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kimberlysteeleWhen Indiana Department of Children’s Services family case manager Valerie Washington interviewed Latoya Ammons in the hospital in the Spring of 2012, Ammons’s seven year old son started growling with his teeth showing and his eyes rolled to the whites before strangling his nine year old brother. Adults had to pry his hands off his brother’s neck. Later that night, in front of DCS Case Manager Washington and registered nurse Willie Lee Walker, the nine year old sported a “weird grin” as he glided backward up a wall to the ceiling. He then flipped over his grandmother, landing on his feet.
When classic demonic possession reaches its acute phase, the victim often displays supernatural abilities such as uncanny physical strength, the ability to speak obscure languages, levitation, unnatural flexibility, insensitivity to pain, and clairvoyance. The demon flamboyantly showcases its power as the host struggles deep in the background, locked in a hidden prison of the subconscious. The host recedes as the demon pulls out all the stops in its hostile takeover.
The trouble with this sort of success is that there is only so much a fragile host body can take, and the huge amount of blowback generated from constant stunts grinds strained gears until shutdown is a preeminent risk.
Canceller becomes Cancellee
In the US, leftist cancel culture peaked in 2013. Barack Obama won his second term and The Weinstein Company was pumping out film projects featuring Oprah and Stephen Colbert and winning Cannes awards. Meanwhile, in less glamorous settings, a still-relevant Facebook was bubbling with glee over the cancellation of Paula Deen for using a racial slur.
The true driver of leftist hatred, classism, was hidden modestly under heavy veils. None dared imagine a future outside of the clutches of the liberal elites who still controlled entertainment, news, medicine, and education. Those who spoke against the leftist narrative of political correctness had the luck of a bloody steak thrown into a tank full of piranhas. Occupy Wall Street was deflated and mocked for its Millennial whininess, and atheists Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Neil DeGrasse-Tyson still hoped to surf the wake of Christopher Hitchens’s death.
2014 brought GamerGate, when leftist women trying to shoehorn themselves into video game culture got cancelled by tribes of young, angry men. By the end of 2015, Trump was president, and with him, the curtain was raised on over forty years of overclass prestidigitation, embezzlement, cheating, and arbitrage. The cancellers got cancelled. They could dish it, but they just couldn’t take it. A human being of indeterminate gender in a pricey green windbreaker screamed NO! into the sky and was immortalized as a meme. Another was unfairly captured in a moment of unflattering, neck-bulging emotion as The Triggered Feminist despite her calm demeanor during a protest.
It still took worldwide lockdowns perpetuated by nihilist scientists and morbidly bored Karens to red pill the average “essential” worker and his recently unemployed/underemployed lower class counterpart. Hollywood hypocrisy in the form of doofus actors singing the worst possible song at the worst possible time put the idea into Joe Average’s head that perhaps we are not all in this together, and perhaps it was finally time to admit publicly that one had voted for Trump and planned to do so again.
Parasite's Dilemma
In an alleged response to the murder of a presumed innocent, the Left was responsible for riots that killed innocents, including children. Their looting and vandalism spree was literally anti-Christ, befouling and destroying statues of a loving God and his holy Mother with the feeble excuse that Jesus was portrayed with the wrong skin color. Fiery, apocalyptic, months-long mass tantrums were enabled by leftist media, governors, and mayors as cities burned and businesses that were just beginning to get to their feet again were reduced to broken glass and ashes.
If There Be Trolls
There is a point in many video games, whether played solo or with many others online, where it is easy to become a troll. To become a troll, you do things you’re “not supposed” to do, such as kill the character you are supposed to save, torch the area you are supposed to canvas for treasure, or in the case of Grand Theft Auto V, Second Life, or DayZ, utilize programming hacks to virtually “rape” other people’s avatars. If you thought “Oh for heaven’s sake, if you are getting raped in any online game, just put down the controller, TURN OFF THE COMPUTER, and go outside,” you were not alone. Nevertheless, gamer trolls exist and have existed long before games went online.
