At the risk of being deeply unoriginal, I hate bureaucracy. I found an extremely elegant, easy, money-saving solution for the problem of our Arabic course that suddenly lost its instructor. But the administration forbade me to proceed because, and I quote, “we’ve never done it this way”.

Well, obviously, we’ve never done this. It’s an extraordinary situation and I’m trying to solve it inventively. They aren’t offering any solutions of their own, so I tried to be creative. But no. Everybody is paralyzed with fear of innovation and creativity.

As I keep saying, it’s all lies about the corporatization of higher education. In a business setting, I’d be getting a bonus for figuring this out on my own and requesting zero additional money. We are given zero space for innovation. Everybody just stares at me with big, terrified eyes like the mouse in an old Soviet joke* and intones, “but we’ve never done it this way!”

* The joke goes as follows:

An elephant is walking through a jungle at night and sees a pair of gigantic eyes staring at him.

“Who is this?” he asks, terrified.

“I’m a mouse”, the owner of the eyes responds in a tiny voice.

“But why are your eyes so huge?” asks the elephant.

“I’m pooping”, says the mouse.

Welcome to my reality. I’ve been repeating like a trained parrot since 2014 that nobody wants, expects or asks for US soldiers to go fight in Ukraine. Nobody proposes, suggests or desires it. But this strawman refuses to die.

Living with a Russian, it always gets to this:

During the past week, woke has suffered its biggest blow so far. It’s a self-inflicted blow, and it’s very severe. Woke is losing the Jews. Greeting terror attacks in Israel with glee at worst and “yes but” at best is causing a mass disillusionment of the most active and productive faction of the left.

Once the Jews are gone, what’s left on the far left (pardon the pun) will be massively ineffectual and useless.

Now is a great time not to antagonize these suddenly politically homeless Jews by saying anything deeply moronic.

People keep complaining about Musk’s Twitter but I don’t get the complaints because it’s become dramatically better.

“Community notes” are an excellent feature.

There is tons less censorship from the platform itself. I can write a lot more freely when before I was constantly banned or moderated for anti-Russian speech.

The algorithm is so much better because it isn’t constantly trying to show me stuff I don’t want and need. Recommendations are relevant for the first time since I started using the platform.

The capacity to watch long video shows on the platform grew in front of our eyes, it was amazing.

I’m using it a lot more now that the platform stopped trying to expand my horizons by sticking woke content into my feed. I can now go for weeks without getting any stuff I don’t want to see.

With everything happening, I almost forgot to say congratulations to Australians. Nice to see a whole continent finally grow a pair.

Good for you, Australians. Welcome on the other side. It’s all going to be better from now on.

[For those who don’t know, 60% of Australians rejected woke amendments to the constitution in a referendum that the MSM, celebrities and corporate overlords tried to ram down people’s gullets. If even the long-suffering Australians have had enough, wokeness it’s well and truly dead].

North Korea and Russia are escalating, yet none of the people who are constantly screeching about the dangers of escalation are noticing. I wonder why they never notice any escalation done by the enemies of their own country.

Meantime in London:

In London there are large areas where it’s extremely uncomfortable to be an unshrouded and an unguarded woman. After experiencing that in different Western cities, I could only heave with laughter when #MeToo began.

Forget women, though. I’d love to hear from the Western Jews who have been the most earnest and passionate proponents of open borders. Do you still feel the same? Is it still an attractive idea?

This is exactly what pro-Russian Americans are like. Clueless, confused, and self-hating.

Another unfortunate mistake is that Ukrainians have been tricked into using Timothy Snyder’s well-meaning yet deeply counterproductive narrative of the Russia-Ukraine war being about imperialism and colonialism.

In the West, these concepts are only interesting to the far left, and the far left will never see white people as victims of colonialism. Everybody else is so tired of being harangued about their imagined imperialist sins that they shut down immediately when they hear these words.

The only way out of this self-inflicted quagmire is to ditch the imperialism narrative, stop seeing the West as Barbieland, and start living in reality.

Before I conclude this discussion, I have something to say to the commenter who suggested that I want Ukraine to pass “anti-gay laws”, whatever that is. You are obsessed with sex. It’s abnormal and unhealthy. You managed to bring your sexual hangups to a discussion of a terrible, destructive war. You need to do some thinking about what’s going on with you.