Murdering Joie De Vivre

i've only very seldom, in fact hardly ever brought up the following topic before. i'm not sure why. it's certainly a vitally important one imo. my guess is that i don't bring it up because it just accentuates and aggravates the existential alienation i feel towards lamestream society, when bringing it up leads no where (except possibly further down).

i absolutely loathe the way most parents and guardians (an apt term) in america relate to very young children. i'll give u an example.

out for a walk recently, i came by a middle aged couple i'm acquainted but not particularly friendly with. in their care were 2 small children, perhaps grandchildren. one was in a stroller, an infant or toddler. the other was a bit older, perhaps 3 or 4, and was walking along with them, full of youthful enthusiasm. one of the grandparents/guardians seemed to be quite unduly alarmed by this, because every time the energetic joyful child got more than about 2 meters away, he would semi yell in a commanding and scolding voice to the child to restrain her from getting further away. it was as if he was trying to instill obedience in a young dog. this was on a very tranquil street, no other sheeple around, no dogs running loose, no wildlife around that might pose any sort of threat, a tranquil neighborhood. there was no compelling need to keep the little tyke on such a short lease, nor to constantly reprimand her for what came so naturally and is so beautiful to see in the young: their joie de vivre.

i've never understood or been comfortable with this sort of guardianship exercised by adults over children in their care. i think it's totally flocked up, disgraceful, sick and cruel. why can't we not only allow but at least at times encourage little kids to explore and relate to the world on their own terms at least a little bit in a safe environment? why must we crush their little spirits whilst they're still so young and tender? why must we instill in them excessive fear and restraint? why do we murder their joie de vivre?

i consider such behavior abusive. it kills me to witness it on an almost daily basis (i'm sure i'd see it on a daily basis if i was around children more) and not do anything about it, knowing as i do that my sick dystopian society fully approves of this sort of 'guardianship' over young children, and actually looks askance (or worse) at parents/guardians who don't exercise such tight control over their young.

i think this compulsion to over-control youth is essential to creating authoritarian, fascist societies. it's crushing their spontaneity, making them hyper-obedient and conforming.

it's also a close relative to the 'spare the rod and spoil the child' mentality which has long been the bane of children of 'conservative' religious parents and societies.

along with the near certainty of near term ecological collapse, civilizational collapse, and perhaps human extinction (doom!), this dystopianness is the other extremely compelling reason for sheeple to bring no more children into this world. i feel bad for those already here, especially the very young ones who are undergoing the murder of their joie de vivre as i write.

this is the sort of stuff everyone should be noticing and addressing, while practically no one is. instead of dealing with such heavy, fundamental problems it seems sheeple, even a lot of the more intelligent and thoughtful ones, overwhelmingly avoid them (as i often do!), so they rarely if ever get addressed, which is of course a necessary initial step in fixing them.

i just did a search on youtube for someone talking about this stuff. the following link is the only one i came across that even remotely came close. it's pretty good, actually, as far as it goes, but it totally fails to address the societal reasons why we live in such a control freak parenting culture, or it's broader implications.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGbjT6PCw5Y

How The World Works

'it doesn’t get more worldview-disrupting than questioning mainstream consensus reality. Because on the other side of that investigation is the realization that pretty much everything you’ve been trained to believe about your society, your nation, your government and your world, is a lie...

If you’re reading this, odds are you went through the ordeal of worldview dissolution yourself at some point. Can you honestly say it was easy? Or entirely pleasant?'

-from https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/06/02/people-who-defend-empire-narratives-are-really-just-defending-their-worldview-from-destruction/

how the world works:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDQXFNWuZj8

Second Thought

i've watched several 'second thought' videos so far. every one of them has been excellent just like this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhBkeAo2Hlg

"Conspiracy Theories"

the brilliance of richard dolan is once again on display here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx3V92ou0lk&list=UUnaIeNm-jSa1l8yHrn7PlQg&index=9

Caitlin Johnstone

caitlin johnstone has a blog/website devoted to educating the public regarding the ubiquity of propaganda and misinformation that comes from mainstream corporate media in the 'west' in support of a u.s. centralized empire intent on world domination. based in australia, she began the blog about 6 years ago. i just learned about her writing recently, in spite of my great interest in alternative news and opinion sites which caustically critique our dystopian world from a rational and well informed 'leftist' viewpoint. of course this might be due to the internet having been rigged to favor establishment friendly websites whenever one does a google search, as she herself has pointed out.

her writing is excellent. she pulls no punches and clearly knows of what she writes. it also so happens that her views are very very similar to mine, as readers of this blog would know if there were any. i've copied and pasted a few paragraphs selected from her writings below, along with a link to one of her posts in which she briefly tells her readers about herself and her purpose.

