Book 66
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BOOK 66: CONSEQUENCE
56. On Cheating
Why do people cheat? Countless reasons, I suppose. However, one might agree that a strong impulse to cheat is based in attaining success as direct compensation for a previous related critical failure. Olympic sprinter, Ben Johnson, had lost to Carl Lewis in the past and this critical failure provoked him to consider cheating, which he then did, and was caught.
To admit to cheating would defeat the purpose of claiming success. The false success would be exposed as disgrace. So, people keep their cheating hush-hush. This secrecy is problematic because the cheater will only trust and bond with other cheaters. The cheater subculture will become more degenerate over time.
This effect has been noted in prisons with respect to how sex offenders are “rehabilitated”. The therapy sessions which other prisoners want to have nothing to do with end up hermitically-sealed echo chambers for the mentally-ill sex criminals. This “cheaters circle” is a place where poor values based in fear and trauma are reinforced, retooled, and propagated.
A healthy society should not foster inbred subcultures of cheaters of any kind. We already know not to put all the poorest math students in the same class and have them teach each other. Instead, those who need a leg-up in mathematics are encouraged to work with tutors or other students who have an aptitude in math. Cheaters need tutors and mentors – and I’m not exactly sure what that would entail but it seems like the kind of plan that requires more attention from society.
56. On Cheating
Why do people cheat? Countless reasons, I suppose. However, one might agree that a strong impulse to cheat is based in attaining success as direct compensation for a previous related critical failure. Olympic sprinter, Ben Johnson, had lost to Carl Lewis in the past and this critical failure provoked him to consider cheating, which he then did, and was caught.
To admit to cheating would defeat the purpose of claiming success. The false success would be exposed as disgrace. So, people keep their cheating hush-hush. This secrecy is problematic because the cheater will only trust and bond with other cheaters. The cheater subculture will become more degenerate over time.
This effect has been noted in prisons with respect to how sex offenders are “rehabilitated”. The therapy sessions which other prisoners want to have nothing to do with end up hermitically-sealed echo chambers for the mentally-ill sex criminals. This “cheaters circle” is a place where poor values based in fear and trauma are reinforced, retooled, and propagated.
A healthy society should not foster inbred subcultures of cheaters of any kind. We already know not to put all the poorest math students in the same class and have them teach each other. Instead, those who need a leg-up in mathematics are encouraged to work with tutors or other students who have an aptitude in math. Cheaters need tutors and mentors – and I’m not exactly sure what that would entail but it seems like the kind of plan that requires more attention from society.
BOOK 66: CONSEQUENCE
57. On Pedophilia
It has always disturbed me that pedophiles provide a justification for their behavior prior to being caught that is contradictory to the excuse they offer once caught and processed through the criminal justice system. Let us examine quickly: the primary justification for pedophiles is stated as “mentorship” where they claim that a sexually active adult should take a child and “show them the ropes” because children have a “natural curiosity”.
The Dutch government took many years to outlaw the Vereniging Martijn organization of shameless pedophile who purported this aforementioned justification with pride and assembled in public to celebrate their twisted values.
“Natural curiosity” is an interesting choice of words by pedophiles given that children are naturally curious about almost anything, and children would show interest in cracking eggs on their head while hopping on one foot if adults told them that it would keep children safe and help them fit in. Children are helpless and vulnerable. Any exploitation of a child’s “curiosity” should be met with the strictest justice.
Have you ever noticed that children rarely turn down a sip of alcohol from an adult’s glass. They are naturally curious about adult activities. Would a child be doing really well in life and developing in a healthy way if we let them get drunk every night? Additionally, children usually grimace when they taste alcohol, but they enjoy the security they feel when they fit in and gain social capital by taking those precious sips. That feeling of security cannot be exploited by adults.
Yet, the pedophiles who claim they were engaging in a natural and progressive education program with children when exposing them to sex, will then hide behind the excuse that they are former victims of pedophilia, when caught by the state or other responsible citizens. Well, would that excuse not imply that they knew full well what they were doing was wrong and exploitation? They claim “sickness” as an excuses when caught, but it is “healthy” activity when they are operating under the radar. Pedophiles are perniciously hypocritical and should not be granted an inch in our justice systems lest they take more – which is a certainty for them.
57. On Pedophilia
It has always disturbed me that pedophiles provide a justification for their behavior prior to being caught that is contradictory to the excuse they offer once caught and processed through the criminal justice system. Let us examine quickly: the primary justification for pedophiles is stated as “mentorship” where they claim that a sexually active adult should take a child and “show them the ropes” because children have a “natural curiosity”.
The Dutch government took many years to outlaw the Vereniging Martijn organization of shameless pedophile who purported this aforementioned justification with pride and assembled in public to celebrate their twisted values.
“Natural curiosity” is an interesting choice of words by pedophiles given that children are naturally curious about almost anything, and children would show interest in cracking eggs on their head while hopping on one foot if adults told them that it would keep children safe and help them fit in. Children are helpless and vulnerable. Any exploitation of a child’s “curiosity” should be met with the strictest justice.
Have you ever noticed that children rarely turn down a sip of alcohol from an adult’s glass. They are naturally curious about adult activities. Would a child be doing really well in life and developing in a healthy way if we let them get drunk every night? Additionally, children usually grimace when they taste alcohol, but they enjoy the security they feel when they fit in and gain social capital by taking those precious sips. That feeling of security cannot be exploited by adults.
