A famous writer came to one of my videos to say that I have a stupid, peasant face. I have a lot of experience with writers, and I know that literary talent and the personality of its holder do not intersect. I’m not in the least upset because I’m not insecure about the face. The shape of my head, yes, I’m insecure about it. It’s legit weird, although you can’t see it under the hair. But the face is a very fine face, thank you very much.
A brilliant writer whom I praised massively on this blog and everywhere else. Calling strange women peasant faces. It’s very typical.
Latin Americans had terrible dictatorships in the 20th century. Horrific, brutal dictatorships. But Latin Americans aren’t doing any reckoning with what actually happened. They have attached to the idea that the United States is to blame for the dictatorships and will now pout for the rest of eternity about that. The participation of the USSR in the Cold War and in the chaos and dysfunction that called forth the dictatorships has been completely written out of history.
The obsession with the dictatorships is so profound that every Hispanic studies program in existence teaches its own course on the novel of Latin American dictatorship. I teach this course in my program. But the story is, unavoidably, “this is what the evil U.S. did to poor, innocent us for absolutely no reason whatsoever.”
That’s why there’s no moving on from it. 99.999% of Latin American intellectuals are abjectly and pathetically Putinoid because of this.
A very white young man is playing the piano in the middle of the street. The sign over his head claims that the sleepy little town in the North of Quebec where this is happening is strong because of diversity. In reality, the best thing about the town is its lack thereof.
An insane number of characters on Duolingo are immigrants. What’s curious is that they are depicted very differently than non-immigrant characters.
The immigrants are all high-strung, very anxious, socially inept neurotics. The natives are all very laid back, relaxed and competent without striving. Pretty much every story the app offers depicts a neurotic immigrant acting neurotically and foolishly and a laid-back native easily besting the immigrant at everything.
Imagine the race-war hysteria this horrible person would unleash if our cognitively impacted brethren elect her as president:
These “lynchings” were all ruled suicides. But this carrion crow picks on the corpses of dead people to enhance her electability.
Not only AOC but every Democrat will terrorize and persecute us with invented lynchings and imaginary trans murder victims.
We can’t vote for these people. Trump runs his mouth and Republicans in Congress are often dumb. But, my friends, do you really want to have your lives reshuffled over these fictional lynchings?
There’s a Peruvian writer named Gustavo Faverón Patriau. Some people have all the luck, name-wise. It’s such a great name one thinks it must be invented.
To complete the circle of injustice, he’s also insanely talented. He writes these rambling, brilliant, very Latin American novels about 20th-century dictatorships. Faverón Patriau is similar to the British writer John Galsworthy in that he was born 30 years too late and missed the time when his literary project could gain a lot of recognition.
First of all, the great thing with children is that, for as long as everybody is living, the concept of “too late” doesn’t apply.
The second important point is that you didn’t damage your children. General bad behavior at these ages means they are trying to get you plugged into them. It’s not the amount of time you spend around then that will work but the intensity of the plug-in. If you have only two hours after work to plug into them, that’s good. It’s much better than spending all day glued to them physically without the plug-in. Put away the device, access the depths of your self and open it up to them. Be massively present in the moment.
If they are acting up in these bad behaviors, it’s a good sign. They want you and your attention. This means you are a good, valuable parent. Children are very smart. They don’t demand attention from a bad parent. A bad parent is dangerous to them and they sit very quietly, trying to attract no attention. All you need to do is learn to open yourself to them in a way that’s enjoyable to you. Your guilt and anxiety don’t help them.
Start small. Do 20 intense minutes of goofing around, ideally doing something physical. Imagine yourself as a power cord that’s connected into an outlet. Channel your attention and energy into them. You’ll know it’s working when you feel that this is really you, your actual deep self is coming out and connecting to them. Don’t manage the symptoms (i.e. specific bad behaviors).
Another good exercise is to imagine yourself as a jug filled with love and attention. Pour the contents into the three little cups that your children are. The cups are bottomless. You’ll never fill them completely. Do as much as you can.
Universal suffrage in the age of social media is a recipe for disaster. Look what’s happening to these poor people who could have had good, normal lives in olden times and now they have their already tiny brains eaten completely.
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