The other Day President Barack Obama, with his last few remaining months of relevancy, decided to give medals of freedom to a bunch of celebrities and athletes.
If you want the details of who was awarded with this meaningless piece of metal, go ahead and google it.
Freedom....celebrities...athletes.
I just don't get it.
Why do we exalt these people to the status of deity in our modern culture? (I use the term culture loosely here, a culture is defined by a set of rules and norms and limitations on human behaviour, I do not believe our modern existence can properly be defined as culture)
I'm sure there are some humanitarian pursuits that these people have engaged in, but the key aspect that they represent (well the athletes anyway) is hard work, dedication, an elite mindset and sheer willpower. The celebrities represent hedonism, childishness, self indulgence, and immaturity.
What the fuck does that have to do with freedom? Ellen DeGeneres (is that how you spell it?) interviews famous people all day and makes light of everything. Her show is like televised Soma (go read Brave New World).
Why does our PC culture give these people so much importance? They're propaganda puppets for the establishment. Pro-Hillary every last one, shit even my childhood idol Michael Jordan received a useless medal.
Propaganda. We're supposed to do what they tell us, think how they want us, and they want to make us envy this nonsense.
The worst part for me is Kareem was there, I respect Kareem like hell, that is one authentic dude. I guess he's just along for the ride or something, but goddamn the vapidity of our culture is beginning to irk me.
I think I need to quit Facebook.
Wednesday 23 November 2016
Sunday 13 November 2016
A Foray into the Club
I'm currently living with some roommates, two of which are young women who wanted to go out last night. Seeing as I was bored and seeking a little amusement this week end before heading back to work, I agreed and we went to this big night club.
Einstein once said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. I am reminded of this when I see people engaging in promiscuous lifestyles in the search of satisfaction.
They engage in impulsive behavior, they lose themselves to impulsiveness and the end result is the same, another mistake on the resume, another blemish on the soul, another regret to bury away. They continue to hit the clubs, what for I have no idea.
It is interesting to note that when I was much younger, I abhorred these environments as essentially a bunch of people seeking validation, which is true to some extent, but in truth when the music is good and you enjoy the people you're hanging out with and just dancing for fun, it really isn't all that bad.
No less than three women basically threw themselves at me, one of which wanted me to take her home and I hadn't even said a word to her, she just winked over and over. All three would have been suitable sex partners, but nothing more, which is why I chose not to bite. I'm at the age (34) where I no longer wish to just waste time with a girl unless I think it can go somewhere.
It occurred to me last night that clubs are places where people lose their money and gain very little out of it. I myself spent around 100$ last night, which would have been much better spent on something else, such as some furniture or some new socks, or anything of actual use in my life.
We siphon off people's money in a club with overpriced drinks and dangle the promise of sex in their faces. If I lowered my standards, I could probably end up sleeping with tons of women over the course of a year, and where I would I be at the end of that I wonder? Probably not somewhere I genuinely want to be, but I digress.
This foray into the night club scene made me think about lowered birth rates and skyrocketing divorce rates, of general unhappiness and dissatisfaction in male female relationships as so many people can't seem to settle down with someone and raise kids to maturity without one of them destroying that nucleus to fuck someone else or god knows what.
And I saw it in that club, I saw people who don't want the normal life, the stable family. I saw a lot of tattoos and thugs and their 'bitches'. I saw thrill seeking women who have already had waaay too much fun. I saw lots of thirsty men who had no chance, no game, no confidence, nothing but desperation in their eyes. I saw the thugs, oozing an I don't give a fuck attitude, tattoos, piercings, etc.
I saw women who are desperate for attention and don't seem to like men all that much beyond what they can get from them. Women are more entitled and frosty than they used to be, and it seems to be getting worse.
I think I'm not going to clubs anymore for a while...for a long while I think....
Einstein once said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. I am reminded of this when I see people engaging in promiscuous lifestyles in the search of satisfaction.
They engage in impulsive behavior, they lose themselves to impulsiveness and the end result is the same, another mistake on the resume, another blemish on the soul, another regret to bury away. They continue to hit the clubs, what for I have no idea.
It is interesting to note that when I was much younger, I abhorred these environments as essentially a bunch of people seeking validation, which is true to some extent, but in truth when the music is good and you enjoy the people you're hanging out with and just dancing for fun, it really isn't all that bad.
No less than three women basically threw themselves at me, one of which wanted me to take her home and I hadn't even said a word to her, she just winked over and over. All three would have been suitable sex partners, but nothing more, which is why I chose not to bite. I'm at the age (34) where I no longer wish to just waste time with a girl unless I think it can go somewhere.
It occurred to me last night that clubs are places where people lose their money and gain very little out of it. I myself spent around 100$ last night, which would have been much better spent on something else, such as some furniture or some new socks, or anything of actual use in my life.
We siphon off people's money in a club with overpriced drinks and dangle the promise of sex in their faces. If I lowered my standards, I could probably end up sleeping with tons of women over the course of a year, and where I would I be at the end of that I wonder? Probably not somewhere I genuinely want to be, but I digress.
This foray into the night club scene made me think about lowered birth rates and skyrocketing divorce rates, of general unhappiness and dissatisfaction in male female relationships as so many people can't seem to settle down with someone and raise kids to maturity without one of them destroying that nucleus to fuck someone else or god knows what.
And I saw it in that club, I saw people who don't want the normal life, the stable family. I saw a lot of tattoos and thugs and their 'bitches'. I saw thrill seeking women who have already had waaay too much fun. I saw lots of thirsty men who had no chance, no game, no confidence, nothing but desperation in their eyes. I saw the thugs, oozing an I don't give a fuck attitude, tattoos, piercings, etc.
I saw women who are desperate for attention and don't seem to like men all that much beyond what they can get from them. Women are more entitled and frosty than they used to be, and it seems to be getting worse.
I think I'm not going to clubs anymore for a while...for a long while I think....
Saturday 12 November 2016
The Age of Confusion Part 2
So I called it about nine months ago. I'll quote what I wrote back then:
"Can any cosmic force on earth or elsewhere stop Donald Trump from becoming the next President of the United States?"
Why did I make this prediction? Or rather, how did I know, how was I so sure? So certain?
When I was nineteen years old I got into law school. I didn't know anything about myself. I was walking around in a daze, unsure of who I was, what I wanted and where I wanted to go. Shortly after getting into law school, 9/11 happened and my subconscious mind responded to those events very powerfully. I wrote a letter to the Dean and asked to be excused from my studies.
The morning of Sept 11th 2001, I watched, along with my fellow students, a false flag attack. Those of you who think this makes me a tinfoil hat wearing bat shit crazy person, well so be it. Something about it all felt off. By the evening, they knew who had done the attack, we heard the name Osama on the news.
Never mind all the evidence suggesting it was a false flag attack, I felt on some subconscious level that I was seeing a con job. Once upon a time, I was indoctrinated, this event was the turning point that led to my disconnect from the mainstream narrative. I went into political science and literature and decided I was going to be a writer. Fifteen years later I still write for fun, heck I write for a living but its a different kind of writing (software).
The mainstream narrative presents reality as fine. Everything is fine, your Government has your best interest at heart, you have no reason to be unhappy with the circumstances you've been given. Everything is fair and you're exactly where you deserve to be.
