Aug 9, 2023·edited Aug 9, 2023Liked by Donald Jeffries
Thankfully, since I avoid pop-culture, and don't participate in social media, I had not heard of a lot of this. I just learned of Only Fans last year, and when I did, the concept made me sick to my stomach.
Places where the masses gather have their own aura, made up of the personal auras of many people. In the years leading up to the scamdemic, if I had to spend a day in the madding crowd, when I came home I would feel like I needed to take a shower. It would feel like I was covered in some invisible "ick". I wondered if I was imagining it. Then when I saw how almost everyone fell for the scamdemic, I knew humanity was way more degraded than I had assumed. Because I had dropped out (although I still lived in the same place) I had no way to gage the downhill slide... especially with no idiot box.
Now I'm a recuse by choice. I find myself urging on the collapse...just so these stupid people are GONE. The line about Gomer and Jethro gave me a rare chuckle...thanks.
Kris, it's tragic that this corruption and incompetence have driven good people like you into being recluses. Imagine how much better things would be with people like you in charge. I'm glad that you read my work. Thanks!
This time your post actually landed in my primary inbox...but when I clicked on it...poof! It disappeared. I searched trash, deleted, and all other files. The vile Google has got you on some kind of list to **** with your content.
Wow. I appreciate hearing that, Kris. I'll add it to the list of what they're doing to "Masking the Truth." Doesn't appear on Google Books searches, even though it's there. Doesn't appear in Worldcat. Somebody sent me the message they got back from a library in New Jersey I think, where they just said "we are not going to add this book to our collection." From experience, they never tell you that- they just don't add it. Thanks.
Well, that's usually what happens, whether they order it or not. What is very unusual is to respond by saying "we are not going to add it" to their collection. Thanks.
That kind of thing is what made me buy my own domain for email accounts. It costs about $40 per year. Google has still issued a gotcha for me by making me unable to send an email to any gmail account. Google must die.
I have been more or less a recuse for 30 years, although I used to frequent shopping malls. But now it is a lot more than the dumb blondes that have valves in the back of their neck that say "inflate to 38 psi". Lenin said the USA would fall without a shot being fired. Mission accomplished.
Lol. You haven't been out for while, White Wolf. I don't think there are too many dumb blondes populating today's malls. It's a very diverse crowd. A shockingly overweight crowd. No more going to the malls to watch the girls. America 2.0. Thanks.
Last Sunday afternoon I took my bicycle to a shop in the downtown of a nearby town to get a flat fixed. As I sat outside waiting, I called my friend to describe the people I was watching waddle by. ALL obese, ALL dressed mostly in black, on a beautiful summer day. The women looked worse than the men. One idiot was wearing a heavy coat and a mask. I said: " I may be old, and my life of suffering shows on my face...but I still look better than these freaks". It got me reminesing about the sixties when our moms used to go to Piggly Wiggly dressed to the nines, in colorful summer dresses.
I know what you're saying, Kris. It used to just be a reality of life that, if you went anywhere with a sizable crowd, you would invariably have your head turned constantly by attractive females. I really just noticed this about five years ago, when in a grocery store. It was very crowded, and it suddenly dawned on me that there were zero good looking females there. That's America 2.0. Thanks!
DJ: Come to Healdsburg, CA. Still lots of beautiful trophy wives/etc. walking around the town plaza with shopping bags in their hands. Sometimes a poodle on a leash, too.
They never wear underwear and their bodies are personal body trainer fit. They do not go to malls. Hahahaha.
Piggly Wiggly....Oklahoma by any chance? I live in Kansas, grew up in Oklahoma. The middle states aren't nearly as bad as the coasts, but I still prefer solitude.
Actually, it was Sandy, Oregon. It was the only Piggly Wiggly I ever saw in Oregon, but later when I moved to the South I saw many. Sandy was an American small town prototype in pre-1967 days...with one foot in the fifties. When I tell folks I feel like I am now living on another planet compared to my childhood, I'm thinking of life in Sandy and Astoria.
While W.W.'s blonde comment is definitely out of date he still has the right idea. The last time I was in a mall was several years ago and as a "white boomer" I was definitely out of place. Hundreds of people jammed together with the focus on their I phones told me all I needed to know about them. Vacuous as cattle although I think cows are probably smarter than the analogy would suggest. It reminded me of a sign I saw in a restaurant several years ago. It said " No, we do not have WIFI. Try talking to one another. Unfortunately they can't do that. Their brains are already rotted out by the radio waves that permeate their minds.
Actually I don't even know if the old mall I used to cook at, the Park City, is even still there. Built to last for a thousand years- didn't live to be 50.
White Wolf: The Northgate Mall in North Seattle is still there. It was built as one of the first malls. I would go there all the time when my kids were little.
The Bellevue Mall is still there and they re-vamped Totem Lake Mall by stacking apartments on top of it. Not that I've been inside them for 20 years but as a former Metro driver I drove past them daily.
Kris: I'm in the same boat as you. Recluse by choice. I live in a town that votes 84% straight Democratic ticket. 90% have had at least two jabs.
My wife and I worked for 8 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. Your term "ick" doesn't begin to describe the people we catered for.
I don't use Google or YouTube. I still have my old AOL mail and use Brave as my search engine. Dr. Paul is on Rumble and that is the video site I follow.
Aug 10, 2023·edited Aug 10, 2023Liked by Donald Jeffries
From what Im hearing, you're lucky your wife agrees. The scamdemic destroyed many marriages. My family disowned me for being a "conspiracy theorist" more than 30 years ago, and by 2020 I had long ago purged my life of normies. Hence, the scamdemic was pretty much just a blip on my radar screen.
