I just had a three-day visit from an American friend. An expat in his early 50’s, Josh (not his real name) has spent 15 years in Asia, including 1 1/2 in Vietnam. Walking around with Josh, however, I realized he knew next to nothing about the country. When I mentioned Vo Nguyen Giap or Nguyen Cao Ky, Josh had no idea whom I was talking about. He couldn’t read any menu item in Vietnamese, and was unfamiliar with the most ordinary Viet dishes. Several times, Josh even forgot he was in Vung Tau. “What is the name of this place again?” Or, “This is not Nha Trang?” That’s 250 miles up the coast.
It’s not his country, fair enough. Still, Josh confessed he would probably be married to a Vietnamese had Covid not chased him away for two years. Abandoning an incipient love, Josh had left Vietnam voluntarily for a safer location. He flew out of Saigon in a hooded plastic gown.
Even with a common language, it’s hard enough to understand each other, so what sort of marriage could Josh expect if he spoke chicken and she spoke duck, as the Vietnamese saying goes?
Josh is fond of this grand statement by Socrates, “I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.” Though an ultra-cool credo for globetrotters, Socrates wouldn’t have lasted a week in Scythia, Persia or The Samartians, much less Văn Lang, a proto-Vietnamese kingdom. Even in the 19th century, each Vietnamese village was a semi closed society that only admitted outsiders reluctantly.
Speaking Greek, Socrates was a Greek, just as Josh is an American, for he speaks American English. Even in England, he’d be out of sync with each syllable. Though scarfing mushy peas with the rest, Josh would out himself with some tic. I have an Italian friend, Niccolo, who speaks excellent English, Spanish, French and Japanese, the last quite remarkable for he only arrived in Japan in his mid-20’s. Still, Niccolo knows he’s simply Italian. His girlfriend must know that too.
Of course, food also marks you. It’s impossible that any man can prefer all dishes of all nations equally. Most likely, he can’t even tolerate most foreign offerings. Since no two groups of people have the same taste, the simple hot dog is dressed differently in Reykjavík, Detroit, Chicago and Tokyo. The last is garnished with seaweed strips, bonito flakes, toasted sesame seeds, scallion and wasabi mayonnaise, then sprinkled with sake and ginger infused soy sauce. Lin Yutang, “What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?” Though comfortable enough in Namibia, I missed raw mint leaves, which Vietnamese routinely consume by the mounds with dozens of dishes.
Let’s consider what Hugh of Saint Victor (c. 1096-1141) wrote, “The person who finds his homeland sweet is a tender beginner; he to whom every soil is as his native one is already strong; but he is perfect to whom the entire world is as a foreign place. The tender soul has fixed his love on one spot in the world; the strong man has extended his love to all places; the perfect man has extinguished his.”
According to Hugh of Saint Victor, then, there’s a hierarchy of men, with home loving pussies at the bottom, and the totally alienated at the top. Since this last category is more numerous than ever, we must be living in the best of times, with perfect men and women everywhere!
Far from it. Whether homebound or jet setting, today’s alienated aren’t just loveless, but increasingly nasty. After my last article, I got a message from one seething MGTOW who advised me to “stop being a little boomer bitch that hasn't been laid in decades.” What a sad hell-dweller, and here’s “Marckus” at Unz Review on 1/27/21, “The US is falling apart and the world is in a shambles. Why do we need to know about some gook’s travels around the world?” These sick souls clearly feed off their own stench and ugliness.
Though it has splattered and gusted everywhere, the epicenter of global filth is that crumbling sewer on the hill. Recently, a reader brought to my attention Riskay’s “Smell Yo Dick,” which begins:
Nigga this is the 15th motherfucking time
That I called and left your ass messages
I done text your bitch ass
And you ain't responding to nothin'
What the fuck is you doing?
Who the fuck is you out there with?
You think I'm stupid
My girls already done put me up on your ass tonight
When you get home I got some news for your bitch ass
Why you comin' home 5 in the morn'?
Something's going on, can I smell yo dick?