The interesting thing about a narrative that can be controlled through sheer repetition and reach (media) is that it is very hard to disconnect from it without experiencing a kind of trauma. Some people never get to realize the basic truth that no, the Government does NOT have your best interest at heart. That no, your rights are not being respected.
9/11 was followed by the patriot act and other strange things. The US Government was becoming ever increasingly authoritarian, the economy was getting worse, and the media kept distracting people from accepting these things as truth.
You see, the reason so many people were genuinely shocked by Trump winning was because they were in a bubble in which truth had become such an alien concept that they could no longer reconcile themselves with it at all. Too many people fed into the narrative, while the rest of America saw the real effects of globalization, of crony capitalism, of the corporate takeover of the world. How for example, can someone who claims to support democracy think it to be fitting to challenge the outcome of a democratic election so violently and destructively?
Those tinfoil hat wearing people, the skeptics and such voted for Trump because he represented change, that's it. Not because they're racist, or sexist, or filled with hate, but because they want a change. They don't believe in the narrative any longer, don't trust the media, don't trust the government, don't feel like their voices are being heard at all. These are the same people that voted for Obama by the way, because he was the change candidate.
In my previous blog post, I said the developed world was very divided and that no matter who won things would be a mess. I hate to say it but I was right. But of course this is compounded by the fact that forces at work are actively trying to spread misinformation and lies.
There are people who are still not disconnected from the false (media) narrative, these people are vulnerable, pliable, and are devoid of any real capacity for rational thought. If they were capable of such, they would not have reacted in such a way. A simple look into Donald Trump's history and actions shows quite clearly he is neither racist nor sexist. But people have forgotten how to think. They only know how to feel.
In other words, we have the brainwashed, and those who see reality for what it is, and the two groups are clashing with each other heavily. And what's more, what is really going to bake your noodle is this; if the brainwashed masses succeed in this conflict, that that false narrative BECOMES the real narrative.
History is written by the victors, never forget that. Here's a book you can check out on Amazon that might upset you:
https://www.amazon.com/Wall-Street-Hitler-Antony-Sutton/dp/0945001533
You see, most people today are too stupid to recognize truth from fiction, they just "react" to whatever it is they're being exposed to and attribute to it good or bad characteristics. And the most sinister part about it is they've gotten so stupid that they just take information from a supposedly credible source as gospel, such as the news or some arrogant celebrity. The book above uncovers a truth that most people would have great difficulty accepting, that Nazism was financed by Wall Street with full knowledge that this extremist movement might bring the US and Europe into a horrible war. They didn't care about potentially killing tens of millions of people, they cared about PROFITS.
Things are no different today, as they were no different during the Roman Empire. The digital age has not helped in curing people of their stupidity. It seems stupidity is just a part of being human.
I myself think that the times are about to get darker, unfortunately. Once Trump is elected, he will be undermined at every turn and challenged by sinister forces, and this growing mass of idiots is going to pose a danger to everyone who is capable of rational thought.
"Can any cosmic force on earth or elsewhere stop Donald Trump from becoming the next President of the United States?"
Why did I make this prediction? Or rather, how did I know, how was I so sure? So certain?
When I was nineteen years old I got into law school. I didn't know anything about myself. I was walking around in a daze, unsure of who I was, what I wanted and where I wanted to go. Shortly after getting into law school, 9/11 happened and my subconscious mind responded to those events very powerfully. I wrote a letter to the Dean and asked to be excused from my studies.
The morning of Sept 11th 2001, I watched, along with my fellow students, a false flag attack. Those of you who think this makes me a tinfoil hat wearing bat shit crazy person, well so be it. Something about it all felt off. By the evening, they knew who had done the attack, we heard the name Osama on the news.
Never mind all the evidence suggesting it was a false flag attack, I felt on some subconscious level that I was seeing a con job. Once upon a time, I was indoctrinated, this event was the turning point that led to my disconnect from the mainstream narrative. I went into political science and literature and decided I was going to be a writer. Fifteen years later I still write for fun, heck I write for a living but its a different kind of writing (software).
The mainstream narrative presents reality as fine. Everything is fine, your Government has your best interest at heart, you have no reason to be unhappy with the circumstances you've been given. Everything is fair and you're exactly where you deserve to be.
The interesting thing about a narrative that can be controlled through sheer repetition and reach (media) is that it is very hard to disconnect from it without experiencing a kind of trauma. Some people never get to realize the basic truth that no, the Government does NOT have your best interest at heart. That no, your rights are not being respected.
9/11 was followed by the patriot act and other strange things. The US Government was becoming ever increasingly authoritarian, the economy was getting worse, and the media kept distracting people from accepting these things as truth.
You see, the reason so many people were genuinely shocked by Trump winning was because they were in a bubble in which truth had become such an alien concept that they could no longer reconcile themselves with it at all. Too many people fed into the narrative, while the rest of America saw the real effects of globalization, of crony capitalism, of the corporate takeover of the world. How for example, can someone who claims to support democracy think it to be fitting to challenge the outcome of a democratic election so violently and destructively?
Those tinfoil hat wearing people, the skeptics and such voted for Trump because he represented change, that's it. Not because they're racist, or sexist, or filled with hate, but because they want a change. They don't believe in the narrative any longer, don't trust the media, don't trust the government, don't feel like their voices are being heard at all. These are the same people that voted for Obama by the way, because he was the change candidate.
In my previous blog post, I said the developed world was very divided and that no matter who won things would be a mess. I hate to say it but I was right. But of course this is compounded by the fact that forces at work are actively trying to spread misinformation and lies.
There are people who are still not disconnected from the false (media) narrative, these people are vulnerable, pliable, and are devoid of any real capacity for rational thought. If they were capable of such, they would not have reacted in such a way. A simple look into Donald Trump's history and actions shows quite clearly he is neither racist nor sexist. But people have forgotten how to think. They only know how to feel.
In other words, we have the brainwashed, and those who see reality for what it is, and the two groups are clashing with each other heavily. And what's more, what is really going to bake your noodle is this; if the brainwashed masses succeed in this conflict, that that false narrative BECOMES the real narrative.
History is written by the victors, never forget that. Here's a book you can check out on Amazon that might upset you:
https://www.amazon.com/Wall-Street-Hitler-Antony-Sutton/dp/0945001533
You see, most people today are too stupid to recognize truth from fiction, they just "react" to whatever it is they're being exposed to and attribute to it good or bad characteristics. And the most sinister part about it is they've gotten so stupid that they just take information from a supposedly credible source as gospel, such as the news or some arrogant celebrity. The book above uncovers a truth that most people would have great difficulty accepting, that Nazism was financed by Wall Street with full knowledge that this extremist movement might bring the US and Europe into a horrible war. They didn't care about potentially killing tens of millions of people, they cared about PROFITS.
Things are no different today, as they were no different during the Roman Empire. The digital age has not helped in curing people of their stupidity. It seems stupidity is just a part of being human.
I myself think that the times are about to get darker, unfortunately. Once Trump is elected, he will be undermined at every turn and challenged by sinister forces, and this growing mass of idiots is going to pose a danger to everyone who is capable of rational thought.
Saturday 5 November 2016
The Age of Confusion
Months ago I wrote that I was convinced Donald Trump would become president, or rather felt there was a strong likelihood of this happening. (Just checked my blog history, it was February, so about nine months or so).
