Our generation, or rather, generations, are really suffering the most under this information tyranny frontal assault. We're old enough, and lucid enough, to feel the sharp barbed edge of this disgusting madness in all it's horror. I'm sure some older folks just resign themselves to "the world is going to Hell in a handcart!", and thank their lucky stars knowing they won't live long enough to see the worst of it, hopefully.
The younger people, even if intelligent and somewhat thoughtful, don't even understand what is happening, in part, because they were born in the insane asylum, and don't even know there is a place outside of it. Institutionalized minds, trapped in an ideological prison with invisible bars, no windows, and no doors, to the outside world.
But Us?
Born free, allowed to "question authority" (Geez, remember when that was part of the popular lexicon? Seems like an eternity ago!), or be intellectually curious. I can still remember, being encouraged to be intellectual curious. But now? Sit down, shut up, do what you are told; Or better, figure out what you will be told, and do it before the command of execution is even uttered. I swear to God that I had more freedom in Marine Corps bootcamp, than the average college student/peon enjoys today. We were told that "even if you are wrong, do it with authority". Now, being "wrong" is a death knell.
If you stuck your head out of the window, today, and yelled "I'm as mad as Hell, and I'm not going to take it any longer!", instead of joining you, have of your neighbors would think you insane, and the other half would call the police, claiming you had wounded them in some abstract way.
So, since we aren't young enough to be blind, or old enough to be looking forward to shedding this mortal coil, we are being driven stark raving mad, watching the world that we knew (as fucked up as it was) mutated and twisted into this hell scape bastardization of insanity, stupidity, blind obedience, and tyrannical big brother, with the help of your nosy neighbors, rat snitching on one another like an episode of "Oz".
At times, it's some twisted combination of being in an episode of "The Twilight Zone", directed by David Lynch while on an endless acid trip mixed with angel dust, or the worst horror movie you've ever seen, whereby the plot advances by every character making the dumbest possible decision, at every single juncture, without fail, creating an ever larger and more violent ripple effect of chaos mixed with insanity, and the soundtrack is 1,000 little girls screaming at the top of the lungs forever, times infinity!
Never before in my entire life did I come to the conclusion that perhaps, the Amish, are the olny people on the planet with any sense, or that we should have looked past the letter bombs, and taken Ted Kaczynski's manifesto more seriously.
The world is so insane, that it lends credence to the theory that we live in a hologram, and that at some point in the recent past, the game manager "died suddenly", and the code is spiraling into abstract nonsense and data loops, rendering our world into a version of Hell befitting the movie "Event Horizon".
For those of us that are still sane, can actually remember a somewhat decent world, and refuse to become sheeple, maybe we need to form a break away society and shut-out the outside world like some undiscovered tribe in the amazon, because watching the world turned inside out, and stood on it's head, is just about as frustrating as watching a bunch of half dressed teenagers run back into the serial killers house, because one of them forgot their cell phone!
Seriously, though, we need a code word, or a secret handshake, or a lapel pin, to designate us, as the ones who have yet to be replaced with a body snatcher replicant, rather than risk hearing that horrible shriek alarm, when we mistake a monster for actual human being.
One thing I AM SURE OF, Helen of desTroy is one of us, and not one of them!
The article has a link ("wrong pronouns") that goes to a story about a professor who wouldn't use a trans student's pronouns, gets reprimanded, but then sues and wins a $400K settlement.
Financial advice to the ever growing ranks of impoverished adjuncts: Call a trans student the wrong pronoun and then take 'em to the cleaners!
The “white supremacy hate crime bill” is nothing compared to the IHRA’s definition of antisemitism. It’s THE template for censorship. Talk about an anti-free-speech cudgel! 30 states have now adopted the supposedly “non-legally binding definition” in some form or other. Yeah, right, “non-legally binding” was how the anti-BDS laws got their start.
(IHRA = International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance)
• Calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing or harming of Jews in the name of a radical ideology or an extremist view of religion.
• Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as collective — such as, especially but not exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy or of Jews controlling the media, economy, government or other societal institutions.
• Accusing Jews as a people of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing committed by a single Jewish person or group, or even for acts committed by non-Jews.
• Denying the fact, scope, mechanisms (e.g. gas chambers) or intentionality of the genocide of the Jewish people at the hands of National Socialist Germany and its supporters and accomplices during World War II (the Holocaust).
• Accusing the Jews as a people, or Israel as a state, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust.
• Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jews worldwide, than to the interests of their own nations.
• Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.
• Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.
• Using the symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism (e.g., claims of Jews killing Jesus or blood libel) to characterize Israel or Israelis.
• Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.
• Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel.
Preach Sister, Preach!!