Trolling is the last resort of a bully who is losing at the larger games of life and consequently wants to exert total domination in the small games where he still can do damage.
The demons of the Left have won many battles and yet the war remains out of reach. The extreme antics of hate cults like Antifa and BLM have not been enough to lend an air of legitimacy; in fact, the opposite effect has occurred. Tearing down statues, a grotesque show of demonic power, only resulted in the masses becoming curious at what the Democratic Party was so desperate to hide about its own pockmarked anti-black history. Attempting to ban free speech and gun ownership made both seem more appealing, like when Tipper Gore took it upon herself to slap warning stickers on 2 Live Crew CDs in the 1980s. The last of the feverish devotees of the Left champion mask enforcement in a pathetic bid to muzzle anyone who would appear to disagree with their restrictions in the public arena. Leftists who lack the brawn or the vigor to snuff out human lives and destroy property via riots are being commandeered into the neo-Pravda campaign. The physically weak ones are easily shepherded into crusades of enforced mask-wearing, shuttered restaurants, abandoned stadiums, emptied factories, mandatory vaccinations, and eternal welfare for all. Like the demons behind the fever dream of 80s Conservative Satanic Panic, the demons of the Left never suspected they could lose...
In my next and final post on this subject, I’ll be discussing strategies to keep oneself sane and clean of demonic influence, whether that is from leftists or elsewhere. Thank you for reading this post. I welcome your comments and I thank you in advance for not using profanity.
When classic demonic possession reaches its acute phase, the victim often displays supernatural abilities such as uncanny physical strength, the ability to speak obscure languages, levitation, unnatural flexibility, insensitivity to pain, and clairvoyance. The demon flamboyantly showcases its power as the host struggles deep in the background, locked in a hidden prison of the subconscious. The host recedes as the demon pulls out all the stops in its hostile takeover.
The trouble with this sort of success is that there is only so much a fragile host body can take, and the huge amount of blowback generated from constant stunts grinds strained gears until shutdown is a preeminent risk.
Canceller becomes Cancellee
In the US, leftist cancel culture peaked in 2013. Barack Obama won his second term and The Weinstein Company was pumping out film projects featuring Oprah and Stephen Colbert and winning Cannes awards. Meanwhile, in less glamorous settings, a still-relevant Facebook was bubbling with glee over the cancellation of Paula Deen for using a racial slur.
The true driver of leftist hatred, classism, was hidden modestly under heavy veils. None dared imagine a future outside of the clutches of the liberal elites who still controlled entertainment, news, medicine, and education. Those who spoke against the leftist narrative of political correctness had the luck of a bloody steak thrown into a tank full of piranhas. Occupy Wall Street was deflated and mocked for its Millennial whininess, and atheists Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Neil DeGrasse-Tyson still hoped to surf the wake of Christopher Hitchens’s death.
2014 brought GamerGate, when leftist women trying to shoehorn themselves into video game culture got cancelled by tribes of young, angry men. By the end of 2015, Trump was president, and with him, the curtain was raised on over forty years of overclass prestidigitation, embezzlement, cheating, and arbitrage. The cancellers got cancelled. They could dish it, but they just couldn’t take it. A human being of indeterminate gender in a pricey green windbreaker screamed NO! into the sky and was immortalized as a meme. Another was unfairly captured in a moment of unflattering, neck-bulging emotion as The Triggered Feminist despite her calm demeanor during a protest.
It still took worldwide lockdowns perpetuated by nihilist scientists and morbidly bored Karens to red pill the average “essential” worker and his recently unemployed/underemployed lower class counterpart. Hollywood hypocrisy in the form of doofus actors singing the worst possible song at the worst possible time put the idea into Joe Average’s head that perhaps we are not all in this together, and perhaps it was finally time to admit publicly that one had voted for Trump and planned to do so again.