Since then the Presidential race has heated up and has gone full supernova. CNN paints Trump like a buffoon and a fool and states that Hillary is going to win. Fox states that Hillary is a heinous criminal and that the people want Trump.
Alternative media are suggesting she will steal the race, they also suggest that billionaires like George Soros and other such individuals are the true masters, stealthily moving the chess pieces to arrive to their desired check mate.
Trump's been accused of raping children, of sexually harassing countless women. Hillary is accused of (if we are to believe wikileaks as fact then these are more than accusations) colluding with the DNC to rig the primaries against Bernie Sanders, of covering up countless mishaps and blunders (primarily the fucking email server I am so sick of hearing about) and of in general being a woman that the people cannot really trust.
Polls show a very tight race.
I don't know who is going to win, in fact I don't think anyone knows, unless of course the entire establishment is in fact backing their favored candidate (Clinton, this is not debatable I would think, a mountain of evidence shows she has been anointed and chosen by the media to represent the country) and will do whatever it takes, legal or otherwise, to ensure she gets the vote.
Regardless of all of that, I see a much larger problem that is manifesting itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyjnEm8DZkI
Here's a video from five years ago that talks about the information war between mainstream media and alternative media.
Before I go any further I need to explicitly indicate that there is a fundamental logical fallacy presented in the video that is very hard to ignore. The average viewer may not even notice it but it is not all that subtle if you know what to look for. The narrator describes US media as propaganda, which would suggest that alternative media is not propaganda.
I'm here to state a simple fact: it's ALL propaganda, whether it comes from the US, from Russia, or from anywhere else.
The real issue at stake here, I think, is whether or not reality can in fact be objectively communicated at all, whether or not we are capable of transmitting truth to each other.
I would argue that we can't. Our experiences are so very subjective, everyone has a different set of internal beliefs, a different set of values, all we can really transmit are facts, and facts are largely boring. Here are some boring facts:
- The production of coal in factory A is up 5% from last month to this month, but has hired 7% more employees thus some might conclude it is now less efficient.
- The job market has lost X amount of jobs in the salary range of 100K plus a year, but has gained 5X jobs in the salary range of 25-35K.
Facts are indisputable. They measure and report the findings of those measures, nothing more. Facts have no editorial content in them.
The news used to be about facts (Note: this is an OPINION, maybe they were never about facts I don't know).
The news today is all editorial content (Note: this is largely a FACT). Some facts are intermingled into the news, but the news company reporting those facts also tries to manage people's perceptions and reactions to those facts instead of just presenting them objectively for others to draw their own conclusions.
It is ironic to note that the information war that Hillary Clinton alludes to in the video has only gotten worse and worse. Wikileaks would be winning this information war if they had the same budget to spread its message than say CNN, and it would be winning it largely because there is no editorial content whatsoever, they just leak official documents they are given.
Here's another fact, the people are losing faith in the mainstream media, the numbers keep going down.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/195542/americans-trust-mass-media-sinks-new-low.aspx
http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-poll-just-6-percent-of-people-say-they-trust-the-media-2016-4
What these polls suggest is that people don't know where to turn to to find truth anymore. That the United States, or Canada or any large country for that matter, no longer has a united people because everyone is clinging to a truth that is most convenient to them. A nation is built up, it accumulates wealth and power, and then splinters apart again, the US is splintering apart right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcbElUsLBNo
Divided we fall, as the saying goes. The west is divided, and is beginning to fall, and no one knows where to turn to for answers anymore. And I certainly don't want to wade through 50,000 emails to try and figure it out for myself.
I just want a fair deal from my Government, that's all, I think that's all anyone really wants, a fair deal and maybe a little honesty wouldn't hurt either. But here's what's really going to upset you, there is no objective way to determine what is fair, so really, its all fucked.
Tuesday's election is a watershed moment, the empire is crumbling and neither candidate can really stem that tide at this point.
Since then the Presidential race has heated up and has gone full supernova. CNN paints Trump like a buffoon and a fool and states that Hillary is going to win. Fox states that Hillary is a heinous criminal and that the people want Trump.
Alternative media are suggesting she will steal the race, they also suggest that billionaires like George Soros and other such individuals are the true masters, stealthily moving the chess pieces to arrive to their desired check mate.
Trump's been accused of raping children, of sexually harassing countless women. Hillary is accused of (if we are to believe wikileaks as fact then these are more than accusations) colluding with the DNC to rig the primaries against Bernie Sanders, of covering up countless mishaps and blunders (primarily the fucking email server I am so sick of hearing about) and of in general being a woman that the people cannot really trust.
Polls show a very tight race.
I don't know who is going to win, in fact I don't think anyone knows, unless of course the entire establishment is in fact backing their favored candidate (Clinton, this is not debatable I would think, a mountain of evidence shows she has been anointed and chosen by the media to represent the country) and will do whatever it takes, legal or otherwise, to ensure she gets the vote.
Regardless of all of that, I see a much larger problem that is manifesting itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyjnEm8DZkI
Here's a video from five years ago that talks about the information war between mainstream media and alternative media.
Before I go any further I need to explicitly indicate that there is a fundamental logical fallacy presented in the video that is very hard to ignore. The average viewer may not even notice it but it is not all that subtle if you know what to look for. The narrator describes US media as propaganda, which would suggest that alternative media is not propaganda.
I'm here to state a simple fact: it's ALL propaganda, whether it comes from the US, from Russia, or from anywhere else.
The real issue at stake here, I think, is whether or not reality can in fact be objectively communicated at all, whether or not we are capable of transmitting truth to each other.
I would argue that we can't. Our experiences are so very subjective, everyone has a different set of internal beliefs, a different set of values, all we can really transmit are facts, and facts are largely boring. Here are some boring facts:
- The production of coal in factory A is up 5% from last month to this month, but has hired 7% more employees thus some might conclude it is now less efficient.
- The job market has lost X amount of jobs in the salary range of 100K plus a year, but has gained 5X jobs in the salary range of 25-35K.
Facts are indisputable. They measure and report the findings of those measures, nothing more. Facts have no editorial content in them.
The news used to be about facts (Note: this is an OPINION, maybe they were never about facts I don't know).
The news today is all editorial content (Note: this is largely a FACT). Some facts are intermingled into the news, but the news company reporting those facts also tries to manage people's perceptions and reactions to those facts instead of just presenting them objectively for others to draw their own conclusions.
It is ironic to note that the information war that Hillary Clinton alludes to in the video has only gotten worse and worse. Wikileaks would be winning this information war if they had the same budget to spread its message than say CNN, and it would be winning it largely because there is no editorial content whatsoever, they just leak official documents they are given.
Here's another fact, the people are losing faith in the mainstream media, the numbers keep going down.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/195542/americans-trust-mass-media-sinks-new-low.aspx
http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-poll-just-6-percent-of-people-say-they-trust-the-media-2016-4
What these polls suggest is that people don't know where to turn to to find truth anymore. That the United States, or Canada or any large country for that matter, no longer has a united people because everyone is clinging to a truth that is most convenient to them. A nation is built up, it accumulates wealth and power, and then splinters apart again, the US is splintering apart right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcbElUsLBNo
Divided we fall, as the saying goes. The west is divided, and is beginning to fall, and no one knows where to turn to for answers anymore. And I certainly don't want to wade through 50,000 emails to try and figure it out for myself.
