Thanks to the DeathVaxx and the rapid decline in healthcare, if the death of the boomers is what you want, you are likely to get your wish very soon. The whole purpose of the gain-of-function research coming out of Wuhan and continuing in other parts of the world is precisely aimed at the old and the sick, so that broken, underwater Ponzi schemes such as Social Security and government/union pensions are relieved of their obligations to those who paid into it and want to collect. Cultural Marxist/feminist teachings, it turns out, have been disastrous for keeping the Ponzi schemes going. It taught women that being a good corporate slave was far superior to serving their husbands and families, and that children were unnecessary drudgery. And now the chickens are coming home to roost, brought to you by Bill Gates and his Davos pals. This won't work out well for anyone. Hope your health improves. No doubt you wouldn't have access to real early treatment in Canada, but it sounds like you are young enough to recover just fine, as long has you haven't been poked with the poison spike protein needle.
Time will show that the Redditor-analysis is wrong (as usual) and that Fauci Flu is the product of the US Death Machine's bioweapons-development program. Baric, Daszak and company aren't Chinee, and they've had a rampant boner for GoF for decades.
Also: Epstein didn't kill himself, and the US blew those two pipelines.
paul scott >> yes I just saw your replyy after writing this above
''True enough except the gain of research was primarily performed by people like Ralph Baric at Chappel Hill University laboratory in South Carolina . This with the generous funding by NIH and Fauci. The experimental models building up this monster were occuring from the late 1990's. Patented applications and patents can be seen. If you want info on this google to Dr. David Martin > Sars patents > or come back to me . It was after the mani GOF work was performed that all these 'virus' model teratogens were release to Winnipeg and Wuhan.
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True enough except the gain of research was primarily performed by people like Ralph Baric at Chappel Hill University laboratory in South Carolina . This with the generous funding by NIH and Fauci. The experimental models building up this monster were occuring from the late 1990's. Patented applications and patents can be seen. If you want info on this google to Dr. David Martin > Sars patents > or come back to me . It was after the mani GOF work was accomplished that all these 'virus' model teratogens were release to Winnipeg and Wuhan.
If we're lucky, only enough of them will die so the collective POP of normie heads being violently yanked out of their asses will be heard he world over.
If we're not lucky, the next decade sees a 10-20% population reduction, or worse.
Those are all things that are good for everyone anyway. But altering genes is new territory, so it's literally a shot in the dark. The folks at Davos have a lot of power to do a lot of things. They have several large western governments under their control now, and Phase Two of their plan is already in progress - through attacking our energy and food production. A lot of it is their control of corporate media to get groups of hapless women and feminized men to buy into the "climate change" nonsense. NOAA, which is responsible for keeping temperature data, has been altering the historic data to fit the narrative. This has been going on for years - they have control of the universities, the media, the medical industry, the banking industry, and are now aiming for energy and food. They have millions of bureaucrats on board. Where do you think this is going?
Disney has efficiently beaten the Star Wars fan out of me, and I was a pretty diehard purist at one point. The endless vomit of “content” is breaking everything. (I also traveled to Astoria, Oregon, at least three separate times to pay homage to the Goonies. Nothing inspires that level of fandom anymore.)
Also, pretty sure I had the virus back in January when everyone did, and it left me feeling somehow depressed for at least two weeks after. It was the most bizarre feeling. Not sick. Just...down. Here’s hoping you exit the fog quickly.
That's exactly what it feels like. It really is the most bizarre sensation. There's nothing identifiably physical about it, just this feeling like all the color has been drained from reality.
In high school I camped out for three days for The Phantom Menace. It was a great time, and not just because we were skipping school to do it. The actual movie though was such a letdown that it permanently killed the fanboy in me.
You’ll wake up one morning and it will have passed, noticeably. I never bought the covid-as-a-bioweapon theory until experiencing that. In all my life, an illness never left me feeling like reality was distorted and out of joint like that did.
I camped out for two days to see all of LOTR as a trilogy when the last one came out. The Hobbit subsequently ruined that obsession. And I won’t even acknowledge what Amazon is doing.
What is this 'The Hobbit' of which you speak? In my world nothing was made after LOTR. Which, incidentally, I watched again during the first days of my illness.
