Yes, totally, everywhere else jobs, houses and wives are assigned for life by a central planning agency. In America, in the meantime, only the Ubermenschen get them.

America is such a hopeless place. The only mystery that remains is why people from “everywhere else” are so desperate to move to this horrible, brutal America by the million while the movement from America to everywhere else is really minimal.

What I keep saying about the eternal adolescence being the most coveted persona is confirmed every day.

I’m now kind of really happy I’m getting fired. Because get this. Like you probably know, I don’t get to teach literature. It’s a very bizarre situation where everything I research and publish is aggressively not in demand where I work. My teaching is completely divorced from my research. This means that I never, not for one day, was what I went into this profession to be. I wanted to be that person who goes into class to talk about books, and we analyze them together, and I go “so on page 126 when she says XYZ, what does it mean?” And I had to accept that I’ll never be that.

I made my peace with this and it’s fine. I thought, hey, maybe I wouldn’t even be good at it. I never tried, so I might just as well turn out to be a total fail as a literature professor.

Today, however, I was invited to give a guest lecture about my new book at a university that has a graduate program and that does teach literature. I decided to talk about the novel that’s currently my weakest. Where’s the fun in going in with something where you know you’ll shine? No, I chose the book for which I don’t have that much enthusiasm or much to say.

And I absolutely slayed. I finally got to do the “let’s go to page 93” and it was glorious. And guess what? I now know what I want to say about this novel in my book. Talking about it with students, listening to their comments and answering questions really helped. Only to think how much I would have published if I could do this regularly.

So now I’m thinking, fuck this job, you know? It’s not even that good. I finally get forced to look for something better, something where I can finally do what I always wanted to. Sixteen years of telling myself that it’s fine that I don’t get to teach literature, that I don’t have a community, and for what? I get pathetically, slavishly attached to the communities of scholars I sometimes meet at conferences. It’s embarrassing but I sit there looking at photos from back in 2018 when I was part of such a group in Germany for a week. It happened twice in my whole life, in October of 2018 and January of 2023. And then today. Without you, wonderful people on this blog, I would be completely alone in my intellectual process.

So yeah, I have just experienced a big, unexpected awakening, and I’m feeling great relief. Now I need to go and rewrite the chapter on that book based on my new insights.

Is there anything that says “I’m a fussy, clueless twat” more clearly than declaring oneself a global citizen?

The unironic use of this expression immediately marks one as the gold winner in the Dumb and Dumber Olympics.

I’m having a day that just won’t quit. It started with me setting a date to get surgery and continued with one form of unpleasantness after another. I won’t list them all here but the point is that finally at 9 pm I decide to spend a few minutes aimlessly scrolling through my feed and immediately come across the following indignity:

This fat piece of absolute ridiculousness has already literally eaten me out of a job and now he spits at us in this inventive way.

Resistance to tyranny, eh, you stupid bastard. I can’t even.

And here’s the US with its wonderful new allies Belarus, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Haiti, Mali, Russia, Sudan, and a few other incredible losers.

Oh, I just noticed Eritrea. We’ve gone full-on diverse here in the US, picking up every goat dropping from the map of the world and licking it excitedly.

You vote left, you vote right, but in the US it always ends with denouncing the Western civilization in favor of some bunch of savages.

I like this question. It makes me feel patriotic.

I’m not a citizen of Ukraine. I had to abandon my Ukrainian citizenship when I was naturalized in Canada in 2003.

This is a great question still because yes, I’m in a weird position of being a fan of the nation-state yet having engaged in the most consumerist passport hopping imaginable. So yeah, I know, I sound like a lifelong alcoholic with the cirrhosis of liver lecturing everybody on the evils of alcohol consumption. But it is what it is.

To answer the original question with every possible directness and clarity:

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Not by birth but by the most propitious of circumstances as well as by every inclination of my temperament, all of the most sincere qualities of my being and the most treasured events of my life, I am American.

My interest in Curtis Yarvin’s writings was not supported here at the blog but I don’t care because it offers me great emotional succor to sit at the meetings where colleagues express gratitude and excitement about being thrown out of their jobs for the purposes of streamlining and read Yarvin. It’s my big ef you to everybody who designed this situation.

Here’s a quote I wanted to share today:

The Congress can do anything, but it is both rigged to the gills for incumbency, and about as popular as snakes. While this was much the reverse of the Founders’ intent—while the Senate was meant to reflect the continuity of noble family and great wealth, the House was designed as a raging furnace of turbulent democracy, not a memory clinic for platinum incumbents—the Founders themselves rigged the Supreme Court for incumbency. They did not make it supreme over the other two branches—yet there was no other way the machine they designed could have operated. In a lot of ways the idea was good… but… still, what we are looking
at here is just a way to not have democracy, while still pretending to have democracy. There are worse things. For instance, we could actually have democracy.

It’s hard to disagree that yes, it would be worse, after observing the chimpanzees in action. I mean, they vote for Ilhan Omar and her twin Marjorie Taylor Green. They repost every bit of manipulative lies they are fed and have no self-control or capacity to boundary up.

I didn’t know there’s been a liberal surge. Has there been a liberal surge? There’s a lot going on and one can’t follow everything.

But here’s what I can say. If after everything that’s taken place Canadians still vote for the left (liberals, NDP, whatever), then good luck to them with what happens as a result. If you are a Canadian and you love the cost of housing, the cost of living, the inflation, the regulations, the cult of imaginary dead indigenous children, the poli-multi-gender experiments, etc., then you should absolutely have more of it. I support you in getting exactly what you want.

I don’t understand why it’s necessary to link it to Trump but again, if condemning him helps usher in the bright future of even more expensive housing, the mail service that doesn’t work for months, three land acknowledgements instead of one, an even more intense immigration stream, even more homelessness, longer lines at the emergency room, higher food prices, and bigger crocodile tears over the invented “First Nations”, then go for it.

Even if you don’t want any of it, still do it just to spite Trump. As you sit in the next lockdown, you’ll know at least that you stood up to Trump. That’s going to make it so much more enjoyable.

I’m sure everybody has heard the most recent brain fart by Congresswoman Ilhan Omar:

“I am at the point where it has become really hard to have an intellectual debate with any of these people because the level of stupidity that they are displaying every single day is frankly, embarrassing,” Omar said. “Not just in Congress, but as Americans.”

“And the fact that these people are allowed to say just the most ridiculous things tells you that the dumbing of the United States has arrived, because how else do we get a Trump presidency again?”

I’m not surprised that Omar considers Americans stupid. They did, after all, elect her to represent Minnesota in spite of her very open and sincere contempt for the people she’s representing.

It’s the “are allowed” part of the quote that interests me.

Passive voice is interesting because it hides the active agent and sneaks the real intention behind the utterance past us. Who is supposed to do the allowing or not allowing of things Omar considers “just the most ridiculous”? Clearly, Omar is convinced she should be the arbiter of what is ridiculous and what isn’t.

The Democratic Party has been beaten badly at the polls. Omar is revealing to us that the explanation for the defeat her party adopted is that the narrative wasn’t controlled tightly enough. People “were allowed” to speak. That is the great problem Democrats intend to tackle. If once again they get anywhere close to power, shutting us up is the #1 thing they’ll proceed to do.

Enjoy it while it lasts, is what I’m saying, because truly totalitarian speech controls await us once Omar and Co are back in control.

Having sex is now a waste of time.

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