Clarissa's Blog

Every minute I’m waiting to hear if Russians managed to engineer some outlandish atrocity to mark Ukraine’s Independence Day. We are all huddled and waiting. I’m not going to work today. Don’t want to see anyone or answer any questions.

We will celebrate in the evening, once it’s past midnight in Ukraine.

Happy Ukrainian Independence Day!

Thank you, everybody who supports, who stands in solidarity, who prays, and who believes that good will always triumph over evil. Together, we’ll win.

Turns out that Lenin never listened to music because it made him too emotional. I had no idea I have something in common with Lenin, of all people.

This is precisely why I can’t take seriously Continetti’s belief that the 1/6 riot represented a serious threat to the constitutional order. The protesters had absolutely no power to do anything but break a few windows. They have no champion, whether an individual politician or a political force, to stand up for them. Trump had two weeks to pardon them and didn’t. The NYTimes isn’t interested in publishing their opinions. They control no institutions and no media of mass communication. They don’t own any global corporations, the FBI doesn’t do their bidding, and nobody gets fired or cancelled for disagreeing with them. The two professors in the linked piece belong to a political movement that does have all of this. And that movement can’t shut up about how much it despises the US Constitution.

So who’s a real threat?

Many people on the Right confuse the constitutional order with rules of politeness. The 1/6 protesters were rude and uncouth. They provoke a class-based disgust but nobody dares to say that, so they invent imaginary threats to the constitutional order to avoid saying, “these people look icky.”

The new Arabic instructor from Bahrain was stunned to find out that I know what Bahrain is. This is quite insulting given that I chose her among all the candidates precisely because she’s from Bahrain. I’m a bit of a Bahrain groupie. The Bahraini instructor herself is an Israel groupie who has been learning Hebrew.

This is all quite fascinating.

Twitter has its uses. Today I found out about this fascinating gentlemen there:

What a cool guy! And mega cute, too.

To me, this is a very neoliberal idea of an interesting life. Skipping between continents and having outlandishly mental issues is interesting only within a worldview that promotes the accumulation of experiences at the cost of belongings, both in the literal and metaphorical sense. I see an interesting life as the one where a person figured things out, made something out of nothing, thought deeply, loved with constance, and can share insight instead of outré vignettes of almost dying in coups in places he doesn’t understand or care about.

The most fascinating biography I have ever read is of Anthony Trollope who worked like a dog to provide for his family while pursuing his dream of becoming a well-paid author. He was a very stable person in every way, and I don’t think that made him less interesting than adrenaline-crazed snowflakes making a nuisance of himself in Africa and Poland.

The picture on top is what the building looked like when Russians destroyed it in April. The picture on the bottom is what it looks like now.

It’s really unfair that stupid, irrelevant Dugin who hasn’t showered in a decade and his bandit children with congenital brain defects are getting more coverage than this amazing and heroic transformation.

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1561370288452935683?t=6GdFIs9OjpD8TuzSYieCGg&s=19

In all honesty, if the parents don’t know this kind of thing about their kids and need the school to inform them, it kind of explains why the kids have issues. I’m 46 years old and for the past 20 years I’ve lived in a different country than my father. But until the day he died he knew the details of the changes I was introducing into each of my articles, let alone something as major as gender confusion. Which I don’t experience precisely because I did have involved parents.

People want to outsource their parenting and then complain about the results. The question should be: what have you done today and every day to remain a moral and intellectual authority for your child? Yes, it would be better if schools didn’t promote idiotic ideas. But I went to a Soviet school where there was nothing but idiotic ideas. It had zero effect because no school can have a millionth part of the importance and impact of one’s parents. Why are we for economic self-reliance but not for parental responsibility and self-reliance?