By the way, two of those family members are now dead from the Jonestown jab. I expect the rest to follow shortly. The irony is that the poorest, most ostracized family member will inherit a huge estate. I've already got part if it.
Kris: My wife, my son, and my nephew never took the shots or wore the masks unless forced to for travel, visiting sick relatives, etc. The rest of my family is gone, gone, gone. Also my best friend here in town was a total Pod Person. He's gone from my life as well.
True, but they do it anyway. Their lies about "The most honest election in history" is the way they comment on everything, in superlative terms, like: "The most votes for a president in history", etc. That's what tells me that they are full of $#!+. It would be a little less obvious if they would just say, "Biden won the popular vote", but they have to claim he got more votes than any candidate in history.
I know this seems pedantic, but just to let you know, as I've discovered reading all the laws that affect technology and the internet, in the US and some abroad, "social media" also includes platforms like Substack.
.. and forums and blogs and group messaging apps. I know a lot of people define social media as exclusively being Twitter, Instagram, et. al, but in reality there's no way to functionally define it to limit it to those companies. Any medium that allows (non business) end-users to exchange text, audio or video with each other, or publicly distribute it is the actual legal definition. I only mention this because there's a lot of legislation coming down the pipeline and are already passed in some states that may end up being a rude awakening for many people when they find out they find out they may need to show government IDs or use digital IDs, to verify their real identity, before posting or participating in online communications (like here)
Yes, this is technically social media, too, VJ. But right now, it's the only large platform I can use without being shadow banned. It serves a noble purpose, at this point, as one of the last bastions of free speech on the internet. Thanks.
Aug 12, 2023·edited Aug 12, 2023Liked by Donald Jeffries
To me Substack is just another place to have a blog, only they make it easier to beg for money. I use WordPress, I feel no need to start a new blog. Yep, the day is coming when we will be forced offline...and forced off water and power too. I havelived with this knowledge for 33 years, so I'm totally prepared for it.
"Sick to your stomach, huh?" You can't un-ring that bell. Most of it is absolutely filthy, perverse and vile. They just gussy it up with catchy phrases and innocent appearing "entertainment" slogans. Tread lightly and keep some mints for your stomach. You'll need them. I just do research, I don't get caught up in the sewer.
Aug 9, 2023·edited Aug 9, 2023Liked by Donald Jeffries
Famous for (once upon a time) turning panels to uncover letters. Later, technology progressed to simply touching a panel to do so. Strenuous labor to say the least. Now 66 and DEMANDING a raise. And, oh yeah, smiling and appearing appealingly perky. Two words: "Vanna White."
Will Vanna White get an upgrade if they extend the phrases to more than one sentence? Can she handle an answer that has more than 12 different letters?
Vanna had to fill in for Sajak not that long ago when he was recovering from an operation. The first week was rough, but thereafter she got quite comfortable talking the talk. Looks to me like she had a boob job early on which enabled such a slim woman to model her red carpet dresses. I find it churlish to ridicule such a lovely 60 year old who's modestly and consistently playing her designated role. As for Pat Sajak, he's witty on his feet in a bantering way. They don't condescend to their guests or mock their audience.
Just for the heck of it, I looked up Eva Diana on JooToob. A video posted just four days ago already had seven million views, or so they say. Quite frankly, at this point in the game I don't trust YouTube statistics any more than I would trust a dossier from the FBI. Moreover, they can rig the algorithms six ways from Sunday. A person can also pay to get "views" on a video. And last but not least, JooToob is populated by AI bots that also "view", "like", and "Subscribe". The internet is not 1.0 anymore. In fact, we have arrived at Internet 4.0 in my opinion. And when the chatbots turn it to 5.0, I am checking out. Just imagine a chatbot impersonating White Wolf and telling Karen Carpenter he no longer likes her dog, Jeff. Then imagine something much, much worse. Substack might just be the last refuge of the sane, but its days too, one fears, are numbered.
Meanwhile, if your front porch collapses and three dogs die, the primary color of your pickup truck is bondo grey, and you have to sign off on at least two bail bonds to have a family reunion- you just might be a redneck.
Little wonder as fluoridated water lowers IQ and not just drinking, bathing water but all food (or should that be doof) products made with fluoridated water. Brought to you by your nanny government since 1945 in the United States.
I bought a package of bottled water and took it back to the store when I discovered that it had fluoride added. The Customer service lady asked what was wrong with it and I said, I don't want to give my child fluoridated water. She asked, "Well how is she going to get her fluoride?" SMH.
I have lived in many communities that fluoridate. My solution was to distill everything used for consumption and add mineral drops so the water wasn't unstructured. I have a whole house chlorine (another deadly halogen) filter which does minimize the fluoride but doesn't entirely remove it. Frequent bird bathing rather than showers also minimizes exposure.
Be aware that tea (particularly black) is high in fluoride. Both the Brits and the east Indians who are habitual tea drinkers have the worst cases of dental fluoridosis. As fluoride and chlorine compete with iodine, which is an essential nutrient, it is important to supplement with nascent iodine (and selenium as it is a co-factor in many of iodine's processes).
Gwyneth Cann: We buy spring water to drink and rarely take showers preferring sponge baths. Thanks for the tip about black tea. We drink Hibiscus Tea from Egypt.
I wonder if that's why my wife and I think differently. Most of my life my water supply has been from my own well. At 150 feet deep with carbon filters and UV treatment I think my water is safer than most.
So many of your notions streamed thru my head at one time or another over the years. From Dumber than a Fifth grader to Kardashians famous fat ass, and the irreverent irritation from the germophobia's 'deals.' Also, I was just recently pondering any support for Trump after seeing an old clip somewhere of an interview conducted by Oprah, which triggered visions of the despise of his tv show's where they sat around a big boardroom table (but have to admit, he evolved to spit out a pretty fair speech, especially in comparison to the competition).