This is what I experienced after a particularly horrendous gastro that I caught while travelling in central/Asian Turkey in 1989. Weeks afterwards food still had no taste, and I felt separated somehow from life, people etc. It was horrible. I gather that any serious/relatively novel ( eg: as in of another continent ) viral illness can cause this kind of after effect, and take a long time to get over fully.
I laughed out loud at the wrinkly arm waddle! Hahaha! I CAN laugh because I have a couple of those!
You make some good points about the generational influences on culture. I consider myself extremely lucky I grew up without computers, the internet, cell phones, etc. We were encouraged out of the house at 9 am on Saturdays and didn’t come home until dinner unless to grab a snack. We were wild and free… roamed the neighborhood, made up games. Collected pop bottles from neighbors to go buy candy at the 7-11.
These days, you wouldn’t dare let your children roam free. Well, I’m just an old fogey reminiscing about “the good ol days” but our generation was creative and independent at least.
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IQs also lower ( up to 10 points lower! ) as result of widespread bottle feeding too. And the pollution in cities/urban areas apparently.
With ref "cultural exhaustion"; yes, I think that "story" ( in the west at least ) experienced a sudden decline sometime after 2005/by 2010. It's very noticeable in video games aswell as films. There don't seem to be any really good/satisfying stories anymore. There are lots of beginnings, backstories, unending soap-opera-style additions to things, mood pieces, etc, but fewer and fewer solid/well constructed stories.
I think it has something to do with what stories are, which is the vivid colourful involving presentation of the arguments for and against a certain belief/the protagonist, which may end up, ( after exploration of various increasingly challenging "points" ) either revised and strengthened, or weakened/defeated, or clarified and confirmed/reaffirmed.
And it's difficult to do that in a society which seems to have decided that all beliefs are equally valid, while at the same time suppressing anything which argues that they're not.
I think the story of our time is the zombie, living/walking dead, and we are waiting for a new narrative, in the same way as a person exhausted physically may only start having new thoughts as their body recovers strength/vigour.
PS. Totally agree about 80s films. :) And fashion, hairstyles, music too!
"And it's difficult to do that in a society which seems to have decided that all beliefs are equally valid, while at the same time suppressing anything which argues that they're not. " Spot on!
It is a lesson in relativity for us Boomers to be routinely savaged by the children of the 80's. We seemed so groovy back in 1970, too. Except for your preamble about COVID, it's clear you have not been replaced by one of the Pod People.
Yes, Ghostbusters and Raiders of the Lost Ark were wonderful. Yet, they heralded in the time when computer generated images replaced dialog and acting. I would argue that 1974 marked the best year for movies (both Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein came out) and members of the Greatest Generation would certainly argue for 1939, 1940, or 1942 (The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, Casablanca) as being the best years ever for movies.
We can all agree that another Fast & Furious or another Star Wars makeover do nothing but prove how insipid and stupid the newest generation of movie makers are.
We're all ready for an escape from the constant arguments about COVID and the self-righteous pontification regarding the Ukraine war.
The 4th Turning is definitely a book worth reading in 2022.
Casablanca was solid. One thing those old movies had going for them was writing - when special effects are terrible, you need a tight script. With vanishingly few exceptions, the contemporary writers favored by the Hellmouth are clumsy writers at best.
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They're clumsy writers because they're trying to present the trials and tribulations of a belief/protagonist, ( its pros/friends and cons/antagonists ), and the outcome of that argument/series of challenges ( the belief revised, strengthened and victorious, or the belief weakened and defeated, or the belief clarified and affirmed ), *at the same time as* either genuinely believing that all beliefs are equally valid/should win gold stars or pretending to believe that.
I can no longer count the number of times that I've found the stated position of the villain/antagonist totally tenable, convincing, in fact more intelligent/rational than the protagonist's ... but they still lose ... and it makes no sense.
Most contemporary stories ( in the west ) make no sense, because stories teach the arguments for believing in something. ... and most writers in the west either don't believe in anything, not fully, with conviction, or aren't allowed to. Of course this makes the writers seem clumsy.
"and most writers in the west either don't believe in anything, not fully, with conviction, or aren't allowed to." How true! No convictions, too afraid to rock the boat, can't fall back on The Hero's Journey and traditional concepts therein.
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I have however just realised a way in which these stories do make horrible sense; the people holding the most intelligent rational beliefs are the baddies, and they lose; the people spouting mindless and nonsensical soundbites to justify their activities are the heroes, and they win. People are being "entertrained" as Kelly Em says below, to avoid thought, to eschew thinking or analysis, and to be suspicious and/or contemptuous of people who do think/talk intelligently/rationally about things, and to root for/identify with people spouting nonsensical soundbites. :( :( :(
The screenwriters of old read books for pleasure. Even the uneducated ones were bookish and the college graduates exceptionally well read. Audiences savoured repartee and relished eloquence. It was a different world.
I'd be hard-pressed to find Yankee propaganda in that movie. As I recall, several "progressives" wanted the movie suppressed because the heroes in the story were Confederates.
That spike protein really sucks the will to live, don't it? I'm glad to hear you're on the mend. Don't worry about the ubiquity of globohomo, you'll not only live to see its demise, but stand to gift the world the next great sci-fi adventure series! I know that this seems out of reach with the malaise you're experiencing, but this will pass and you'll be back to kicking ass in no time!
Thanks man! Yeah, I know this brain funk is a temporary thing. I'm just impatient for it to end. I'm already feeling considerably better than I was a few days ago, so hopefully it won't be much longer before the fire rekindles.
I took zinc, D (lots of D) hesperidin, C60, and quercetin. I got back to normal within a few days. I still take them regularly. I also added beta glucan, supposedly keeps your immune system on it's toes.
Natural way to obtain plenty of zinc and the quercetin to help absorb it is by eating plenty of fish ( the oily kind is high in vitamin D ) or meat, or dairy, ( all rich in zinc ) with masses of fresh coriander, or dried dill, or capers, all three of which are rich in quercetin, and squeezing a slice or two of lemon over it, ( rich in vitamin C ), which makes you realise how clever the old cooks were.
Interesting b/c I love coriander/cilantro and have been taking it with ALA to constantly achieve mild heavy metal chelation, and also take fish oil (I eat fish regularly as well).
Yep - I came down with the same about a month or so ago - hit me hard, but zinc, D, quercetin, C... all the usual things these protocols say, got me back on track.
I just read this this week, which I think is also a piece in the jigsaw puzzle as to why the kids of the 21st century and their works seem so flat, callow and monotonous.
(More or less: the writers, actors etc of the 20th century were free-range animals who wandered the world and lived through experience, whereas the writers and actors of today are cosseted zoo animals who live through screens.)
That article makes an excellent point. That lack of adventure is something I've noticed and felt myself - and by any reasonable metric, my own life has been comparatively adventurous. Not nearly as much as I would have liked, but when contrasting my own experience to that of most others I've met, I feel rather bad for their sheltered lives.
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yeah me too...im a 1969 baby so i def didnt have the same intense experiences as say my grandparents' generation (most esp in re wars, the Great Depression, and childhood death and disease, not to mention working manual labor jobs by the time they reached double digits) but growing up in NYC in the 70s/80s me and my friends still wandered around town unchaperoned, dealt w the wild subway and crime of those days, not to mention lived thru the birth of hip hop and the last blast of punk, so it was an exciting time and place to be alive...the kids and their lives and art today seem to be lacking human depth and a wider perspective than their phones, which seem to have killed off privacy, secrecy and immersive inner life...
There were plenty of far lefties in my generation back in the day, but I recall few, if any, Snowflakes.
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And on a completely different tangent: the plot of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" is an upgrade of the old Republic Serial: "The Perils of Nyoka." The daredevil archeologist was female -- but she also had to get rescued frequently by the daredevil doctor played by Clayton Moore, in his first speaking role.
Hope you feel better soon. As well as the 80s, the 90s also wasn’t bad as far as films/culture: Fight Club, Dark City, The Matrix, Heat, all films that wouldn’t be made now. In the 00s I had a brief foray into anime that still had some interesting storylines too, as the Japanese like to challenge their audience to understand the material rather than coddle them. The last decade has been a fucking cinematic desert. As you say it seems like all the colour has been drained from everyday life (I’m sure it’s intentional). Dune actually wasn’t bad though.
I found it uplifting. Jodorowsky's ability to transform frustration into a meaningful and positive experience was very life-affirming. It was also full of fascinating detail about film, especially sci fi. It was also 100% accessible. Jodorowsky's own films are arcane and hermetic...I understand maybe 5% of EL TOPO and maybe a bit more of THE HOLY MOUNTAIN, but I love the creative energy and the willingness not to pander to his audiences. The lack of such figures in contemporary cinema demoralises me more than I can express.
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John, another great piece. The Granny State...what an expression!
Over the years, I have given a lot of thought to the decline in the quality of movies. My best guess is that it is a confluence of factors. The great studios are now overly cautious in artistic management because there is so much money at stake. Film schools now attract middle class, mostly upper middle class, students who bring with them the worldviews of the credentialled (but undereducated and uncultivated), above all the weird asexual social psychologies which assume that men and women are (or should be) interchangeable. The employment of female college graduates as casting directors has ensured that male leading roles are now mostly played by feminised men.
The post-war era generated a subtle but distinct individualistic and antiauthoritarian strand in Western culture...IMO a reaction to the experience of mobilisation and conscription. This last flared with Punk and New Wave but has now disappeared. The dullness and blandness of the aesthetic is essential for humanising the creeping conformism and normalising the standardisation sweeping the culture industries.
The great wave of conformism, de-individualisation, de-vitalisation and cultural exhaustion is clear from the successive incarnations of Dr Who. Compare the 4th doctor (played by Tom Baker) who was anti-authoritarian, sceptical, querulous and eccentric....today Dr Who is woke and (for me) unwatchable and disgusting. Younger people who follow science fiction do not see it. This is not so much an effect of changing taste as it is a curated restriction of vision.
Excellent piece, as usual. I’m one of those “young” boomers, but I plan on being dead the week after my 70th birthday, (just like Lemmy ), leaving all my useless shit to my kids.
I feel your distress. Excellent exposition of covagony. I love your linguistic creativity so thought I'd try one, too. I won't ask what a memberberry is, but enstupidating is excellent.
I hope you recover quickly. I look forward to your normal curmudgexcellence.
Accurate, it seems very likely that the geriatrics are going to try their hardest to run things into the ground. Unfortunately, I don't think there's a whole lot that can stand in their way at this point.
The cultural stagnation that you've observed is both very real and not-real because of how culture is distributed. The internet has fractured the culture not into subcultures, but micro-cultures. We're talking cultural units of groups between 1000, and 10,000 people connected digitally. This is one reason so many social interactions have been formalized, because you are very unlikely to share a cultural background with any one you meet in person. Simultaneously, the micro-cultures are becoming so alien to one another as to be incomprehensible. There's a microculture exclusively built around com-block military surplus equipment. There's a microculture exclusively constructed around obscure programming languages. These microcultures can be very nuanced in their language, memes, and approach to life, but the broader 'mass' culture is comparatively blind. That's one reason that films are so stagnant: they're attempting to appeal to a mass-culture that exists in name only.
Set to be trimmed judging from the protocol enacted during the COVID op. Didn't mean to overreact. There's just so much drama around I wanted some. Tough to come by being an old white dude. I can't say "the man is keeping me down" because by the current metrics I am he. Talk about a conflict of interest. Thanks for a great substack keep up the good work.
As long as you are funny, it's all good.
Thanks to the DeathVaxx and the rapid decline in healthcare, if the death of the boomers is what you want, you are likely to get your wish very soon. The whole purpose of the gain-of-function research coming out of Wuhan and continuing in other parts of the world is precisely aimed at the old and the sick, so that broken, underwater Ponzi schemes such as Social Security and government/union pensions are relieved of their obligations to those who paid into it and want to collect. Cultural Marxist/feminist teachings, it turns out, have been disastrous for keeping the Ponzi schemes going. It taught women that being a good corporate slave was far superior to serving their husbands and families, and that children were unnecessary drudgery. And now the chickens are coming home to roost, brought to you by Bill Gates and his Davos pals. This won't work out well for anyone. Hope your health improves. No doubt you wouldn't have access to real early treatment in Canada, but it sounds like you are young enough to recover just fine, as long has you haven't been poked with the poison spike protein needle.
LOL @ "coming out of Wuhan".
Time will show that the Redditor-analysis is wrong (as usual) and that Fauci Flu is the product of the US Death Machine's bioweapons-development program. Baric, Daszak and company aren't Chinee, and they've had a rampant boner for GoF for decades.
Also: Epstein didn't kill himself, and the US blew those two pipelines.
paul scott >> yes I just saw your replyy after writing this above
''True enough except the gain of research was primarily performed by people like Ralph Baric at Chappel Hill University laboratory in South Carolina . This with the generous funding by NIH and Fauci. The experimental models building up this monster were occuring from the late 1990's. Patented applications and patents can be seen. If you want info on this google to Dr. David Martin > Sars patents > or come back to me . It was after the mani GOF work was performed that all these 'virus' model teratogens were release to Winnipeg and Wuhan.
I believe that Kennedy is dead too
Robert Kennedy is alive and well and a major force in the war against the g;obalist genocidal psychopaths like Bill Gates, Tedros, the CDC and fauci.
True enough except the gain of research was primarily performed by people like Ralph Baric at Chappel Hill University laboratory in South Carolina . This with the generous funding by NIH and Fauci. The experimental models building up this monster were occuring from the late 1990's. Patented applications and patents can be seen. If you want info on this google to Dr. David Martin > Sars patents > or come back to me . It was after the mani GOF work was accomplished that all these 'virus' model teratogens were release to Winnipeg and Wuhan.
I served time at NC State. We were trained to expect the worst from UNC.
Gamecock since the mid 60s.
We aren't a threat to anyone!
sorry . Original information comes from David Martin patent researcher , but I got the State wrong.
If we're lucky, only enough of them will die so the collective POP of normie heads being violently yanked out of their asses will be heard he world over.
If we're not lucky, the next decade sees a 10-20% population reduction, or worse.
The goal is more like 80% - an they've talked about this openly. When they tell us who they are, we should believe them.
Agree, but these people fortunately suck at genocide. They ain't nothin' like their grandpappies were.
That said, let's try and save as many as possible from the clot shots, spread the word:
Covid 19 vaccine damage repair protocols:
https://davenarby.substack.com/p/covid-19-vaccine-damage-repair-protocol
Those are all things that are good for everyone anyway. But altering genes is new territory, so it's literally a shot in the dark. The folks at Davos have a lot of power to do a lot of things. They have several large western governments under their control now, and Phase Two of their plan is already in progress - through attacking our energy and food production. A lot of it is their control of corporate media to get groups of hapless women and feminized men to buy into the "climate change" nonsense. NOAA, which is responsible for keeping temperature data, has been altering the historic data to fit the narrative. This has been going on for years - they have control of the universities, the media, the medical industry, the banking industry, and are now aiming for energy and food. They have millions of bureaucrats on board. Where do you think this is going?
Disney has efficiently beaten the Star Wars fan out of me, and I was a pretty diehard purist at one point. The endless vomit of “content” is breaking everything. (I also traveled to Astoria, Oregon, at least three separate times to pay homage to the Goonies. Nothing inspires that level of fandom anymore.)
Also, pretty sure I had the virus back in January when everyone did, and it left me feeling somehow depressed for at least two weeks after. It was the most bizarre feeling. Not sick. Just...down. Here’s hoping you exit the fog quickly.
That's exactly what it feels like. It really is the most bizarre sensation. There's nothing identifiably physical about it, just this feeling like all the color has been drained from reality.
In high school I camped out for three days for The Phantom Menace. It was a great time, and not just because we were skipping school to do it. The actual movie though was such a letdown that it permanently killed the fanboy in me.
You’ll wake up one morning and it will have passed, noticeably. I never bought the covid-as-a-bioweapon theory until experiencing that. In all my life, an illness never left me feeling like reality was distorted and out of joint like that did.
I camped out for two days to see all of LOTR as a trilogy when the last one came out. The Hobbit subsequently ruined that obsession. And I won’t even acknowledge what Amazon is doing.
What is this 'The Hobbit' of which you speak? In my world nothing was made after LOTR. Which, incidentally, I watched again during the first days of my illness.
Some of us have learned the hard way to protect our believing hearts. Haha!
This is what I experienced after a particularly horrendous gastro that I caught while travelling in central/Asian Turkey in 1989. Weeks afterwards food still had no taste, and I felt separated somehow from life, people etc. It was horrible. I gather that any serious/relatively novel ( eg: as in of another continent ) viral illness can cause this kind of after effect, and take a long time to get over fully.
They have killed all our fictional heroes. In the end, that might be a good thing, if we step up to honor their memories by emulating them.
But can you do the "truffle shuffle"?
Not that I’m admitting to.
Obviously that is a yes then!
I laughed out loud at the wrinkly arm waddle! Hahaha! I CAN laugh because I have a couple of those!
You make some good points about the generational influences on culture. I consider myself extremely lucky I grew up without computers, the internet, cell phones, etc. We were encouraged out of the house at 9 am on Saturdays and didn’t come home until dinner unless to grab a snack. We were wild and free… roamed the neighborhood, made up games. Collected pop bottles from neighbors to go buy candy at the 7-11.
These days, you wouldn’t dare let your children roam free. Well, I’m just an old fogey reminiscing about “the good ol days” but our generation was creative and independent at least.
IQs also lower ( up to 10 points lower! ) as result of widespread bottle feeding too. And the pollution in cities/urban areas apparently.
With ref "cultural exhaustion"; yes, I think that "story" ( in the west at least ) experienced a sudden decline sometime after 2005/by 2010. It's very noticeable in video games aswell as films. There don't seem to be any really good/satisfying stories anymore. There are lots of beginnings, backstories, unending soap-opera-style additions to things, mood pieces, etc, but fewer and fewer solid/well constructed stories.
I think it has something to do with what stories are, which is the vivid colourful involving presentation of the arguments for and against a certain belief/the protagonist, which may end up, ( after exploration of various increasingly challenging "points" ) either revised and strengthened, or weakened/defeated, or clarified and confirmed/reaffirmed.
And it's difficult to do that in a society which seems to have decided that all beliefs are equally valid, while at the same time suppressing anything which argues that they're not.
I think the story of our time is the zombie, living/walking dead, and we are waiting for a new narrative, in the same way as a person exhausted physically may only start having new thoughts as their body recovers strength/vigour.
PS. Totally agree about 80s films. :) And fashion, hairstyles, music too!
"And it's difficult to do that in a society which seems to have decided that all beliefs are equally valid, while at the same time suppressing anything which argues that they're not. " Spot on!
Not forgetting all the lead inhaled from leaded fuel until not that long ago.
It is a lesson in relativity for us Boomers to be routinely savaged by the children of the 80's. We seemed so groovy back in 1970, too. Except for your preamble about COVID, it's clear you have not been replaced by one of the Pod People.
Yes, Ghostbusters and Raiders of the Lost Ark were wonderful. Yet, they heralded in the time when computer generated images replaced dialog and acting. I would argue that 1974 marked the best year for movies (both Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein came out) and members of the Greatest Generation would certainly argue for 1939, 1940, or 1942 (The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, Casablanca) as being the best years ever for movies.
We can all agree that another Fast & Furious or another Star Wars makeover do nothing but prove how insipid and stupid the newest generation of movie makers are.
We're all ready for an escape from the constant arguments about COVID and the self-righteous pontification regarding the Ukraine war.
The 4th Turning is definitely a book worth reading in 2022.
Casablanca was solid. One thing those old movies had going for them was writing - when special effects are terrible, you need a tight script. With vanishingly few exceptions, the contemporary writers favored by the Hellmouth are clumsy writers at best.
They're clumsy writers because they're trying to present the trials and tribulations of a belief/protagonist, ( its pros/friends and cons/antagonists ), and the outcome of that argument/series of challenges ( the belief revised, strengthened and victorious, or the belief weakened and defeated, or the belief clarified and affirmed ), *at the same time as* either genuinely believing that all beliefs are equally valid/should win gold stars or pretending to believe that.
I can no longer count the number of times that I've found the stated position of the villain/antagonist totally tenable, convincing, in fact more intelligent/rational than the protagonist's ... but they still lose ... and it makes no sense.
Most contemporary stories ( in the west ) make no sense, because stories teach the arguments for believing in something. ... and most writers in the west either don't believe in anything, not fully, with conviction, or aren't allowed to. Of course this makes the writers seem clumsy.
"and most writers in the west either don't believe in anything, not fully, with conviction, or aren't allowed to." How true! No convictions, too afraid to rock the boat, can't fall back on The Hero's Journey and traditional concepts therein.
I have however just realised a way in which these stories do make horrible sense; the people holding the most intelligent rational beliefs are the baddies, and they lose; the people spouting mindless and nonsensical soundbites to justify their activities are the heroes, and they win. People are being "entertrained" as Kelly Em says below, to avoid thought, to eschew thinking or analysis, and to be suspicious and/or contemptuous of people who do think/talk intelligently/rationally about things, and to root for/identify with people spouting nonsensical soundbites. :( :( :(
Goodies V Baddies
The screenwriters of old read books for pleasure. Even the uneducated ones were bookish and the college graduates exceptionally well read. Audiences savoured repartee and relished eloquence. It was a different world.
I'd be hard-pressed to find Yankee propaganda in that movie. As I recall, several "progressives" wanted the movie suppressed because the heroes in the story were Confederates.
No woman should ever be reduced to making a dress out of draperies.
Fiddle De deee, indeed.
Except Carol Burnett! :-)
That spike protein really sucks the will to live, don't it? I'm glad to hear you're on the mend. Don't worry about the ubiquity of globohomo, you'll not only live to see its demise, but stand to gift the world the next great sci-fi adventure series! I know that this seems out of reach with the malaise you're experiencing, but this will pass and you'll be back to kicking ass in no time!
Thanks man! Yeah, I know this brain funk is a temporary thing. I'm just impatient for it to end. I'm already feeling considerably better than I was a few days ago, so hopefully it won't be much longer before the fire rekindles.
Look into vaxx damage repair protocol. I'm keeping list here https://davenarby.substack.com/p/covid-19-vaccine-damage-repair-protocol
I took zinc, D (lots of D) hesperidin, C60, and quercetin. I got back to normal within a few days. I still take them regularly. I also added beta glucan, supposedly keeps your immune system on it's toes.
Natural way to obtain plenty of zinc and the quercetin to help absorb it is by eating plenty of fish ( the oily kind is high in vitamin D ) or meat, or dairy, ( all rich in zinc ) with masses of fresh coriander, or dried dill, or capers, all three of which are rich in quercetin, and squeezing a slice or two of lemon over it, ( rich in vitamin C ), which makes you realise how clever the old cooks were.
Interesting b/c I love coriander/cilantro and have been taking it with ALA to constantly achieve mild heavy metal chelation, and also take fish oil (I eat fish regularly as well).
Yep - I came down with the same about a month or so ago - hit me hard, but zinc, D, quercetin, C... all the usual things these protocols say, got me back on track.
It likely helps, probably also Fenbendazole (another anti-parasitic).
https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/the-least-interesting-generation/
I just read this this week, which I think is also a piece in the jigsaw puzzle as to why the kids of the 21st century and their works seem so flat, callow and monotonous.
(More or less: the writers, actors etc of the 20th century were free-range animals who wandered the world and lived through experience, whereas the writers and actors of today are cosseted zoo animals who live through screens.)
That article makes an excellent point. That lack of adventure is something I've noticed and felt myself - and by any reasonable metric, my own life has been comparatively adventurous. Not nearly as much as I would have liked, but when contrasting my own experience to that of most others I've met, I feel rather bad for their sheltered lives.
yeah me too...im a 1969 baby so i def didnt have the same intense experiences as say my grandparents' generation (most esp in re wars, the Great Depression, and childhood death and disease, not to mention working manual labor jobs by the time they reached double digits) but growing up in NYC in the 70s/80s me and my friends still wandered around town unchaperoned, dealt w the wild subway and crime of those days, not to mention lived thru the birth of hip hop and the last blast of punk, so it was an exciting time and place to be alive...the kids and their lives and art today seem to be lacking human depth and a wider perspective than their phones, which seem to have killed off privacy, secrecy and immersive inner life...
So many possible explanations!
Smaller families means more helicopter parenting, and putting off the age when kids can operate machinery, etc.
Raising the drinking age means a smaller market for bands catering to the college aged, and thus a death of pop music.
And then there are the chemicals:
https://rulesforreactionaries.substack.com/p/rule-4-culture-is-downstream-from
There were plenty of far lefties in my generation back in the day, but I recall few, if any, Snowflakes.
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And on a completely different tangent: the plot of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" is an upgrade of the old Republic Serial: "The Perils of Nyoka." The daredevil archeologist was female -- but she also had to get rescued frequently by the daredevil doctor played by Clayton Moore, in his first speaking role.
Hope you feel better soon. As well as the 80s, the 90s also wasn’t bad as far as films/culture: Fight Club, Dark City, The Matrix, Heat, all films that wouldn’t be made now. In the 00s I had a brief foray into anime that still had some interesting storylines too, as the Japanese like to challenge their audience to understand the material rather than coddle them. The last decade has been a fucking cinematic desert. As you say it seems like all the colour has been drained from everyday life (I’m sure it’s intentional). Dune actually wasn’t bad though.
Dune was great. So was Bladerunner 2049. Villeneuve is one of the only good things in Hollywood right now.
