I briefly became that pathetic guy whose otherwise barren refrigerator contained a single ancient packet of duck sauce. This is how I survived
Fulfilling classic bachelor tropes beats being battered by the cycle of malnourishment and overmedication that has deformed and weakened America while completely rewriting its economy
I really did allow my cupboards and refrigerator to become almost empty last week. I was mostly curious whether I would resort to “eating” from one of the various jars of protein powder I keep around for no special reason or whether I would opt for food. I went for the food. It was actually an easy fix; I live within a half-mile of a supermarket and almost within view of a 24-hour convenience store. I continue to wish I had chloroplasts and a few other structures found only in leaves so I could “eat” for free by standing outside and taking in carbon dioxide through my pores.
Rosie and I both had small respective upticks in our running last week. In new Mizunos, I averaged a little over an hour a day, with a max day of 85 minutes, while Rosie demanded three separate runs of 40 or more minutes. It’s been warm lately, and when it gets above 60 degrees and it’s sunny, Rosie starts to struggle, but she doesn’t quite realize it and needs to be slowed down by her handler. She was also buoyed by our exploration of new parts of northern Boulder throughout the week.
As you will see if you click in the image below, Rosie is also wonderfully impervious to the swelling insanities of society that tend to trouble upright-amblers in her immediate vicinity. I’m keeping my jealousy over this ascribed trait in check.
I am using this post mostly to catch people up on things relevant to what I write about.
I realize that Russell Brand’s manic style and unconventional presentation—if that concept is even alive—is not for everyone. The same goes for white guys in suits scampering around Washington hoping to set policy, no matter what it is. But the video accessible via the image below underscores the hellish and genuinely catastrophic interplay between big business and medicine, the latter itself the fastest-growing sector of the American economy.
Whether the big business is food or pharmaceuticals, American medicine is entirely held captive by natural capitalistic incentives that combine to form a picture of systematically evil intent. A startling number of children are developing fatty liver disease, diabetes, and other chronic metabolic disturbances; “chronic” is the operative word, because these sick kids become cash cows for pharma, the medical system, and makers of unhealthful but cheap and addictive foods for the rest of their dilapidated lives.
And by itself, the $2,000-a-month weight-loss drug Ozempic, if Medicaid and Medicare agree to pay for it, will double the government’s already colossal prescription-drug budget overnight.
If Tony Fauci, Rochelle Walensky, and the rest of the imprisonable figures who have helped ruin the country around the single issue of covid-19 were truly interested in making Americans healthier—which you’ll notice is an imperative these psychopaths have stressed the importance of quite frequently since the late winter of 2020—they would have been urging people to get outside and move around throughout covid, starting when businesses in most parts of the U.S. were shut down or had sharply limited hours—except liquor stores and weed shops. Hmm.
And they would have not done everything in their power to prevent doctors and their patients from trying proven antiviral therapies before the “vaccines” were approved, because that would have prevented the Emergency Use Authorization that paved the way for the whole reckless injection program in the first place.
Anyone who at this point cannot see that at every stage, Americans were funneled toward waiting for the vaccine and avoiding every other kind of possible relief while being constantly told covid was far, far worse than is has committed to operating at the snorting-and-grunting level of primate cogitation. Some of these citizens are just common narcissistic sociopaths who have been waiting for an opportunity to claim false expertise and call other Americans irresponsible, even death-deserving science-deniers for disagreeing with any of the series of blatantly false narratives unfurled by people who were plainly lying.
As angry as I continue to get—the hits from deeply confused and irate people I was formerly close to, one in particular, keep coming, and I’m never going to be fully immune to this—I also understand how frighteningly easy it’s been to badly mislead a huge fraction of Americans. Those Americans who have been fooled refuse at this juncture to believe that the parts of the Internet they look at—major corporate news sites, Facebook, lesser flak-outlets like The Daily Beast and Vox—are filled with outright falsehoods.
I have been describing here the various processes that have enabled this slide into a failed state—government censorship on tech platforms through a series of “NGO” intermediaries; the infiltration of tech platforms and the media (in particular CNN and MSNBC) by “former” operatives within the intelligences services and the Executive Branch; and billionaires such as Bill Gates, Pierre Omidyar, and George Soros buying dizzying levels of media and judicial influence.
A journalist named Jacob Siegel has assembled a 13,000-word monster of a piece for Tablet that ties together, in time and organizationally, the various partnerships, coercions, and crimes that have fed into the U.S. openly becoming a former democracy and a fascist-authoritarian state-corporate oligarchy.
I am using all of these terms within the parameters of their accepted, conventional definitions. If you read Siegel’s piece for comprehension—and it’s not hard to understand, just broad and deep—and still don’t believe this, it will take you a lot more than 13,000 words to make your case. His story is the most important piece of pure journalism in 2023, and maybe since the start of the “pandemic.”
One serious problem among many that I didn’t anticipate is that a lot of supposed liberals see very clearly that censorship is underway, but are perfectly fine with dispensing of the First Amendment because they really have been duped into thinking that white-nationalist MAGA loons, Putinites, and antivaxxers are such vicious misinformation and terrorist threats that the Internet should operate this way.
That’s the scariest thing of all. Brainwashing works at scale just as advertised, and governments will do anything they can to ensure that such campaigns never end once they start. As Siegel stresses, serious American disinformation efforts and surveillance overreaches have been occurring for decades, but the Obama administration really put the final pieces of the architecture for this deviance in place.
And it doesn’t matter who is president from now on, because that’s not who makes any of the decisions around this mayhem. And the mayhem will keep working on too many people. Unless those people are bursting with pleasant, soon-to-be-released surprises in the form of grudging awakenings and everything than can flow therefrom.