Had I not managed to leave my screaming stepmother, I would have grown up in San Jose, with some of those years, at least, in the Santa Clara County Jail for murder one.
I'm trying to restrain my big mouth but I just have to say what a superb essay this is. Seeing the world in general and America in particular as it really is. And which virtually no one wants to talk about.
There are physically brave people (often reckless idiots, usually men) and then occasionally, very occasionally, there are intellectually brave people. (Perhaps intellectually courageous would be a better term?) You sir are among those few.
Now if you and your perceptive and good readers will excuse me, I'll go back to heavy drinking. Happy fourth of July to all.
That lineup of Portland Antifa renegades is something else. I have read that many of them were not actually from the area, but came in from outside, unable to resist the opportunity to rumble.
I first came to Portland in 1992, and it was a wonderful place. We lived there for 5 years or so until my daughter finished HS and went off to college downstate. She returned to Portland after graduating, and we visit every year. The city itself is almost unrecognizable. The formerly beautiful downtown area is pretty much a "plywood city", with homeless everywhere--it almost makes you want to cry to see the ruin of it. And just about every spare inch of freeway right-of-way is now filled with tents and blankets.
You write: "Though everyone is trapped by his society, children are particularly helpless. Brainwashed nonstop and forced to obey even the most asinine commands, they haven’t acquired enough experience, wisdom or strength to resist anything that’s injected into their mind or body." Quite so.
When I reflect back on various experiences from my own childhood, passing through "the system," I constantly find myself circling back to the question: “Why on earth didn’t I push back on this obvious BS being laid on me?”
The only thing I learned in 11 years of school was boredom.My eagerness to learn was slowly assassinated.And teachers going shut up and play along,or else.
Wes Montgomery defined a jazz style, had a large family so worked as a machinist during the day and played his gigs at night, a role model. 60 years later we have what exactly and who will be remembered in 5 years. Keep up your commentary, it will turn around if we can mock it enough …
In the early 1980s Prof. Revilo Oliver wrote that Japan, with an homogenous population possessing high intelligence, would be poised to be a global power relatively soon (i.e., early in the 21st Century) He pondered whether they would withstand the destructive power of Jewish criminality and parasitism. He believed they stood a good chance, and as an example of their racial resilience wrote how they had suppressed the alien religion of Christianity many centuries previous. What Oliver, who died in 1994, could not foresee was the precipitous decline in birth-rate, a kind of slow national suicide. Civilized people will mourn, but Nature makes no allowances for a species which will not reproduce itself.
Holy shit, Linh. We have birthed (or shat out) a society that venerates ugliness and perversity, along with associated viciousness. This is bad. What's going to happen to us? What's going to come out the other side? IS there any "other side"?
This reminded me of attending Hoosier Boys State summer of 1994 in Terre Haute, In. It's purpose was to inculcate the kids with the highest grade point averages into the idea that they are the future leaders of their communities. I had a hard enough time with the basic school politics and this was no different. I ran for garbage commissioner of the municipality to which I was assigned and lost. Good luck on my behalf as the "losers" basically had the rest of the week off other than attending activities like military and police recruiting seminars. I remember packing onto an old school bus and riding to the federal penitentiary on the Wabash river where Timothy McVeigh was later executed. We were there to see a SWAT demonstration. Sniper rifles taking out barrels of water, submachine guns at close range and an exploding car for the finale. I think that the message was, "You didn't make the cut guys, but there's more than one way to enjoy some power..."
I like the way the MJQ looked back then. When I saw them in the Nineties, they were afro-cized under a banner that said "GREAT BLACK MUSIC". From the name Quartet I was expecting Dave Brubeck. What I got was bebop, virtuoso, scale-shredding, sax solos non-stop. Well one would pause and retreat to the side of the stage and dump the collected saliva out of his horn while another took over.
I'm trying to restrain my big mouth but I just have to say what a superb essay this is. Seeing the world in general and America in particular as it really is. And which virtually no one wants to talk about.
