Sometimes I’ll hear folks ranting about enlightenment virtues, stoic philosophy, or religious belief but their spine vaporizes on contact with reality. They’ll emote over freedom of speech and rule of law and consent of the governed and then fold over lame shit.
If you think your moral and intellectual and spiritual world is on edge, then act like it. If a person considers what their friends will say on F***book more than their relationship to God or themselves aren’t fully engaged. That’s fine (and I might even envy that world) but actions matter and don’t think you’re something you’re not.
I think of this scene from the movie Brazil. Dude’s about to experience total hell and they slip in a jab about credit rating. Nice writing!
Consider our little Nuremberg experiment that officially ended just this week. How many people bellowed like they were ready to go to Valhalla yet submitted just to shut people up? Many unwillingly got the jab in anticipation of their inescapable fate.
If they’d held the line a few more months perhaps then… well whoops… that boat sailed and they weren’t on it. See how preemptive surrender works?
Note: none of this is to hold it against you if your back was against the wall. Nobody can know what’s in another man’s soul. If you were going to relinquish custody of your kids that day or get fired that day… well sometimes even the bravest man will chose to lose. But that’s a different thing than “there’s a memo going around that the boss will be pissed in a few more weeks” or “my girlfriend won’t stop bitching about it” or “I really want to go to my favorite bowling alley”. (Also, if you wanted the vaccine. Good on you. Mental anguish spared. Enjoy your good fortune.)
As for the guy in Brazil? He went all the way. He knew where the path went. When they strap you in the chair it’s to late to worry about your next loan to buy a Toyota!
The wife and I saw Brazil early, in it’s unedited mode. The REAL 1984! Should have accompanied your previous rant. In keeping with your previous rant, lets cough up some Squirrel, Mr. “I should not lose my rose colored glasses Advisor.”
Thanks for the rant updates.
Hmmmm…. some squirrel could be a good thing. I’ve got killer cabin fever. If I can find some time to go camping and clear my head I’ll write some more. It’s close to the conclusion now.
Sounds good to me, but then I’m surprisingly tolerant for being a chinese, nazi, communist, caucasion, confederate, right wing, Christian, infiltrator, spy joo, from southern So. Cal.
Did I get enough trigger words in there? My goal is to get AI to kick me upstairs for some NSA hooman guy to yell “It’s that fucken Tree Mike again!” Then I get another notation in my bulging file code named “Foghorn Leghorn”.
Speaking of credit ratings.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/dominos-falling-brookfield-defaults-161-debt-dc-office-buildings
Brookfield isn’t a small player in real estate and DC is generally a flush area to own real-estate.
I’ve seen far too many signals of trouble in Forbes and such, but you did say “No more Black Pills”.
What did Papa Hemmingway say in “the sun also rises” about bankruptcy?
Getting “Interesting” out here, as in Chinese Curse.
Hemingway was a wise fellow. I think we’re done with the “at first slowly” phase.
I’m 60 years old and have never even owned a single credit card in my Life. It can be difficult at times, but dealing in $$$ transactions (I think) saves me money because it forces me to count out what I am spending, giving me last minute consideration on what I am exchanging it for.