Yet, the pedophiles who claim they were engaging in a natural and progressive education program with children when exposing them to sex, will then hide behind the excuse that they are former victims of pedophilia, when caught by the state or other responsible citizens. Well, would that excuse not imply that they knew full well what they were doing was wrong and exploitation? They claim “sickness” as an excuses when caught, but it is “healthy” activity when they are operating under the radar. Pedophiles are perniciously hypocritical and should not be granted an inch in our justice systems lest they take more – which is a certainty for them.
BOOK 66: CONSEQUENCE
58. On Cults
I met a Satanist one day and they pointed me in the direction of the tenets of satanism. This statute can be viewed online at a variety of websites that support satanism. I was taken aback by the tenets expounded in the constitution of the subaltern “cult” movement. These are some primary values of satanists: do not volunteer opinions but wait until you are asked to share something with others; and never hurt or exploit children and the vulnerable. Those satanists were really onto something.
This certainly isn’t the impression of satanism that I grew up with through hegemonic Christian discourse, or Hollywood support for that hegemony. My impression of satanism was that it was a cult for worshipping the evils one might expect to experience in Hell. I believed that satanists were those who were sycophants to Satan in hopes that they might avoid torture in Hell. In sum, satanists were immoral cowards.
Reading the online principles of the Satanic Temple and Church of Satan changed my mind on all of that, although I recognize that there may be true cult leaders that have co-opted the biblical figure of Satan to justify their malignant and wicked sociopathic interests. However, I am no apologist for satanists nor am I one of their members in any organization. I don’t keep up with their news or follow their developments.
Although, I don’t know much about this offshoot of Christianity, I have made some initial conclusions – satanists are a denomination of victims of Christianity. I believe that those who are most attracted to satanism are individuals who have been victimized, or merely feel victimized, by their previous interpellation by the mainstream Chrisitan church.
The Christian church is built on sexual repression. Sex is the wildest discourse and when people are engaged in wild thought and feelings, they become difficult to control. Monotheistic religions have licensed against sexuality in order to exhibit a measure of social control over their flock by keeping their followers away from wild, unbounded discourse.
However, the sexual repression then attracts the most vulnerable to positions of power – those who are desperate to express wild sexuality but are afraid to do so based in the wrath of God purported through scripture. These weak-willed individuals finagle themselves into positions of authority in the church where they are then able to express their wild sexuality and at the same time feel that it can be justified through the recognition by others of their authority within the church.
Children are the victims of these weak-willed, low self-controlled individuals. Those children may grow up to reject the church and embrace an ideology which the mainstream church fears – in this case, satanism. I believe that the Church of Scientology recruits its members, essentially, in the same way and that most of its congregation are victims of sex abuse who understand Christian sexual repression as the direct cause of their grief and trauma.
58. On Cults
I met a Satanist one day and they pointed me in the direction of the tenets of satanism. This statute can be viewed online at a variety of websites that support satanism. I was taken aback by the tenets expounded in the constitution of the subaltern “cult” movement. These are some primary values of satanists: do not volunteer opinions but wait until you are asked to share something with others; and never hurt or exploit children and the vulnerable. Those satanists were really onto something.
This certainly isn’t the impression of satanism that I grew up with through hegemonic Christian discourse, or Hollywood support for that hegemony. My impression of satanism was that it was a cult for worshipping the evils one might expect to experience in Hell. I believed that satanists were those who were sycophants to Satan in hopes that they might avoid torture in Hell. In sum, satanists were immoral cowards.
Reading the online principles of the Satanic Temple and Church of Satan changed my mind on all of that, although I recognize that there may be true cult leaders that have co-opted the biblical figure of Satan to justify their malignant and wicked sociopathic interests. However, I am no apologist for satanists nor am I one of their members in any organization. I don’t keep up with their news or follow their developments.
Although, I don’t know much about this offshoot of Christianity, I have made some initial conclusions – satanists are a denomination of victims of Christianity. I believe that those who are most attracted to satanism are individuals who have been victimized, or merely feel victimized, by their previous interpellation by the mainstream Chrisitan church.
The Christian church is built on sexual repression. Sex is the wildest discourse and when people are engaged in wild thought and feelings, they become difficult to control. Monotheistic religions have licensed against sexuality in order to exhibit a measure of social control over their flock by keeping their followers away from wild, unbounded discourse.
However, the sexual repression then attracts the most vulnerable to positions of power – those who are desperate to express wild sexuality but are afraid to do so based in the wrath of God purported through scripture. These weak-willed individuals finagle themselves into positions of authority in the church where they are then able to express their wild sexuality and at the same time feel that it can be justified through the recognition by others of their authority within the church.
Children are the victims of these weak-willed, low self-controlled individuals. Those children may grow up to reject the church and embrace an ideology which the mainstream church fears – in this case, satanism. I believe that the Church of Scientology recruits its members, essentially, in the same way and that most of its congregation are victims of sex abuse who understand Christian sexual repression as the direct cause of their grief and trauma.
BOOK 66: CONSEQUENCE
59. On Gratification
How terrifying to imagine that in the near future advancement in artificial intelligence and robotics will result in the proliferation of “pleasure” model androids. With half of all pages indexed on the internet today being pornographic in nature we might imagine that it is just a matter of time before people have pleasure androids as sex toys at home.
