On 8/6/24, the South China Morning Post reported on a 24-year-old who hiked for months after being dumped by his girlfriend. From a smooth skinned pussy, he became a rugged, bearded and bald man.
He began looking older very quickly after hiking in northern and western China, especially the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau with its high altitude and strong ultraviolet rays.
The traveller pulls a wooden cart containing all his necessities for daily living and is accompanied by a stray dog he picked up along the way.
Before this solo trek, he worked on a freight ship traversing Southeast Asia, so he was already less domesticated, thus more manly, than most. Recent photos show him relaxed and smiling.
To be deprogrammed is not worth losing decades or just a single month, many would argue. Eighty years as a snowflake, couch slug, drugged monkey or caged parrot beats 79 years and 11 months as a weather tossed and knocked around near-suicide. His uncomfortable if not perilous life is the definition of foolhardiness. Why expose yourself unnecessarily to devious strangers, slippery sidewalks or avalanches when routines soothe? Doritos Nachos alone come in Spicy, Spicy Sweet Chili, Cool Ranch, Cheese, Flaming Hot and BBQ. Quest has Protein Chips and Whole Foods 365 rewards greenies with White Corn. It’s made with materials harvested from responsibly managed farms, mind you. So much variety already! As for any heart of darkness, your office’s coffee station is savage enough. It has more landmines than any DMZ.
“Hi Sally, what a beautiful dress!”
“Rape! Rape! Somebody call security!” Or, “I detect sarcasm in your voice. Are you making fun of my weight?” Or, “Didn’t you get the email I’m now called Samuel, with a he pronoun?”
“I’m sorry, Sam. I did vote for Kamala!”
“Why are you so presumptuous? I voted for Trump! Trans also want to make America great again. My main reason, though, is the liberation of Palestine. I want all those Arabs gone!”
“I’m sorry, Sam. I forgot you were Jewish.”
“I’m going to kill you right now! My being a Jew has nothing to do with my lust for justice.”
If anything, real life is even more brutal. JustPlainBill reads on FaceBook about his daughter and son-in-law’s reaction to Trump winning. This progressive couple has vowed to hold people to account and to “keep working toward [their] anticapitalist vision.” Understandly, JustPlainBill’s 3-year-old grandson was confused and alarmed by his parents’ agitation. JustPlainBill on his daughter:
I am tempted to ascribe all this to some time in her early childhood when I must have dropped her on her head. But since I saw very little evidence of these thoughts while she was growing up, I am left blaming it on that wonderful university education. She does live in the heart of an urban liberal bastion, so there is that, I guess.
Her mom and I live far away, and only visit maybe once a year. During that time, we only see them for a few hours, and the conversation is never contentious because we never talk about anything bordering on the political or even philosophical […] I would not say we are close any more, and were it not for a desire to pay my young grandson a short visit, we might not even make the trip.
Such family tragedies have become all too familiar. Jewish thinking doesn’t just demonize entire groups but anyone who disagrees with any aspect of its latest orthodoxy. Consider this New York Times passage:
The world had better hope that Israel wins its wars against Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and their masters in Tehran. By “wins,” I mean that Israel inflicts such costs on its enemies’ capacity to wage war that they accept that their interests, irrespective of their desires, are no longer served by fighting.
Those who hope for an independent, free and peaceful Palestinian state had better hope Israel wins.
That’s Bret Stephens who, despite his name, is a Jew. It’s OK to say Russian, Chinese, Vietnamese or Arab, but not Jew. Though Kevin Barrett has just been demonetized for criticizing “Zionists,” even he won’t point a finger at Jews. Muslims don’t dare to depict Allah. In Feudal China, you could be tortured to death for writing the king’s name. Joining Kevin Barrett, most Americans observe that terrifying Jew taboo. Optera opts for “Duh Joos,” but only to mock me. Though Jews have wrecked Chris Hedges’ career and country, he, too, never says “Jew.”
So Palestinians will be independent, free and at peace after they’ve been removed from Palestine, if not this earth! Progressives who disagree with Stephens better not be teaching at an American university. Self-censorship breeds shame and self-hatred.
Here’s an excerpt from Stephens’ latest, “The Age of the Pogrom Returns”:
This week there was another pogrom in Europe, this time in Amsterdam. “Barbarians on scooters are riding through our capital city hunting Israelis and Jews,” David van Weel, the Dutch minister of justice and security, wrote on the social platform X. He was referring to an orgy of violent attacks against Israeli soccer fans, who had come to the city to watch a match on Thursday between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax Amsterdam.
Always so innocent, Jews are inexplicably attacked by barbarians, human animals, Nazis, neo-Nazis, white nationalists and even some nutcase Vietnamese sitting in a pleasant café cooled by seabreezes. So deranged, he’d rather trust this summary by Al DuClur:
Anti-Semites, who also hate Jews for no reason at all, are pointing out that the Israelis went around town before the game tearing down Palestinian flags on private property, harassing Arab taxi drivers, not being quiet for the moment of silence for the flood victims, and chanting “Why are there no schools in Gaza? There are no more children!” Maybe anti-Semites hate Jews for their famous sense of humor.
I do feel bad for JustPlainBill’s daughter. Certainly Jewjabbed, her fogged up brain if not clotted arteries must endure so many crises. She’s surrounded by Klansmen and Nazis ready to lynch or gas anyone who isn’t a cisgendered racist. Fat activist drag queens will yield so much skin for lampshades, with their blubber providing fuel for bonfires to burn all books by women, queers, trans and people of color.
Since Biden still has 72 days left, he must set up a nationwide network of Self Care Suites. Chamomile tea, cocoa, Legos, coloring books and puppies, real or robotic, are needed to calm so many traumatized Americans. (Green tea or coffee is too toxically masculine.) A Self Care Suite must be within a 15 minute walk of any citizen, migrant or Tren de Aragua member, even if ze lives in Kupreanof (pop. 21) or Utqiagvik, 200 miles from the nearest city. Self care equity must be achieved.
Since stress can also be relieved by masturbation, the ultimate self-care, such acts will be legalized and normalized in all public places, including Congress, newscasts, The View and, of course, classrooms, for teachers and students.
[Don Det, Laos on 4/11/23]
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[Don Sang, 4/4/23]
Brilliant piece - many thanks! I've said it before, but feel compelled to reiterate that you have a gifted eye for photography. My 'take' on all these silly bastards in modern society is that we've gotten so far removed from the nitty gritty of life, that most folks get wrapped up in goofy, pointless mental masturbation while trying to forget that we're all born to survive, procreate, then die - anything else is entirely up to ourselves. Somebody worrying about catching, gutting, skinning, and cooking their first meal in three days probably isn't too hung up on preferred pronouns. - Just saw 12 geese flying south. Welp, I gotta get back to my pan fried steak, gallon of black coffee, and pack of unfiltereds. God Bless You, Brother Linh, fight the good fight, and FTW! - Sam.
I still need someone to tell me why I need someone's pronouns, when I would only use them to talk about that person to someone else, presumably when they are not there to hear it, and can thus not possibly be offended.
PS: Linh--you nailed it on the jab. It is probably what caused her to drop my grandson less than a week later, at 24 weeks. It is truly a miracle of modern medical technology that he survived to be a normal, healthy kid.