Another viral youtube video genre that I just could not understand is those that merely display a person or couple playing a video game.
jwslaw: No. It 's not about being famous. It's about Kardashian's huge ass. In Brazil men worship a good nice big woman's ass. LOL. I've been there. Done that.
How ironic to have any show pretending to test intelligence from a medium designed to dumb people down. In the good old days of tell-lie-vison, some who retained any common sense of reality beyond its screened reproductions referred to the device as the boob tube (maybe misogynist men especially liked its associations), with satirical depictions of its piped-in programming connected to toilet plumbing in households having shit for brains. But now in these latter days of Amerikan dream machines, after generational advances of electronic pacification in the matrix, it appears no one can be found who doesn't have head up his/her apps on addictive pacifiers called smart phones.
Mere common people, aka human resources, are privileged under capitalist class rule called progress to be sold our slavery via technologies socially engineering us into building prisons for our own good and safe keeping, every hearth and home radiating the blue light of the panopticon. The cultural genocide inherent to capital's commodification of existence and reduction of all value to the cash nexus, epitomized in our great nation's tradition of extermination campaigns against indigenous peoples, was all the more advanced by the arrival of television and electronic means of confining subjects to private perceptions perfecting the ancient meaning of idiocy, (de)privation of reality, as found in Plato's cave allegory.
Succeeding such population control as the missionary zeal of the cross for conquest and colonization and industrial skooling of labor forces for wage slavery, electronic media have overrun human communities and cultural traditions counter to the psychopathy of the megamachine now threatening to replace our obsolete species with transhumanist nightmares. As already with the covid psyop and its lockdown to digital dictatorship, next generation warfare turns the brain into the battlefield of the future, as useless eaters are slaughtered behind scenes on screens which leave us sleeping through it all. (Yes, Yuval, we will think nothing and be happy.)
When it comes to electronic revolutions of industrial capitalism, "the medium is the message" (Marshall McLuhan) in the sense of more efficiently performing the will of centralized power over the masses. What dubious benefits accrue to us are incidental to the advantages gained by elites. That for one is why the extreme toxification of life on earth by electricity is now poised as a potential extinction event with 5/6G wireless tech. Currently, the scientific-technocratic complex claims genetic modification via electricity, a kind of ultimate sacrifice of life to the "masters of mankind" (Adam Smith) who weaponize all means of (re)production against us.
The logic of power is just plain stupid, insane, and self-defeating. Unfortunately, that's not stopped yet the mad march of human history toward a point of no return. Smash the smart phones? Trash the televisions? If only.
Young people are enticed into have "smart " phones on which they are constantly bombarded with bullshit propaganda. They stare at these abominations for almost every waking moment. They are the most evil device ever perpetrated on society. No, I don't own one. When I retired I
several years ago I sold mine. It was the best part of retiring.
I always called it the boob toob back in the day. I am old enough to remember when they actually had tubes that blew out like light bulbs and you had to replace them.
Hellywood, the Boob toob, and game shows were brought to us by Tavistock. Caesar would be green with envy. He was only worshiped. These people are imitated.
Some closed circuit television systems could provide comedy like Candid Camera, but it would take a lot of time to get releases or smudge faces.
Since John Dewey's theories really caught on, public fool system students are indoctrinated more than educated and most television is programmed to maintain the indoctrination throughout life.
Really premium stuff in this one - biting snark and sarcasm that fits the subject perfectly. I dunno. I'm just not a follower, I guess. I only caught Friends and Seinfeld years later as afternoon re-runs. I can say proudly that I have never, even once, watched a reality show. For one thing, if anyone thinks those shows represent reality, then yes, they are about as smart as a social media influencer.
Never had a social media account, other than Twitter's earliest days. I made an account just to find out the status of some weather event that was happening near me. Logged in once? Never went back. Facebook? Never. Not a chance. I have a YouTube account and comment there occasionally but, no, I don't immerse myself in social media. I'm alone 95% of the time, and frankly, I choose to have it that way. If I want to associate with people, I do it virtually. I find Substacks like this one, and curate my own entertainment - nope to Netflix, Hulu and though I have Amazon Prime I probably watch on average one movie a month or less. Haven't had a TV since 2013. Prior to that I seldom watched it.
I knew covid was a monstrous scam in March of 2020, after the reports on the Princess Cruise Line. No masks and no jabs for me, then, now or ever. Put me in the Gulag - I'll make a ruckus there, too.
I have to agree with Kris - I'm a happier camper in my own self-chosen space, alone with me, myself and I.
Very depressing article for anyone with the intelligence to see the tragedy beyond the distraction. It is so obvious how successful the campaign of societal dumbing down has been. I no longer watch T.V. as there is nothing even mildly intelligent in programming any more. It seems very few people know what is real anymore or how to deal with reality. Hence all of the "Reality" shows that flood the airwaves. They are today's Soma.
