[Gyeongju, 3/17/20] It’s estimated this earth has seen 117 billion humans. When you subtract all those who died soon after birth, or had to endure a very constricted existence, the number of humans who have truly lived shrinks, perhaps significantly.
I hate the winter. With nothing good going on in my life, still 3 months till I can expect to even make enough in a month to pay my rent. Old age is closing in and I've got nothing to show for a lifetime of work with very little by way of pleasurable times and nothing I care to remember, because they'll all come with stories of loss. I drank too much last night, trying to raise a little enthusiasm for life even for a few hours and slept very poorly as a result. When the morning came around I set the alarm back for a couple of hours, listening to rain thumping down on the metal roof of the factory I also call home. I eventually got up, the rabbits want their goodies in the morning and it's not fair I deprive them. Now with my coffee and heater on, I'll waste the day away watching chipmunk videos and reruns of a silly nineties TV series. Sea Quest. Amazing how positive an outlook it had on the very future we're in now. Still it struck me how woke it all was even then. The innocence and trust in establishment it portrays is so gone today.
It gets me every day I survive and watch so many others not doing so, why I even bother? Just pride? With nothing else to show, am I just wanting to walk on the graves of all the fools who bought into the bullshit and played the game? I can't come up with anything else anymore. There's self loathing setting in. I am where I am due to my own fault. My own cynicism left me here. There's got to be someplace else I should be. I'm losing my religion.
Great writing and incite, this line really hit home:"Years ago at the Philadelphia Zoo, I encountered a very rare douc langur, a three-colored monkey native to Indochina. Sick of looking at people, he sat facing a wall, immobile." In my youth I visited a Wildlife park in Sommerset, UK. In a circular concrete prison stood an elephant, oblivious to the crowds as he swayed in desperate misery, isolated and utterly hopeless. It occured to me then that people all too often misunderstand the intelligence and emotions of animals, D.H. Lawrence wrote "I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself", but confine that same animal in an entirely alien enviroment, alone.....Later this elephant, one of only 5 in the country was needlessly destroyed without the slightest recourse at rehoming him, all down to financial expediency, such is the ever present spectre of the love of money; seems the same fate is meant to await the most of us.
Ron Unz is a great example of a person determined to remain an ignorant imbecile in a world awash with information, a better example of confirmation bias eludes me.
Like your Monkey, I am largely done with robots masquerading as sentients in the perverse theatre of the absurd.
Wonderful essay, always welcome, even from one who hasn't eaten animal flesh or secretions for over 21 years and is very healthy without them! Potatoes, rice and veggies keep me fit. The gladiators were also called the barley men because that is mostly what they ate. The strongest man in the world is a vegan. Meat eaters are clogged up with the fat and that is why heart disease is the number one killer in the world......but now maybe it's the jewjab!
Linh—your mood so often aligns with mine these days, which may not be a good thing.
The planet’s resources are quickly running low, but intelligence, which I always thought was "renewable," seems to be leading the list. Having kicked the can too long instead of acting, the plan now seems to be to lower the planet’s population. Whether that is to be done by simply restricting births and waiting for natural attrition, or by implementing something more extreme, remains to be seen. If it is the latter, the one thing that seems obvious is that those planning it do not envision themselves as part of the carbon needing to be reduced. In all other respects, they seem to agree with Thoreau, who said that the better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost.
The vast majority of us, who are destined to come and go without making more than tiny ripples in a very big pond, are probably best advised not to poison our allotted years too much with hand-wringing over things we are unable to affect, and make those years as good as we are able. In Tolkien's "The Fellowship of the Ring":, Frodo says of the dire turn the world has taken: "I wish it need not have happened in my time." And Gandalf replies, "So do I, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
As the Industrial Age draws to a fitful close, things will become increasingly challenging for us. It may help to remember that many people lived on this planet in an earlier era and managed to do without most of what we have, and although life was much harder, they, too, had their good times. Meanwhile, as the saying goes, “When the hurricane comes, one must seek shelter.”
"Years ago at the Philadelphia Zoo, I encountered a very rare douc langur, a three-colored monkey native to Indochina. Sick of looking at people, he sat facing a wall, immobile." Wow. This reminds me of the legend of Bodhidharma, a Buddhist monk who came to China from India in the 5th Century and started the Zen tradition. It was alleged that once arrived in China he sat in a cave facing a stonewall and meditated for nine years before meeting and teaching his first disciple. Every Buddhist temple in Vietnam worships him with an altar in the rear of the main hall. He is depicted as a bald guy with a beard and two piercing eyes who carries on his shoulders a cane with one shoe at its end. That monkey that Mr. Dinh remembers might as well be a reincarnation of Bodhidharma :)
The laughable ‘choices’ the western voters have in their constituencies have been getting steadily worse since the 90s and have sunk to new lows recently as the string pullers putting the candidates into line see just how far we can be pushed before pushing back.
