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Paulo Kirk's avatar

Great projections and analysis, for sure.

But . . . .

It's 2024, and, yes, Daniel Quinn and Ishmael is so apropos on many levels of those who are leavers and others who are takers, but now? This taking and those takings are on a monumental level.

The body snatchers has turned into the mind snatchers. The settler colonial state of mind, right into the pledge of Monroe Doctrine or Manifest Destiny, well, that has morphed many thousands and tens of thousands of ways in this dirty land of snakes.

Joy? Is that the mind-storm of 2024? That millions are dying because of, yes, the deplorables' in the West decision and no decision making, that is, all of EuroTrashLandia, Klanada, in that Murdering Jewish State of Raping Poisoning Starving Maiming Burning of Palestiniansm, and there is even fucking room to placate the idiocy of joy or happiness in a fucking election.

POTUS is about destroying Iran, Russia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Yemen, North Korea, any number of other Latin American countries, and other African countries. We have a disease where JOY can be part of a headline in Time or AP or Newsweek when that 'Joy" is part and parcel part of the POTUS and VP team of the Final SOlution.

How can any of these cunts -- if they were human, connected to even small circles, or even connected to the reality of the world stage, the destruction of Capital under AmeriKKKan rule -- have joy?

Do you not wake up sweating with this current genocide unfolding? No problem with the Edward Bernays Dirty Tricks of the Zyklon Blinken and his Allegiance to Jews and Judaism in that stolen land?

No fucking fear of the brain-storming and washing and agnotology unfolding because of a small tribe of people -- Jews, mostly -- deciding what should be, well, read, watched, learned, taught, eaten, held, dreamed of, hoped for, built and destroyed?

Forget the mumbo jumbo of magic or narrative framing or any other concepts which you do well to lay out here, not to say what you write is worthy of a tequila night with stars above the embers lifting from a Sonora fire.

But the West for all intents and purposes is the place of the deplorables -- flyoever state deplorables, Jerry Springer deplorables, Ivy League School deplorables, media deplorables, political deplorables, billionaire deplorables, scientific deplorables, and, well, you get the vast range of deplorables, whether Bezos or PMC in the middling categories.

You got no right to any fucking joy unless, well, you are spiritually and culturally lobotomized.

Imagine the sheer putridity of all the candidates on the stages of these past 100 years of AmeriKKKan presidential and senatorial elections. Christ, Emoff-Harris or Kushner-Trump? But recall the Bush years and the Clinton years and the Obama years and Reagan and Carter and Nixon, Ford, Christ, and then Joe "I have Jew grandkiddos and a Jew son in law doc in the family" Biden.

And yet, here we are -- NATO and EuroTrashLandia and direct war with Russia, and here we are, Adolph Netanyahu on his tizzy to advance war with Lebanon, and then we talk of these fucking smirking Homo Consumo-Bellun-Sapiens?

Thanks for the philosophical and allegorical look through a sociological and cultural set of lenses.

Here, more of the direct attack. Sorry to bug you:

https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/what-do-smirking-apes-like-schumer

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Zacha Fraccattac's avatar

The comments here are great too but my reaction is gratitude. You seem to get much closer to explaining the otherwise completely inexplicable reversals of what years ago I believed were meaningful values and principles held by my friends and family (and that were more or less standard). These are all inverted now into their opposites and people seem to revel in that. Some kind of evil magic indeed (and even that’s not enough, long term annihilation of any kind of foundation whatsoever, as you describe, seems for sure necessary for such extremism to take root). What else can it be?

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