Don't play me like a fool, cause that ain't cool
So what you need to do is lemme smell yo dick
So what you need to do is lemme smell yo dick
Just hitting her artistic strides, Riskay only has a few hits, but already, her vision is twerkingly clear. Another song is called “Dollas Over Dicks.” When you deploy killa, bitch assed words, there’s no need to overburden listeners with a fussy vocabulary. Pale cisgendered Shakespeare merely coined bandit, critic, swagger, lonely and lackluster, etc. Whatever, man. That square could never come up with “dick down the whole town.”
Riskay’s admirers are of all colors and ages. On YouTube, I found ukulele and keyboard versions, as performed by white women. On Valentine’s Day of 2016, Muhlenberg students harmonized this classic on stage. It’s hard to believe I once taught at that Allentown university. There’s also a public performance by high school students, and why not? Lemme smell yo dick is so cheeky. As we become more progressive, toddlers will rap this funky anthem.
What Riskay doesn’t have are many foreign fans, I would bet. Arabs, Orientals and Russians certainly wouldn’t put up with such lyrics, not just because they are absurdly vulgar, but idiotic. When I introduced this song to two Vung Tau friends, they were speechless at how far the US has sunk. They were most disturbed that teenagers could perform this at school. I also showed them Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda” and Rihanna’s “Bitch Better Have My Money,” as further proofs. In the latter, a white woman is tortured for nearly the entire length of the seven-minute video, and at the end, a white man is butchered. We also dissected Madonna’s “Like A Prayer” video. It’s a hopeless culture, my friends concluded, but what do you expect from the Jewjacked?
It’s just free speech, many will insist, and Jews mean no harm. At worst, some are greedy, but there’s no malice, not even with a Jewjab that has already massacred hundreds of thousands, if not millions, with millions more maimed for life. Like most of you, I personally know victims.
Bourla, Wallensky, Chomsky, Wojcicki, Zuckerberg, Amy Goodman, Rachel Levine, Jeff Zients, Anne Schuchat, Sherri A. Berger, Mitchell Wolfe, Jeff Reczek, Howard Stern, Jim Cramer, Big Bird and Ron Unz will insist the Jewjab is perfectly safe and effective, however. Jewjab saves lives.
Josh was suspicious enough of the Jewjab to opt for a different “vaccine.” Still, he laughs when I assert Bourla and Wallensky should be locked up. Josh also thinks I’m hysterical for insisting American presidential elections have been farces for years. Installed in 2025, Ron DeSantis will drain the DC Swamp, Josh hopes, and build that border wall promised by Trump. When I say America won’t last until 2025, Josh merely grins.
Denying his family home is burning, Josh is hardly alone, so its flames will redden this earth soon enough. Engulfed by smoke, with their hair singed, their pants smoldering and their nuts toasty, they’ll wait to vote, as usual, for it’s the American way.
When you don’t realize your rulers are seasoned thieves, rapists and mass murderers out to destroy you also, you’re more than toast. Again, no pushback can begin until the first significant assassination, but for that, one must have access. The next American hero, then, is likely to be a security guard, body guard, driver, secretary or maid.
I am English and married to a Thai who I met on my first visit here. I wasn't sure how much I would need to live here, so I wrote down everything I spent for the first six months, to see how good a life I could afford on my budget. Seeing this my wife presumed I was short of money and frequently paid for meals, bought me shirts and shorts, and took me on trips in her car.
We have been together for 12 years and are still very happy together. I tried to learn Thai for the first couple of years but couldn't get the hang of the different tones and gave in. My wife and I play golf together and do Sudoku puzzles, and get along very well despite (and probably because) of our different upbringings and language.
I also get along with her two sons from a previous marriage and taught them English. We all get along just fine.
So there you go. Maybe I'm the exception that proves the rule. And maybe not.
I am a Canadian white guy in Korea. I am raising my half Korean son here. No drugs, family friendly country. He is much more innocent and happy than most jaded Canadian kids. He loves Korea. Canadian kids are taught to hate the country. Also whites are taught to hate themselves, he doesn't get that. And trans indoctrination there. That culture is evil now. The Canada I loved is dead.
As a swede im really thinking about moving abroad, i feel totally alienated here in this anti-intellectual, cultural wasteland.. and now that we're joining nato... But at the same time i realize that most expats live a shadow life, being the eternal strangers. I guess theres no way to escape.