UK’s Sunak v Truss, Canada’s Trudeau v A Tool (sorry, O’Toole), the non performing, vaccine-loving Trump v the senile Biden and so on. All are abysmal beyond belief, yet are placed on the ballot as the supposed best – the best, mind you, of the political brains available.
This shows the rot has been many years in the making and is unlikely to change in our lifetime unless with the assistance of a global upheaval like war – nuclear or otherwise. Hopefully the coriolis effect will spare the southern hemisphere the worst of the fallout if that happens.
The thought that the execrable Sunak might be the British Prime Minister in a few days is hardly alleviated by the thought that the only alternative is the equally odious Truss. How is it that western politics has devolved to the level presently shown in the UK in which foreigners, effectively, are allowed to stand for parliament, and not even the best of them at that?
Of the 12 people who were short listed by the ‘conservative’ party, five were ethnic Indo-Pakistani, one was Iraqi, one was Nigerian, one was half-French and a quarter-Jewish, one was Jewish and only three were British, in the sense of having two ethnically British parents - Penny Mordaunt, Liz Truss and, finally, the sole white male...Jeremy Hunt.
Yet the UK is at least 86% white and 90% of Members of Parliament are white.
To put it another way, can you imagine if 5 lily white Englishmen were standing for premiership of, say, Vietnam or India against only one Vietnamese or Indian? I'm sure the local population would riot just at the thought.
The western media and school system have a lot to answer for. They're the reason there’s a black South African Miss Ireland who entered Ireland in 2004 as a 'refugee' from an SA that had been (mis)governed for 10 years by the African National Congress by the time she left.
I guess the wheel turns and colonial ownership is now in the process of being reversed as the colonists find themselves increasingly being governed by the ex colonials. One could say it’s poetic justice.
It’s hardly possible to control oneself at a well stocked Korean BBQ buffet. The worse part about eating the vegetables is getting them out of the wheel chair.
Linh...another great article...and I love your Postcards book...I have a question...do you think they really jewjabbed the jews in Israel or just gave them placebo's? I read an article by a jew doctor who said hes seeing many adverse reactions to the jabbed in Israel...he of course could just be lying...or are they willing to sacrifice some of their own...like they did in WWII to garner sympathy for their return to the motherland...oh and Unz not only believes in getting vaxxed...or so he says...but he still thinks they actually sent men to the moon in 69....who still believes that hoax? carry on sir
While I've always held an admittedly perverse desire to witness a nuclear explosion, there doesn't appear to be any real evidence they actually exist. Without instrumentation, to the naked eye, a large conventional explosion cannot be distinguished from a supposed "nuclear" explosion.
Miles Mathis has written a few papers on the topic. Incidentally, he just released a paper on Silkwood yesterday.
Speaking for myself, I arrived at this conclusion some time ago after pondering the heat of decay of plutonium. A back of the envelope calculation puts it at 20-45 watts for a nuclear bomb core. While that may not sound like much, it's about the same amount of heat that needs to be dissipated by a powerful desktop CPU. While plans for the A-bomb have never been officially released, descriptions have never included forced ventilation or heatsink fins, or the requirement that they be stored with adequate air circulation. Such an amount of heat output would promptly build up until the core was in danger of melting down. All the trillions for the nuclear program are just siphoned into Jewish bank accounts like everything else. Another treasury dip. A conventional explosive can include radioactive material to make it appear a nuke went off, but that would simply be a "dirty bomb."
Fret not, humans may have the power to end much of the world as we know it, but not in an instant.
It seems that Americans are no longer afraid of nuclear war. They seem to be looking forward to it. I'm reminded of the cowboy hat wearing pilot in Kubrick's masterpiece "Dr. Strangelove," giving a rebel yell while clinging to his nuke as it descended into Russia. Maybe, as in Strangelove, all it would take to destroy the planet would be one deranged general determined to preserve his "precious bodily fluids." Unlike Biden, at least the president in that cold war classic tried to stop nuclear annihilation instead of cheering it on.
