Anti-vaxxers (specifically the COVID variant), what the f$&k, am I right? With the litany of undesirable consequences we invite by allowing COVID to just flourish damn near unimpeded, conjuring an adequate answer to this question is quite important.
Essays off the beaten path.
On the Rise of the American Anti-Vaxxer
Anti-vaxxers (specifically the COVID variant), what the f$&k, am I right? With the litany of undesirable consequences we invite by allowing COVID to just flourish damn near unimpeded, conjuring an adequate answer to this question is quite important.
On Dragon Weaving
What I Suppose We'd Call the Preamble
Honestly, I haven't a clue why, in February of last year, I found myself pondering the web of dragon mythology that so ensnares the imagination of man. Of how the machinations of my mind materialized the path it would then travel, I've an even clumsier grasp. I believe there is something significant to be found within the folds of fumbled expression held by the essay I had composed. Now, a year later (finding myself in possession of more diversely and formidably equipped faculties), I shall recompose its art and prose, hoping to attain a composition that more capably communicates that which I have to say. It shall begin with a declaration. It shall end with an appeal. Two waypoints shall lie between the beginning and the ending. With a little luck, journey's end shall bring clarity to the both of us as to how and why the path was chosen.
A storytime spaghetti reply thread experience
I’m just going to leave this here. pic.twitter.com/IjcZZKrH5i
— Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) November 26, 2021Cool, might wanna consider picking up a strategy for injecting it into the upside down
'Cause anything less has us bleeding out
We're still not seeing the forest through the trees
Without a strategy for reunifying reality
Reality will continue to be written without guardrails … as print media has fallen … Mark and Jack are all that stand between bands of bad faith actors with mainstream pull … and Mark ain't even standing.
Fingers-f$&king-crosses y'all knowledge blind beltways figure out what is missing without requiring the nudge of next November.
‘Cause if you don't, the dark has yet to fall.
For f$&ks sake, @chucktodd (and f$&king eevvveerrrryyyybody else holed up in the Beltway … none of you politics-as-usual f$&kers seem to understand the following point), Biden did not unite a coalition composed of all-of-the-f$&king-left and anti-Trump-conservatives. WE F$&KING… UNITED… OURSELVES… (f$&king rapidly I might add) when we suddenly found ourselves shoulder to shoulder standing upon what once was a solitary plane of reality now under assault from an unfamiliar foe firmly entrenched deep within the belly of a full—on-f$&king-fabricated reality … a reality jockeying for position as we race towards our mergeable moment (as sustaining two fully oppositional realities is a short term affair, one shall surely swallow up the other) … winner take all.
F$&k you all for not yet understanding the full weight of the moment.
F$&k you all for choosing to throw precedents at the unprecedented.
F$&k you all for letting our critical facilities lapse to the point of lethargy.
F$&k you all for not recognizing the damage all around you as that which a bifurcated information ecosystem has wrought upon a fragile society balanced upon the razor’s edge of its demographical tipping point.
F$&k you all for having the reach to truly help turn the tides in this War of the Bubbles and treating the web at your disposal … this network of consciousness, of community, of pooled intelligence and experience … treating it like a captive audience to be spun up with tribal gutturals into frenzied fanboys (and fangirls). So malnourished are your subjects. How long, now, have you sustained them solely on empty memes that do nothing to nurture those dwindling flames that remain of Prometheus’ fire.
You … you reading this. You are not them … for they do not read. If you … reading this, wish for more in the way of understanding what the f$&k I’m talking about with regard to the bubbles, read this:
If you wish for more in the way of understanding what the f$&k I’m talking about with regard to damage recognition, read this:
If you wish for more in the way of understanding what the f$&k I’m talking about with regard to those politics-as-usual m0therf$&kers, read this:
If you wish for more in the way of whatever the f$&k I didn’t just cover, drop by the perspectives page. I keep it trimmed to only that which I believe to be worth reading.
On What is Missing
An idea under construction
On What We Must Endure
The thing is … America never becomes an autocracy. We the people have a will that may never be broken. By the year 2027, White will be minority to non-White for the 18-29 age group.
On the Unsustainable State of the Union
The state of our nation is absolutely unsustainable.
Dual realities, by their nature, divide the people of this nation into two unbridgeable tribes.
The pull of us-versus-them ideology has plagued humanity since before the dawning of civilization painted majesty across our retinal walls.
What truly caused the tearing of our information ecosystem in twain amounts to a complex amalgamation. What keeps it so, however, is not.
On the American Upside Down
While the beltway press, the pundits, the influencers, the organizers, and the cogs that compose the political machinery at large desperately cling to those norms and precedents with which order has so long been coaxed from chaos, the unprecedented leaves breadcrumbs for the fresh-eyed to trace towards the trailhead, near the clearing within which it has planted itself openly as invitation for observation.
On What is Missing
Freshly scraped from me mind and placed … here … under construction
On the Rise of the American Anti-Vaxxer
Anti-vaxxers (specifically the COVID variant), what the f$&k, am I right? With the litany of undesirable consequences we invite by allowing COVID to just flourish damn near unimpeded, conjuring an adequate answer to this question is quite important.
perspies
On the Ghost in the Machine
Every inch of pivot we witness while Delta quietly tears a whole through the fabric of alternate reality may be posed as another evidentiary exhibit to support that these vaccinated, minority rule pushing m0therf$&kers have knowingly engaged in the fabrication of a reality for manipulating their base while secretly inhabiting the very fringes of what we know to be our reality. Foresight dictates such a pivot must be attempted.