During the 1980s an experiment was done in California. The freshman class of Long Beach State College (ages 18 or 19) were given a test that was administered in Washington state at the turn of the 20th century. It was mandatory for students to proceed from the 8th grade to the 9th (kid's ages 13 or 14). It was comprised of 5 parts: History, Geography, English grammar & composition, Mathematics, and basic Science. Not a single one of those college freshmen passed it, no one even came close with most scores in the 20 to 30 points range which would be an "F" grade. To bring up Gerry Spence again, he said in his career as a lawyer he met many very wealthy people. One guy in particular he said had enough money to pay for the complete college education of every child in Spence's home state of Wyoming without breaking a sweat. Spence found him to be an insufferable and dull bore, as well as every other person of great means he had the misfortune to cross paths with. He said he found conversations with janitors, cleaning ladies, and factory and warehouse workers much more interesting, enlightening, and intelligent by comparison. All of the celebrities that "make it" to the big time, whether in acting, music, comedy, or politics (yes, politics is just entertainment) are invariably from connected, blue blood families of means and very often have parents that are part and parcel of the intelligence agencies. These "stars" are groomed for their respective roles in life at a very young age and serve to bring forth the agendas of the ruling class. The Beatles, like the Monkees, were fake (like they all are) and had their songs written for them by ghost writers and the music on their records played for them by professional session musicians. They were, and still are, an image created to effectuate massive cultural change. Kim Kardashian's ass is as fake as "she" is. All of the Kardashian sisters are transsexual androgynes as are just about all celebrities. That is why they are made celebrities. Just like practically all politicians are lying, scumbag, pervert criminals. They is why they are made politicians. (quote/paraphrase)-"You'll never go broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people" - H.L. Mencken. (and that was decades ago. Now it is far, far worse.) Smoking article, Don, thanks.
Excellent piece Don. Some very funny lines. I enjoyed the MST3K reference - you don't see them very often. Did you like the film Napoleon Dynamite? I got the feeling from On Borrowed Fame that you did. I enjoyed the film anyway. Reminds me a little of Idiocracy...
It’s a daft comedy film from the 2000s about an eccentric teen in Idaho. It’s just kind of a weird and quotable movie. A bit like Withnail and I - but less so 😋
I'm a photographer and model consultant. I'm also a stock trader and follow socioeconomic trends. Your article only scratched the surface of this issue. I found cam models with no work experience, special skills, college, etc., who made over a quarter million dollars in less than two years, not including custom content, and fans that spent almost as much. One fan tipped a single model nearly $30,000 in one month. And it costs very little to get started.
A decade ago, top porn stars and glamour models took many risks, invested a lot of time and money, and didn't make as much. Not even close! Models averaged less than $20,000 per year. They can now make that in a month, even while keeping their clothes on.
These fans are paying for a virtual fantasy. They will likely never meet these women in person, and thanks to the use of bots and A.I., they may not even be chatting with them. And the fans don't seem to care that they could spend considerably less for a high-class call girl, visit a massage parlor or legal brothel, or become a sugar daddy to a desperate college girl and have a tangible relationship.
Other legitimate concerns regarding the cam model industry are organized crime, human trafficking, extortion, underage models, identity theft, the complete lack of boundaries, the negative consequences to society, the hyper-sexualization of young women, etc.
I also noticed teen and pre-teen girls posting and monetizing inappropriate and sexually suggestive pictures and videos on social media, apparently with the support of their parents. Some included nudity via sheer clothing. One young girl was even promoting a hardcore cam model. And society remains indifferent or willfully blind to this trend.
Another disturbing trend is profiles with A.I. generated pictures and videos of children in sexually provocative clothing and poses.
I shared my findings with several investigative journalists, but nobody will report on this issue, and I can't understand why.
Based on this and many other negative socioeconomic trends, it's hard to be optimistic about the future.
Good point. We are now producing generations of feminized young men. That is something you don't see in the old Soviet Union or the new Russian society. The thought of getting their hands dirty through honest work terrifies most of them.
I hope not. Because they've got it all figured out, right? I mean, they've got the fame, fortune and flunkies, right? Yep, they are "smarter" than me. However....in the sight of All Mighty God it means nothing. Pied Pipers to the hellfire they are. Besides, adults don't need outside validation from strangers, it's a sickness called, "pride and show." The devil suffers from it.
My wife watches "America's Got Talent", which I deride as America's got issues, to tease her about it. To me, the most ridiculous thing about it is the audience shrieking like banshees when a performer is introduced. I was a little surprised when I over heard her show and assumed that it was America's got issues, and it turned out to be one of the celebrity talk shows. The audience shrieked when anyone walked onstage.
I wondered about whether the producers had a shriek track like the laugh track that is used for the unfunny sitcoms that are so popular.
I can relate, Ed. I've often remarked, "How long do people have to watch that stupid show before realizing that American really doesn't have much talent?" Thanks!
Thankfully, since I avoid pop-culture, and don't participate in social media, I had not heard of a lot of this. I just learned of Only Fans last year, and when I did, the concept made me sick to my stomach.
Places where the masses gather have their own aura, made up of the personal auras of many people. In the years leading up to the scamdemic, if I had to spend a day in the madding crowd, when I came home I would feel like I needed to take a shower. It would feel like I was covered in some invisible "ick". I wondered if I was imagining it. Then when I saw how almost everyone fell for the scamdemic, I knew humanity was way more degraded than I had assumed. Because I had dropped out (although I still lived in the same place) I had no way to gage the downhill slide... especially with no idiot box.
Now I'm a recuse by choice. I find myself urging on the collapse...just so these stupid people are GONE. The line about Gomer and Jethro gave me a rare chuckle...thanks.
Kris, it's tragic that this corruption and incompetence have driven good people like you into being recluses. Imagine how much better things would be with people like you in charge. I'm glad that you read my work. Thanks!
Donald,
This time your post actually landed in my primary inbox...but when I clicked on it...poof! It disappeared. I searched trash, deleted, and all other files. The vile Google has got you on some kind of list to **** with your content.
Wow. I appreciate hearing that, Kris. I'll add it to the list of what they're doing to "Masking the Truth." Doesn't appear on Google Books searches, even though it's there. Doesn't appear in Worldcat. Somebody sent me the message they got back from a library in New Jersey I think, where they just said "we are not going to add this book to our collection." From experience, they never tell you that- they just don't add it. Thanks.