Now, octogenarian hag Pelosi is determined to visit Taiwan to engage in "diplomacy," blind to the ramifications of her visit. No doubt the know-nothing Biden regime put her up to it. The American supremacist "rules-based order" must be preserved no matter the cost.
Are the Chinese bluffing when they suggest that her plane might meet a watery grave?
No regime in my lifetime has been more bellicose than Biden's. It's as if Washington's neocons, who control our puppet president, are deciding which country to nuke first. Will it be Russia? China? Maybe Iran? Or even the DPRK? Maybe all at the same time. Decisions, decisions... Isn't it fun living in the End Times?
Here in Sweden people still eat together and restaurants and bars are crowded, and they were as crowded as they could get during restrictions and before the jab. Finally a little something to be proud of as a poor scandi.
I hear The Food Network is planning a spaghetti eating contest between Pelosi, Pompeo & Fauci. It will be judged by Slammin Sammy Alito with Chris Cuomo providing commentary.
Russia is at the plate, with Iran in the on-deck circle. China is beginning to stir in the bullpen. God knows what the charlatans running the American War Machine show will do next.
CNN & MSNBC are obsessed with sending Trump to prison. Of course, that won't happen, but Trump might not be "allowed" to run again. Not that it matters, the list of potential candidates being bandied about is pathetic, to say the least.
ps....Judge hit his 42nd HR of the year last night.
I've been semi homeless, on the road starving certain days and have eaten raw beef beside a supermarket. You can feel yourself getting stronger. Ahhh, protein!
The UK and the Anglo world by extension have become a joke. The new UK Prime minister will be either an ugly Hillaryesque woman or an ugly Hindu. LOL. Meanwhile, in the US, Biden announced that they killed "Al Qaeda's leader" for the umpteenth time. How many times have they killed him already? Does anyone still believe any of that? I mean, even "Al Qaeda", it never even existed in the first place.
As for eating bugs, well, it seems that in Mexico and Colombia they eat some type of ants, and in China and South Asia they eat anything that crawls or flies, but I'm not tempted. I'm more into the Mediterranean diet myself, and not even Mr. Schwab can convince me otherwise.
I hate the winter. With nothing good going on in my life, still 3 months till I can expect to even make enough in a month to pay my rent. Old age is closing in and I've got nothing to show for a lifetime of work with very little by way of pleasurable times and nothing I care to remember, because they'll all come with stories of loss. I drank too much last night, trying to raise a little enthusiasm for life even for a few hours and slept very poorly as a result. When the morning came around I set the alarm back for a couple of hours, listening to rain thumping down on the metal roof of the factory I also call home. I eventually got up, the rabbits want their goodies in the morning and it's not fair I deprive them. Now with my coffee and heater on, I'll waste the day away watching chipmunk videos and reruns of a silly nineties TV series. Sea Quest. Amazing how positive an outlook it had on the very future we're in now. Still it struck me how woke it all was even then. The innocence and trust in establishment it portrays is so gone today.
It gets me every day I survive and watch so many others not doing so, why I even bother? Just pride? With nothing else to show, am I just wanting to walk on the graves of all the fools who bought into the bullshit and played the game? I can't come up with anything else anymore. There's self loathing setting in. I am where I am due to my own fault. My own cynicism left me here. There's got to be someplace else I should be. I'm losing my religion.
I love you man but sometimes i think you just need some putang. Doomerism in moderation not excess .
Hi Lihn,
Great writing and incite, this line really hit home:"Years ago at the Philadelphia Zoo, I encountered a very rare douc langur, a three-colored monkey native to Indochina. Sick of looking at people, he sat facing a wall, immobile." In my youth I visited a Wildlife park in Sommerset, UK. In a circular concrete prison stood an elephant, oblivious to the crowds as he swayed in desperate misery, isolated and utterly hopeless. It occured to me then that people all too often misunderstand the intelligence and emotions of animals, D.H. Lawrence wrote "I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself", but confine that same animal in an entirely alien enviroment, alone.....Later this elephant, one of only 5 in the country was needlessly destroyed without the slightest recourse at rehoming him, all down to financial expediency, such is the ever present spectre of the love of money; seems the same fate is meant to await the most of us.
Ron Unz is a great example of a person determined to remain an ignorant imbecile in a world awash with information, a better example of confirmation bias eludes me.
Like your Monkey, I am largely done with robots masquerading as sentients in the perverse theatre of the absurd.
All the best.
Wonderful essay, always welcome, even from one who hasn't eaten animal flesh or secretions for over 21 years and is very healthy without them! Potatoes, rice and veggies keep me fit. The gladiators were also called the barley men because that is mostly what they ate. The strongest man in the world is a vegan. Meat eaters are clogged up with the fat and that is why heart disease is the number one killer in the world......but now maybe it's the jewjab!
Linh—your mood so often aligns with mine these days, which may not be a good thing.
The planet’s resources are quickly running low, but intelligence, which I always thought was "renewable," seems to be leading the list. Having kicked the can too long instead of acting, the plan now seems to be to lower the planet’s population. Whether that is to be done by simply restricting births and waiting for natural attrition, or by implementing something more extreme, remains to be seen. If it is the latter, the one thing that seems obvious is that those planning it do not envision themselves as part of the carbon needing to be reduced. In all other respects, they seem to agree with Thoreau, who said that the better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost.
The vast majority of us, who are destined to come and go without making more than tiny ripples in a very big pond, are probably best advised not to poison our allotted years too much with hand-wringing over things we are unable to affect, and make those years as good as we are able. In Tolkien's "The Fellowship of the Ring":, Frodo says of the dire turn the world has taken: "I wish it need not have happened in my time." And Gandalf replies, "So do I, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
As the Industrial Age draws to a fitful close, things will become increasingly challenging for us. It may help to remember that many people lived on this planet in an earlier era and managed to do without most of what we have, and although life was much harder, they, too, had their good times. Meanwhile, as the saying goes, “When the hurricane comes, one must seek shelter.”
"Years ago at the Philadelphia Zoo, I encountered a very rare douc langur, a three-colored monkey native to Indochina. Sick of looking at people, he sat facing a wall, immobile." Wow. This reminds me of the legend of Bodhidharma, a Buddhist monk who came to China from India in the 5th Century and started the Zen tradition. It was alleged that once arrived in China he sat in a cave facing a stonewall and meditated for nine years before meeting and teaching his first disciple. Every Buddhist temple in Vietnam worships him with an altar in the rear of the main hall. He is depicted as a bald guy with a beard and two piercing eyes who carries on his shoulders a cane with one shoe at its end. That monkey that Mr. Dinh remembers might as well be a reincarnation of Bodhidharma :)
Hi Linh
Thanks once again for a thought provoking essay.
The laughable ‘choices’ the western voters have in their constituencies have been getting steadily worse since the 90s and have sunk to new lows recently as the string pullers putting the candidates into line see just how far we can be pushed before pushing back.
UK’s Sunak v Truss, Canada’s Trudeau v A Tool (sorry, O’Toole), the non performing, vaccine-loving Trump v the senile Biden and so on. All are abysmal beyond belief, yet are placed on the ballot as the supposed best – the best, mind you, of the political brains available.
This shows the rot has been many years in the making and is unlikely to change in our lifetime unless with the assistance of a global upheaval like war – nuclear or otherwise. Hopefully the coriolis effect will spare the southern hemisphere the worst of the fallout if that happens.
The thought that the execrable Sunak might be the British Prime Minister in a few days is hardly alleviated by the thought that the only alternative is the equally odious Truss. How is it that western politics has devolved to the level presently shown in the UK in which foreigners, effectively, are allowed to stand for parliament, and not even the best of them at that?
Of the 12 people who were short listed by the ‘conservative’ party, five were ethnic Indo-Pakistani, one was Iraqi, one was Nigerian, one was half-French and a quarter-Jewish, one was Jewish and only three were British, in the sense of having two ethnically British parents - Penny Mordaunt, Liz Truss and, finally, the sole white male...Jeremy Hunt.
Yet the UK is at least 86% white and 90% of Members of Parliament are white.
To put it another way, can you imagine if 5 lily white Englishmen were standing for premiership of, say, Vietnam or India against only one Vietnamese or Indian? I'm sure the local population would riot just at the thought.
The western media and school system have a lot to answer for. They're the reason there’s a black South African Miss Ireland who entered Ireland in 2004 as a 'refugee' from an SA that had been (mis)governed for 10 years by the African National Congress by the time she left.
I guess the wheel turns and colonial ownership is now in the process of being reversed as the colonists find themselves increasingly being governed by the ex colonials. One could say it’s poetic justice.
It’s hardly possible to control oneself at a well stocked Korean BBQ buffet. The worse part about eating the vegetables is getting them out of the wheel chair.