I just want a fair deal from my Government, that's all, I think that's all anyone really wants, a fair deal and maybe a little honesty wouldn't hurt either. But here's what's really going to upset you, there is no objective way to determine what is fair, so really, its all fucked.
Tuesday's election is a watershed moment, the empire is crumbling and neither candidate can really stem that tide at this point.
Saturday 9 April 2016
Musclessss
So I'm lifting a lot of weights lately and I'm beginning to look pretty buff.
I can squat 300lbs. I can bench over 225 lbs. I'm cut, I'm ripped and the chicks fucking love it.
For those dudes out there who are wondering why they're not getting the results with the females that they want, its all about your T levels.
Let me repeat that for emphasis because it really is all about your T levels.
Scientists have proven that when you win an altercation or an argument, your T levels go up, when you lose they go down. This is why for example when you pass a shit test by not giving a fuck or flipping the switch on a girl she gets more turned on, because you're mind is literally giving you permission to produce more T.
T T T T T T!!!!!
When you win a big poker hand, or a tournament, or outsmart someone or outplay them, the victory stimulates more T production.
But you can short circuit this by lifting, lifting, lifting. So go lift already you fucking pussy! I went to lunch with this beta doctor the other day, every piece of ass that came into the place he started scanning with his eyes like a predator looking for a gazelle to eat. I don't need to explain to the well versed this obvious truth, but for those of you hard case newbs who don't get it, displaying overt interest in a girl before she displays it to you is a LOSING move.
You approach indirectly, you display value WITHOUT a direct intention, this is not done by faking it, it is done by literally NOT BEING THAT INTO THE GIRL TO BEGIN WITH.
WOMEN are seductresses, men are on their path, whatever that path may be. If your path is to get money so you can get bitches, then you're a bitch yourself. Your path should be to self actualize and be the best version of yourself you can be, and when you're doing this, your T levels go up and the seductresses will seek YOU OUT!!
So go the fucking gym and lift already.
I can squat 300lbs. I can bench over 225 lbs. I'm cut, I'm ripped and the chicks fucking love it.
For those dudes out there who are wondering why they're not getting the results with the females that they want, its all about your T levels.
Let me repeat that for emphasis because it really is all about your T levels.
Scientists have proven that when you win an altercation or an argument, your T levels go up, when you lose they go down. This is why for example when you pass a shit test by not giving a fuck or flipping the switch on a girl she gets more turned on, because you're mind is literally giving you permission to produce more T.
T T T T T T!!!!!
When you win a big poker hand, or a tournament, or outsmart someone or outplay them, the victory stimulates more T production.
But you can short circuit this by lifting, lifting, lifting. So go lift already you fucking pussy! I went to lunch with this beta doctor the other day, every piece of ass that came into the place he started scanning with his eyes like a predator looking for a gazelle to eat. I don't need to explain to the well versed this obvious truth, but for those of you hard case newbs who don't get it, displaying overt interest in a girl before she displays it to you is a LOSING move.
You approach indirectly, you display value WITHOUT a direct intention, this is not done by faking it, it is done by literally NOT BEING THAT INTO THE GIRL TO BEGIN WITH.
WOMEN are seductresses, men are on their path, whatever that path may be. If your path is to get money so you can get bitches, then you're a bitch yourself. Your path should be to self actualize and be the best version of yourself you can be, and when you're doing this, your T levels go up and the seductresses will seek YOU OUT!!
So go the fucking gym and lift already.
Wednesday 9 March 2016
This new Ghostbuster Movie
I want to talk about a few different spectrums with respect to this film.
The first spectrum is control vs empowerment.
The movie doesn't stand on its own without the previous two films having existed. Ergo, without the effects of the brand of the previous films, this current film would not even be considered popular in any respect.
The goal of the first movie was to entertain people, the goal of this movie is to bank on the success of the first movie. This is not about empowerment, but about control.
Now lets talk about fear vs love.
When you want to entertain people, you work from a place of love. Your goal is to show them an emotionally moving experience, regardless of what that emotion is. When you want to make money, you try to do something you think will be popular and you make decisions based on market research, polling and other such nonsense. You're trying to make money because you're an executive that is thinking of his career and moving forward and success and all that shit. You're acting out of FEAR when you make decisions based on what will make money, instead of what will make a great movie.
Now lets talk about authenticity vs faking.
The first film featured 2 actors who worked together on SNL (Murray and Akroyd). In fact a third SNL alumn (Murphy) was supposed to join but didn't due to making 48 hours or some shit, I forget. The point is, they purposely put comedians together that had a previous rapport, with the goal of entertaining people. And it showed as Akroyd and Murray were both perfect.
This movie took some popular female comedians and mashed them together in the hopes of it being popular. Why four girls? Because marketing research. Whatever happened to creative people making decisions based on entertaining people?
Inorganic, inauthentic, fear based, control based.
Every single thing about this film is wrong. It is an aberration. Hollywood has become too stupid to even know what to do with themselves anymore. People think that shitty entertainment is no big deal in the grand scheme of things, I wonder how stupid the kids growing up today will be one day, I bet dumb as paint.
We keep dumbing things down, putting out stupider less plausible characters, dumber comedy, everything is getting worse.
Stop destroying old franchises that didn't suck. Stop rebooting shit. Let creative people make movies again.
Yeahhhh..
So here's the real issue with this shit. The real issue is that we have to bank on the mythology of old because people no longer believe in the now, the things coming out now are not having the same traction.
That's because the empire is severely decayed and we prefer to time warp to a period when it wasn't.
Asians have taken us over, globalization and the race to the bottom....
The first spectrum is control vs empowerment.
The movie doesn't stand on its own without the previous two films having existed. Ergo, without the effects of the brand of the previous films, this current film would not even be considered popular in any respect.
The goal of the first movie was to entertain people, the goal of this movie is to bank on the success of the first movie. This is not about empowerment, but about control.
Now lets talk about fear vs love.
When you want to entertain people, you work from a place of love. Your goal is to show them an emotionally moving experience, regardless of what that emotion is. When you want to make money, you try to do something you think will be popular and you make decisions based on market research, polling and other such nonsense. You're trying to make money because you're an executive that is thinking of his career and moving forward and success and all that shit. You're acting out of FEAR when you make decisions based on what will make money, instead of what will make a great movie.
Now lets talk about authenticity vs faking.
The first film featured 2 actors who worked together on SNL (Murray and Akroyd). In fact a third SNL alumn (Murphy) was supposed to join but didn't due to making 48 hours or some shit, I forget. The point is, they purposely put comedians together that had a previous rapport, with the goal of entertaining people. And it showed as Akroyd and Murray were both perfect.
This movie took some popular female comedians and mashed them together in the hopes of it being popular. Why four girls? Because marketing research. Whatever happened to creative people making decisions based on entertaining people?
Inorganic, inauthentic, fear based, control based.
Every single thing about this film is wrong. It is an aberration. Hollywood has become too stupid to even know what to do with themselves anymore. People think that shitty entertainment is no big deal in the grand scheme of things, I wonder how stupid the kids growing up today will be one day, I bet dumb as paint.