Our generation, or rather, generations, are really suffering the most under this information tyranny frontal assault. We're old enough, and lucid enough, to feel the sharp barbed edge of this disgusting madness in all it's horror. I'm sure some older folks just resign themselves to "the world is going to Hell in a handcart!", and thank their lucky stars knowing they won't live long enough to see the worst of it, hopefully.
The younger people, even if intelligent and somewhat thoughtful, don't even understand what is happening, in part, because they were born in the insane asylum, and don't even know there is a place outside of it. Institutionalized minds, trapped in an ideological prison with invisible bars, no windows, and no doors, to the outside world.
But Us?
Born free, allowed to "question authority" (Geez, remember when that was part of the popular lexicon? Seems like an eternity ago!), or be intellectually curious. I can still remember, being encouraged to be intellectual curious. But now? Sit down, shut up, do what you are told; Or better, figure out what you will be told, and do it before the command of execution is even uttered. I swear to God that I had more freedom in Marine Corps bootcamp, than the average college student/peon enjoys today. We were told that "even if you are wrong, do it with authority". Now, being "wrong" is a death knell.
If you stuck your head out of the window, today, and yelled "I'm as mad as Hell, and I'm not going to take it any longer!", instead of joining you, have of your neighbors would think you insane, and the other half would call the police, claiming you had wounded them in some abstract way.
So, since we aren't young enough to be blind, or old enough to be looking forward to shedding this mortal coil, we are being driven stark raving mad, watching the world that we knew (as fucked up as it was) mutated and twisted into this hell scape bastardization of insanity, stupidity, blind obedience, and tyrannical big brother, with the help of your nosy neighbors, rat snitching on one another like an episode of "Oz".
At times, it's some twisted combination of being in an episode of "The Twilight Zone", directed by David Lynch while on an endless acid trip mixed with angel dust, or the worst horror movie you've ever seen, whereby the plot advances by every character making the dumbest possible decision, at every single juncture, without fail, creating an ever larger and more violent ripple effect of chaos mixed with insanity, and the soundtrack is 1,000 little girls screaming at the top of the lungs forever, times infinity!
Never before in my entire life did I come to the conclusion that perhaps, the Amish, are the olny people on the planet with any sense, or that we should have looked past the letter bombs, and taken Ted Kaczynski's manifesto more seriously.
The world is so insane, that it lends credence to the theory that we live in a hologram, and that at some point in the recent past, the game manager "died suddenly", and the code is spiraling into abstract nonsense and data loops, rendering our world into a version of Hell befitting the movie "Event Horizon".
For those of us that are still sane, can actually remember a somewhat decent world, and refuse to become sheeple, maybe we need to form a break away society and shut-out the outside world like some undiscovered tribe in the amazon, because watching the world turned inside out, and stood on it's head, is just about as frustrating as watching a bunch of half dressed teenagers run back into the serial killers house, because one of them forgot their cell phone!
Seriously, though, we need a code word, or a secret handshake, or a lapel pin, to designate us, as the ones who have yet to be replaced with a body snatcher replicant, rather than risk hearing that horrible shriek alarm, when we mistake a monster for actual human being.
One thing I AM SURE OF, Helen of desTroy is one of us, and not one of them!
Cheers humans, and death to the replicants!
The article has a link ("wrong pronouns") that goes to a story about a professor who wouldn't use a trans student's pronouns, gets reprimanded, but then sues and wins a $400K settlement.
Financial advice to the ever growing ranks of impoverished adjuncts: Call a trans student the wrong pronoun and then take 'em to the cleaners!
The “white supremacy hate crime bill” is nothing compared to the IHRA’s definition of antisemitism. It’s THE template for censorship. Talk about an anti-free-speech cudgel! 30 states have now adopted the supposedly “non-legally binding definition” in some form or other. Yeah, right, “non-legally binding” was how the anti-BDS laws got their start.
(IHRA = International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance)
• Calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing or harming of Jews in the name of a radical ideology or an extremist view of religion.
• Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as collective — such as, especially but not exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy or of Jews controlling the media, economy, government or other societal institutions.
• Accusing Jews as a people of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing committed by a single Jewish person or group, or even for acts committed by non-Jews.
• Denying the fact, scope, mechanisms (e.g. gas chambers) or intentionality of the genocide of the Jewish people at the hands of National Socialist Germany and its supporters and accomplices during World War II (the Holocaust).
• Accusing the Jews as a people, or Israel as a state, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust.
• Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jews worldwide, than to the interests of their own nations.
• Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.
• Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.
• Using the symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism (e.g., claims of Jews killing Jesus or blood libel) to characterize Israel or Israelis.
• Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.
• Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel.