The Occult Symbolism of COVID Masks
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My sister is a nurse in Texas. She had covid. These bull***t denier post don't help a single person. They do hurt many and possibly kill some. My sister is on the front line and paying the the price. I hope all you loud mouth cowards contract covid. Karma is a beautiful thing. If you do contract it and while you are coughing up your lungs while s***ing your petty brains out...please reread all your posts. A***oles.
This post is an absolute study in ignorance and making s*** up. Bravo!! 👏🏼👏🏼
All bull***t excuses. Every. Single. One.
Yes, they are sad things, but not one of them is a reason for not masking up.
If you don't want to wear a mask, stay out of stores. And if you can't wear one for the 20 minutes you need to be in a store, then seek mental help, and in the meantime, order curbside or delivery.
This is absurd, just STFU. Yes, I do shame people who don't wear masks, because f*** you selfish a***oles. This looks like something a Trump worshipper would post, in addition to a few other posts of yours in the last couple of months. Bye Felicia!!
The above comments were sent in an attempt to force me to take down a meme I posted on social media. The meme explained to the devout mask wearer that certain people cannot wear masks because of breathing issues, sensory issues, or certain types of PTSD. These responses reveal a commonplace yet disproportionate rage. All of the above commenters are leftist former friends of mine who seek to control my thoughts and behavior via shaming.
The COVID mask does not serve its most obvious function, which is preventing suspended droplets of COVID-loaded bodily fluids from finding a contagious human target. COVID is endemic. I'm not going to explain what this means, because I am sure if you are reading this paragraph, you are already aware of how an endemic disease is the viral equivalent of wallpaper.
For those who wish to harass me like the examples above, I will warn you now that your entreaties won't be published here, so you will do best to take it elsewhere. Comments are fully moderated by me, filtered for profanity, and this site gathers the IP addresses of all who comment, whether I choose to publish them or not.
What I want to talk about is the non-physical aspects of masks and what they represent in the group subconscious. I want to peel back the layers of bluster and tough guy posturing to reveal the working guts. I want to talk about the real reasons behind the unhinged, hateful comments I received for posting an innocuous meme.
Hegemony
"We Are All In This Together" bellow the ad sloganeers. Yet who benefitted politically from the shutdowns? Which classes and types of people reaped the most benefits from a stop to all but "essential" labor? The answer: the middle and the upper classes and their aspirants. Anyone who questioned the shutdowns, like the April 16 protestors at the Michigan capitol building who wanted to go back to work, was shamed and ridiculed. Unmasked rioters like the ones who drove a UHaul to loot luxury stores in Chicago last weekend, however, have been cheered on by Black Lives Matter. We were clearly never all in this together, nevertheless, the pro-mask people figured out they could enforce the appearance of successful groupthink even though the reality was far different. That's why all those who wear masks wish to force mask-wearing on everyone else. A mask wearer's unconscious statement proclaims that he or she is benefitting from the policies designed to give us all an artificial boundary of safety -- the mask, distancing, and shutdowns -- that have all been repeatedly revealed as ineffective shams in stopping a mostly non-lethal, endemic disease. We Will All Appear To Be In This Together Whether You Agree Or Not.
Fear and paranoia have quickly turned 2020 into a lost year for funerals, weddings, graduations, concerts, and games. Whether it was the opportunity to hold your dying child's or grandpa's hand as they left this incarnation or to harmonize in a church singalong to raise money for the less fortunate, those who were paranoid about a disease with a less than 3% fatality rate cancelled it. The coddled, fearful, obedient believers helicopter-parented us all without our consent.
The mask is a muzzle to those who would speak evil or like me, attempt to go deeper into their astral plane meaning rather than examining them from the materialist, scientific standpoint where they have already failed. The mask is an astral plane symbol with a material plane set of rules to accompany it. The mask identifies its wearer as a unit of the hive mind, like a badge, armband, or special tattoo. Those who do not comply will be shamed, cancelled, forced to die outside castle walls. I am reminded of threats from Christians, "You had better repent your sins to God or you will burn in eternal Hell." Narcissistic, abusive God loves you though!
Isolation
The mask and distancing that goes with it erects an astral plane barrier to prevent potential dissenters from communicating with other people. The mask isn't meant to prevent the spread of a virus so much as it is meant to prevent the spread of ideas. Masks are often compared to condoms: only icky, low class, date-rapist skeezeballs refuse to wear them. As usual, wearing one signifies belonging to the middle and upper classes or at least aspiring to belong. In the case of sex, as someone who grew up terrified of accidentally becoming pregnant, I know that abstinence is the only way of doing this between menarche and menopause. For mask-wearers, the ideal of abstinence has its direct parallel in mandatory stay at home orders. If abstinence in the form of complete social isolation for everyone was the goal, they have done a remarkable job of achieving it in the last few months of cancelled gatherings.
The staunchest cheerleaders of mask-wearing and social distancing are natural introverts who fear other people, especially the working poor. For them, social distancing was a welcome respite from being obliged to interact with low class strangers on a daily basis. The mask keeps the dreaded Other far, far away from the fearful and their misanthropy. The mask's double bonus is its function as a talismanic Binky. The feeling of safety that the illusion of a masked face provides is more potent than its value as a face covering. The mask is the molded plastic velociraptor that guards the terrified toddler from the Boogeyman he is certain lives in the bedroom closet. The mask is the mark of lamb's blood on the doorframe to drive away the angel of death. The mask is the hottest trend in superstition.
Speaking of death, you'll notice that one my detractors in the opening comments heartily wished it upon me and everyone who thinks like I do, which is a practice I do not reciprocate because nowadays I have an appreciation of the kind of karmic retribution it brings. The paranoia around COVID arises from the imbalanced fear of death that remains unexamined in our culture. COVID primarily slays the elderly no matter what the mainstream corporate media tries to invent. Instead of taking a cruel to be kind route and helping any elder drowning in their own fluids to an easy death of opium sleep bliss, our society chooses to isolate them in ICU wards while frantically inflating their lungs so they can succumb to the Reaper while exclusively surrounded by "essential" workers, which is to say they will die alone. Meanwhile, nurses and doctors hold corpses aloft while dancing in choreographed Tik Tok routines through mostly empty hospital wards. One might almost dare to think they have plenty of time on their hands.
The end goal of mask enforcers is a permanent government funded welfare state of mandatory shelter in place. In this Marxist welfare utopia, nobody has to work because Progress will deliver the technology in order to feed, shelter, and clothe everyone. The salary class had it the easiest during the shelter in place orders in March and April, and their naive assumption is that such a state of affairs can go on forever just as long as it is applied with a one size fits all brushstroke. This is evidenced in the "order curbside or delivery" comment. This is Marie Antoinette asking why the peasants don't just eat cake. It presumes the restaurant is kept open because of endless government cash, that the home will not be lost to foreclosure or eviction, and that the person living inside has the money to order expensive take out and grocery delivery. Marie Antoinette does not understand that real people live outside Versailles and they must work in order to eat. For the antisocial corporate drone marooned at home with her computers and smart devices, it seems like nobody should be permitted to gather in public ever again because she personally does fine in social isolation. In her mind, nobody needs to go to church or see a movie in a theater because they can have online worship services and Amazon Prime Video. The top-riding Marie Antoinettes of the Coronapocalypse want to create the world of Wall-E with slightly less junk, though it will be the same amount of junk soon with all of the take out containers and Amazon trinket packaging piling up.
Virtue
It is interesting to watch people pretend to hate a situation they brought about out of political necessity. The panic over the current administration lasting four more years is thick. Though I have never revealed my 2016 vote, one commenter above paints me as a Trump supporter with gleeful spite. The people who accuse me of being a Trump lover (I don't honestly give Trump much thought) doth protest too much. I think they secretly love Trump. Their hatred of them belies Freudian sexual turbulence. They sincerely believe they hate him but I think they're more hot and bothered by Trump than simply bothered.
The Left has a pathological need to feel victimized and oppressed. Trump does the job nicely, doesn't he? The revival of The Handmaid's Tale uncovered leftist longing for a Big Daddy Christian takeover that would make liberal women feel as oppressed as authentic victims of religious male oppression, such as Muslim women in Somalia. Leftist women had the gall to uniform themselves in red Handmaid's Tale outfits to protest Trump's locker room banter about grabbing women by their crotches. Meanwhile, the tragedies wrote themselves as trafficking gangs targeted white girls in Britain and Islamists hung gay men on public city walls while Joe Biden had yet to be implicated by Tara Reade. Since they are not personally oppressed, the tormented black, white, and multiracial souls who wear masks must invent their tormentors, whether it's a disease or a president.
Progress, the true religion of the affluent, brought a longed for Apocalypse. Like Progress itself, the Apocalypse in the form of COVID did not live up to expectations and had to undergo much fluffing and stuffing to appear like it was arriving on schedule. Materialist Science's Coronapocalypse, although disappointing, was good enough for mask-wearers who needed to believe in the Narrative. Those like me who don't go along with the Narrative are shunned as Deplorables. Only a Deplorable would reject the Marxist welfare state utopia. Only a Deplorable wouldn't be concerned about what the neighbors think.
Charging Away On Revolving Credit
The reason masks are pushed as the New Normal is a rational fear of accumulated blowback. Just as a twenty-something chases more degrees via grad school in order to delay the first of many inevitable invoices for student loan debt from arriving, the mask-wearer seeks to delay the tipping point when the masses discard the New Normal. Such a reckoning must be avoided at all costs, lest those who were disenfranchised start thinking about whom they should hold accountable for lost time, lost income, and forever lost connections with loved ones.
Though they have their virtues, Millennials are a soft, easily led, placid group with deep reservoirs of entitled rage. Without realizing it, they have pushed the cost of their hysterical rage primarily upon Generation Z, which is at this time too young to marinate in the hatred of their parents' generation. Boomers are already hated by Millennials, but this will pale in comparison to the hatred Generation Z will feel towards Millennials when Generation Z comes into its own. The mask, like pastel rainbow wall art and Netflix binges, is at risk of becoming a Millennial moniker: a symbol for the scaredy-cats who ruined lives because they couldn't admit that their political side was losing for solid reasons. I'm not sure how this will look to the youth who bore the brunt of Coronapocalypse in twenty or thirty years, but I cannot imagine it will be flattering.
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Date: 2020-08-12 08:34 pm (UTC)Since nearly all brain damage that severe kills people without medical interventions, I have a Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order. I thought that one of the big concerns with Covid is that it’ll overwhelm the hospitals, and so we can’t afford to let it spread. I wasn’t expecting to be thanked, but I thought people with DNRs would be ignored. After all, having people have DNRs would make the problem of overwhelmed hospitals a little less severe.
However, as part of the Covid-19 response, where I live, DNRs have lost what little legal force they had. If I’m found unconscious, the paramedics are legally required to try to resuscitate me. If I’m found severely injured, then as soon as I fall unconscious they are still legally required to try, even if I expressly tell them I don’t want it.
The justification given: most people who contract Covid-19 will live if they’re placed on ventilators. This does nothing to address my concern though: I know enough to know that a lot of people who go on ventilators, possibly a majority, will have brain damage ranging from minor through to severe enough that some of them will not be able to resume independent life. This is why I don’t want to be put on one: I don’t want to take that risk.
As a society, we apparently can’t allow anyone to die on their own terms. I’m healthy and in my 20s, and so I don’t think it’ll matter for a while yet, but I’m sure there are plenty of other people who have DNRs for similar reasons but lack my health and youth, and I wonder how many people involved in making the decision to void all DNRs thought of them.
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Date: 2020-08-12 10:15 pm (UTC)American society in particular fetishizes the extension of life at all costs. I was appalled at what one of my own relatives went through on her way out of this incarnation. There were many opportunities to die gently and peacefully that were missed in favor of awful "treatments" that extended the dying process.
COVID revealed how much the American medical system has become a game where patients always lose. It's a profiteering racket, plain and simple, and the goal is to score as many sickies as possible for cash and promotions. The longer the patient suffers, the more points gained. As I have said in posts past, I do not admire doctors or anyone who chooses to go into the medical profession and it takes a great deal more than a title to earn my respect. They are not automatic heroes.
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Date: 2020-08-12 10:48 pm (UTC)https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article244861827.html
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Date: 2020-08-12 11:14 pm (UTC)I've never met anyone who's managed what she had. It was truly remarkable seeing someone who could discuss nearly anything intelligently and had a dozen fascinating hobbies reduced to the mind of a toddler at best.
I saw something similar to what you're talking about with my aunt. She had a heart attack and was found unconscious after who knows how long, and was brought to the hospital. She was hooked up to a ventilator for a week, and when they took her off it was clear she wasn't going to recover. She lacked most basic reflexs, which meant her brain was pretty much destroyed by the however many minutes without oxygen. The doctors wanted to hook her up again, and very nearly did, but my cousin wouldn't have it. She was already dead, and all that hooking her up to the machine again could do would be make her body suffer longer.
Oh, and then the worst part of it all was watching her die, since it was very clear she was in a lot of pain, but no pain medications were being prescribed, since the policy is against it without an assessment for the risks of addiction! I strongly suspect that part of that was the doctor being petty, but I can't prove it.
I also completely get what you mean about the medical industry. I briefly went into speech pathology, but I found the field way too toxic. The goal for most people there does not seem to be to help people, but rather it seems to be to make as much money as possible.
One example is that the regulatory boards here actually forbid you from volunteering your services: someone must pay you the "fair price" for everything. Since the going rate is a six figure salary, this means that if you provide a service at a rate which is anything other usurious, you run the risk of losing your license.
And this is in Canada, which prides itself on having a less destructive healthcare system. I don't know if that's just us engaged in self-righteous preening (which we do a lot of), or if things are really worse in the states, but if you need speech pathology, you have two options: either wait for months for the government provided one, or shell out more money than most people have to get access to a private one.
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Date: 2020-08-12 11:33 pm (UTC)You said: The staunchest cheerleaders of mask-wearing and social distancing are natural introverts who fear other people…
Please don’t blame the current insanity on introverts! We get enough flack as it is, especially with psychology labeling us “neurotic”. We just don’t need as much social interaction as others, and need more time to unwind afterward when we do socialize. It’s true enough that, when I spent seven weeks on lay off during the peak of state shut down this spring, I wasn’t as bothered by it as others, but I did miss going out occasionally with friends. I still haven’t eaten at restaurants yet though they are now open, as my friends are still skittish about eating out.
I might add that it's not only leftists that complain about non-mask wearers, though they are the worst of the lot. I have one friend who is quite conservative in many ways, but she doesn’t eat out yet and also complains about people not wearing masks. Her daughter’s a nurse, so I think that has something to do with her caution. I wear a mask because it’s required at work and in public places. I don’t confront people who don’t wear them, as I don’t think that’s my business. My guess is that my state requires it in order to buffer the panic of those who think everything should SHUT DOWN AGAIN, as we are having another surge of cases. The state government doesn’t want any more damage to businesses though, so thinks of the masks as a compromise. Rural areas and small towns are most likely to ignore mask wearing.
I might add that I read through your series on how the left is demon possessed. I think you are onto something there. I’ve seen some videos on YouTube and the expressions on their faces are definitely from some dark place. After doing a search on “Trump demon possession” I found an article that wonders if it’s true. Go through the links they provide. Just look at the expressions on their faces, and…goodness…the wild look of the screaming, shaved-head woman in that one involving the Trump red hats. And the screaming “Art major”! I think it all proves your point.
Are These Anti-Trumpers Demon-Possessed? [WARNING: graphic content]
https://deplorablefeed.com/are-these-anti-trumpers-demon-possessed/
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Date: 2020-08-13 12:54 am (UTC)https://nutritionfacts.org/video/oxidized-cholesterol-as-a-cause-of-alzheimers-disease/
Of course no diet is bulletproof. I personally noticed significant cognitive improvement when I went vegan ten years ago -- the canary in the coal mine for brain function is piano skills, and my cognitive "canary" started thriving in a way it had not before. Basically, my playing massively improved and my ability to concentrate through long piano sonatas got significantly better. I didn't see it coming because I quit eating animals for ethical reasons. I thought my health was supposed to get worse from being vegan.
I have a friend whose wife got cancer approximately 12 years ago. It took her 1.5 years to go from fully functional to dead and it cost a cool million. She suffered agonies one wouldn't wish on their worst enemy. In the end, insurance wouldn't cover anything and the out of pocket costs were astronomical to begin with, despite having good health insurance. Her story is far from unique. The medical industry is happy to play into the desperation to stay alive. They mutilate cancer victims by cutting off their body parts and grafting skin from odd places to whatever they cut off. One of my aunts has a permanent port in her arm where Big Pharma's "medicine" (radioactive chemicals) are pumped into her once a week to slow down her cancer. My aunt is 80. There is a whole other approach they could be taking: one of accepting the fact that people sometimes die young; or in my aunt's case, at a ripe old age. They could assist where instead they hinder. They could give relief where they extend pain and suffering. I have respect for doctors who set bones and stop hemorrhages from gunshots, that sort of thing. The rest of them can go scratch as they usually know far less about maintaining a healthy body than I do.
the regulatory boards here actually forbid you from volunteering your services: someone must pay you the "fair price" for everything. Since the going rate is a six figure salary, this means that if you provide a service at a rate which is anything other usurious, you run the risk of losing your license.
Ugh, that's just sick. It's obviously a protectionist scheme to keep the regulatory boards in business. My state, Illinois, has PLENTY of those.
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Date: 2020-08-13 01:01 am (UTC)Gotta carry that Binky no matter what! The Boogeyman can pop out of any corner, right there in broad daylight!
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Date: 2020-08-13 01:32 am (UTC)Thanks for the comment and link. I'm an introvert too! I can easily hide my introversion and be extroverted when necessary -- more as a defense mechanism than a state I want to dwell in.
JMG says that he "hopes there aren't suicides" if Trump wins and that he sees signs that big quotients of leftists are on the verge of complete psychotic breaks, like the kind of break that has them wandering the streets naked and babbling to themselves. I watched the link you posted -- yeah, I've seen lots of those videos, though some were new to me.
There's also Claira Janover, who thought making death threats would be fun TikTok comedy and got fired from her posh job. Warning, profanity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKaAQU6qUDw
She seems to have been taken over by an entity in this video. Just my opinion, of course. She's wild-eyed, talking fast, and barely coherent. And there's also the detail that creating this video ruined a sizable chunk of her life.
There's also CHAZ/CHOP, the lunatic experiment that resulted in six shootings and two deaths. It was a fine example of what happens when you allow the inmates to run the asylum.
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Date: 2020-08-13 03:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-08-13 04:08 am (UTC)I might not tell my family for a while though: my mother and brother are far too into using diet as a way to feel self-righteous, and I'm far from sure I want to let them know I'm trying being a vegetarian.
As for your friend's wife, that's horrible. I've heard what cancer treatments can do to people, but I've never seen it up close, and I'm happy for that. Cancer is another thing where I've accepted if I get it, I'll die. It amuses me that I've found that my family gets very worried about this sort of thing, wondering if I'm suicidal. I very much enjoy living, but I'm gonna die, and I don't want to suffer on the way out more than I have to! I wouldn't bother except for the fact that here any family member has the ability to decide to give permission for treatments if you're deemed unable to for any reason, and given our medical system, it won't cost us a thing. That might actually be a saving grace for the American model: people eventually run out of money and get spared the horrible indignities they'd otherwise suffer. This is only a benefit if you can accept it though....
I'm also amazed at what happens to the elderly. One of my grandmother's friends had a heart attack, and then had to fight in order to avoid getting bypass surgery done, in her 80s. The surgery would have incapacitated her for months, if not outright kill her, but reduce the risk of another heart attack slightly. I think it was insane: a woman in her 80s is not going to benefit from bypass surgery! Personally, I'd have treated the heart attack, tested to make sure she's recovering, treated anything else which needed attention (ex: if she's got a bleed somewhere), and then told her to spend time with her grandkids while she's able to. Of course, this is part of why I'm not working in medicine: the idea of "allowing someone to die" is considered criminal, sometimes quite literally so.
I think the big issue with the speech pathology board is that a lot of people would feel guilty about charging huge sums of money to people who are in desperate need, but feel okay since they can point to the board and say they have no choice. The board in question though is staffed and elected by speech pathologists, and so if they really wanted to, they could force the board to kill that policy. I think they like their 6 figure incomes too much though.
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Date: 2020-08-13 04:17 am (UTC)The fact that that isn't common sense is a sign of how crazy society is right now....
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Date: 2020-08-13 02:51 pm (UTC)One idea you might want to consider is that the mask is a talisman seeking return to a lost social consensus. Despite abandoning the lower classes, the powers that be long for the time (e.g. WW2) when all classes in society were in general agreement on the wisdom of ruling class. That our rulers lost the trust of the ruled through egregious misrule doesn't preclude them from longing for better time. They seem to say: maybe if we put on this talisman, the mask, the false narrative that "we are all in this together" will somehow aquire veracity.
As a 63 year old semi-retired geologist with a strong rationalist bias, I am sufficiently open minded to take your observations on dark spiritual matters seriously. This is because those dark forces correlate with observable human behavior. I plan to continue to read your articles. Keep up the good work.
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Date: 2020-08-13 04:57 pm (UTC)All this for a president I'm neutral on. I was neutral to Obama until his second term, when his administration's bumbling directly impacted my husband and I and it almost seemed as if some team of his was targeting us for anti-Democrat stuff my husband posted online. It was only then I grew to hate Obama. I voted for him the first time around. I had high hopes for the guy, almost all of which were dashed.
I'm neutral about Trump and to my liberal friends and acquaintances, that neutrality is unacceptable. I have to join their Hate Trump Club or else. Well, I choose "or else". My friendship is a privilege -- I don't have a lot of time and I won't waste it on the Trump-deranged.
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Date: 2020-08-13 05:08 pm (UTC)If doctors had our best interests in mind, true Hippocratic Oath intentions, they would say: "OK, grandma. You have cancer because you are 82 and we all die of something. You can extend your life artificially, have a bunch of brutalist surgeries that will leave you maimed, destroy your well-being and the rest of any good days you might have had with radiation, or you can accept that death is coming. If you choose the latter, we will supply you with opiates that will ease your transition into the next life while you say goodbye to your loved ones. You'll have as much choice as can be had when you are ready to go. We will not fight what we know is coming. We will then stand aside as you are surrounded by your loved ones, and if you have no loved ones, we will provide a spiritual aide/counsellor to be with you if that's how you want it. We will assist with drugs as needed and soon enough, the forces of nature will take you to the Gates of Death. You will be entirely at peace, and you can rest knowing you will see your loved ones again, including those who have already died, just not in this material incarnation.
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Date: 2020-08-13 05:25 pm (UTC)If I get cancer, I'm going to accept it, let it be, and ride it out with marijuana and opiates until it takes my life. I'm lucky, I don't have kids, but even if I did, I wouldn't stay alive beyond my allotted time because it sets a terrible example. When it's time to die, I accept it. I'm not afraid of death. I don't fetishize death either: it's gross, it's usually painful, and it's nasty. Still, I don't fear it like people in our culture do. I'll be reincarnated soon enough and I look forward to my next life. I enjoy this one greatly as well but I don't want it to go on forever.
I think they like their 6 figure incomes too much though. Yes, they do. They're willing to defend and hide an awful lot of throwing the underclasses under the bus in order to keep going under those cushy arrangements. They're almost uniformly depressed and angry people as well, yet the lesson is always pushed off, the can kicked further down the road... Money doesn't buy happiness.
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Date: 2020-08-13 05:35 pm (UTC)I don't mind the distancing at all, nor the hand-washing, because if I have any form of common cold or flu, I don't want others to get it. Still isn't a good enough reason to shut down the economy and people's livelihoods though.
One idea you might want to consider is that the mask is a talisman seeking return to a lost social consensus Yes, this is true, I think. The mask is an ineffective piece of natural magic meant to ward off Death. Its true purpose is as a talisman to bind together what has been flung apart, and it's largely ineffective on that front as well.
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Date: 2020-08-13 06:13 pm (UTC)Re: Interesting
Date: 2020-08-13 06:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-08-13 06:31 pm (UTC)My sister is an actual vegetarian, because she doesn't like the way meat tastes, and the reaction from my mother and brother is baffling. I think they've lost it at the fact someone is vegetarian and is not pushy about it.
I don't seem to need to worry too much about food, as long as there's plenty of seafoods, but since I find edible seaweeds work as well as fish, I'm not too worried about trying a vegetarian diet.
I find it fascinating that so many people have a problem with the middle ground existing. People sometimes think I'm suicidal because I want to be able to die with dignity, but my philosophy is the same as yours: death is usually unpleasant, but oh well. It can be better or worse depending on how we approach it, so might as well make the best of it.
Frankly, I don't get why anyone would feel the need for that much money. My parents have a six figure tax bill and live in wretched excess, and are miserable, so money clearly isn't the answer. I'm currently living on a little less than 20k a year and doing just fine, in fact I'm fairly sure I'm happier than anyone else in my family has been in years. There are plenty of things I'd like but have to shrug and say I can't afford it, but that's life for most of the world.
I have electricity, running water, shelter; I don't feel deprived at all, but my family keeps wondering how I can stand to live like this. It's truly bizarre.
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Date: 2020-08-13 07:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-08-13 09:14 pm (UTC)And 2 days later, with enough morphine to sleep a Godzilla, it was over
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Date: 2020-08-14 02:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-08-14 02:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-08-14 02:34 am (UTC)Upper-middle class wealth, from my experience, is a Wendigo. The more you buy into it, the hungrier it gets.
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Date: 2020-08-14 03:41 am (UTC)