As for America's cultural decline, in hindsight we Gen-Xers were a part of the problem. We listened to rap ironically. We thought everyone was in on the joke. But millennials took it seriously, so now the joke's on us. The police aren't coming, twerking is mainstream, and violence is free speech (but speech is violence). Oops.
Wow....I had no idea things were so bad. I should have tho. 4th graders are taught its ok for boys to suck each other off....complete with graphic images. Glad I'm old.
That was a depressing load of crap. I don't mean your writing Linh. The soundtrack for the end of the age of reason.
I was learning French for my first wife, learned Danish for my second and am learning Urdu for my last. I extend my tastes each time but keep some of what I've gathered before too. Having grown up in white middle class Oz, there was a fairly empty palette upon which to paint I guess. None of it makes me anything but a white Aussie boy of course but I guess I'm perfect by the above definition at least. I don't fit in anywhere. However, I have lost any desire to fit into my own culture that's for sure. Anything of value I took with me and there's nothing left behind.
Hi Linh, I recently started reading your postcards and do believe things are really bad back there, (almost wrote 'home' being a hyphonated-American with a US passport)... living in Europe at this time in a quaint smallish country things seem better if you ignore a threat of looming compulsory jabs or the possibility after enough poking the Russian bear would get really mad and let his nukes loose...
But wanting outlive the few more years I have left without radiation damage, I keep thinking about Namibia you seem to like, as I recall. Why would you not return there as only the southern hemiphere can possibly survive?
I've seen where Jew Boy Bourla is over in Davos, Switzerland. He's promoting an ingestible pill that contains a microchip. The Pfizer CEO gushes how the pill will result in "total compliance".
Yours was the first piece I read this morning after turning the PC on. Though definitely not a comment on your writing or your observations (perceptive as always!), I wonder if perhaps it was not the best one to start out my on-line day with.
Living in California but far away from its major population centers, I don't see the worst of things in my immediate surroundings yet, mostly just reading about them. This piece plumbs new depths which I should be grateful not to be physically exposed to. I avoid trips to the city now as much as possible, both for reasons of personal safety and because they no longer offer much that I want or need.
I certainly sympathize with impulses like "hands around the throat". But really, who are you going to shoot? It would really be nice if one's country or culture could be fixed that easily. But just as there is no one person that's going to "save" us, there is no one person that can hold the bag for everything that is going wrong. The painful truth is that we are collectively to blame for our culture's failings. Too busy living our lives, or trying to survive, too many of us failed to take the actions necessary to arrest the decline, and now it is probably too late to stop it. Even if one is inclined to try, it is hard to know where to start or what to do when surrounded by corruption. As Confucius said, “Virtue does not remain as an abandoned orphan; it must of necessity have neighbors.”
A good example: Once in a conversation about the evils of excessive money printing, I said that beyond a certain point, the momentum to continue would be unstoppable, and beyond that point, the system would have to blow up before sanity might return. If you woke up to a general announcement that starting at noon, government trucks would be coming by to shovel free money out the door for anyone who needed it, would you take it even though you believed it was wrong to print yet more money? If you are going to survive, you have to.
Linh you are infinitely wise.Your observations on how low White women have sunk are on the mark.Many White men as well but it seems the women revel in their own dispossession.How can they reject their own blood,their own ancestors.Even the Satanic Jews must have marveled at how easy it was to brainwash White females.It indeed is the end,you are right.And America and the West controlled by the Jews as they are must take some blame for being screwed right out of their homelands.I am convinced that the Jews have help from Satan himself to be able to acquire all the levers of power they control.And they turn our women against us and enlist them as fervent allies,willing helpers.Eve just keeps coming back to kick us again and again.You see what I see but millions just refuse to believe.They think these events just came about by coincidence and there certainly couldn't be a bunch of people wishing to do us evil.They hate the media yet still can't believe it would do them any real harm.It makes one feel a little whacky when you know the truth but so few others grasp it.God bless you LinhDinh and may He give you his protection.And thank you for taking the side of truth instead of gold and silver.As the Bible tells us the Jews will reach the apex of their power right before Christ returns and sends them to Hell.Christ is Lord!Also thanks to all the great commenters and their interesting additions.
don't understand very well how these things work and reading the Substack terms of service gave me a headache and eye strain. Please drop me a line directly. You have my e-mail and what I have to say I don't want to be made public.
