Privatized Memory

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Everywhere there are specific and concerted efforts to destroy people’s focus, memory, and capacity to see how reality differs from externally generated fantasy. This doesn’t have to be done on purpose. The logic of class interest operates outside of conscious goal-setting. You can monetize your focus like never before because it’s becoming a rare commodity. This dictates the tilting of reality towards an erosion of focus because that makes it more precious.

The disciplinarian society is gone. Nobody will be forcing us to develop good memory and stay grounded in reality. These tasks have become privatized.

Pre-Birthday Joy

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For my birthday in April, I bought a special notebook and I decorate it every day with eye-pleasing celebratory designs. The notebook opens with a list of enjoyable things I’m planning to do as a lead up to the birthday. I started in February so that I’ll have two full months of pre-birthday joy. I’m taking next week off to really go at it. Reading for pleasure, Bible decoration, painting, long walks in the park. Prepare for an increase in book reviews because I’m going to be reading like a maniac. It’s like having two months of my very own Christmas minus the pressure because I only do what feels right.

In case you aren’t catching on, I’m really into my birthday.

Nuclear Proliferation

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As I’ve been saying since February 24, 2022.

This is the result of shredding the Budapest Memorandum. There couldn’t have possibly been any other result.

Ukraine had nukes. Ukraine gave up its nukes under the promise that if its aggressive neighbor with nukes invaded, its territorial integrity would be protected. The aggressive neighbor invaded. Ukraine was told, sorry, you have to sacrifice your territorial integrity because we are afraid of your neighbor who has nukes.

What conclusion could everybody observing this possibly draw other than get your own nukes?

Actions, meet consequences.

Academic Suicide

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There’s a huge shortage of teachers in Illinois and Missouri. Ten years ago, the School of Education added a ton of fluff courses to the program, which means students who want to become teachers have to tack two whole years to their BA to get teacher certification. The program is dying because there are no students in it.

The state government and the university administration pressured the School of Education to revise their program. The revision took two years. And resulted in the School of Education adding 10 courses, which means a full extra year, to the program. Which already has no students because it’s too long.

We are now begging them to at least go back to the way it was before these 10 additional fluff courses. It’s hard because they put the words “diversity” and “equity” into the course titles, and nobody is crazy enough openly to be against diversity.

Different Outcomes

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Then we’ll be told the difference in outcomes is due to racism.

A Gift

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The war on Iran is a gift for Russia.

In the meantime, the Asian stock market is crashing. Which is a gift to all of us. Obviously, I say it sarcastically.

Fiction Made Life

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There was a Law & Order episode where a rapist got a huge boner right in the courtroom when photos of the victim’s injuries were shown to him. This is totally like that but right there in real life. This pedo bastard is just the limit.

In the Meantime

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Fairfax County means it is very likely the murderer will not be incarcerated.

And nobody is talking about it because it’s now all about Iran.

Out of Sync

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You know what’s tiresome? Always being out of sync with everybody else. Everybody I talked to in RL is happy with the Iran war. The Trumpists, the anti-Trumpists, the mega-MAGAs, the mega-libs.

It’s fine, I’m used to it. It’s never going to be as bad as during COVID when I routinely heard accusations that I wanted to murder my own child. But it would be nice just once to share in the group spirit about something.

I’m glad I got some support here on the blog. It gets very lonely sometimes and I swear I don’t do it on purpose.

Burqas or Butts?

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Yes. I have the same questions.

In Venezuela, yes, there is a likelihood that better people will come to power. Not a guarantee but a likelihood. What Venezuela needs to give up for that to happen is its system of economic relations. What Iran needs to give up is its religion. People attach much more strongly to religion, so it’s a very different proposition in comparison with Venezuela.

I’ve been mostly offline since Friday, yet I’ve seen several videos of supposedly Iranian women wiggling their butts to signal joy over the impending fall of the ayatollah regime. It doesn’t matter if the videos are fake. They point to what we all know. It’s about bombing Iranians out of burqas and into butt-wiggling. Even if they are all super enthusiastic about that (which of course they aren’t), tomorrow the consequences of the butt-wiggling philosophy are going to hit, and then what? Who’s going to be responsible?

Look at how Russians feel about the implantation of capitalism, which they embraced at first and weren’t bombed into. Look at how livid they now are about it. In Iran, we are messing with something much deeper.

I’m not seeing many reasons to be happy about any of it, to be honest.