Open Post

[kimberlysteele]

Woot! My first ever Open Post. Please feel free to comment on anything and everything. Thank you for not using profanity.

Comments

[ari_ormstunga]

I hope things get better for you this year. I don't comment much but I enjoy your blog. Despite the lockdowns, I have begun to feel more liberated in an odd way. The more the media tells me to live in fear, the more determined I am to make the most out of whatever amount of life I have left to live. This feeling of bravery has spread into other areas of my life; this past year I have had an existence I never would have thought possible, and I have discovered hidden depths within myself. I am grateful for 2020 despite all of the tribulations and anxiety, and I am going into 2021 a new and fearsome thing.

[kimberlysteele]

I love this! Thank you -- I'm determined to muscle through. I am a fiery person by nature and as I get older, I get braver. I'm glad other people are waking up out of the stupor of cowardice. With each soul awakened to their own inner courage, the rest of us are reignited with strength.

Effectively what the Chinese Communist Party has attempted to do is to cast a great curse upon the US (and the rest of the world). The CCP wasn't doing well when Trump got in, so its strategy was to undermine and corrupt the American system via two million spies and with compromised political clans like the Bidens, the Podestas, and the Clintons. COVID was just another hex. The CCP does not consider blowback, as is evidenced by their decision to cut the vital energy of their country in half with the Three Gorges Dam. Their strategy is to poison, to curse, and to hex. They race to the bottom, enslaving their own people in hideous and cruel factories and sending marginalized groups like the Uyghurs and Falun Gong into labor camps. The CCP always counts upon the docility of their citizens to face the consequences of their actions for them like good little foot soldiers.

The best countermeasure to their curses and hexes is not to throw them a hefty dose of their own medicine, but to build upon our own strengths. I am going to try to save a local restaurant business by starting a club there. I am going to complete my book Sacred Homemaking, which I think will help a lot of people understand spirit of place in the way I understand it. I am brave. The luxury communists have made a grave mistake in trying to stop me from living a free life. They don't have my vast reserves of will power, though they mistake their passionate hatred for will most of the time.

[ari_ormstunga]

I'm looking forward to checking out your sacred homemaking book! I hope that China, and the social architects who have created all this misery, reap what they have sown. One thing that has struck me, especially as I've disconnected more and more from our cultural zeitgeist, is how illusory all of it really is. Withdraw from the cultural hallucination, and you have great freedom to create a life full of meaning and purpose. It is my feeling that the elites think this is the great power move that will ensure their dominance forever, when history will show that it is the high tide moment right before their wave crests and rolls back out. I guess we shall see!

[kimberlysteele]

If they want prosperity for their nation long term, they're certainly going about it the wrong way. Everyone talks about China having a great "long game" because their leaders are so infinitely patient. I'd like to take a moment to debunk that theory. The Chinese are already in catabolic collapse, which is a sophisticated term for "they're in the phase where they are cannibalizing themselves". The attempt to wreck everyone's life via COVID was an act of cannibalism: it was the nation-state equivalent of throwing a tantrum and breaking all the toys when you know you are starting to lose the game. China is overbuilt. They have squandered their resources. China is extremely coal-dependent and hell bent on completing the industrialization that was accelerated by Mao in the fifties. They want their technospheric world domination and they want it NOW, that's what this COVID thing is all about, but even if the US was willing to hand them the reins, Peak Energy would beg to differ. We're at the end of globalism, not the beginning. They can start all the world wars they want, it won't make the era of cheap & easy fossil fuels return. As for the US, the best thing we can do for ourselves is to localize our businesses as much as possible, try to get the farmer's markets going again, weatherize the living crap out of our houses (actually apartments are the most fuel-efficient arrangement), and generally remain calm.