DJ: I never received an email reply from the Sonoma County Library website about stocking your book. Crickets.
Well, that's usually what happens, whether they order it or not. What is very unusual is to respond by saying "we are not going to add it" to their collection. Thanks.
That kind of thing is what made me buy my own domain for email accounts. It costs about $40 per year. Google has still issued a gotcha for me by making me unable to send an email to any gmail account. Google must die.
I have been more or less a recuse for 30 years, although I used to frequent shopping malls. But now it is a lot more than the dumb blondes that have valves in the back of their neck that say "inflate to 38 psi". Lenin said the USA would fall without a shot being fired. Mission accomplished.
Lol. You haven't been out for while, White Wolf. I don't think there are too many dumb blondes populating today's malls. It's a very diverse crowd. A shockingly overweight crowd. No more going to the malls to watch the girls. America 2.0. Thanks.
Last Sunday afternoon I took my bicycle to a shop in the downtown of a nearby town to get a flat fixed. As I sat outside waiting, I called my friend to describe the people I was watching waddle by. ALL obese, ALL dressed mostly in black, on a beautiful summer day. The women looked worse than the men. One idiot was wearing a heavy coat and a mask. I said: " I may be old, and my life of suffering shows on my face...but I still look better than these freaks". It got me reminesing about the sixties when our moms used to go to Piggly Wiggly dressed to the nines, in colorful summer dresses.
I know what you're saying, Kris. It used to just be a reality of life that, if you went anywhere with a sizable crowd, you would invariably have your head turned constantly by attractive females. I really just noticed this about five years ago, when in a grocery store. It was very crowded, and it suddenly dawned on me that there were zero good looking females there. That's America 2.0. Thanks!
Yes. They all look like the old pictures of life in the old Soviet Union.
But at least the Soviets were a lean, hard looking group. Not obese. Thanks.
DJ: Come to Healdsburg, CA. Still lots of beautiful trophy wives/etc. walking around the town plaza with shopping bags in their hands. Sometimes a poodle on a leash, too.
They never wear underwear and their bodies are personal body trainer fit. They do not go to malls. Hahahaha.
Piggly Wiggly....Oklahoma by any chance? I live in Kansas, grew up in Oklahoma. The middle states aren't nearly as bad as the coasts, but I still prefer solitude.
Actually, it was Sandy, Oregon. It was the only Piggly Wiggly I ever saw in Oregon, but later when I moved to the South I saw many. Sandy was an American small town prototype in pre-1967 days...with one foot in the fifties. When I tell folks I feel like I am now living on another planet compared to my childhood, I'm thinking of life in Sandy and Astoria.
ahhh, l didn't know PW ever got out of the south or further north than Oklahoma.
While W.W.'s blonde comment is definitely out of date he still has the right idea. The last time I was in a mall was several years ago and as a "white boomer" I was definitely out of place. Hundreds of people jammed together with the focus on their I phones told me all I needed to know about them. Vacuous as cattle although I think cows are probably smarter than the analogy would suggest. It reminded me of a sign I saw in a restaurant several years ago. It said " No, we do not have WIFI. Try talking to one another. Unfortunately they can't do that. Their brains are already rotted out by the radio waves that permeate their minds.
Actually I don't even know if the old mall I used to cook at, the Park City, is even still there. Built to last for a thousand years- didn't live to be 50.
White Wolf: The Northgate Mall in North Seattle is still there. It was built as one of the first malls. I would go there all the time when my kids were little.
The Bellevue Mall is still there and they re-vamped Totem Lake Mall by stacking apartments on top of it. Not that I've been inside them for 20 years but as a former Metro driver I drove past them daily.
Mike Huggins: I never went in those malls on the east side of Lake Washington but knew of them. Thanks for the update.
Mike Huggins: PS: Did you drive one of those articulated buses? Those things were weird.
Kris: I'm in the same boat as you. Recluse by choice. I live in a town that votes 84% straight Democratic ticket. 90% have had at least two jabs.
My wife and I worked for 8 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. Your term "ick" doesn't begin to describe the people we catered for.
I don't use Google or YouTube. I still have my old AOL mail and use Brave as my search engine. Dr. Paul is on Rumble and that is the video site I follow.
Seems like I have a number or recluses who read my Substack lol. Thanks!
You know why, DJ? 'Cause recluses are picky about the company we keep😉
From what Im hearing, you're lucky your wife agrees. The scamdemic destroyed many marriages. My family disowned me for being a "conspiracy theorist" more than 30 years ago, and by 2020 I had long ago purged my life of normies. Hence, the scamdemic was pretty much just a blip on my radar screen.
By the way, two of those family members are now dead from the Jonestown jab. I expect the rest to follow shortly. The irony is that the poorest, most ostracized family member will inherit a huge estate. I've already got part if it.
Kris: My wife, my son, and my nephew never took the shots or wore the masks unless forced to for travel, visiting sick relatives, etc. The rest of my family is gone, gone, gone. Also my best friend here in town was a total Pod Person. He's gone from my life as well.
"...the 'Jonestown' jab." 😂😂😂
"I live in a town that votes 84% straight Democratic ticket."
Hmmmmm... You're lucky. In the last two general elections, most places voted 150% democrat. I expect that to increase to 200% in '24.
Ed: Hahaha. The Democrats don't need to cheat in California. It would be like bringing coal to Newcastle.
True, but they do it anyway. Their lies about "The most honest election in history" is the way they comment on everything, in superlative terms, like: "The most votes for a president in history", etc. That's what tells me that they are full of $#!+. It would be a little less obvious if they would just say, "Biden won the popular vote", but they have to claim he got more votes than any candidate in history.