Parasite's Dilemma
Blowback accumulated over many years was hitting the Left in waves at this time. Impeachment backfired, Biden was caught doing to a young woman what Trump only bragged about, and Black Lives Matter quickly revealed itself as a depraved and violently racist murder cult. The demons of the Left had no choice but to unleash the hounds of hell. Desperate stunts serve as distracting fronts. Rioting may be the language of the unheard but it is also the language of demons who don’t want anyone to realize the host is nearly used up. A dead host is like a toppled wall to a mammoth colony of English ivy: it’s not usable.
The parasite is giving the host a good thrashing, beating it within an inch of its life before it attempts the jump to new and better hosts.
In an alleged response to the murder of a presumed innocent, the Left was responsible for riots that killed innocents, including children. Their looting and vandalism spree was literally anti-Christ, befouling and destroying statues of a loving God and his holy Mother with the feeble excuse that Jesus was portrayed with the wrong skin color. Fiery, apocalyptic, months-long mass tantrums were enabled by leftist media, governors, and mayors as cities burned and businesses that were just beginning to get to their feet again were reduced to broken glass and ashes.
Confused leftists spun their wheels in several “autonomous” zones in leftist-controlled cities, splattering their makeshift fortresses with obscene depictions of penises and copious uses of a word that rhymes with duck.
Leftists became consumed by large and small energy loops of their own making, returning to their folly like a dog to its vomit and subject to the law of ever-diminishing returns. Each time the same part of the closed loop of shock and control tactics was passed, the dopamine rush was slightly less satisfying, and it was certainly a faint shadow of its 2013 potency.
If There Be Trolls
There is a point in many video games, whether played solo or with many others online, where it is easy to become a troll. To become a troll, you do things you’re “not supposed” to do, such as kill the character you are supposed to save, torch the area you are supposed to canvas for treasure, or in the case of Grand Theft Auto V, Second Life, or DayZ, utilize programming hacks to virtually “rape” other people’s avatars. If you thought “Oh for heaven’s sake, if you are getting raped in any online game, just put down the controller, TURN OFF THE COMPUTER, and go outside,” you were not alone. Nevertheless, gamer trolls exist and have existed long before games went online.
Trolling is the last resort of a bully who is losing at the larger games of life and consequently wants to exert total domination in the small games where he still can do damage.
The demons of the Left have won many battles and yet the war remains out of reach. The extreme antics of hate cults like Antifa and BLM have not been enough to lend an air of legitimacy; in fact, the opposite effect has occurred. Tearing down statues, a grotesque show of demonic power, only resulted in the masses becoming curious at what the Democratic Party was so desperate to hide about its own pockmarked anti-black history. Attempting to ban free speech and gun ownership made both seem more appealing, like when Tipper Gore took it upon herself to slap warning stickers on 2 Live Crew CDs in the 1980s. The last of the feverish devotees of the Left champion mask enforcement in a pathetic bid to muzzle anyone who would appear to disagree with their restrictions in the public arena. Leftists who lack the brawn or the vigor to snuff out human lives and destroy property via riots are being commandeered into the neo-Pravda campaign. The physically weak ones are easily shepherded into crusades of enforced mask-wearing, shuttered restaurants, abandoned stadiums, emptied factories, mandatory vaccinations, and eternal welfare for all. Like the demons behind the fever dream of 80s Conservative Satanic Panic, the demons of the Left never suspected they could lose...
In my next and final post on this subject, I’ll be discussing strategies to keep oneself sane and clean of demonic influence, whether that is from leftists or elsewhere. Thank you for reading this post. I welcome your comments and I thank you in advance for not using profanity.
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Date: 2020-07-22 05:30 pm (UTC)"The physically weak ones are easily shepherded into crusades of enforced mask-wearing, shuttered restaurants, abandoned stadiums, emptied factories, mandatory vaccinations" - Denying science, and denying the deaths this virus has caused, is irrational.
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Date: 2020-07-22 07:37 pm (UTC)As for your opinion on arbitrary, manufactured "science" as well as death tolls that were wildly inflated to serve a political agenda, it is obviously my opinion that you are very wrong.