Something reminded me of the old Steve Allen show "Meeting of the Minds". I watched an exchange between Cleopatra and Teddy Roosevelt before recalling L. Dihn's revelation of the cultural icons in the story above....how far we have fallen. How much further can we go?
High school students, that's lame. They will soon be teaching that song in kindergartens. And why not? In America, they already teach 4 year olds about masturbation, anal sex, birth control methods and being a transgender, so what's a little innocent song more. It will be as popular as "Baby Shark". (I wonder what's wrong with America - Europe is sick too, but in cultural terms they are nowhere near as insane and radical as in America). Perhaps it's just their cultural history, or perhaps it's having better food.
Linh, do you have a particular piece of writing that indicts the Jews? If not, please write your indictment of the Jews. I respect your writing, I suspect the Jews, but I hesitate, probably because of my conditioning, to blame them for society's ills. That's why I am asking. Not trying to troll or flame, I am looking for guidance here.
“According to Hugh of Saint Victor, then, there’s a hierarchy of men, with home loving pussies at the bottom, and the totally alienated at the top. Since this last category is more numerous than ever, we must be living in the best of times, with perfect men and women everywhere!“
Ha! I laughed out loud…. How ironically true. Nihilism seems to be going around - consider it a side effect from Covid(not the virus itself, but the diseased reaction).
I am English and married to a Thai who I met on my first visit here. I wasn't sure how much I would need to live here, so I wrote down everything I spent for the first six months, to see how good a life I could afford on my budget. Seeing this my wife presumed I was short of money and frequently paid for meals, bought me shirts and shorts, and took me on trips in her car.
We have been together for 12 years and are still very happy together. I tried to learn Thai for the first couple of years but couldn't get the hang of the different tones and gave in. My wife and I play golf together and do Sudoku puzzles, and get along very well despite (and probably because) of our different upbringings and language.
I also get along with her two sons from a previous marriage and taught them English. We all get along just fine.
So there you go. Maybe I'm the exception that proves the rule. And maybe not.
I am a Canadian white guy in Korea. I am raising my half Korean son here. No drugs, family friendly country. He is much more innocent and happy than most jaded Canadian kids. He loves Korea. Canadian kids are taught to hate the country. Also whites are taught to hate themselves, he doesn't get that. And trans indoctrination there. That culture is evil now. The Canada I loved is dead.
As a swede im really thinking about moving abroad, i feel totally alienated here in this anti-intellectual, cultural wasteland.. and now that we're joining nato... But at the same time i realize that most expats live a shadow life, being the eternal strangers. I guess theres no way to escape.
As for America's cultural decline, in hindsight we Gen-Xers were a part of the problem. We listened to rap ironically. We thought everyone was in on the joke. But millennials took it seriously, so now the joke's on us. The police aren't coming, twerking is mainstream, and violence is free speech (but speech is violence). Oops.
Wow....I had no idea things were so bad. I should have tho. 4th graders are taught its ok for boys to suck each other off....complete with graphic images. Glad I'm old.
That was a depressing load of crap. I don't mean your writing Linh. The soundtrack for the end of the age of reason.
I was learning French for my first wife, learned Danish for my second and am learning Urdu for my last. I extend my tastes each time but keep some of what I've gathered before too. Having grown up in white middle class Oz, there was a fairly empty palette upon which to paint I guess. None of it makes me anything but a white Aussie boy of course but I guess I'm perfect by the above definition at least. I don't fit in anywhere. However, I have lost any desire to fit into my own culture that's for sure. Anything of value I took with me and there's nothing left behind.
Hi Linh, I recently started reading your postcards and do believe things are really bad back there, (almost wrote 'home' being a hyphonated-American with a US passport)... living in Europe at this time in a quaint smallish country things seem better if you ignore a threat of looming compulsory jabs or the possibility after enough poking the Russian bear would get really mad and let his nukes loose...
But wanting outlive the few more years I have left without radiation damage, I keep thinking about Namibia you seem to like, as I recall. Why would you not return there as only the southern hemiphere can possibly survive?
Linh
I've seen where Jew Boy Bourla is over in Davos, Switzerland. He's promoting an ingestible pill that contains a microchip. The Pfizer CEO gushes how the pill will result in "total compliance".
How cool is that ? He needs his ass kicked.
Assassination ? It'll take more than that.
Bill
Yours was the first piece I read this morning after turning the PC on. Though definitely not a comment on your writing or your observations (perceptive as always!), I wonder if perhaps it was not the best one to start out my on-line day with.
Living in California but far away from its major population centers, I don't see the worst of things in my immediate surroundings yet, mostly just reading about them. This piece plumbs new depths which I should be grateful not to be physically exposed to. I avoid trips to the city now as much as possible, both for reasons of personal safety and because they no longer offer much that I want or need.
I certainly sympathize with impulses like "hands around the throat". But really, who are you going to shoot? It would really be nice if one's country or culture could be fixed that easily. But just as there is no one person that's going to "save" us, there is no one person that can hold the bag for everything that is going wrong. The painful truth is that we are collectively to blame for our culture's failings. Too busy living our lives, or trying to survive, too many of us failed to take the actions necessary to arrest the decline, and now it is probably too late to stop it. Even if one is inclined to try, it is hard to know where to start or what to do when surrounded by corruption. As Confucius said, “Virtue does not remain as an abandoned orphan; it must of necessity have neighbors.”
A good example: Once in a conversation about the evils of excessive money printing, I said that beyond a certain point, the momentum to continue would be unstoppable, and beyond that point, the system would have to blow up before sanity might return. If you woke up to a general announcement that starting at noon, government trucks would be coming by to shovel free money out the door for anyone who needed it, would you take it even though you believed it was wrong to print yet more money? If you are going to survive, you have to.
Josh should come back to the US and help us with the fight.
Thanks Linh for your words, pics and website.
Linh you are infinitely wise.Your observations on how low White women have sunk are on the mark.Many White men as well but it seems the women revel in their own dispossession.How can they reject their own blood,their own ancestors.Even the Satanic Jews must have marveled at how easy it was to brainwash White females.It indeed is the end,you are right.And America and the West controlled by the Jews as they are must take some blame for being screwed right out of their homelands.I am convinced that the Jews have help from Satan himself to be able to acquire all the levers of power they control.And they turn our women against us and enlist them as fervent allies,willing helpers.Eve just keeps coming back to kick us again and again.You see what I see but millions just refuse to believe.They think these events just came about by coincidence and there certainly couldn't be a bunch of people wishing to do us evil.They hate the media yet still can't believe it would do them any real harm.It makes one feel a little whacky when you know the truth but so few others grasp it.God bless you LinhDinh and may He give you his protection.And thank you for taking the side of truth instead of gold and silver.As the Bible tells us the Jews will reach the apex of their power right before Christ returns and sends them to Hell.Christ is Lord!Also thanks to all the great commenters and their interesting additions.
don't understand very well how these things work and reading the Substack terms of service gave me a headache and eye strain. Please drop me a line directly. You have my e-mail and what I have to say I don't want to be made public.
Something reminded me of the old Steve Allen show "Meeting of the Minds". I watched an exchange between Cleopatra and Teddy Roosevelt before recalling L. Dihn's revelation of the cultural icons in the story above....how far we have fallen. How much further can we go?
High school students, that's lame. They will soon be teaching that song in kindergartens. And why not? In America, they already teach 4 year olds about masturbation, anal sex, birth control methods and being a transgender, so what's a little innocent song more. It will be as popular as "Baby Shark". (I wonder what's wrong with America - Europe is sick too, but in cultural terms they are nowhere near as insane and radical as in America). Perhaps it's just their cultural history, or perhaps it's having better food.
Linh, do you have a particular piece of writing that indicts the Jews? If not, please write your indictment of the Jews. I respect your writing, I suspect the Jews, but I hesitate, probably because of my conditioning, to blame them for society's ills. That's why I am asking. Not trying to troll or flame, I am looking for guidance here.
“According to Hugh of Saint Victor, then, there’s a hierarchy of men, with home loving pussies at the bottom, and the totally alienated at the top. Since this last category is more numerous than ever, we must be living in the best of times, with perfect men and women everywhere!“
Ha! I laughed out loud…. How ironically true. Nihilism seems to be going around - consider it a side effect from Covid(not the virus itself, but the diseased reaction).