They just can't help it.
Ed: If you are gonna lie, lie big.
I know this seems pedantic, but just to let you know, as I've discovered reading all the laws that affect technology and the internet, in the US and some abroad, "social media" also includes platforms like Substack.
.. and forums and blogs and group messaging apps. I know a lot of people define social media as exclusively being Twitter, Instagram, et. al, but in reality there's no way to functionally define it to limit it to those companies. Any medium that allows (non business) end-users to exchange text, audio or video with each other, or publicly distribute it is the actual legal definition. I only mention this because there's a lot of legislation coming down the pipeline and are already passed in some states that may end up being a rude awakening for many people when they find out they find out they may need to show government IDs or use digital IDs, to verify their real identity, before posting or participating in online communications (like here)
Yes, this is technically social media, too, VJ. But right now, it's the only large platform I can use without being shadow banned. It serves a noble purpose, at this point, as one of the last bastions of free speech on the internet. Thanks.
To me Substack is just another place to have a blog, only they make it easier to beg for money. I use WordPress, I feel no need to start a new blog. Yep, the day is coming when we will be forced offline...and forced off water and power too. I havelived with this knowledge for 33 years, so I'm totally prepared for it.
"Sick to your stomach, huh?" You can't un-ring that bell. Most of it is absolutely filthy, perverse and vile. They just gussy it up with catchy phrases and innocent appearing "entertainment" slogans. Tread lightly and keep some mints for your stomach. You'll need them. I just do research, I don't get caught up in the sewer.
Famous for (once upon a time) turning panels to uncover letters. Later, technology progressed to simply touching a panel to do so. Strenuous labor to say the least. Now 66 and DEMANDING a raise. And, oh yeah, smiling and appearing appealingly perky. Two words: "Vanna White."
I should have thought of her, Martin. Yes, such skill. Thanks.
Her skill can be viewed in a 87 Playboy.
Match that skill.
Will Vanna White get an upgrade if they extend the phrases to more than one sentence? Can she handle an answer that has more than 12 different letters?
It's doubtful, as she was trained on Reader's Digest Condensed phrases.
Vanna had to fill in for Sajak not that long ago when he was recovering from an operation. The first week was rough, but thereafter she got quite comfortable talking the talk. Looks to me like she had a boob job early on which enabled such a slim woman to model her red carpet dresses. I find it churlish to ridicule such a lovely 60 year old who's modestly and consistently playing her designated role. As for Pat Sajak, he's witty on his feet in a bantering way. They don't condescend to their guests or mock their audience.
If you watch closely, you'll see that Vanna only had to get close to touching paint spots.
I always thought her most impressive feat was walking in high heels on all surfaces.
In the future, a robot host will do the talking and AI will spin the questions.
Vonu: Yes, it is a skill to walk in high heels on all surfaces. I always like Vanna.
I am very happy to have avoided all the orthopedic problems she suffered from doing so.
Martin Thorne: My friend Patrick in LA interviewed Vanna White years ago. Patrick told me that Vanna was a very nice and humble person.
I don't think anyone watched the show for Pat Sajak. :-)
I saw more of Bob Barker than I did my father for years.
Just for the heck of it, I looked up Eva Diana on JooToob. A video posted just four days ago already had seven million views, or so they say. Quite frankly, at this point in the game I don't trust YouTube statistics any more than I would trust a dossier from the FBI. Moreover, they can rig the algorithms six ways from Sunday. A person can also pay to get "views" on a video. And last but not least, JooToob is populated by AI bots that also "view", "like", and "Subscribe". The internet is not 1.0 anymore. In fact, we have arrived at Internet 4.0 in my opinion. And when the chatbots turn it to 5.0, I am checking out. Just imagine a chatbot impersonating White Wolf and telling Karen Carpenter he no longer likes her dog, Jeff. Then imagine something much, much worse. Substack might just be the last refuge of the sane, but its days too, one fears, are numbered.
Meanwhile, if your front porch collapses and three dogs die, the primary color of your pickup truck is bondo grey, and you have to sign off on at least two bail bonds to have a family reunion- you just might be a redneck.
Good points, White Wolf. I should have brought up the phony nature of the numbers. Who does know if any of them are real? But if so....
Little wonder as fluoridated water lowers IQ and not just drinking, bathing water but all food (or should that be doof) products made with fluoridated water. Brought to you by your nanny government since 1945 in the United States.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/fluoride-childrens-health-grandjean-choi/
Gwyneth Cann; We tried to get fluoride banned from our town's water supply. We lost on the referendum 2:1. Sigh.
I bought a package of bottled water and took it back to the store when I discovered that it had fluoride added. The Customer service lady asked what was wrong with it and I said, I don't want to give my child fluoridated water. She asked, "Well how is she going to get her fluoride?" SMH.
Ed: Einstein was right. After Hydrogen, the most common thing in the Universe is human stupidity.
I have lived in many communities that fluoridate. My solution was to distill everything used for consumption and add mineral drops so the water wasn't unstructured. I have a whole house chlorine (another deadly halogen) filter which does minimize the fluoride but doesn't entirely remove it. Frequent bird bathing rather than showers also minimizes exposure.
Be aware that tea (particularly black) is high in fluoride. Both the Brits and the east Indians who are habitual tea drinkers have the worst cases of dental fluoridosis. As fluoride and chlorine compete with iodine, which is an essential nutrient, it is important to supplement with nascent iodine (and selenium as it is a co-factor in many of iodine's processes).
Gwyneth Cann: We buy spring water to drink and rarely take showers preferring sponge baths. Thanks for the tip about black tea. We drink Hibiscus Tea from Egypt.