We keep dumbing things down, putting out stupider less plausible characters, dumber comedy, everything is getting worse.
Stop destroying old franchises that didn't suck. Stop rebooting shit. Let creative people make movies again.
Yeahhhh..
So here's the real issue with this shit. The real issue is that we have to bank on the mythology of old because people no longer believe in the now, the things coming out now are not having the same traction.
That's because the empire is severely decayed and we prefer to time warp to a period when it wasn't.
Asians have taken us over, globalization and the race to the bottom....
Thursday 25 February 2016
Some more thoughts on the coming elections
For some reason beyond me, many people are convinced that Donald Trump is a joke and should not be taken seriously.
A MULTI BILLIONAIRE who makes winning business deals again and again, who finds ways to get shit done that other people can't, who is running his campaign EXACTLY as he runs his business (he's spending way less that the competition and getting way more bang for his buck).
You know what the biggest problem with American Government is? Incomprehensibly inefficient use of taxpayer money towards the establishments aims, as well as corruption that reduces efficiency. For example generic prescription drugs are not available in the states because the big pharma companies paid the right people and signed the right contract and the end result is pills cost an arm and a leg and companies that would provide said drugs for MUCH CHEAPER are NOT ALLOWED TO SELL THEM. That's not capitalism, that's corruption, collusion, price rigging, the most immoral way to run a business.
And these people who call Trump a laughing stock, well to me, THEY are the laughing stock. Ignorant haters who don't hold a candle to the man's skills and business savvy. These same people would rather see Hillary Clinton be the president.
If you take just ten minutes to google her name with the word criminal, you will find an OCEAN of facts, FACTS that prove the woman has no moral conscience WHATSOEVER. She will make backdoor deals and cares NOTHING for the common man and is a symbol of the inefficiency and nonsense that plagues politics. Furthermore she consorts with cocaine dealers and a ton of the money that has financed her over the years comes from CRIMINALS, because SHE IS A CRIMINAL AS WELL!!
It boggles my mind how stupid the average person has become that their eyes cannot see what is plainly staring at them. The blind lead the blind alas.
Proof of this is that Bernie Sanders is in a fight with Hillary Clinton. She shouldn't get a single vote if the voters were educated and understood up from down and left from right and possessed even the most basic common sense.
I fear humanity has become so stupid that we may get exactly what we deserve.....
A MULTI BILLIONAIRE who makes winning business deals again and again, who finds ways to get shit done that other people can't, who is running his campaign EXACTLY as he runs his business (he's spending way less that the competition and getting way more bang for his buck).
You know what the biggest problem with American Government is? Incomprehensibly inefficient use of taxpayer money towards the establishments aims, as well as corruption that reduces efficiency. For example generic prescription drugs are not available in the states because the big pharma companies paid the right people and signed the right contract and the end result is pills cost an arm and a leg and companies that would provide said drugs for MUCH CHEAPER are NOT ALLOWED TO SELL THEM. That's not capitalism, that's corruption, collusion, price rigging, the most immoral way to run a business.
And these people who call Trump a laughing stock, well to me, THEY are the laughing stock. Ignorant haters who don't hold a candle to the man's skills and business savvy. These same people would rather see Hillary Clinton be the president.
If you take just ten minutes to google her name with the word criminal, you will find an OCEAN of facts, FACTS that prove the woman has no moral conscience WHATSOEVER. She will make backdoor deals and cares NOTHING for the common man and is a symbol of the inefficiency and nonsense that plagues politics. Furthermore she consorts with cocaine dealers and a ton of the money that has financed her over the years comes from CRIMINALS, because SHE IS A CRIMINAL AS WELL!!
It boggles my mind how stupid the average person has become that their eyes cannot see what is plainly staring at them. The blind lead the blind alas.
Proof of this is that Bernie Sanders is in a fight with Hillary Clinton. She shouldn't get a single vote if the voters were educated and understood up from down and left from right and possessed even the most basic common sense.
I fear humanity has become so stupid that we may get exactly what we deserve.....
Monday 22 February 2016
A Rant about Trump and America
We're seeing an interesting shift in American politics right now. I am of the opinion that the men in the closed room that own all the assets and make all the decisions are on top of things at all times, that is to say they run the show and have already planned eventualities several steps ahead.
It is with that concept in mind that I would like to discuss one Donald J. Trump.
He's crass, he's genuine, he's super cool. It is no surprise that he is far more popular in polling that Ted Cruz, Jeb (who just dropped out) and Marco Rubio, John Kasick etc...
Its fairly obvious that the bulk of Americans are no longer of the opinion that the establishment serves their interests. The LOGICAL candidate from such a viewpoint would most certainly be Bernie Sanders.
However, that being said let's tell it like it is. When Sanders suggests that meaningful change can only occur with a "Strong grassroots political movement involving millions" what I'm hearing is a sort of soft revolution. Those of you who take an interest in history will no doubt recall that FDR in order to get the New Deal signed and approved had to present the elite with an ultimatum of epic proportions: make this deal or all production stops, all unions go on strike and everything slows down to a crawl. The irony is that such an ultimatum can no longer truly be provided by the working class unless EVERYONE revolts. In the first place there is very little production locally to speak of, the only inconvenience to the elite of a mass revolt in the States would be no body is running the StarBucks or the gas station or waiting tables. North America is a service economy and once that service can be provided by robots or automation or what have you, the large bulk of the population effectively become liabilities to the elite, not assets.
Right now they are of use for one primary reason, they pay taxes to feed the military machine. They also help to some extent to make America appear powerful on the global scene.
Now lets get back to the focus of our article, Mr. Trump. He is the EMOTIONAL candidate for the dispossessed American who's needs are no longer being tended to. The reason he appeals to the emotion of the dispossessed American is fairly straightforward, he is so blunt, so honest, so forthright. He is off the cuff and does not seem to prepare the bulk of his statements. People want change and they subconsciously gravitate towards the person that will provide that change. Sanders has appeal for these people, but I myself, and I do not think I am alone in voicing this opinion, am worried that even if elected, Sanders will find himself with enemies who will try to stop his every move for change.
Trump seems like the type of guy who is willing to break the rules and rewrite them altogether, someone who isn't afraid of standing up the corruption and bureaucracy and unlike Sanders is probably willing to break a LOT of eggs to make the omelet. He's either going to be amazing or the next Fascist Dictator. I'm incredibly fascinated either way and can't wait to see what happens next.
As far as those men behind closed doors who make decisions, what if Trump is part of their plan to radicalize America even further. What if they're several steps ahead of everyone else and have already concluded that the people no longer have faith in the establishment per se and that they need to dangle something new in our faces to keep us passive even longer. What if Trump is their guy from the beginning? Isn't that what they did with Obama? Look you can trust him, you don't need ro rebell, the system will change, he's BLACK for God's sake!
Look you can trust Trump, he's self funded! He's not part of Washington!
I think the young people in America are waking up to some harsh truths and are grasping desperately for answers and are willing to listen to anyone who they think could provide it, Trump certainly fits that bill.
What if the life the baby boomers knew was a fluke in the context of history? And the offshoot of that middle class wealth is slowly dying out now? What if the middle class all but disappears in the future? Isn't that already happening?