Furthermore, we can expect that whatever government legislation is put in place to restrict pleasure androids from crying or screaming – emulating being harmed, generally – will then be modified by computer hackers. Whatever laws would prohibit an android from being raped or being represented as a child for sex will inevitably stimulate a vibrant black market to circumvent those protections. For me, this vision of the future is nightmarish.
However, a good friend reminded me that all of that time spent with android lovers would be time wasted with respect to learning successful human-to-human intimacy. Real relationships, with their need for compassion, reciprocity, and understanding will become onerous and taxing for those who have become acclimated to social interactions with eternally agreeable artificial partners.
Effectively, the least truly social members of society will become hermetically-sealed in their virtual fantasy environments, and their “weak-bonder” genes will not be propagated into the human gene pool. Thus, “rape androids” are one of the keys to positive evolution for the human race, regardless of how sick and twisted it sounds at face value.
59. On Gratification
How terrifying to imagine that in the near future advancement in artificial intelligence and robotics will result in the proliferation of “pleasure” model androids. With half of all pages indexed on the internet today being pornographic in nature we might imagine that it is just a matter of time before people have pleasure androids as sex toys at home.
Furthermore, we can expect that whatever government legislation is put in place to restrict pleasure androids from crying or screaming – emulating being harmed, generally – will then be modified by computer hackers. Whatever laws would prohibit an android from being raped or being represented as a child for sex will inevitably stimulate a vibrant black market to circumvent those protections. For me, this vision of the future is nightmarish.
However, a good friend reminded me that all of that time spent with android lovers would be time wasted with respect to learning successful human-to-human intimacy. Real relationships, with their need for compassion, reciprocity, and understanding will become onerous and taxing for those who have become acclimated to social interactions with eternally agreeable artificial partners.
Effectively, the least truly social members of society will become hermetically-sealed in their virtual fantasy environments, and their “weak-bonder” genes will not be propagated into the human gene pool. Thus, “rape androids” are one of the keys to positive evolution for the human race, regardless of how sick and twisted it sounds at face value.
BOOK 66: CONSEQUENCE
60. On Obesity
In recent years, activists have applied pressure against the tenets of the Social Contract in order to recognize “fat shaming” as a social problem and form of discrimination. Why do some people believe that being fat is abhorrent? Well, obesity lowers your lifespan by decades on average, which to some may be offensive in its capacity to be a drawn-out form of suicide and self-harm. Also, obesity reflects a sedentary lifestyle which can be interpreted as laziness. Obesity is a result of overeating which represents low self-control. Should I go on?
As children develop into young adults, the most significant social change is that the individual is asked to exhibit greater self-control and be willing to work and contribute to society. Whereas obesity is a visual cue which tells the observer that the obese individual has, ironically, not successfully grown through the life stages of child, to teen, and then onto adult. They are not “pulling their weight”. Obesity signals critical character weakness or personality shortcomings that go beyond a visual assessment of the attractiveness of the physical appearance of the overweight individual.
The medical profession has already “weighed in” on the major causes of obesity: too much sugar in the diet, filling up on high-caloric junk food, out-of-control portion sizes, lack of physical exercise, and sitting around entertaining oneself with modern technology. Those are all solvable problems and can be mediated through a modest amount of self-control and work – the kind of self-control and work that every child is expected to internalize as they grow into adults.
Essentially, those who are against people becoming morbidly obese, could let you know by telling the obese to, “grow up”, and stop “growing out”. Realistically, when factoring in medical knowledge of hereditary conditions such as hyperthyroidism or Cushing’s disease – only about five percent of the population could claim a genetic-based excuse for being obese.
This is all to say, that fat-shaming makes sense, and obesity should be viewed as a social problem even if we agree to attend to possible unfair forms of discrimination against the obese. Certainly, obesity should not be celebrated, much in the same way that we do not celebrate the child who refuses to grow-up through their failure to take out the garbage, do the dishes, or clean their room.
There are lots of reasonable excuses for being fat that we can all understand (trauma, for starters), but don’t ask others to understand those excuses as justifications, and then celebrate the condition of underdevelopment as if it were something to be proud of. That is the height of perversion and signals a petulant society unwilling to engage in a program aimed at self-improvement.
60. On Obesity
In recent years, activists have applied pressure against the tenets of the Social Contract in order to recognize “fat shaming” as a social problem and form of discrimination. Why do some people believe that being fat is abhorrent? Well, obesity lowers your lifespan by decades on average, which to some may be offensive in its capacity to be a drawn-out form of suicide and self-harm. Also, obesity reflects a sedentary lifestyle which can be interpreted as laziness. Obesity is a result of overeating which represents low self-control. Should I go on?
As children develop into young adults, the most significant social change is that the individual is asked to exhibit greater self-control and be willing to work and contribute to society. Whereas obesity is a visual cue which tells the observer that the obese individual has, ironically, not successfully grown through the life stages of child, to teen, and then onto adult. They are not “pulling their weight”. Obesity signals critical character weakness or personality shortcomings that go beyond a visual assessment of the attractiveness of the physical appearance of the overweight individual.
The medical profession has already “weighed in” on the major causes of obesity: too much sugar in the diet, filling up on high-caloric junk food, out-of-control portion sizes, lack of physical exercise, and sitting around entertaining oneself with modern technology. Those are all solvable problems and can be mediated through a modest amount of self-control and work – the kind of self-control and work that every child is expected to internalize as they grow into adults.