I wonder if that's why my wife and I think differently. Most of my life my water supply has been from my own well. At 150 feet deep with carbon filters and UV treatment I think my water is safer than most.
It is not just the fluoride, but the chemtrails and the quaccines. Death by a thousand jabs.
Masterpiece!
So many of your notions streamed thru my head at one time or another over the years. From Dumber than a Fifth grader to Kardashians famous fat ass, and the irreverent irritation from the germophobia's 'deals.' Also, I was just recently pondering any support for Trump after seeing an old clip somewhere of an interview conducted by Oprah, which triggered visions of the despise of his tv show's where they sat around a big boardroom table (but have to admit, he evolved to spit out a pretty fair speech, especially in comparison to the competition).
Another viral youtube video genre that I just could not understand is those that merely display a person or couple playing a video game.
Sadly, a spot on reflection of society...
Thanks, jwslaw!
jwslaw: In Brazil, Kim Kardashian is a god.
I believe it! I guess it is a case of being famous for being famous?
jwslaw: No. It 's not about being famous. It's about Kardashian's huge ass. In Brazil men worship a good nice big woman's ass. LOL. I've been there. Done that.
makes sense to me now
well maybe not the worship of the large derriere, but otherwise
jwslaw: Brazilian women are beautiful and they tend to have larger than average derrieres.
How ironic to have any show pretending to test intelligence from a medium designed to dumb people down. In the good old days of tell-lie-vison, some who retained any common sense of reality beyond its screened reproductions referred to the device as the boob tube (maybe misogynist men especially liked its associations), with satirical depictions of its piped-in programming connected to toilet plumbing in households having shit for brains. But now in these latter days of Amerikan dream machines, after generational advances of electronic pacification in the matrix, it appears no one can be found who doesn't have head up his/her apps on addictive pacifiers called smart phones.
Mere common people, aka human resources, are privileged under capitalist class rule called progress to be sold our slavery via technologies socially engineering us into building prisons for our own good and safe keeping, every hearth and home radiating the blue light of the panopticon. The cultural genocide inherent to capital's commodification of existence and reduction of all value to the cash nexus, epitomized in our great nation's tradition of extermination campaigns against indigenous peoples, was all the more advanced by the arrival of television and electronic means of confining subjects to private perceptions perfecting the ancient meaning of idiocy, (de)privation of reality, as found in Plato's cave allegory.
Succeeding such population control as the missionary zeal of the cross for conquest and colonization and industrial skooling of labor forces for wage slavery, electronic media have overrun human communities and cultural traditions counter to the psychopathy of the megamachine now threatening to replace our obsolete species with transhumanist nightmares. As already with the covid psyop and its lockdown to digital dictatorship, next generation warfare turns the brain into the battlefield of the future, as useless eaters are slaughtered behind scenes on screens which leave us sleeping through it all. (Yes, Yuval, we will think nothing and be happy.)
When it comes to electronic revolutions of industrial capitalism, "the medium is the message" (Marshall McLuhan) in the sense of more efficiently performing the will of centralized power over the masses. What dubious benefits accrue to us are incidental to the advantages gained by elites. That for one is why the extreme toxification of life on earth by electricity is now poised as a potential extinction event with 5/6G wireless tech. Currently, the scientific-technocratic complex claims genetic modification via electricity, a kind of ultimate sacrifice of life to the "masters of mankind" (Adam Smith) who weaponize all means of (re)production against us.
The logic of power is just plain stupid, insane, and self-defeating. Unfortunately, that's not stopped yet the mad march of human history toward a point of no return. Smash the smart phones? Trash the televisions? If only.
Young people are enticed into have "smart " phones on which they are constantly bombarded with bullshit propaganda. They stare at these abominations for almost every waking moment. They are the most evil device ever perpetrated on society. No, I don't own one. When I retired I
several years ago I sold mine. It was the best part of retiring.
I always called it the boob toob back in the day. I am old enough to remember when they actually had tubes that blew out like light bulbs and you had to replace them.
Hellywood, the Boob toob, and game shows were brought to us by Tavistock. Caesar would be green with envy. He was only worshiped. These people are imitated.
Some closed circuit television systems could provide comedy like Candid Camera, but it would take a lot of time to get releases or smudge faces.
Since John Dewey's theories really caught on, public fool system students are indoctrinated more than educated and most television is programmed to maintain the indoctrination throughout life.
Yes, Candid Camera was probably actually the first reality show. It could be very entertaining. Thanks!
It would replay well forever, Funt being very careful to keep it GP before GP existed.
Really premium stuff in this one - biting snark and sarcasm that fits the subject perfectly. I dunno. I'm just not a follower, I guess. I only caught Friends and Seinfeld years later as afternoon re-runs. I can say proudly that I have never, even once, watched a reality show. For one thing, if anyone thinks those shows represent reality, then yes, they are about as smart as a social media influencer.
Never had a social media account, other than Twitter's earliest days. I made an account just to find out the status of some weather event that was happening near me. Logged in once? Never went back. Facebook? Never. Not a chance. I have a YouTube account and comment there occasionally but, no, I don't immerse myself in social media. I'm alone 95% of the time, and frankly, I choose to have it that way. If I want to associate with people, I do it virtually. I find Substacks like this one, and curate my own entertainment - nope to Netflix, Hulu and though I have Amazon Prime I probably watch on average one movie a month or less. Haven't had a TV since 2013. Prior to that I seldom watched it.
I knew covid was a monstrous scam in March of 2020, after the reports on the Princess Cruise Line. No masks and no jabs for me, then, now or ever. Put me in the Gulag - I'll make a ruckus there, too.
I have to agree with Kris - I'm a happier camper in my own self-chosen space, alone with me, myself and I.
