Opinions, art, debate
Having all of the money in the world won’t buy you happiness or psychological health. But it will buy you this:
Granted, I’m not a man, so I’ll never understand why anybody would want to swap the beautiful woman in the “before” picture for the creepy monster in the “after”.
And by the way, the new video:
Somebody in the comments did think that I’m filming from my mansion, and I’m mortified. The viewer discovered that some Putinoid YouTuber is using the same background and thinks the Putinoid stole it from me.
I’m going to switch to the brick wall background.
Who said the following regarding the NATO’s Eastward expansion?
Every country has the right to choose the option that it considers most effective for ensuring its own security. The expansion will help strengthen trust in Europe and all over the world.
A hint: this statement was made during a meeting with NATO’s Secretary General.
It wasn’t “chants about the military.” Vylan openly incited violence, screaming “Death to the IDF!” There are people sitting in jail in the UK for a lot less. When is this guy getting arrested?
Besides, there was also the part where he said “Heard you want your country back? Shut the fuck up”. How about this? Is that acceptable?
The British authorities should either imprison this guy immediately or release everybody who is currently sitting in jail for wrongthink and wrongspeak. I’m for the latter scenario. Everybody says whatever crap they feel like. But if you are going to imprison people for tweeting something to their 15 followers, then it should follow that screaming “death! death!” to a crowd of thousands is punished in the same way.
For the particularly gifted, I repeat that I’m for freedom of speech and prefer the scenario where nobody is jailed for words.
I’m so sorry! This is terrible. He sounds like a right jerk. Only you know the specifics of your situation but here are some general rules:
You need to preserve yourself, preserve your sanity. Your kids need it and you need it. Any segment of the day that you can claw back from being about this man and this situation is a gain.
Once again, I’m very sorry. This is a terrible thing to happen.
This is an excellent illustration of the strength of heredity:
The eldest son of Norway’s crown princess was slapped with rape and sexual assault charges in a case with a “double-digit number” of alleged victims, authorities announced Friday.
The bombshell charges against Marius Borg Høiby — the 28-year-old son of Princess Mette-Marit and stepson to the heir to the throne, Crown Prince Haakon — follow him being arrested numerous times in 2024 as accusers came forward.
Høiby’s mother is from a family of criminals. His father, who never had much of a relationship with the mother, is a career criminal. Somehow, the mother managed to marry royalty but this changed nothing. Her son ended up on criminal charges anyway.
Yes, we need more shows about normal people leading normal daily lives. That will attract crowds of viewers. Makes gigantic sums of money.
Not.
This was written by a man who has the maturity of a 7-year-old. And he thinks it’s cute to present himself to the world as a lisping little boy. “Why does the entertainment industry show weird people in weird situations?” Yes, why, indeed. It’s not like it could be motivated by the desire to make a profit.
P.S. I actually did remember a show like what he described. It’s Ozark. The male lead is a criminal but you’ve got to have some aspect of the show actually attract attention.
Yes. Moreover, we all have kind of accepted that humanity was completely wrong about absolutely everything in every possible way for the entirety of its existence until exactly 3 minutes ago.
I can’t think of a word to describe this attitude other than hubris.
We are hosting a sleepover. Last night one of the kids explained that she doesn’t know how to fall asleep without watching or playing something on her tablet.
Nine. These children are nine.
Of course, I said that we don’t do that and forbade the use of the tablet. But I’m very sad. Very, very sad.
A selection of writings by Renaud Camus titled The Deep Murmur is a very slim volume that is perfect for those who might be short on time but interested in finding out what makes Camus so controversial. The book offers an introduction to some of the crucial concepts that organize the philosopher’s thinking. It is also filled with observations regarding the rhetorical tricks deployed by the guardians of the Left’s ideological preeminence. To give an example, how often have we heard that neither biological sex nor race have any substance to them? And that they are only a social construct invented for nefarious purposes? Camus mocks this particular brand of intellectual dishonesty with the perfectly French elegance that is a hallmark of his very recognizable writing style:
One will have spotted the hackneyed and always extremely effective argument known as the argument from imprecise borders, according to which things, concepts, categories do not exist because they interpenetrate one another, their borders are porous and fuzzy, it is impossible to rigorously separate them. With this way of reasoning, and above all of preventing others from reasoning, and of speaking (because that is what is at issue), it is easy to establish the non-existence of anything and everything: colors, civilizations, artistic schools and movements, peoples, historical phenomena. Who would dare claim the color red exists when it very imperceptibly verges on yellow, on the one hand, and blue, on the other, passing through orangeness on this flank, mauve and purple on the other?
Renaud Camus, The Deep Murmur
In one of the essays in the volume, Camus bravely takes on the reasons why the concept of race has been rendered so explosive that we all prefer to pretend that it simply doesn’t exist. Until, of course, it needs to be summoned back to life in order to be used as a cudgel with the letters BLM branded into it. If you think you know what caused this extreme discomfort with the idea of race, you might find out that you are mistaken. Camus tells the story with a flair and a sense of humor but also with great urgency because our terror of this part of our shared story is causing us to hurt ourselves in truly strange ways.
The Great Replacement we are experiencing, says Camus, comes at the heels of the Little Replacement which taught us to see being well-read and having refined sensibilities as manifestations of the most despicable kind of snobbery:
I was roughly at this time, 1975, that culture no doubt irreversibly transitioned… from culture as patrimony, heritage, the voice of the dead to culture as leisure activity, entertainment, hobby, a way of passing the time, a way of killing it.
We accepted that reading the classics was unnecessary and decided to scrub Latin and Greek from the curricula to spare the vanity of those unable to learn them. Is it so surprising that further acts of self-immolation became unavoidable? The bastardization of the idea of culture was a prelude to worse things.
Not everything is equal to everything else. Some products of culture are better, more valuable, more refined than others. So are some cultures. It is urgently necessary to speak of that but in order to do so we need to become familiar with the best things our culture creates.
It takes a special brand of courage to publish Camus, a philosopher who is being silenced and persecuted like few others. He’s not an author who will make a publisher rich because high culture is always of interest only to the tiniest of minorities. This is why it’s remarkable how much work Camus’ American publisher, Vauban Books, puts into translating and annotating the philosopher’s writings. It is a labor of love and not only for Camus but for truth and freedom themselves.
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