John, have you seen the documentary JODOROWSKY'S DUNE? You may like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0cJNR8HEw0
That looks very cool - will have to find that doco.
I found it uplifting. Jodorowsky's ability to transform frustration into a meaningful and positive experience was very life-affirming. It was also full of fascinating detail about film, especially sci fi. It was also 100% accessible. Jodorowsky's own films are arcane and hermetic...I understand maybe 5% of EL TOPO and maybe a bit more of THE HOLY MOUNTAIN, but I love the creative energy and the willingness not to pander to his audiences. The lack of such figures in contemporary cinema demoralises me more than I can express.
Agreed. Was pleasantly surprised by Dune. Villeneuve embodies what you were saying about 80s creativity.
Many would agree that Dune was great. Liet-Kynes would beg to differ though...
Give them an inch they will take a mile.
Making the Fremen the catch all category for the diversity was kind of hilarious actually.
Slightly offtopic buteven TV documentaries are so painful to watch now like "I woke up in the morning and took a breath, then I ate my breakfast"
Like so what, I don't care about that, tell me the facts or I am going to press OFF.
1970s and 1980s news and documentaries are so different.
John, another great piece. The Granny State...what an expression!
Over the years, I have given a lot of thought to the decline in the quality of movies. My best guess is that it is a confluence of factors. The great studios are now overly cautious in artistic management because there is so much money at stake. Film schools now attract middle class, mostly upper middle class, students who bring with them the worldviews of the credentialled (but undereducated and uncultivated), above all the weird asexual social psychologies which assume that men and women are (or should be) interchangeable. The employment of female college graduates as casting directors has ensured that male leading roles are now mostly played by feminised men.
The post-war era generated a subtle but distinct individualistic and antiauthoritarian strand in Western culture...IMO a reaction to the experience of mobilisation and conscription. This last flared with Punk and New Wave but has now disappeared. The dullness and blandness of the aesthetic is essential for humanising the creeping conformism and normalising the standardisation sweeping the culture industries.
The great wave of conformism, de-individualisation, de-vitalisation and cultural exhaustion is clear from the successive incarnations of Dr Who. Compare the 4th doctor (played by Tom Baker) who was anti-authoritarian, sceptical, querulous and eccentric....today Dr Who is woke and (for me) unwatchable and disgusting. Younger people who follow science fiction do not see it. This is not so much an effect of changing taste as it is a curated restriction of vision.
Excellent piece, as usual. I’m one of those “young” boomers, but I plan on being dead the week after my 70th birthday, (just like Lemmy ), leaving all my useless shit to my kids.
I have 10,000 dollars which says you won't do it.
You should watch John Carpenters The Thing. Very fitting for the time of year and the state of distrust a lot of society is feeling
Great movie.
You may enjoy this site for inspiration. Its been a staple of mine since my college days:
http://www.badmovies.org/
I feel your distress. Excellent exposition of covagony. I love your linguistic creativity so thought I'd try one, too. I won't ask what a memberberry is, but enstupidating is excellent.
I hope you recover quickly. I look forward to your normal curmudgexcellence.
Accurate, it seems very likely that the geriatrics are going to try their hardest to run things into the ground. Unfortunately, I don't think there's a whole lot that can stand in their way at this point.
The cultural stagnation that you've observed is both very real and not-real because of how culture is distributed. The internet has fractured the culture not into subcultures, but micro-cultures. We're talking cultural units of groups between 1000, and 10,000 people connected digitally. This is one reason so many social interactions have been formalized, because you are very unlikely to share a cultural background with any one you meet in person. Simultaneously, the micro-cultures are becoming so alien to one another as to be incomprehensible. There's a microculture exclusively built around com-block military surplus equipment. There's a microculture exclusively constructed around obscure programming languages. These microcultures can be very nuanced in their language, memes, and approach to life, but the broader 'mass' culture is comparatively blind. That's one reason that films are so stagnant: they're attempting to appeal to a mass-culture that exists in name only.
I've written on the topic briefly here regarding wise responses: https://alwaysthehorizon.substack.com/p/post-faustian-ethnos-identity-and
Set to be trimmed judging from the protocol enacted during the COVID op. Didn't mean to overreact. There's just so much drama around I wanted some. Tough to come by being an old white dude. I can't say "the man is keeping me down" because by the current metrics I am he. Talk about a conflict of interest. Thanks for a great substack keep up the good work.