You're a great American, HUMDEEDEE. Thanks!
Very depressing article for anyone with the intelligence to see the tragedy beyond the distraction. It is so obvious how successful the campaign of societal dumbing down has been. I no longer watch T.V. as there is nothing even mildly intelligent in programming any more. It seems very few people know what is real anymore or how to deal with reality. Hence all of the "Reality" shows that flood the airwaves. They are today's Soma.
During the 1980s an experiment was done in California. The freshman class of Long Beach State College (ages 18 or 19) were given a test that was administered in Washington state at the turn of the 20th century. It was mandatory for students to proceed from the 8th grade to the 9th (kid's ages 13 or 14). It was comprised of 5 parts: History, Geography, English grammar & composition, Mathematics, and basic Science. Not a single one of those college freshmen passed it, no one even came close with most scores in the 20 to 30 points range which would be an "F" grade. To bring up Gerry Spence again, he said in his career as a lawyer he met many very wealthy people. One guy in particular he said had enough money to pay for the complete college education of every child in Spence's home state of Wyoming without breaking a sweat. Spence found him to be an insufferable and dull bore, as well as every other person of great means he had the misfortune to cross paths with. He said he found conversations with janitors, cleaning ladies, and factory and warehouse workers much more interesting, enlightening, and intelligent by comparison. All of the celebrities that "make it" to the big time, whether in acting, music, comedy, or politics (yes, politics is just entertainment) are invariably from connected, blue blood families of means and very often have parents that are part and parcel of the intelligence agencies. These "stars" are groomed for their respective roles in life at a very young age and serve to bring forth the agendas of the ruling class. The Beatles, like the Monkees, were fake (like they all are) and had their songs written for them by ghost writers and the music on their records played for them by professional session musicians. They were, and still are, an image created to effectuate massive cultural change. Kim Kardashian's ass is as fake as "she" is. All of the Kardashian sisters are transsexual androgynes as are just about all celebrities. That is why they are made celebrities. Just like practically all politicians are lying, scumbag, pervert criminals. They is why they are made politicians. (quote/paraphrase)-"You'll never go broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people" - H.L. Mencken. (and that was decades ago. Now it is far, far worse.) Smoking article, Don, thanks.
Thanks, Hereticdrummer!
Excellent piece Don. Some very funny lines. I enjoyed the MST3K reference - you don't see them very often. Did you like the film Napoleon Dynamite? I got the feeling from On Borrowed Fame that you did. I enjoyed the film anyway. Reminds me a little of Idiocracy...
Yes, Smoke, I did like Napoleon Dynamite. Thanks!
What is Napoleon Dynamite?
It’s a daft comedy film from the 2000s about an eccentric teen in Idaho. It’s just kind of a weird and quotable movie. A bit like Withnail and I - but less so 😋
Thanks for the update. Never heard of it.
It’s a funny movie - I don’t think I explained it properly 😅
More truth than comedy in the movie Idiocracy.
I'm a photographer and model consultant. I'm also a stock trader and follow socioeconomic trends. Your article only scratched the surface of this issue. I found cam models with no work experience, special skills, college, etc., who made over a quarter million dollars in less than two years, not including custom content, and fans that spent almost as much. One fan tipped a single model nearly $30,000 in one month. And it costs very little to get started.
A decade ago, top porn stars and glamour models took many risks, invested a lot of time and money, and didn't make as much. Not even close! Models averaged less than $20,000 per year. They can now make that in a month, even while keeping their clothes on.
These fans are paying for a virtual fantasy. They will likely never meet these women in person, and thanks to the use of bots and A.I., they may not even be chatting with them. And the fans don't seem to care that they could spend considerably less for a high-class call girl, visit a massage parlor or legal brothel, or become a sugar daddy to a desperate college girl and have a tangible relationship.
Other legitimate concerns regarding the cam model industry are organized crime, human trafficking, extortion, underage models, identity theft, the complete lack of boundaries, the negative consequences to society, the hyper-sexualization of young women, etc.
I also noticed teen and pre-teen girls posting and monetizing inappropriate and sexually suggestive pictures and videos on social media, apparently with the support of their parents. Some included nudity via sheer clothing. One young girl was even promoting a hardcore cam model. And society remains indifferent or willfully blind to this trend.
Another disturbing trend is profiles with A.I. generated pictures and videos of children in sexually provocative clothing and poses.
I shared my findings with several investigative journalists, but nobody will report on this issue, and I can't understand why.
Based on this and many other negative socioeconomic trends, it's hard to be optimistic about the future.
I appreciate you sharing your experiences, Dino. Thanks!
Good point. We are now producing generations of feminized young men. That is something you don't see in the old Soviet Union or the new Russian society. The thought of getting their hands dirty through honest work terrifies most of them.
I hope not. Because they've got it all figured out, right? I mean, they've got the fame, fortune and flunkies, right? Yep, they are "smarter" than me. However....in the sight of All Mighty God it means nothing. Pied Pipers to the hellfire they are. Besides, adults don't need outside validation from strangers, it's a sickness called, "pride and show." The devil suffers from it.
My wife watches "America's Got Talent", which I deride as America's got issues, to tease her about it. To me, the most ridiculous thing about it is the audience shrieking like banshees when a performer is introduced. I was a little surprised when I over heard her show and assumed that it was America's got issues, and it turned out to be one of the celebrity talk shows. The audience shrieked when anyone walked onstage.
I wondered about whether the producers had a shriek track like the laugh track that is used for the unfunny sitcoms that are so popular.
I can relate, Ed. I've often remarked, "How long do people have to watch that stupid show before realizing that American really doesn't have much talent?" Thanks!