Food for thought, I used to make about 4200$ per month after taxes and would spend up to 2500 a month on food, rent, car, cell, expenses, you get the point. That's 1700 a month savings (of course I'm splitting rent and food with my girlfriend at the time, much more expensive solo). This is what you would call a middle class life in a 3.5 apartment in a downtown area of a major metropolitan city, eating well, going out regularly.
That 1700 a month is a decent amount to save certainly, but by the time I can afford a home without a 30 year mortgage that makes me pay overall 200% of the property value in interest I need about 200 months (16 years) straight of savings.
16 years of no vacations. 16 years of no splurging on nice shoes, new clothes, a leather couch.
16 years of nothing but work, groceries, laundry, and the occasional restaurant. No ski trips, no hotel getaways, no deviation from the daily grind.
16 years of no concerts, no spa visits, no new car, no new anything really, just work and pray the company remains stable enough that your position is still needed in 16 years.
The point is that in the 70's we know how affordable things were for the middle class, how easy it was for them to obtain property, work a solid job at the same place, move up the ladder, and improve their life.
Today that has been choked to a fraction of what it was. in 16 years ill be 49. And in 16 years that house that used to cost 340K will cost 500k (or more who knows).
Contrast this with baby boomers who had a 2 year mortgage to own a home. And you wonder why birthrates are down? Why marriage rates are down? Why things are failing? Here's a discomforting truth, maybe the middle class is being weeded out and that this is a process that has been happening for decades.
Back to Trump. In order to reverse this and give the middle class a leg up, we would need to see a return to manufacturing, a return to investment of corporate profits into infrastructure, education, jobs, the "LOCAL" economy. This requires either more heavily taxing the ultra rich, or redirecting the huge military budget towards those domestic goals. I find it incredibly hard to accept that either of these things would be allowed to happen given the current state of politics and the current balance of power.
But at least its entertaining to watch.
It is with that concept in mind that I would like to discuss one Donald J. Trump.
He's crass, he's genuine, he's super cool. It is no surprise that he is far more popular in polling that Ted Cruz, Jeb (who just dropped out) and Marco Rubio, John Kasick etc...
Its fairly obvious that the bulk of Americans are no longer of the opinion that the establishment serves their interests. The LOGICAL candidate from such a viewpoint would most certainly be Bernie Sanders.
However, that being said let's tell it like it is. When Sanders suggests that meaningful change can only occur with a "Strong grassroots political movement involving millions" what I'm hearing is a sort of soft revolution. Those of you who take an interest in history will no doubt recall that FDR in order to get the New Deal signed and approved had to present the elite with an ultimatum of epic proportions: make this deal or all production stops, all unions go on strike and everything slows down to a crawl. The irony is that such an ultimatum can no longer truly be provided by the working class unless EVERYONE revolts. In the first place there is very little production locally to speak of, the only inconvenience to the elite of a mass revolt in the States would be no body is running the StarBucks or the gas station or waiting tables. North America is a service economy and once that service can be provided by robots or automation or what have you, the large bulk of the population effectively become liabilities to the elite, not assets.
Right now they are of use for one primary reason, they pay taxes to feed the military machine. They also help to some extent to make America appear powerful on the global scene.
Now lets get back to the focus of our article, Mr. Trump. He is the EMOTIONAL candidate for the dispossessed American who's needs are no longer being tended to. The reason he appeals to the emotion of the dispossessed American is fairly straightforward, he is so blunt, so honest, so forthright. He is off the cuff and does not seem to prepare the bulk of his statements. People want change and they subconsciously gravitate towards the person that will provide that change. Sanders has appeal for these people, but I myself, and I do not think I am alone in voicing this opinion, am worried that even if elected, Sanders will find himself with enemies who will try to stop his every move for change.
Trump seems like the type of guy who is willing to break the rules and rewrite them altogether, someone who isn't afraid of standing up the corruption and bureaucracy and unlike Sanders is probably willing to break a LOT of eggs to make the omelet. He's either going to be amazing or the next Fascist Dictator. I'm incredibly fascinated either way and can't wait to see what happens next.
As far as those men behind closed doors who make decisions, what if Trump is part of their plan to radicalize America even further. What if they're several steps ahead of everyone else and have already concluded that the people no longer have faith in the establishment per se and that they need to dangle something new in our faces to keep us passive even longer. What if Trump is their guy from the beginning? Isn't that what they did with Obama? Look you can trust him, you don't need ro rebell, the system will change, he's BLACK for God's sake!
Look you can trust Trump, he's self funded! He's not part of Washington!
I think the young people in America are waking up to some harsh truths and are grasping desperately for answers and are willing to listen to anyone who they think could provide it, Trump certainly fits that bill.
What if the life the baby boomers knew was a fluke in the context of history? And the offshoot of that middle class wealth is slowly dying out now? What if the middle class all but disappears in the future? Isn't that already happening?
Food for thought, I used to make about 4200$ per month after taxes and would spend up to 2500 a month on food, rent, car, cell, expenses, you get the point. That's 1700 a month savings (of course I'm splitting rent and food with my girlfriend at the time, much more expensive solo). This is what you would call a middle class life in a 3.5 apartment in a downtown area of a major metropolitan city, eating well, going out regularly.
That 1700 a month is a decent amount to save certainly, but by the time I can afford a home without a 30 year mortgage that makes me pay overall 200% of the property value in interest I need about 200 months (16 years) straight of savings.
16 years of no vacations. 16 years of no splurging on nice shoes, new clothes, a leather couch.
16 years of nothing but work, groceries, laundry, and the occasional restaurant. No ski trips, no hotel getaways, no deviation from the daily grind.
16 years of no concerts, no spa visits, no new car, no new anything really, just work and pray the company remains stable enough that your position is still needed in 16 years.
The point is that in the 70's we know how affordable things were for the middle class, how easy it was for them to obtain property, work a solid job at the same place, move up the ladder, and improve their life.
Today that has been choked to a fraction of what it was. in 16 years ill be 49. And in 16 years that house that used to cost 340K will cost 500k (or more who knows).
Contrast this with baby boomers who had a 2 year mortgage to own a home. And you wonder why birthrates are down? Why marriage rates are down? Why things are failing? Here's a discomforting truth, maybe the middle class is being weeded out and that this is a process that has been happening for decades.
Back to Trump. In order to reverse this and give the middle class a leg up, we would need to see a return to manufacturing, a return to investment of corporate profits into infrastructure, education, jobs, the "LOCAL" economy. This requires either more heavily taxing the ultra rich, or redirecting the huge military budget towards those domestic goals. I find it incredibly hard to accept that either of these things would be allowed to happen given the current state of politics and the current balance of power.
But at least its entertaining to watch.
Tuesday 2 February 2016
American Politics at a Glance, February 2016
Thought I would right some things down about Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton and all the rest of it. I guess we should mention Donald Trump as well.
Before I delve into these topics I should first stipulate that I do not believe in any way shape or form, that the US president actually makes meaningful change in the United States. I believe that meaningful change is rather engineered by multinational firms, central banks, corporate lobbyists and the rest.
To me the President of the United states is a glorified public relations agent whose purpose is to make more palatable to the American People and the public at large, the intentions and machinations of the Military Industrial Complex. In other words, the President is the president of spin. When a new trade deal is proposed that will hurt the US, the president's job is to convince the people that this deal is not a rip off and will in fact serve their interests. When Edward Snowden blows the whistle, the purpose of the President is to quell people' disgust with government by saying "its for your own good, trust us...".