Essentially, those who are against people becoming morbidly obese, could let you know by telling the obese to, “grow up”, and stop “growing out”. Realistically, when factoring in medical knowledge of hereditary conditions such as hyperthyroidism or Cushing’s disease – only about five percent of the population could claim a genetic-based excuse for being obese.
This is all to say, that fat-shaming makes sense, and obesity should be viewed as a social problem even if we agree to attend to possible unfair forms of discrimination against the obese. Certainly, obesity should not be celebrated, much in the same way that we do not celebrate the child who refuses to grow-up through their failure to take out the garbage, do the dishes, or clean their room.
There are lots of reasonable excuses for being fat that we can all understand (trauma, for starters), but don’t ask others to understand those excuses as justifications, and then celebrate the condition of underdevelopment as if it were something to be proud of. That is the height of perversion and signals a petulant society unwilling to engage in a program aimed at self-improvement.
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61. On Abortion
Two women stand in front of you – both morbidly obese. One commits to developing strength of character and she proceeds to improve her appearance through good diet and fitness, while the other runs to a plastic surgeon for nips, tucks, and liposuction. For some, the latter woman in this example has poor character through her taking the easy way out. Then again, what about a third woman who never became morbidly obese in the first place?
The debate on abortion can be viewed in similar terms, but admittedly, it is her body. I’m not arguing the status of the human soul, nor what constitutes significant life. Instead, I am noting that women who run to the abortion clinic constantly are women of poor character. I don’t believe that this is an inherent trait, therefore there are solutions. Moreover, perhaps, the real issue lies in a kind of female potency anxiety.
Could it be that through regular menstruation (a failure state for conception) women develop a psychological anxiety regarding their physical potency (ability to conceive)? Then, to become pregnant is to assert that being pregnant is possible – this woman is potent – and the anxiety can subside.
Before scoffing or rejecting this hypothesis consider carefully that all intact men are absolutely driven by a male potency anxiety which is demonstrated liberally through the regulation of masturbation as well as gawking behaviors and public displays. Men will “check out” women because it signals that their equipment is functioning, and this wards off anxiety around the idea that they would suffer impotency when called upon to perform sexually. Men don’t gawk because we think we could have that woman – we aren’t that stupid. Instead, it’s all about keeping the engine warm.
Conversely, unwanted pregnancy may be about keeping the over warm, so to speak, because how else can women sense their physical potency? Obviously, this notion of a female potency anxiety cannot be an unconscious motivation for all women, and many women never have an abortion, with many more only having one (to err is human…). However, for women who seem reckless and who have multiple abortions in their lifetime, perhaps, the female potency anxiety hypothesis has validity.
Worth noting, is that this entry on abortion for this book has absolutely no import for discussion related to abortions of babies conceived through sexual exploitation of any kind. I wholly believe in a woman’s right to abort a baby that she did not consent to conceiving. Only a cruel God would punish people in such a way and only a person of limited mental faculty could adhere to such a God.
61. On Abortion
Two women stand in front of you – both morbidly obese. One commits to developing strength of character and she proceeds to improve her appearance through good diet and fitness, while the other runs to a plastic surgeon for nips, tucks, and liposuction. For some, the latter woman in this example has poor character through her taking the easy way out. Then again, what about a third woman who never became morbidly obese in the first place?
The debate on abortion can be viewed in similar terms, but admittedly, it is her body. I’m not arguing the status of the human soul, nor what constitutes significant life. Instead, I am noting that women who run to the abortion clinic constantly are women of poor character. I don’t believe that this is an inherent trait, therefore there are solutions. Moreover, perhaps, the real issue lies in a kind of female potency anxiety.
Could it be that through regular menstruation (a failure state for conception) women develop a psychological anxiety regarding their physical potency (ability to conceive)? Then, to become pregnant is to assert that being pregnant is possible – this woman is potent – and the anxiety can subside.
Before scoffing or rejecting this hypothesis consider carefully that all intact men are absolutely driven by a male potency anxiety which is demonstrated liberally through the regulation of masturbation as well as gawking behaviors and public displays. Men will “check out” women because it signals that their equipment is functioning, and this wards off anxiety around the idea that they would suffer impotency when called upon to perform sexually. Men don’t gawk because we think we could have that woman – we aren’t that stupid. Instead, it’s all about keeping the engine warm.
Conversely, unwanted pregnancy may be about keeping the over warm, so to speak, because how else can women sense their physical potency? Obviously, this notion of a female potency anxiety cannot be an unconscious motivation for all women, and many women never have an abortion, with many more only having one (to err is human…). However, for women who seem reckless and who have multiple abortions in their lifetime, perhaps, the female potency anxiety hypothesis has validity.
Worth noting, is that this entry on abortion for this book has absolutely no import for discussion related to abortions of babies conceived through sexual exploitation of any kind. I wholly believe in a woman’s right to abort a baby that she did not consent to conceiving. Only a cruel God would punish people in such a way and only a person of limited mental faculty could adhere to such a God.
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62. On Anomalies
It has occurred to me in the past that an anomaly need not be understood as an outlier, but rather, it functions as a “missing link” for a set of data. The anomaly can point to more general concerns that may have been overlooked in a study.