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Date: 2020-07-22 10:56 pm (UTC)A lot of the canceling was aimed at journalist outfits as well, after an article proclaiming "Gamers are dead, gamers don't have to be your audience, game developers." In response to this insult to the long time fans who supported these institutions, a large boycott campaign occurred against the sponsors of those journalist sites.
As you can imagine, this would not predispose the journalists to report favorably or charitably on the goings on.
And yes, there were also trolls doing terrible things, on all sides. It was a giant mess with no innocent sides.
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Date: 2020-07-23 02:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-25 03:42 am (UTC)The so-called "game designer" in question is Zoe Quinn, who seems to me, from all I have researched on the matter, to be a sociopath and pathological liar, known to have slept around with a number of actual game designers and gaming "journalists" as a means of gaining social clout within the gaming media community. She came to be known as an overall source of drama and negativity. And the "game" she made was some glorified text adventure with still pictures; a projecting requiring a very rudimentary level of programming competency, to put it lightly. And this game,'Depression Quest', got raving reviews on one of the gaming publication websites; the "article" being authored by one of the men she allegedly slept with. A good number of actual game designers and game enthusiasts were pissed off by this clear conflict of interest and a blatant violation of meriotcratic values. And of course when Quinn got exposed, she played the typical feminist victim card and labelled all her detractors as "misogynists" and hateful sexist bigots and whatnot. This woman proved herself to be the typical unscrupulous crybully that's so common among the woke left of this era.
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Date: 2020-07-22 08:46 pm (UTC)xoxo K (kayleigh)
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Date: 2020-07-22 09:27 pm (UTC)https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/photo-appears-show-black-lives-matter-supporters-holding-kneeling-neck-white-baby/
I hope that poor child is OK and is taken away from the parent who allowed that event to happen.
At this point, I'm blocking anyone even loosely affiliated with BLM. I don't want to be anywhere near that organization; it strikes me as distinctly demonic.
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Date: 2020-07-23 01:09 am (UTC)But hey... if his dad's family is halfway decent, that photoshoot might be the best thing that ever happened to the kid-- looks like mom's not allowed to see him now except for supervised visitation. So there's that.
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Date: 2020-07-23 01:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-22 11:47 pm (UTC)1. They list an arrest record for the alleged purpetrator
2. The arrest record is for a black man picked up on a parole violation
3. The man in the picture isn't black
4. The article claims that the child was sexually assaulted
5. The only evidence for this was a screenshot of a facebook comment saying "I heard the kid was sexually assaulted."
The picture is foul. The reporting is a whole different kind of foul.
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Date: 2020-07-23 01:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-22 11:44 pm (UTC)Is it happening that way? I know that it is impossible to believe what journalists say in this time period, and that their reporting cannot be taken as written in any situation. However, we do have the fact that polling numbers don't bear out this read of today.
If this read were the case I would suppose that publicly expressed support and opposition would not be in the places they are currently, unless I am missing something.
I still see a lot of apologia from people in my life for the violence and the erasure of history. I still see a lot of fervor that only by burning everything to the ground can a new "better" future be made. I don't see a lot of people stopping to question, not until they are the ones who get bitten, but there is as much chance that they cow under the pressure and internalize it as wake up from the nightmare. Even once they have a glimmering from a harsh personal incident, they get distracted by "trump puts kids in concentration camps" or "trump literally caused COVID-19" or "trump literally is sending gestapo to kidnap innocent people never to be seen again" and then it's gone.
This can't come soon enough. I feel like I'm watching 3 different Fort Sumter incidents happen at the same time in different states.
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Date: 2020-07-24 02:53 am (UTC)On the other hand, in the two working-class establishments where I normally shop for groceries, almost nobody has been wearing masks. Walmart this week got orders from corporate HQ that everyone had to wear masks to be allowed in the store now. This has been... interesting. The greeters at the door explain. Some people comply. Some wear masks until they get inside and then remove them, and some just ignore the admonition and walk in without one. There is a distinct lack of enthusiasm for enforcement on the employee side. HQ mandates they wear masks on the job, but a lot of them are dangling from one ear. Perhaps they did not specify that it must cover the face... and they don't get paid enough to be bothered.