There are physically brave people (often reckless idiots, usually men) and then occasionally, very occasionally, there are intellectually brave people. (Perhaps intellectually courageous would be a better term?) You sir are among those few.
Now if you and your perceptive and good readers will excuse me, I'll go back to heavy drinking. Happy fourth of July to all.
That lineup of Portland Antifa renegades is something else. I have read that many of them were not actually from the area, but came in from outside, unable to resist the opportunity to rumble.
I first came to Portland in 1992, and it was a wonderful place. We lived there for 5 years or so until my daughter finished HS and went off to college downstate. She returned to Portland after graduating, and we visit every year. The city itself is almost unrecognizable. The formerly beautiful downtown area is pretty much a "plywood city", with homeless everywhere--it almost makes you want to cry to see the ruin of it. And just about every spare inch of freeway right-of-way is now filled with tents and blankets.
You write: "Though everyone is trapped by his society, children are particularly helpless. Brainwashed nonstop and forced to obey even the most asinine commands, they haven’t acquired enough experience, wisdom or strength to resist anything that’s injected into their mind or body." Quite so.
When I reflect back on various experiences from my own childhood, passing through "the system," I constantly find myself circling back to the question: “Why on earth didn’t I push back on this obvious BS being laid on me?”
The only thing I learned in 11 years of school was boredom.My eagerness to learn was slowly assassinated.And teachers going shut up and play along,or else.
Wes Montgomery defined a jazz style, had a large family so worked as a machinist during the day and played his gigs at night, a role model. 60 years later we have what exactly and who will be remembered in 5 years. Keep up your commentary, it will turn around if we can mock it enough …
Thank you for including the final photo- antidote to all those revolting, soul-destroying images above it.
Thank you for another succinct, superb essay that cuts thru all the unneeded fat and fanciness.
In the early 1980s Prof. Revilo Oliver wrote that Japan, with an homogenous population possessing high intelligence, would be poised to be a global power relatively soon (i.e., early in the 21st Century) He pondered whether they would withstand the destructive power of Jewish criminality and parasitism. He believed they stood a good chance, and as an example of their racial resilience wrote how they had suppressed the alien religion of Christianity many centuries previous. What Oliver, who died in 1994, could not foresee was the precipitous decline in birth-rate, a kind of slow national suicide. Civilized people will mourn, but Nature makes no allowances for a species which will not reproduce itself.
Some of the most memorable lines I remember from a book:
"What have we done?"
"No, what have they done to us?"
Holy shit, Linh. We have birthed (or shat out) a society that venerates ugliness and perversity, along with associated viciousness. This is bad. What's going to happen to us? What's going to come out the other side? IS there any "other side"?
Antifa: tools of the ZIO/GLOBO/Homo BORG>
This reminded me of attending Hoosier Boys State summer of 1994 in Terre Haute, In. It's purpose was to inculcate the kids with the highest grade point averages into the idea that they are the future leaders of their communities. I had a hard enough time with the basic school politics and this was no different. I ran for garbage commissioner of the municipality to which I was assigned and lost. Good luck on my behalf as the "losers" basically had the rest of the week off other than attending activities like military and police recruiting seminars. I remember packing onto an old school bus and riding to the federal penitentiary on the Wabash river where Timothy McVeigh was later executed. We were there to see a SWAT demonstration. Sniper rifles taking out barrels of water, submachine guns at close range and an exploding car for the finale. I think that the message was, "You didn't make the cut guys, but there's more than one way to enjoy some power..."
Such ugliness.
I like the way the MJQ looked back then. When I saw them in the Nineties, they were afro-cized under a banner that said "GREAT BLACK MUSIC". From the name Quartet I was expecting Dave Brubeck. What I got was bebop, virtuoso, scale-shredding, sax solos non-stop. Well one would pause and retreat to the side of the stage and dump the collected saliva out of his horn while another took over.