The history of human sexuality is important as we are all stakeholders, and we are impacted by scientific findings in animal sexuality. The presence of homosexuality in the animal kingdom is telling. There are only two mammals that have consistently demonstrated members that are exclusively homosexual – humans and sheep.
However, there are several mammals where rare instances of homosexuality have been noted. For example, large beasts, such as giraffes and elephants, have demonstrated bisexual male-male behavior in the past. Could it be that large beasts need to be willing to cooperate when sharing limited resources lest conflict results in battle? Two large beasts battling usually doesn’t have a “winner”, and both animals are injured often to the point of the conflict having not been worth it in the first place.
Dolphins have a mating ritual whereby the males “gangbang” the estrus female, and during the frenzy some of the males will satisfy themselves using other male blowholes as sexual orifices. I can’t say that this bizarre habit constitutes male intimacy per se. Of course, many ape species exhibit bisexuality, but interestingly there are not cultures of exclusive homosexuals among apes.
That being said, we know from the Toronto Zoo penguin incident, that trauma and interference can provoke homosexuality in animals that would otherwise not engage in such behavior. The penguins at the Toronto Zoo were completely isolated, and eventually, they imprinted sexual intimacy onto each other for lack of any suitable partner.
Finally, we have the pathetic koala bear who suffers from a “sponge” brain and is generally an improbable creature to have made it this far through a process of attrition driven by evolutionary forces. The koala females often prefer homosexual partnership. They also suffer an array of dysfunction, including, rampant syphilis, and partaking in a diet which is in fact poison to them (as a result, newborns are fed their mother’s pap – excrement).
Researchers have discovered that roughly 10% of all male sheep are exclusively male-male homosexual. The scientific explanation for the phenomenon has been that anomalous sheep have poor neural network development as compared with non-homosexual sheep. This begs the question – does a genetic defect causing poor neural development, initiate a hormonal process to discourage procreation? Is this evolution or nature’s way of phasing out defective genes related to cognitive development? These are questions that will take several decades to answer simply because the research required would be considered politically insensitive to minorities within human society.
62. On Anomalies
It has occurred to me in the past that an anomaly need not be understood as an outlier, but rather, it functions as a “missing link” for a set of data. The anomaly can point to more general concerns that may have been overlooked in a study.
The history of human sexuality is important as we are all stakeholders, and we are impacted by scientific findings in animal sexuality. The presence of homosexuality in the animal kingdom is telling. There are only two mammals that have consistently demonstrated members that are exclusively homosexual – humans and sheep.
However, there are several mammals where rare instances of homosexuality have been noted. For example, large beasts, such as giraffes and elephants, have demonstrated bisexual male-male behavior in the past. Could it be that large beasts need to be willing to cooperate when sharing limited resources lest conflict results in battle? Two large beasts battling usually doesn’t have a “winner”, and both animals are injured often to the point of the conflict having not been worth it in the first place.
Dolphins have a mating ritual whereby the males “gangbang” the estrus female, and during the frenzy some of the males will satisfy themselves using other male blowholes as sexual orifices. I can’t say that this bizarre habit constitutes male intimacy per se. Of course, many ape species exhibit bisexuality, but interestingly there are not cultures of exclusive homosexuals among apes.
That being said, we know from the Toronto Zoo penguin incident, that trauma and interference can provoke homosexuality in animals that would otherwise not engage in such behavior. The penguins at the Toronto Zoo were completely isolated, and eventually, they imprinted sexual intimacy onto each other for lack of any suitable partner.
Finally, we have the pathetic koala bear who suffers from a “sponge” brain and is generally an improbable creature to have made it this far through a process of attrition driven by evolutionary forces. The koala females often prefer homosexual partnership. They also suffer an array of dysfunction, including, rampant syphilis, and partaking in a diet which is in fact poison to them (as a result, newborns are fed their mother’s pap – excrement).
Researchers have discovered that roughly 10% of all male sheep are exclusively male-male homosexual. The scientific explanation for the phenomenon has been that anomalous sheep have poor neural network development as compared with non-homosexual sheep. This begs the question – does a genetic defect causing poor neural development, initiate a hormonal process to discourage procreation? Is this evolution or nature’s way of phasing out defective genes related to cognitive development? These are questions that will take several decades to answer simply because the research required would be considered politically insensitive to minorities within human society.
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63. On Drugs
I have wondered about Hollywood elites and the conspiracy theories, such as, “Pizzagate”, which their pampered lifestyle spawns in the imagination of regular people. It is undeniable that the ultra-rich are able to make cocaine a recreational drug, that they party often and get drunk, while they also turn to charlatan therapists who rely on pharmaceutical drugs as a bail-out for actually helping their patients through petulant personal issues. At least, this is the impression many of us get of the ultra-rich, jet-set, Hollywood mogul type, along with their loyal entourage of parasitic sycophants.
But let it be known that we love as well as love to hate high-profile successful people. However, what if our prejudices are correct, and celebrities are constantly mixing cocaine, alcohol, and pharmaceutical drugs? This mixture strikes me as a “poison” concoction and one which could be expected to produce significant brain damage to the prefrontal cortex.
The strange case of Phineas Gage taught scientists of the specific kinds of deleterious effects that prefrontal cortex brain damage can have on a person. Phineas Gage suffered a construction accident whereby a metal beam was lodged in the most front part of his brain – the prefrontal cortex.
