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.
