Personally, I feel that brands should hire me – to destroy their brands. Why? It’s great branding!
Personally, I feel that brands should hire me – to destroy their brands. Why? It’s great branding!
I know you’re as fascinated as I am – admit it. It’s like every horrible project we’ve all ever been involved with, rolled up in one, and with the entire budget of several countries at stake. [Read more…]
I have been watching, with some horror, the spiraling descent of facebook and instagram, etc. The whole situation reminds me of an historical event that bore some similarity.
I started this thought-stream in 2016. Since then, it’s interesting to watch how my interests have changed focus. I think my interests have changed in ways that reflect the changes in the internet, politics, and how society decides who and what is important, when.
One of the problems of dealing with distant wars is force protection, the other is logistics. As Napoleon famously said, “amateurs argue about tactics, professionals about logistics.” That does not sound like a dictum from the loser at Waterloo or the retreat from Moscow.
I tried to do a posting the other night, and thought maybe I could keep myself from flailing around violently if I tranquilized myself with some of the traditional anti-anxiety drugs. By the time I was done writing – something – I was pretty much incoherent. It was also embarrassing because, as I was writing, I was imagining myself as being much wittier and more organized than I was.
It’s getting seriously hard to find the strength to talk about anything positive since January, and the genocide in Gaza and now Israel is testing Iran’s right to exist, and vice-versa. One bombed-out civilian neighborhood full of corpses and rescue workers looks pretty much the same. As Mark Twain once said, regarding religion, if you take two adherents of the religions of peace and lock them in a room together with knives, you’ll come back to find they have disassembled eachother and taken their case to a higher court.
I have actually checked with GPT and they say that the take-over will be non-violent.
We are simply not dealing with people who have enough knowledge or love of truth to try to figure out reality. Fantasy worlds tailored to people’s competence dysmorphia are so much nicer and easier than reality.
None of this is to my pride or honor, for if it was, I’d be with a troupe in the commons outside the courthouse every day (in Clearfield, that’s where there’s a 10 commandments sculpture) putting my results to music, throwing confetti, and inviting all passers-by for hugs. No, that’s not enough – I’d be standing, with a mariachi band, in Times Square, with dominatrixes (of all genders) holding republican lawmakers on leashes offering copies of this paper with their mouths.