After the accident, Phineas’s family noted how he had become markedly deviant despite being much the same man from before. Phineas was twisted and derived pleasure from acting against the status quo. He still enjoyed the food, music, sports, and everything else that he always had. He could converse with others the same as he always had. However, to see a little girl fall down and cry made him feel good on the inside.
Later, neurologists recognized that the prefrontal cortex is the most newly developed part of the human brain, and it is where a sense of morality is developed by individuals. Could it be that the Hollywood lifestyle and its liberal indulgence of the poison cocktail (cocaine, alcohol, prescription medication) is causing prefrontal cortex brain damage, thus subtly rendering many celebrities deviant, and thus provoking us to notice the depravity then stimulating the development of conspiracy theories, such as, Pizzagate? It is a hypothesis which I hope will be explored further by the appropriate scientific experts.
63. On Drugs
I have wondered about Hollywood elites and the conspiracy theories, such as, “Pizzagate”, which their pampered lifestyle spawns in the imagination of regular people. It is undeniable that the ultra-rich are able to make cocaine a recreational drug, that they party often and get drunk, while they also turn to charlatan therapists who rely on pharmaceutical drugs as a bail-out for actually helping their patients through petulant personal issues. At least, this is the impression many of us get of the ultra-rich, jet-set, Hollywood mogul type, along with their loyal entourage of parasitic sycophants.
But let it be known that we love as well as love to hate high-profile successful people. However, what if our prejudices are correct, and celebrities are constantly mixing cocaine, alcohol, and pharmaceutical drugs? This mixture strikes me as a “poison” concoction and one which could be expected to produce significant brain damage to the prefrontal cortex.
The strange case of Phineas Gage taught scientists of the specific kinds of deleterious effects that prefrontal cortex brain damage can have on a person. Phineas Gage suffered a construction accident whereby a metal beam was lodged in the most front part of his brain – the prefrontal cortex.
After the accident, Phineas’s family noted how he had become markedly deviant despite being much the same man from before. Phineas was twisted and derived pleasure from acting against the status quo. He still enjoyed the food, music, sports, and everything else that he always had. He could converse with others the same as he always had. However, to see a little girl fall down and cry made him feel good on the inside.
Later, neurologists recognized that the prefrontal cortex is the most newly developed part of the human brain, and it is where a sense of morality is developed by individuals. Could it be that the Hollywood lifestyle and its liberal indulgence of the poison cocktail (cocaine, alcohol, prescription medication) is causing prefrontal cortex brain damage, thus subtly rendering many celebrities deviant, and thus provoking us to notice the depravity then stimulating the development of conspiracy theories, such as, Pizzagate? It is a hypothesis which I hope will be explored further by the appropriate scientific experts.
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64. On Jokes
I remember watching a stand-up routine by George Carlin where one of his punchlines was related to a story about an elderly woman being raped. Carlin claimed that these kinds of ideas were fair game in public discourse when they are couched within the context of humor. Other comedians have echoed Carlin’s ethos.
If you want to extract the positive meaning from this defense by comics then consider that these entertainers are telling their off-color jokes in the role of a “father-confessor” – the topic of rape, for example, is one that is traumatizing and cannot be talked about except within the congregation of the comedy venue. Those who suffer traumas, such as rape, are stuck in a state of silence not able to work through the difficult mental and emotional issues, socially. However, through humor, those who are suffering discover a forum where they can express their feelings about the trauma without it identifying them or stigmatizing them as a victim.
This was Carlin’s point – humor allows us a way to talk about things that need to be talked about that otherwise wouldn’t be talked about. I’m alright with his logic, however, it must be recognized that a joke is intended to make people laugh but there are multiple methods for eliciting laughter. Arguably, there are two primary types of laughter associated with jokes.
During a mock-interview with Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Ali G” character, US astronaut, Buzz Aldrin, astutely noted that a joke elicits laughter through juxtaposing what is expected with what is absurd. This definition works. However, another known way to elicit laughter with a joke is through social embarrassment. It isn’t difficult to get a room full of people to laugh at what they don’t actually find all that funny provided the laughter has a sense of clearing the room of social embarrassment for whoever or whatever was targeted by the content of the joke.
You may watch comics on stage and wonder how they can be so damn unfunny and still get work – probably through being the masters of eliciting laughter via social embarrassment. Talking about rape, impotence, defecation, acne, flatulence, etc., need not be funny but such conversations may be met with laughter from others because they don’t know what else to do regarding the awkward topics.
Therefore, a rape joke isn’t just “fair game” as purported by the Carlin philosophy, and the legitimacy of the joke as free speech must evaluated for how it intended to elicit laughter. Was there any expectation whatsoever that the joke would elicit laughter for any reason other than social embarrassment and putting people on the spot? Being put on the spot is to be rendered to a state of powerlessness, therefore, jokes designed to provoke that state in others can be understood as a form of exploitation. It isn’t just bad taste – it’s bad intent, and there should be some measure of culpability for that. However, until society is clear on their definitions of bad taste vs. bad intent then there must be leeway granted to bad comics, and we should tolerate their bad jokes, for now.
64. On Jokes
I remember watching a stand-up routine by George Carlin where one of his punchlines was related to a story about an elderly woman being raped. Carlin claimed that these kinds of ideas were fair game in public discourse when they are couched within the context of humor. Other comedians have echoed Carlin’s ethos.