Added the collaged images individually and started with the citing and descriptions. Still working out how to get image captions in and out of Ulysses with the least amount of work possible.
Y'all keep acting like Trump heads the GOP. He doesn't. The base sculpted by the reality years were spent fabricating is in the driver's seat. Whoever held the reigns lost their grip with the shortsighted play of politicizing and weaponizing a global pandemic (point Putin BTW).
This quest for bipartisanship is normalizing the reality rejectionist platform. Combine this with either the inability to recognize the bifurcated information ecosystem (or it's dual reality bubble offspring) or the willful ignorance of its institutional impact (forging a third party within our two-party system … for example) and we are f$&ked short of the possibility of an organic bubble merge on account of the catalytic effect of a ravaging virus or a second armed insurrection.
On the Unsustainable State of the Union
The state of our nation is absolutely unsustainable.
Dual realities, by their nature, divide the people of this nation into two unbridgeable tribes.
The pull of us-versus-them ideology has plagued humanity since before the dawning of civilization painted majesty across our retinal walls.
What truly caused the tearing of our information ecosystem in twain amounts to a complex amalgamation. What keeps it so, however, is not.
On Political Ideologies
As the January 6th committee begins holding hearings, it feels worth pointing out once more just where Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger fit into the ideologies of today.
I may just write a definitive essay on the multi-national bifurcated information ecosystem (birthed by a combination of social media supplanting print media and the normalization of full blown, like-you-learned-it-in-school propaganda as an alternative news source) threatening global devolution,
how it is being utilized by the one percent to drive wealth in a manner inconsistent with the preservation of a planet we would hope to leave behind for our children,
how it is being weaponized by white supremacy with the hopes of stopping this nation's push towards a true multicultural democracy in its tracks on the eve of a White minority (hitting reverse should they be so lucky on the Color-to-White ratio in this nation),
how every bad thing we've experienced in the last four years can be traced back as a symptom of entertaining dual reality bubbles (where every vision dreamt by our forefathers and foremothers require a single reality in exclusivity),
how addressing each symptom as it presents does nothing to remedy the disease … or safeguard the lives and liberties of a populace teetering (from a bloody engagement with a fascist uprising wholly dependent on these dual reality bubbles) and fearful of the storm closing in,
how merging these dual reality bubbles is prerequisite for the restoration of science as our guide (rather than anti-science as our guillotine),
prerequisite for the return of civil discourse (rather than civil unrest),
the return of problem solving (rather than solution obstructing),
the return of an America in which its people pick its representation (rather than one in which our representatives pick their people),
prerequisite for rebalancing the distribution of wealth away from the lopsided 1% holding 70% of this nation's assets,
prerequisite for the long term preservation of the American Experiment (as representative democracy requires the acquisition of common ground … common ground that will never be found without the sharing of a common reality),
prerequisite for muting the ugly hate machine amplifying tribal division as an accepted alternative to tolerance …
so … yeah … I may just write that essay for the handful of y'all open to perceiving that which may not be pre-approved by your mind's eye for reception … and then go back to dropping out of the existential … leave the nation alone … see if it gets there on its own (fingers-f$&king-crossed that if it does so … it has done so in time).
On Trumpism
* raw Twitter thread conversion … I may come back and do a proper workup.
Trump was a formula … not a force, a tool … not a tyrant.
If your focus remains on that puffy little can of Orange Blush, you are missing the core of the challenge we face in defending our forefathers Tree of Liberty.
On What We Must Endure
The thing is … America never becomes an autocracy. We the people have a will that may never be broken. By the year 2027, White will be minority to non-White for the 18-29 age group.
On the Futility of Waking the Woke
The futility of waking the woke to the underlying problem … the one enabling the fancy of fruition for every fascist flicker frolicking about behind the foreheads of every last member of today's GOP…
the flickers coming faster and faster now … as we approach the demographical destination point past which there lies no more minority rule …
On Discrepant World-views and Problem Solving Efficacy
A brief note for short attention spans: stick around if you wanna see how I manage to seamlessly (and I do say so myself) tie together dragon mythology, weaving, and politics into one giant point about world-view diversity and problem solving efficacy (even got a Trumpian meme for y'all towards the bottom if that is more your bag).
I have always been fascinated by the common thread stretched about humanity that links up our narratives. The similitude with which humanity engineers itself by independent means.
On Reality Rejectionism
Even when I answer the why to their behavior, the pure obstinance required by Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio to block out the reality of where this path ends still gets me. It was never a sustainable, career extending path to walk.
Rejecting reality was never a sustainable model.
On Political Cycles
This is a unique inflection point. The weight of this moment makes my bones feel heavier than I remember. Last November … hell … all throughout 2020 … we the people demanded our voice be heard and our will respected. When our legislators stop working for us their concept of civil service must be corrected.
Democracy requires participation.
On the Exponential Nature of Generational Progress
Most likely not coming
Update: perhaps I will be able to get myself reinvested if I choose to focus on the massive effort to linearize the exponentiality of the generational progress I once laid out via Twitter thread.
Another update: the focus shift totally doesn't lead to reinvestment.
