it somewhere else and going digital, is that they can use their more dynamic imaginations and do the same.
The combination of grant money, internships, online income, and IRL (ask your child) income should at least alleviate the rough financial road ahead. If a high school senior can take pieces of advice from us and carve a manageable life path from it, the gratification of navigating that struggle will be priceless.
I don’t envy high school seniors today. I think they have a tougher time of it. We should all try to help using 2019 era suggestions, not 1989 era suggestions.
ZMAN: "Way back in the before times, when terms like “multiculturalism” had not escaped the academy, it was assumed that science and math were immune from the politicization that was ongoing in fields like history. After all, history is about storytelling, while math is about getting the right answer. Surely the right answer fields would not succumb to the growing lunacy on the Left, with regards to race, sex and ethnicity. Yet, here we are in the current year and the Left has declared a fatwa against math."
This is simply the result of the vapors taking over the barking at the moon fanatics who run our institutions. The problem with their Radical Egalitarian philosophy is that now Science! and evidence has blown up their worldview, so they must now tear down the world.
It's easy to see how this ends, and who will get hurt the most.