If you want to extract the positive meaning from this defense by comics then consider that these entertainers are telling their off-color jokes in the role of a “father-confessor” – the topic of rape, for example, is one that is traumatizing and cannot be talked about except within the congregation of the comedy venue. Those who suffer traumas, such as rape, are stuck in a state of silence not able to work through the difficult mental and emotional issues, socially. However, through humor, those who are suffering discover a forum where they can express their feelings about the trauma without it identifying them or stigmatizing them as a victim.
This was Carlin’s point – humor allows us a way to talk about things that need to be talked about that otherwise wouldn’t be talked about. I’m alright with his logic, however, it must be recognized that a joke is intended to make people laugh but there are multiple methods for eliciting laughter. Arguably, there are two primary types of laughter associated with jokes.
During a mock-interview with Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Ali G” character, US astronaut, Buzz Aldrin, astutely noted that a joke elicits laughter through juxtaposing what is expected with what is absurd. This definition works. However, another known way to elicit laughter with a joke is through social embarrassment. It isn’t difficult to get a room full of people to laugh at what they don’t actually find all that funny provided the laughter has a sense of clearing the room of social embarrassment for whoever or whatever was targeted by the content of the joke.
You may watch comics on stage and wonder how they can be so damn unfunny and still get work – probably through being the masters of eliciting laughter via social embarrassment. Talking about rape, impotence, defecation, acne, flatulence, etc., need not be funny but such conversations may be met with laughter from others because they don’t know what else to do regarding the awkward topics.
Therefore, a rape joke isn’t just “fair game” as purported by the Carlin philosophy, and the legitimacy of the joke as free speech must evaluated for how it intended to elicit laughter. Was there any expectation whatsoever that the joke would elicit laughter for any reason other than social embarrassment and putting people on the spot? Being put on the spot is to be rendered to a state of powerlessness, therefore, jokes designed to provoke that state in others can be understood as a form of exploitation. It isn’t just bad taste – it’s bad intent, and there should be some measure of culpability for that. However, until society is clear on their definitions of bad taste vs. bad intent then there must be leeway granted to bad comics, and we should tolerate their bad jokes, for now.
BOOK 66: CONSEQUENCE
65. On Hysteria
The Pandemic was an ordeal and it touched everyone in the Western world because our authoritarian governments, who were themselves commanded by the lumpenliberal mass, imposed draconian measures of social control to ensure that wealthy, elderly people felt safe in an environment with the Covid-19 “boogeybug”. The developing world was less affected by the Pandemic, although China must have been akin to Hell for those living there that were then stigmatized as unhealthy by the state.
I was disgusted at videos that surfaced in the West showing daycare workers forcing facemasks on toddlers who were bawling their eyes out and struggling to free themselves from the oppressive measure of social control. Just imagine what fun we will have working through the trauma of those toddlers once they have grown into angsty teenagers. In fact, they may react to the transition simply by becoming utterly despondent and regressing to a second state of infancy. P&G will make a killing on their Pampers line.
Another heinous intervention by the governments related to the imposition of vaccines. I got two vaccine shots, but I also thought that it was straight-up evil to “cancel” people’s lives when they refused to be vaccinated. I spent years in the university being inundated with ideological crap from irate feminists. The core of much outrage for misandrist feminists is that “penetration” is wrong and it violates autonomy. Those same self-righteous malcontents had the nerve to cancel people’s lives for not wanting to be penetrated by something foreign through the vaccination process. The double standard was offensive, to say the least.
Granted, we didn’t know what to expect from the virus and people felt a sense of panic. There wasn’t honesty. People were getting sick and covering it up because of the draconian measures by governments – that made everything worse. How do I know? The toilet paper crisis is illuminating.
At first, we didn’t know that the virus caused gastrointestinal problems in many of those who contracted it. People were embarrassed to let the world know that they had terrible diarrhea for two weeks. Pretty pathetic, nevertheless, people maintained the secrecy of that symptom for several months leading to a hysterical hoarding of toilet paper. Many households bought a decade’s worth of loo roll. People covered up the symptoms… and it is easy to believe that people covered up that they were sick in the first place.
Without the Big Brother reaction from WHO and Western governments on behalf of wealthy, elderly people then we might expect that most citizens who pretended to be healthy wouldn’t have felt it necessary to conceal their sickness. It was the concealing of being sick that spread the virus, and not those who refused to be vaccinated. You can argue with these points all you like, but just wait for my prognostication on the children affected by the pandemic to come to pass. The fallout is still a decade away, and it’s going to be a doozy.
65. On Hysteria
The Pandemic was an ordeal and it touched everyone in the Western world because our authoritarian governments, who were themselves commanded by the lumpenliberal mass, imposed draconian measures of social control to ensure that wealthy, elderly people felt safe in an environment with the Covid-19 “boogeybug”. The developing world was less affected by the Pandemic, although China must have been akin to Hell for those living there that were then stigmatized as unhealthy by the state.
I was disgusted at videos that surfaced in the West showing daycare workers forcing facemasks on toddlers who were bawling their eyes out and struggling to free themselves from the oppressive measure of social control. Just imagine what fun we will have working through the trauma of those toddlers once they have grown into angsty teenagers. In fact, they may react to the transition simply by becoming utterly despondent and regressing to a second state of infancy. P&G will make a killing on their Pampers line.