Meanwhile, the Piggly Wiggly is a franchise that gives individual store-owners a lot of leeway in how they run their stores. Corporate sets the basic rules about pricing, but local store-owners make decisions about inventory (every PW I've been to has a lot of local variation in what they stock). In my local PW, mask-wearing seems entirely up to the individual, whether they are customer or employee. The store has installed the mandatory plexiglass shields at the registers. They initially had the one-way tape markings on the floor, but all the customers ignored them, and now most of them have peeled off and not been replaced. Mask-wearing there is down to maybe 10% of people.
Definitely, now is the time to be agitating for the return of neighborhood schools. You don't have to push back against the "virus virus virus" hysteria. It should be leveraged to get concessions that people want. I would love to see people saying "Hey, if funneling three thousand kids together from all over town is an infection control nightmare, give us back our much-safer system of smaller schools, attended by the kids who live nearby, so we're not spreading our germs over half the county via a single middle or high school. Instead, what the PMCs are actually pushing for here (and people have not realized yet) is the complete abolition of schools as we know them: we are testing right now, the concept of mass distance-learning. Why have a teacher for every 30 kids, when you could have one teacher per grade for the whole state? Maybe just a set of pre-recorded education video units? Project them onto a screen, assign a low-paid paraprofessional to monitor the classroom, and you can quietly eliminate thousands of teaching jobs. What's bizarre is that the teachers' unions don't seem to have caught on. They're making all kinds of demands, setting all these crazy conditions for teachers to go back to work, because OMG COVID, and meanwhile those teachers' jobs are being automated away.
I'm not even a fan of schools-- I homeschool my own kids. But that's not everyone's cup of tea, and I firmly believe that if you have to have a school, a small neighborhood school is generally safer and more accountable to its constituents than the gigantic mega-school where every kid is lost in the throng and admin can only care about statistical averages. Meanwhile, for those who will be duped out of schools entirely, and their kids stuck with online "education" at home... I want to see the masses organizing to demand the return of their property taxes, so they can contract their own teachers, buy their own curricula, or at least sign their kids up for higher-quality distance-learning. I mean, the homeschool community has been developing online classes for years now. If we're going to force a huge number of kids to school-from-home anyway, why shouldn't they have access to the same high-quality already-developed programs homeschoolers have been using for years?
The loss of small businesses during the lockdown... while huge stores like WM and Target got to be "essential"... I see that as a future source of pitchforks and torches. Small businesses were already suffocating under an absurd regulatory load. Now: how many just got a death-blow? If this were a place where opening a new shop were easy, it'd be hardly a blip on the radar-- we'd see a million new ventures sprout as soon as it was legal to have customers again! Instead what we'll get is vastly shrunk options and a sharp uptick in untaxable, cash-only shadetree type businesses. I predict a renewed push for the cashless economy.
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Date: 2020-07-24 04:54 am (UTC)People move to the suburbs for one reason: the schools. Online schooling can happen anywhere and as you mentioned, homeschoolers have already been doing it for years, so of course they have better and more time-tested curricula. Suddenly, everyone living in 4.5 bedroom cathedral ceiling heat sink specials with a homeowner's association that doesn't allow you to choose how you use your house and yard are in a real bind. James Howard Kunstler nailed it: they live in an arrangement without a future.
Before this all happened, most of the overbuilt suburbs were glutted with half-empty strip malls and half-empty office parks alongside abandoned, dying ghost malls with one or no anchor stores left. And still nobody can open a small business in these places because commercial rents are ridiculous, not to mention the crazy and expensive bureaucratic hoops one must jump through to get started and remain in business. My commercial rent in a dilapidated strip mall in a not-great section of a shi shi suburb is three times my house payment, and that includes tax & title.