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'Freedom and democracy only exist within the western empire to the extent that it keeps up appearances. Because the trouble with democracy, it turns out, is that human minds are very hackable, as long as you’ve got the resources. Wealthy and powerful people do have the resources, which means that it’s very possible for wealthy and powerful people to manipulate the masses into voting in a way that consistently benefits the wealthy and powerful. This is why billionaires and narrative control consistently go hand-in-hand.

This dynamic has allowed for western power structures to operate in a way that western democracy was explicitly designed to prevent: for the benefit of the powerful instead of for the benefit of the voting populace. So now we’ve got people in so-called liberal democracies voting to maintain governments which advance wars which don’t benefit them, to advance intrusive surveillance and police state policies which oppress them, to advance austerity policies which harm them, to advance labor policies which exploit them, and to maintain ecocidal environmental policies which threaten the very survival of our species. All because the wealthy and powerful are able to use their wealth and power to manipulate the way people think and vote.'
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'My goal here in this little slot of digital real estate is to do every little thing I can to help save the world. Humanity appears to be hurtling toward extinction by way of climate destruction or nuclear annihilation, both of which are movements held in place by a transnational alliance of plutocrats and secretive government agencies. This unelected power establishment (which is sometimes referred to as the deep state, a term I now avoid since Republican partisans have distorted its meaning) seems to be motivated not by any ideology, nor by any loyalty to any particular nation or government, but by sheer hunger for limitless power. I place emphasis on the United States, because that’s where the largest amount of power appears to be centralized.

In a system where money both (A) translates directly to political power and (B) comes most abundantly to whoever is sufficiently cold and unfeeling to do whatever it takes in order to become immensely wealthy, we naturally find ourselves in a world ruled by sociopaths. These plutocratic rulers use their political influence to amass more power/money for themselves and create a system that is more and more favorable to the immensely wealthy, and they buy up media outlets to manufacture public support for that system. This ongoing propaganda campaign is what I see as the key weakness in the armor of their machine, and it’s the point I spend my energy attacking here.

Whoever controls the narrative controls the world. Understand this key point and you’ll understand why plutocrat-controlled media outlets are constantly smearing Julian Assange, why they never fail to fall in line to support a US-led military agenda, why they pay massive amounts of attention to some political candidates while completely ignoring others, and why they put so much energy into keeping everyone arguing over the details of how the status quo should be maintained instead of debating whether it should exist at all. The unelected power establishment uses its control over politics and media to determine what the public believes about what’s going on in their world in order to keep them from rebelling against a status quo which does not serve them; without the ability to effectively propagandize the masses in this way, they cannot rule. I therefore concentrate most of my energy here in attacking that propaganda machine and weakening the unearned trust that the public has placed in the mass media.'

https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/who-i-am-where-i-stand-and-what-im-trying-to-do-here-4a113e783578

Honest Government Ads

'surprisingly honest and informative' 'government ads' from the 'australian' government!

'These videos are brilliant at pointing out how governments just work for their own interests and self-preservation, and not the interests of the people or planet.
The fact that they also accurately describe what's going on in the UK (and I'm sure many other countries) shows that the people who run things are a global problem.' -youtube comment from 'rick parkin'

this youtube channel (thejuicemedia) reminds me of the old daily show with jon stewart. one knows one's living in a dystopian society when satirists who point out establishment 'shitfuckery' are a much more honest news source than big corporate media outlets which are of course part of the 'shitfuckery' establishment, and whose primary job is to defend it with propaganda and deceit.

i think these videos are awesome. link below is to one. check it out and let me know what u think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvFy2TuPDaw

Happy B-Day George Carlin!

george carlin was born 85 years ago may 12. he died almost 14 years ago, but left behind a great body of work.

every great act deserves a good opener. FAMILY GUY is a great opener. if u love FG and george, we have a little something in common. this little scene is pretty representative of FG's crude, lewd, and rude double entendre humor. i think it's art at it's finest. if it doesn't bust your gut, u have a strong gut, or maybe a weak sense of humor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VErb9_vCRJ8

this is probably my favorite carlin bit, in which he takes down dogmatic religion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r-e2NDSTuE

george lived quite a full and fascinating life. here he talks about it at length:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm4YnDl5hOk