Another heinous intervention by the governments related to the imposition of vaccines. I got two vaccine shots, but I also thought that it was straight-up evil to “cancel” people’s lives when they refused to be vaccinated. I spent years in the university being inundated with ideological crap from irate feminists. The core of much outrage for misandrist feminists is that “penetration” is wrong and it violates autonomy. Those same self-righteous malcontents had the nerve to cancel people’s lives for not wanting to be penetrated by something foreign through the vaccination process. The double standard was offensive, to say the least.
Granted, we didn’t know what to expect from the virus and people felt a sense of panic. There wasn’t honesty. People were getting sick and covering it up because of the draconian measures by governments – that made everything worse. How do I know? The toilet paper crisis is illuminating.
At first, we didn’t know that the virus caused gastrointestinal problems in many of those who contracted it. People were embarrassed to let the world know that they had terrible diarrhea for two weeks. Pretty pathetic, nevertheless, people maintained the secrecy of that symptom for several months leading to a hysterical hoarding of toilet paper. Many households bought a decade’s worth of loo roll. People covered up the symptoms… and it is easy to believe that people covered up that they were sick in the first place.
Without the Big Brother reaction from WHO and Western governments on behalf of wealthy, elderly people then we might expect that most citizens who pretended to be healthy wouldn’t have felt it necessary to conceal their sickness. It was the concealing of being sick that spread the virus, and not those who refused to be vaccinated. You can argue with these points all you like, but just wait for my prognostication on the children affected by the pandemic to come to pass. The fallout is still a decade away, and it’s going to be a doozy.
BOOK 66: CONSEQUENCE
66. On Anger
Book 66: The Prolepticon is considered by me to be a huge success even if no one ends up reading it or appreciating my words. For over ten years, I vented my frustration with Western society and the university culture through writing hundreds of essays on various topics in political science, philosophy, psychology, and media.
Originally, this book was to be titled, “A Million Angry Words” because I was enormously proud of having converted those several hundred essays (in excess of a million words) to only 25,000 words of distilled, rational thoughts.
I changed the title out of self-respect for what I had achieved in altering my attitude. This book is not a reflection of anger, but rather, it is a productive conversion of anger. I have written this book without the anger and contempt that I felt when I produced the essays which these sixty-six entries were based on.
That being said, in converting essays that occasionally ran past 5000 words, these sixty-six entries have omitted a lot of good anecdotes and useful information I had researched for the topics. The caveat for engaging with Book 66 is that you accept my knowledge and opinions as exactly that, and you understand and appreciate that I am not presenting myself as an “expert”. To that effect, I didn’t bother with citations but most of my research is easy to access and in the public domain.
I am a trained media scholar, and arguably, I am an expert film critic, however, for the most part I think of myself as a Renaissance man as well as an outsider to the status quo of society. I’m not angry, but I’m not happy either.
Book 66 presents human-based problems, but it also hints at solutions to those problems. The more those solutions are implemented, the more I will become a happy person.
For the most part Book 66 has been written for the sake of posterity. I don’t necessarily believe that anyone living today will embrace my ideas, but I am entirely convinced that if the human race makes it two more centuries, then those people in the future will see my thoughts, ideas, and solutions as having been productive offerings.
I consider myself an individualist socialist which is to be distinguished from collectivist socialism. I have yet to meet another individualist socialist, but I have been fortunate to spend time with some keen-minded people who were capable of appreciating some of my ideas as well as caring about my outlook on the world and my concern for the fate of humanity.
66. On Anger
Book 66: The Prolepticon is considered by me to be a huge success even if no one ends up reading it or appreciating my words. For over ten years, I vented my frustration with Western society and the university culture through writing hundreds of essays on various topics in political science, philosophy, psychology, and media.
Originally, this book was to be titled, “A Million Angry Words” because I was enormously proud of having converted those several hundred essays (in excess of a million words) to only 25,000 words of distilled, rational thoughts.
I changed the title out of self-respect for what I had achieved in altering my attitude. This book is not a reflection of anger, but rather, it is a productive conversion of anger. I have written this book without the anger and contempt that I felt when I produced the essays which these sixty-six entries were based on.
That being said, in converting essays that occasionally ran past 5000 words, these sixty-six entries have omitted a lot of good anecdotes and useful information I had researched for the topics. The caveat for engaging with Book 66 is that you accept my knowledge and opinions as exactly that, and you understand and appreciate that I am not presenting myself as an “expert”. To that effect, I didn’t bother with citations but most of my research is easy to access and in the public domain.
I am a trained media scholar, and arguably, I am an expert film critic, however, for the most part I think of myself as a Renaissance man as well as an outsider to the status quo of society. I’m not angry, but I’m not happy either.
Book 66 presents human-based problems, but it also hints at solutions to those problems. The more those solutions are implemented, the more I will become a happy person.
For the most part Book 66 has been written for the sake of posterity. I don’t necessarily believe that anyone living today will embrace my ideas, but I am entirely convinced that if the human race makes it two more centuries, then those people in the future will see my thoughts, ideas, and solutions as having been productive offerings.
I consider myself an individualist socialist which is to be distinguished from collectivist socialism. I have yet to meet another individualist socialist, but I have been fortunate to spend time with some keen-minded people who were capable of appreciating some of my ideas as well as caring about my outlook on the world and my concern for the fate of humanity.