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There are reasons why I have blocked you out of my life. Right now, I am facing the consequences of your actions. Your paranoia about a disease that has been statistically proven to kill fewer people than heart disease per year has nearly destroyed my business that is twenty-four years in the making. That’s more than half my life. You, who attained higher degrees at great cost yet have not been able to do what I managed out of determination, originality, and sheer chutzpah now sit back, demanding the eternal shutdown so you and your loved ones can obtain the communist welfare utopia you think you want.
I did my best to keep my irritation at bay, but when your derangement over a legally-elected president exploded into its latest virulent form, I had no choice but to bring down the hammer of judgement. You are, quite literally, ruining my life right now. Like many Americans, I was just beginning to see a bit of financial prosperity when you cut the economy’s legs off with shutdowns and then riots.
To understand how we got here, I want to go on a journey into your psychology, a thing that you have almost no understanding of despite your general pretenses of being book-smart and expensive psychotherapist addiction.
Once upon a time, there was a senator from Vermont who rose to recognition on waves of the middle class economic frustration. He was axed in a tragicomedy of high-grade corruption so obvious a third grader could have figured out the storyline. The result of this cheating was the election of a charismatic Caesar, which if you knew anything of history, you would know is a common event during the decline of Empire. If you weren’t so mentally damaged, you might also know this outcome is better for you and the class to which you aspire than the alternative, which is mass bloodshed and beheadings of a fossilized elite a la Robespierre.
You operate exactly like a person under a malign spell. You still have not gotten over the results of an election nearly four years in the past. Please let that sink in. There has been plenty of time to sit back and reflect why your party lost and even more time to cultivate ways to do better by potential voters. Instead of doing this, you have thrown a multi-year tantrum that began with lumpy pink hats. The excuse at that time was sexual harassment of girls and women. Part of the first #metoo phase was to pretend you are a witch and throw bad intentions at the alleged misogynist patriarchy; this summed up the zeitgeist adequately. Your karmic punishment for these bad intentions is a blubbering, senile pedophile you’ve cruelly thrust into the debate chair.
The next phase of manufactured outrage was Russian collusion. Projecting your own shadow, you cried about espionage and electronic manipulation. Boy, did you get your rear end handed to you on that one.
After that, it was masks. You’re still in this phase. The mask is at once a virtue signal and the grown-up’s version of a binky: a sad, dilapidated totem that symbolically shields its wearer from being perceived as politically conservative. That’s why you want everyone to wear the mask; just like you would like us to believe there are more than twenty people who want to vote for your demented presidential candidate, you want to enforce the appearance of political hegemony among people who have no interest in backing your party. Holding the entire economy hostage isn’t enough. Having the entire mainstream media in your pocket isn’t enough. Since cable viewership is down, you have discovered you cannot force your way into the public consciousness via the television screen and its ads. Only a person under an evil spell would be horrified by this, and horrified you are. You would have George Orwell’s 1984 without envisioning the consequences, and because you are deeply afflicted, you have bankrupted yourself intellectually out of lust of result.
Like the aforementioned French 18th century elite, you are losing your heads due to an acute lack of self-analysis.
Your final, desperate act is to play the race card. To do this, you have enlisted an infantry of white, college-educated liberal women and their pathetic, ineffectual male cuckolds. Behind them, yanking the puppet strings, are viciously racist blacks, Latinos, and Asians, cheering on the disintegration of the working classes as business districts are torched. Like you, the riots are motivated by a fundamental disconnect from reality. Large corporations that benefit from times of unrest are unscathed when one or two of their stores are burned to the ground; small businesses are not. You bleat about systemic cruelty, yet wasn’t it you I saw on Instagram modeling stretch pants or fashionable new Amazon.com outfit/toy? Wasn’t your new item made via slave labor in the Third World? You live in a segregated neighborhood, whether it is all white and Asian, all black, or all Latino. I don’t. My lower middle class neighborhood is mixed, just like my own racial make-up. You are voting for the party that put more blacks in jail than any other party, yet this is somehow about police cruelty, not the institutions that control the levers of law enforcement. Once again, you piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining.