Linh...another great article...and I love your Postcards book...I have a question...do you think they really jewjabbed the jews in Israel or just gave them placebo's? I read an article by a jew doctor who said hes seeing many adverse reactions to the jabbed in Israel...he of course could just be lying...or are they willing to sacrifice some of their own...like they did in WWII to garner sympathy for their return to the motherland...oh and Unz not only believes in getting vaxxed...or so he says...but he still thinks they actually sent men to the moon in 69....who still believes that hoax? carry on sir
While I've always held an admittedly perverse desire to witness a nuclear explosion, there doesn't appear to be any real evidence they actually exist. Without instrumentation, to the naked eye, a large conventional explosion cannot be distinguished from a supposed "nuclear" explosion.
Miles Mathis has written a few papers on the topic. Incidentally, he just released a paper on Silkwood yesterday.
The Nuclear Hoax http://mileswmathis.com/trinity.pdf
The Bikini Atoll Nuclear Tests were Faked http://mileswmathis.com/bikini.pdf
So What is Really Going on behind the nuclear programs? http://mileswmathis.com/caes.pdf
The symbolism of the military patches and the nuclear program http://mileswmathis.com/NRO2.pdf
Speaking for myself, I arrived at this conclusion some time ago after pondering the heat of decay of plutonium. A back of the envelope calculation puts it at 20-45 watts for a nuclear bomb core. While that may not sound like much, it's about the same amount of heat that needs to be dissipated by a powerful desktop CPU. While plans for the A-bomb have never been officially released, descriptions have never included forced ventilation or heatsink fins, or the requirement that they be stored with adequate air circulation. Such an amount of heat output would promptly build up until the core was in danger of melting down. All the trillions for the nuclear program are just siphoned into Jewish bank accounts like everything else. Another treasury dip. A conventional explosive can include radioactive material to make it appear a nuke went off, but that would simply be a "dirty bomb."
Fret not, humans may have the power to end much of the world as we know it, but not in an instant.
It seems that Americans are no longer afraid of nuclear war. They seem to be looking forward to it. I'm reminded of the cowboy hat wearing pilot in Kubrick's masterpiece "Dr. Strangelove," giving a rebel yell while clinging to his nuke as it descended into Russia. Maybe, as in Strangelove, all it would take to destroy the planet would be one deranged general determined to preserve his "precious bodily fluids." Unlike Biden, at least the president in that cold war classic tried to stop nuclear annihilation instead of cheering it on.
Now, octogenarian hag Pelosi is determined to visit Taiwan to engage in "diplomacy," blind to the ramifications of her visit. No doubt the know-nothing Biden regime put her up to it. The American supremacist "rules-based order" must be preserved no matter the cost.
Are the Chinese bluffing when they suggest that her plane might meet a watery grave?
No regime in my lifetime has been more bellicose than Biden's. It's as if Washington's neocons, who control our puppet president, are deciding which country to nuke first. Will it be Russia? China? Maybe Iran? Or even the DPRK? Maybe all at the same time. Decisions, decisions... Isn't it fun living in the End Times?
Here in Sweden people still eat together and restaurants and bars are crowded, and they were as crowded as they could get during restrictions and before the jab. Finally a little something to be proud of as a poor scandi.
Linh
"Finding ground beef laughable, Mongols reject McDonald's"......hilarious
I hear The Food Network is planning a spaghetti eating contest between Pelosi, Pompeo & Fauci. It will be judged by Slammin Sammy Alito with Chris Cuomo providing commentary.
Russia is at the plate, with Iran in the on-deck circle. China is beginning to stir in the bullpen. God knows what the charlatans running the American War Machine show will do next.
CNN & MSNBC are obsessed with sending Trump to prison. Of course, that won't happen, but Trump might not be "allowed" to run again. Not that it matters, the list of potential candidates being bandied about is pathetic, to say the least.
ps....Judge hit his 42nd HR of the year last night.
Bill
I've been semi homeless, on the road starving certain days and have eaten raw beef beside a supermarket. You can feel yourself getting stronger. Ahhh, protein!
I do prefer it cooked if time allows.
Eat on Linh!
The UK and the Anglo world by extension have become a joke. The new UK Prime minister will be either an ugly Hillaryesque woman or an ugly Hindu. LOL. Meanwhile, in the US, Biden announced that they killed "Al Qaeda's leader" for the umpteenth time. How many times have they killed him already? Does anyone still believe any of that? I mean, even "Al Qaeda", it never even existed in the first place.
As for eating bugs, well, it seems that in Mexico and Colombia they eat some type of ants, and in China and South Asia they eat anything that crawls or flies, but I'm not tempted. I'm more into the Mediterranean diet myself, and not even Mr. Schwab can convince me otherwise.