And so it is with a sort of bored detached amusement that I look at these elections before us and I ask myself a few key questions.
A. Is Hillary Clinton actually a human being or is she a carefully constructed cyborg whose purpose it is to simulate emotion and like-ability based on research and polling her staff does? i.e.: Is she into gay rights and feminism because its popular or because she actually believes in these things? i.e.: is there anything of any authenticity whatsoever coming out of this woman's mouth, at all???
B. Is Bernie Sanders actually for real? It's hard for me to accept that he's for real, he seems legit, he seems like he's not a corrupt piece of shit politician. And yet the real tragedy of this is, that if he IS for real, he will most certainly NEVER become the next President of the United states.
C. Can any cosmic force on earth or elsewhere stop Donald Trump from becoming the next President of the United States?
Lets start with A and flesh that out a little more. Hillary is totally false. Shake hands, kiss babies, say the right things, act in ways that offend as few people as possible, pretend to care about the people, etc. Almost half he twitter followers are fake accounts, everything that comes out of her mouth was placed there by a staffer, her mannerisms of speech are filled with pauses and gaps because she is constructing a fabricated identity. She worked for the fifth estate, serves corporate interest almost to a default, sucks on the teet of shadow government power with glee in the hopes of getting on the biggest stage. Her ego is the size of an 18 wheeler. The only thing she cares about is making herself appear as something of substance. I submit to you that there is simply NOTHING THERE. She doesn't stand for ANYTHING. She just says what she's been told people want to hear. She is trying to convince people that she is presidential, and in fact she would be a very good president if the goal of American politics for the future is to pass the buck, do the same fucking thing everyone before has done, pretend to fight for the rights of the people but make the deals that matter behind closed doors.
B. I have to admit, I think Bernie Sanders IS for real. I think he IS genuine, fair, and believes in democracy, which is why he cannot be elected president. If he is elected corporate forces and lobbyists and the industry of greed and evil will do all in its power to prevent him from exacting any meaningful change whatsoever. It's just not gonna happen for Bernie, and its a crying shame because I wish he would win, I wish the people would take back their country, I wish the working class of america would picket and fight (in fact probably all of these things are happening at all times, but the media is careful to ensure that news of these things NEVER spreads too far). If the working class of the country were to engage in an all out revolt and take to the streets, then Bernie would probably be the perfect president. I am of the opinion that a moral man who believes in good and evil CANNOT be elected president, it just can't happen. This guy would tax the rich and corporate interests and use that money to invest in infrastructure and jobs, which would GREATLY stimulate the economy in the short and medium term.
C. Then of course there's Donald Trump, who I would vote for in a second because it makes SENSE. He has big balls, he's an alpha, a leader, doesn't give a FUCK what other people think and is GENUINE. Does he articulate the popular rage? Of course!! But unlike Hillary, hes real, and unlike Bernie, he seems more RESOURCEFUL because of his skills in business dealings and his success in the private sector. He seems like a good negotiator, a good businessman, a strong willed individual. He's ACTUALLY COMPETENT AND PROVEN. Most politicians are USELESS IDIOTS. But will he help the common working man or help grow the middle class? I HIGHLY DOUBT IT. Instead I picture heaven for businesses. There is however the possibility that he would try to stimulate medium and small sized businesses by empowering them with loans and protection, which COULD be a good thing. I trust he is capable of improving the country, but doubt that he will try to really. I wonder what he would do as president, probably usher in an era of extremism.
Now if I had to pick a candidate in ideal circumstances it would be Bernie, for sure. I wish circumstances were ideal, but they're not. I fear for Bernie, and I shudder to think what would happen if that bloodless witch Clinton wins the democratic Nomination and he decides to be her running mate, makes me want to puke.
Before I delve into these topics I should first stipulate that I do not believe in any way shape or form, that the US president actually makes meaningful change in the United States. I believe that meaningful change is rather engineered by multinational firms, central banks, corporate lobbyists and the rest.
To me the President of the United states is a glorified public relations agent whose purpose is to make more palatable to the American People and the public at large, the intentions and machinations of the Military Industrial Complex. In other words, the President is the president of spin. When a new trade deal is proposed that will hurt the US, the president's job is to convince the people that this deal is not a rip off and will in fact serve their interests. When Edward Snowden blows the whistle, the purpose of the President is to quell people' disgust with government by saying "its for your own good, trust us...".
And so it is with a sort of bored detached amusement that I look at these elections before us and I ask myself a few key questions.
A. Is Hillary Clinton actually a human being or is she a carefully constructed cyborg whose purpose it is to simulate emotion and like-ability based on research and polling her staff does? i.e.: Is she into gay rights and feminism because its popular or because she actually believes in these things? i.e.: is there anything of any authenticity whatsoever coming out of this woman's mouth, at all???
B. Is Bernie Sanders actually for real? It's hard for me to accept that he's for real, he seems legit, he seems like he's not a corrupt piece of shit politician. And yet the real tragedy of this is, that if he IS for real, he will most certainly NEVER become the next President of the United states.
C. Can any cosmic force on earth or elsewhere stop Donald Trump from becoming the next President of the United States?
Lets start with A and flesh that out a little more. Hillary is totally false. Shake hands, kiss babies, say the right things, act in ways that offend as few people as possible, pretend to care about the people, etc. Almost half he twitter followers are fake accounts, everything that comes out of her mouth was placed there by a staffer, her mannerisms of speech are filled with pauses and gaps because she is constructing a fabricated identity. She worked for the fifth estate, serves corporate interest almost to a default, sucks on the teet of shadow government power with glee in the hopes of getting on the biggest stage. Her ego is the size of an 18 wheeler. The only thing she cares about is making herself appear as something of substance. I submit to you that there is simply NOTHING THERE. She doesn't stand for ANYTHING. She just says what she's been told people want to hear. She is trying to convince people that she is presidential, and in fact she would be a very good president if the goal of American politics for the future is to pass the buck, do the same fucking thing everyone before has done, pretend to fight for the rights of the people but make the deals that matter behind closed doors.
B. I have to admit, I think Bernie Sanders IS for real. I think he IS genuine, fair, and believes in democracy, which is why he cannot be elected president. If he is elected corporate forces and lobbyists and the industry of greed and evil will do all in its power to prevent him from exacting any meaningful change whatsoever. It's just not gonna happen for Bernie, and its a crying shame because I wish he would win, I wish the people would take back their country, I wish the working class of america would picket and fight (in fact probably all of these things are happening at all times, but the media is careful to ensure that news of these things NEVER spreads too far). If the working class of the country were to engage in an all out revolt and take to the streets, then Bernie would probably be the perfect president. I am of the opinion that a moral man who believes in good and evil CANNOT be elected president, it just can't happen. This guy would tax the rich and corporate interests and use that money to invest in infrastructure and jobs, which would GREATLY stimulate the economy in the short and medium term.
C. Then of course there's Donald Trump, who I would vote for in a second because it makes SENSE. He has big balls, he's an alpha, a leader, doesn't give a FUCK what other people think and is GENUINE. Does he articulate the popular rage? Of course!! But unlike Hillary, hes real, and unlike Bernie, he seems more RESOURCEFUL because of his skills in business dealings and his success in the private sector. He seems like a good negotiator, a good businessman, a strong willed individual. He's ACTUALLY COMPETENT AND PROVEN. Most politicians are USELESS IDIOTS. But will he help the common working man or help grow the middle class? I HIGHLY DOUBT IT. Instead I picture heaven for businesses. There is however the possibility that he would try to stimulate medium and small sized businesses by empowering them with loans and protection, which COULD be a good thing. I trust he is capable of improving the country, but doubt that he will try to really. I wonder what he would do as president, probably usher in an era of extremism.
Now if I had to pick a candidate in ideal circumstances it would be Bernie, for sure. I wish circumstances were ideal, but they're not. I fear for Bernie, and I shudder to think what would happen if that bloodless witch Clinton wins the democratic Nomination and he decides to be her running mate, makes me want to puke.
Saturday 16 January 2016
A review of Nostalrius PvE - from a somewhat experienced PvE player
I used to LOVE World of Warcraft.
I distinctly recall my first 1.99$ trial DVD that I purchased, back in mid 2006, before the Burning Crusade had come out.
The environments were lush and immersive, there was a player community that seemed vibrant and plenty of action was happening on the server. I leveled as a Rogue and by the time my first Deadmines run was completed, I was HOOKED. The loot, the showing off to other people, the displaying of ones skill via the dps meters. I wanted loot, and what I needed to get it was other people, and what they wanted was me to do was dps well and avoid stuff that kills you, and so I forced myself to get better at the game. I wanted to feel like the dude in Ironforge who's sitting on his mount and has the coolest shit you've ever seen and people just stare at him in wonder.
I got my wish into Burning Crusade, became a top raider, got to see all the content before most anyone else, got to kill illidan and archimonde and almost got Kil'jaedan. I burnt out and quit as the guild I was in was progressing on him, because I just didn't give a flying fuck about it anymore. I had transferred servers a few times because the guilds I was in had become stuck and were unable to move forward.
I played some more in WOTLK, and a tad more in Cataclysm, but that was it. For the past four years I have not even picked up WoW, and have not really wanted to either. The truth of the matter is that I was tired of the time commitment to be a top raider, it seemed like the main thing you needed to invest to get them purple pixels was time. Time is a valuable commodity and I can't feel good about spending it on a relatively fruitless hobby.
Recently I heard about a Vanilla server called Nostalrius, I heard about it on a suggested Youtube video, so I tried it out.
To my surprise, I found it to be very addictive (at least initially). The reasons for this are as follows:
I distinctly recall my first 1.99$ trial DVD that I purchased, back in mid 2006, before the Burning Crusade had come out.
The environments were lush and immersive, there was a player community that seemed vibrant and plenty of action was happening on the server. I leveled as a Rogue and by the time my first Deadmines run was completed, I was HOOKED. The loot, the showing off to other people, the displaying of ones skill via the dps meters. I wanted loot, and what I needed to get it was other people, and what they wanted was me to do was dps well and avoid stuff that kills you, and so I forced myself to get better at the game. I wanted to feel like the dude in Ironforge who's sitting on his mount and has the coolest shit you've ever seen and people just stare at him in wonder.
I got my wish into Burning Crusade, became a top raider, got to see all the content before most anyone else, got to kill illidan and archimonde and almost got Kil'jaedan. I burnt out and quit as the guild I was in was progressing on him, because I just didn't give a flying fuck about it anymore. I had transferred servers a few times because the guilds I was in had become stuck and were unable to move forward.
I played some more in WOTLK, and a tad more in Cataclysm, but that was it. For the past four years I have not even picked up WoW, and have not really wanted to either. The truth of the matter is that I was tired of the time commitment to be a top raider, it seemed like the main thing you needed to invest to get them purple pixels was time. Time is a valuable commodity and I can't feel good about spending it on a relatively fruitless hobby.
Recently I heard about a Vanilla server called Nostalrius, I heard about it on a suggested Youtube video, so I tried it out.
To my surprise, I found it to be very addictive (at least initially). The reasons for this are as follows:
- Vanilla WoW was HARD and required you to group up to get anything meaningful done (Elite quests, questing in general, pulling more than 1 mob at a time is dangerous for most classes, etc)
- The time commitment in Vanilla was intense, such that people with full dungeon sets were committed, you could tell who was a serious player just by their appearance, the speed of their mount, the way they enchant their gear, what gear and spec they use, etc. While it is harder to get things, getting them becomes that much more meaningful as a result.
- The need to communicate with your fellow players: because there is no dungeon finder, no server transfers, no name changes, etc, you HAVE to network, you HAVE to converse with others, you HAVE to play nice. You must ingratiate yourself into the community otherwise you don't get very far.
Overall my experience with it made me realize quite a few things. The reason we liked hard mode WoW was because it felt rewarding. When I rejoined in Cataclysm and saw how easy it was to gear, how brainless the Raid Finder raids were, I was kind of disgusted. It defeated the whole purpose of Vanilla WoW, it undid the entire initial motivation to play.
Once everyone could get epics, epics didn't feel epic anymore. Here on Nostalrius, having a good set of Blues feels like an accomplishment, you feel GOOD about it. But it takes a lot of time, time that most people with an active life cannot accommodate.
I find it interesting that WoW changed because of the periphery of players that could not keep up with the hardcore players. As such the game changed and became much more casual, and so the Hardcore instead of being WAY ahead of the casuals, were just slightly ahead, such that a casual could jump into a raid with the Hardcore players and be geared enough from casual content to contribute right away.
The demise of WoW, once it does finally happen, will be blamed largely on this I think, and it makes me wonder why we place so much importance on having something someone else does not, particularly in a virtual setting in which real skill is very hard to determine.
I raided Sunwell when it was super hard, when you needed to chain drums of battle constantly, when you needed to pop haste potions on cool down for every progression fight. When Felmyst was a fucking PITA. I can tell you that it was challenging, it was fun, and when it all clicked for your raid and the boss went down, it was awesome, but the hours upon hours I sacrificed for this, I can never get back and I goddamn well know I could have spent them doing something more productive.
Furthermore I would argue that skill in a PvE setting is largely a matter of practice and having basic reflexes. Being a competent high level Arena player requires FAR MORE skill and twitch reflexes, and so the purple pixels largely represent time investment, not gaming skills, but networking skills.
I can't blame Blizzard, their purpose was to hook us, take our time and our money and capture our minds, enslave us in a manner if you will, and in so doing they rake up the cash. Once again I can't blame a business for acting like a business.
And as the game got older, they reduced the time commitment needed to achieve the same goals, such that those goals got less and less rewarding when achieved. And now you can't even get that feeling playing retail WoW anymore.
This has led me to conclude that the time commitment needed for these games to feel rewarding is what will destroy them. Nostalrius recaptures this quite nicely, the game makes more sense this way than it does with the easy as pie retail model, but I fear becoming one of these junkies again, raiding all day, eating when I can, not catching up with friends, letting my life deteriorate for a few fucking pixels is simply something I will never do again.
If you never got to experience Vanilla or TBC and only joined in WOTLK and onwards, I strongly suggest you try Nostalrius, and if you want to relive the past, you can play around as well, but if you're a casual gamer, I would stay away, you'll only end up frustrating yourself with this one.
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