I'll be interested in seeing what happens when gas prices inevitably spike. Demand destruction has made them artificially low, but as Oilman2 mentioned on JMG's Open Post, there isn't a whole lot of new digging going on and that's going to spell trouble down the road. My small business almost didn't survive and the situation is still precarious. I have been so pissed about it, I wrote my own screed about it that I've had no trouble losing long time friends over. The overreaction and the masks have nearly cost me my livelihood. I think I'll muddle through because I'm scrappy, but I get so TIRED of the lack of responsibility these people take for feeding the Nothingburger Flu Wendigo -- none of this would have gone down this way if they had kept their heads on straight.
My question is: When is it their turn to understand why you don't take a naive, sneering "let them eat cake" attitude because they are the ones in the bread lines? Does it have to come to a head where we have to make riot-enabling mayors and Emperor-governors walk a plank or a guillotine march? If I had a hundred bucks for every moronic Facebook toxic feminist vegan I have blocked for their Marxist BLM and Antifa bootlicking and elitist cluelessness, I'd be extremely rich. It's laughable how they virtue signal from their comfortable apartments and houses, suggesting that everyone just order food delivery and that any reason not to wear a mask is an excuse. I ordered food delivery one time during this thing to help out a struggling restaurant owner I happen to like. Cost me $45 for a light lunch. And they wonder why people who are poorer than I hate them so much.
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Date: 2020-07-24 03:50 pm (UTC)On line screed from a woman in Arlington, VA. A well-off PMC screamed in caps that her live-in boyfriend has to teach at an hybrid school. She said that they were all going to die since he was going to bring the virus home with him.
I thought it was beyond bizzare since where I live next to the railroad tracks, everyone just figures they will cope with whatever comes. No one has reliable internet connection, and so they end up trying to teach their kids themselves. It has been a struggle.
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Date: 2020-07-24 05:53 pm (UTC)I just published an essay minutes ago listing some of my thoughts on schooling in the Coronapocalypse. https://kimberlysteele.dreamwidth.org/7
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As for the Arlington, VA PMC, I'm sorry to admit that I'll be guilty of schadenfreude when her class finally feels the sting of actual inconvenience and poverty as a result of their current arrogance.
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Date: 2020-07-25 08:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-26 02:42 am (UTC)Try surfing to http://kimberlysteele.dreamwidth.org
It's the first and most recent post that will show.
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Date: 2020-07-25 12:34 am (UTC)I have an exemption, but that doesn't stop people from stopping me on the streets to scream at me. I wonder how long it'll be before there's a catastrophic explosion of rage and frustration at all of this...
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Date: 2020-07-25 02:48 am (UTC)I have long said that the mask is a virtue signal that's a transparent attempt to subjugate the wearer in the appearance of leftist hegemony. They force us all to wear it because it gives them the appearance of winning.
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Date: 2020-07-24 04:06 am (UTC)Comment
Date: 2020-07-23 12:33 am (UTC)Raymond Reichelt
Re: Comment
Date: 2020-07-23 01:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-23 01:40 am (UTC)Thanks for your comment on my essay. My hope is to insert some ideas into the leftward end of politics that will stimulate self-reflection and help to avoid hypocrisy. Though I'm not sure I would want my name attached to it if it were to really go viral...
I must say I haven't seen the level of darkness or demon influence in the left that you have described in your essays. I actually went to our largest local BLM protest, in which 2000 people showed up out of a town of 50,000. Mostly it served as an opportunity for white people to listen to black people speak about what it feels like to be black in this town, to get pulled over often and assumed to be driving a stolen car, to be generally ignored in a way that makes them feel unwelcome. The whole thing had a positive vibe, and the end result will be some scrutiny of our local policing practices which strikes me as a good thing.
