I’ve felt sad that there have been no comments on the blog for 2 days. Turns out there have been tons of comments but the app decided not to show them to me. I apologize and will start answering immediately.

I have a strong suspicion that Murdoch fired Tucker Carlson because Trump asked him to. Trump can’t stand disloyalty, and Tucker’s text messages where he mocks and expresses deep contempt for Trump must have been humiliating.

Murdoch must want to get into Trump’s good graces because Trump has been going around calling him a RINO globalist.

The rest of the explanations offered by fantasists at left-wing outlets all sound stupid.

The main philosophical struggle of our times is between two philosophical systems.

One of them is based on the idea that there is an objective reality that exists outside of us. For the religious, it’s God’s law. For the secular, it’s the natural order. Within this conceptual system, human beings must understand this objective reality to the best of their ability and engage with it optimally on the basis of that knowledge. Humans have free will but it’s limited by objective circumstances outside of our control.

The second philosophical system is based on the idea that there is no objective reality outside of human perception. Perception is reality. Everybody has their own truth. Every individual is a law onto himself. “First there was the Word, and the Word was from God, and that God is every human being” is the summary of this system of thought.

We are caught between these battling philosophies of existence. They are completely incompatible because in one of them the source of truth and creation lies outside of our minds and in the other it lies within.

– household chores become enjoyable

– one of the activities you fantasize about doing in bed is sleeping

– when you see people gossiping about you, you can’t be bothered to wonder why

– when you say “no” to a request, you feel no need to offer an excuse or an explanation

– late nights have consequences

– characters in favorite movies suddenly begin to look very young

– it feels weird when strangers or young people address you by your first name

– the number of things you feel like you have to when you don’t want to do dramatically diminishes

– embarrassment becomes a long-forgotten experience

– young people start asking you for advice about their love lives

I experienced all this since last week, and I know feel thoroughly middle-aged.

Every psychoanalyst in North America just had a 3-hour-long orgasm with this movie. It’s really, really good, folks, but don’t watch it if you want to have a good time or enjoy yourself.

This is a movie about unbearable affects. Every single one of them is up there on the screen. If you are trying to discover your own like we discussed a while ago, watch the film, and you’ll have a pretty full list. The end result is intense, extremely funny in a disturbing sort of way, and very disgusting.

Look at all the unbearable affects listed in the movie and remember that this is the kind of stuff that lives deep inside your mind. The next time you feel like berating yourself for being lazy, disorganized, ineffective, or anything else that’s imperfect consider that this is the kind of shit that assaults you daily from the inside and be happy that you are managing anything at all.

Very good movie.

Work has been so peopley that I decided to go see a 3-hour horror movie. Sitting silently in the dark with nobody looking at me or expecting conversation sounds like a very attractive proposition.

However, the theater is so hellishly hot that I feel like the horror has started already.

It’s the end of the academic year, and I’m drowning in stuff but I want to make it known that the news story that Ukraine planned airstrikes on Moscow on the first anniversary of the war but the US forbade that is a complete fabrication. These lies were published in the WashPo, and I’m stunned that there are still people who believe this lying rag.

This is stupid Russian propaganda that idiots at WashPo keep falling for.

You become brave just by being a parent, he said. Or maybe it’s just you become disinhibited. He’d felt this last night, socializing with people in their twenties. He’d forgotten how physically shy they were.

Rachel Cusk, Outline

Polar lights in Ukraine tonight:

There’s still time to enjoy nature this weekend.

From the local newspaper:

Read the whole thing here because it’s priceless.