I have blocked you because you are no longer sane. I hope this is a temporary condition, but I have no problem if it is permanent. You need me more than I need you. You need businesses like mine so the economy isn’t completely given over to the large corporations you claim to be taking to task. You need my mental stability and my willingness to stand against tyrants. “By their fruits ye shall know them.” You, who say you are brave, manifest the opposite of bravery in every deed and word. You have thrown me under the bus, and in doing so, you have become the despised tyrant. You are not the victim. You are the perpetrator. This time, it's personal. Sayonara.
Awfls and illness
(Anonymous) 2020-06-25 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)They are also shrinking their world into a precious few. I escape censure since I discuss squirrels and the squirrel planet and Admiral Nut. They think I am crazy. I am sane.
I do believe that they had hidden mental illness that Trump triggered. After that, the entities that feed off anger and rage went to town. They opened the gate, and in the entities came. Now, for mental hygiene, separation from them is critical.
Meanwhile, the squirrels provide spiritual support for me. I do believe i was one in a part life.
Neptune's Dolphins.
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As you already know, I think their karma is coming for them with a vengeance. I believe this will mean potential premature death, if not for them, within their families (because they wished so much death on others), life being super-messed up because their slogan was "F You", and their appeals for mercy being ignored and snubbed just as they ignored the working class for the last forty or so years. They generally don't know how to be scrappy and expect others, often the State, to take care of their needs, so they are in for a rough ride. That's why I have been distancing myself.
I love squirrels! I am pretty sure I was a goose at least once. And I have been a cat many times.
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(Anonymous) 2020-06-26 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)What I have seen is cognitive dissonance in spades. One says that she does not hate Trump. How dare I even suggest that she is. Well, considering how she is consumed by him and his family... to the point of hexing them.
The other thing is the Republicans are the evil minions of Satan, and will be destroyed. It is the othering of people who voted for Trump.
After all, the awfls must be virtuous at all times. What they are are blatant narcissists. Look at me, I am banning a racist from my feed! Look at me, I wear a mask! Look at me, how noble I am! Look at me, how I suffered for myself!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUnOy64FHFY
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(Anonymous) 2020-06-27 02:46 am (UTC)(link)I dropped Faceplant shortly after the 2016 election and life has only gotten simpler and better. More time to read Ecosophia and blogs like yours and Violets. Keep up the good work and try not to expect too much of the average person. Much less disappointment that way.
Gawain
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(Anonymous) 2020-06-27 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)And yes, you are right. Every single one of them is on a cocktail of drugs, legal or otherwise, to paper over the depression and anxiety caused by their allegiance to a destructive and nihilistic world view.
Don't worry, there are plenty of us who think the way you do, and I daresay we are the majority.
B
PS I hope you are looking into alternative ways of connecting to clients for your business. Lots of ways to teach music with a good enough camera and an internet connection.
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Their nihilism and depression is off the charts at this point. There may be quite a few of them committing suicide if Trump wins again.
I also think we are the majority. Our side is non-violent and I would have it remain that way. Sadly violence is the only language they understand, hence the riots. I think we should always maintain the high ground. One of the big reasons they're losing is their decision to sink to the lowest level of scum, whether we are talking looting stores, normalizing pedophilia, or the kind of rhetoric one finds on CNN and CSNBC.
Thanks for the thoughts on business. I've been doing lots of online lessons and it is working out. They're a cool alternative.
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(Anonymous) 2020-06-28 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)My condo neighbor is a musician who has no work since the closing of nightclubs, etc. He has a few students and have tried to doing you-tube performances. But it is such a tough gig for him. I can emphasize with your business crashing.
What I have noticed with the AWFLs I deal with is that they are passive/ aggressive. If it means slacktivism, they are on it. If it means waving a few signs or dressing as Handmaidens, they are for it. If it means donating money... they are suddenly poor as church mice. If it means doing actual work, they are too ill to leave the couch. On social media, fire away!
Depression and nihilism are secondary emotions. The primary one is grief. How do deal with the death of the dream.
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Yes. Slacktivism is de rigueur among the AWFL set. I wish they could realize how crappy the dream of Progress was in the first place, with its abandonment of our beautiful, living Earth for the cold, cruel vacuum of space.