In my spirituality, everything that we do in the physical has a corresponding spiritual dimension, and so it makes sense that those who are focused on hate would attract astral beings that feed on hate or who actively encourage it. I'm not sure I'm convinced that those beings are in control though. To me, there is a certain banality of evil, where some of the worst things that humans do to each other happen not because of outright evil intent but because of apathy - because we can convince ourselves that some axes of oppression matter and others don't matter or don't really exist, or that some people matter and others don't.
Invisible Axes of Oppression: How Neoliberal Social Justice is Gaslighting America
Date: 2020-07-23 02:13 am (UTC)BLM is at its worst in or near large cities, I think. I'm not far from Chicago and here, it got violent. Not that Chicago wasn't violent to begin with, but in Naperville a rioter stabbed a young man. Rioters bombed police cars, and in Naperville and Aurora, rioters trashed store fronts and vandalized and looted shops for the period of a week back in May.
We see things in a similar fashion -- one of my main issues with Christianity is the disconnect from living the Word. In the worst cases of demonic possession or obsession, there is always a choice to walk away and to be a better person than you were yesterday, if only by the slightest amount. And as far as demons controlling the Left, as I always say, I COULD BE WRONG. Their behavior seems awfully fishy to me though, it's robotic as if they're running a series of programs through a demented interface. Could it be demons? Sure. Could it be regular human nonsense? Absolutely. Could it be a bit of both? For sure.
Re: Invisible Axes of Oppression: How Neoliberal Social Justice is Gaslighting America
Date: 2020-07-23 05:57 am (UTC)I would not be at all surprised if some real demons - or at least somewhat malefic lower astral beings - were involved, but the distortion on the left feels to me more like what JMG would call an egregore - a destructive groupthink that arises from conscious and unconscious repression both of other people and of aspects of self.
Like Many Trolls...
Date: 2020-07-23 02:19 am (UTC)Yes, this site logs your IP address.
What a screed! You're the exact version of the Luke Crywalker meme I referenced in the article. Your rabid ad hominem tirades won't find publication here.
Best of luck being heard elsewhere. You might want to try not screaming.
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Date: 2020-07-23 02:21 am (UTC)This post dovetails nicely with a series of tweets arguing our contemporary Cancel Culture is fallout from 2008, and its cynical failure of justice. Somebody, somewhere had to be scapegoated to deal with the miscarriage of public justice, and Cancel Culture perfectly shunted away the anger...from the Managerial class's POV.
"Human sacrifice is extremely Lindy".
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Date: 2020-07-23 02:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-23 05:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-23 06:48 am (UTC)'Lindy' things are ideas, concepts, or technology which have been around for ages and can therefore be expected to be around for ages in the future.
There is some math behind the idea (alas, the math is beyond my ability to explain) which suggests that however long a concept has been in use is the amount of time you can expect it to be in use in the future. (It's an argument about probabilities which I do not understand!)
As people age, every year we get older is a year less ahead of us, but as technologies age, every extra year they are in use suggests another year that they will be in use. So bicycles have been around a few hundred years, so we can expect we'll still be using them in a few hundred years. Books have been around a few thousand years, so we can expect we'll still be using them in a few thousand years. But many novel technologies which have only been around a decade or so will probably disappear in a decade or so (RIP the fax!).
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Date: 2020-07-23 01:51 pm (UTC)Oh, beigeshiba is also a member of the extended JMG communitariat, on the rightward side.
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Date: 2020-07-23 04:31 pm (UTC)You know what's funny is that JMG and his commentariat are probably all considered the rightward side, yet JMG's views are about as middle ground, old school liberal (you do you and I'll do me, any changes in law must be as gentle and gradual as a baby laxative) as it gets. But because the Left has decided to swing towards the Mao and Stalin end of things, JMG is most likely considered far right from their current vantage point.
A thousand "Protesters" show up at Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot's house...
Date: 2020-07-25 02:56 am (UTC)So they're shouting f**k Donald Trump while gyrating and humping the air...
Dr. Freud would have a field day.
(I think they secretly want Trump to be their Big Daddy, and deep down they fantasize about him doing a hell of a lot more than sending them to bed without supper)