By Nicolas de Stael from 1944.
A pile of sticks cut presumably of course from some tree, gathered together, drying up in the sun, a great big pile of them, impressive, even imposing. But so dried up did they get that when someone dropped a lit match amongst them, accidentally or intentionally, who knows, a spark caught and up in flames went the sticks in no time at all. The flames were impressive while they lasted, but, for all the size of the pile, they didn’t last long. The smoke blackening the sky could be seen from far off, people probably wondered what was going on, but that didn’t last too long either. To add, the flames spread to a nearby tree, maybe even the source of all the sticks, but though it too was blazing for a while, it survived the fire and recovered fine. In time the only visible memory of the fire was the tree’s blackened lower bark.
In the interests of diversity and maybe some other stuff as well, climate change or something, I am identifying as an extremely tedious Marxist historian of indeterminate race and gender whilst writing this. I would give all for the struggle. My guilty pleasure is Hollywood blockbusters involving masks and tights.
My greatest fear is that I would accidentally offend someone. There could be nothing more terrible than that - and for that reason a vow of silence holds great appeal. Perhaps that’s what makes the wearing of masks so wonderful. Besides helping us to avoid spreading whatever at the biological level, it subliminally works as a reminder to shut ourselves up vocally also, and so not carelessly spread contagion at the intellectual level. Masks forever!
The most important time to resist falling is before the falling. It’s very hard to resist once you’re already falling!
James O’ Keefe, head of Project Veritas is suing Twitter who clearly in response to their damning exposure of CNN as a deeply dishonest propaganda outfit banned O’Keefe from Twitter. What a telling alliance of squirming, worthless creatures there is going on in those environs. Regarding the individuals in such organisations behind such moves, it shows how you can gain so much of what the world has to offer in terms of wealth, influence, etc and yet, rather than enjoy and be worthy of such abundance, be a toxic parasitic embarrassment to existence. Though I suppose you could argue it is precisely because of being open energetically to such an existence that they are ‘anointed’ into such worldly places of honour in the first place. They are the perfect vessels as, for whatever reasons, there is at their core an almost total absence of resistance to the kinds of things that should produce a revolt of conscience.
Imagine if there were no years: no 2021, 1914, 1815, etc, in other words if we didn’t have a numerical time system in terms of years. It probably is effectively inconceivable as a possibility due to our intellectual nature and how, with accumulated knowledge, it entwines with our environment, but its absence is still an interesting thought to try to consider. And how deeply that alternative human universe would feel without what can be a kind of great artificial, mechanised veil over being.
Low temperature records fell throughout parts of Alaska this past week, and the same intense cold has began to infiltrate the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
The historic cold blast settling into Alaska at the end of the week sent temperatures plummeting far below zero, so cold, in fact, as to topple several long-standing records.
Fairbanks dropped to a staggering 27 degrees below zero on Friday, smashing the century-old record of 16 below zero from 1911.
This is not the kind of thing only a very short time ago I would have known anything about or envisaged myself watching, but whatever about it as a whole I strongly recommend watching it from about 2 hours 27 minutes on for a while, and give it a proper chance for 20 minutes or so anyway. The man speaking is Ted Shuttlesworth, of whom I had never previously heard. Certainly not someone afraid of ruffling feathers, or as he says himself, “I got over myself.”
Some people may be sceptical about the whole Black Lives Matter movement, and what good they actually bring to black people’s lives. Well here is proof they are making a difference, as below are some images of co-founder Patrice “We are trained Marxists” Cullors’ new home in the highly desired area of Topanga, Los Angeles County, California:
The 2010 United States Census[13] reported that Topanga had a population of 8,289. The population density was 433.2 people per square mile (167.2/km2). The racial makeup of Topanga was 7,313 (88.2%) White (84.5% Non-Hispanic White),[14] 117 (1.4%) African American, 35 (0.4%) Native American, 353 (4.3%) Asian, 3 (0.0%) Pacific Islander, 125 (1.5%) from other races, and 343 (4.1%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 534 persons (6.4%)
Here I think will follow some quick utterances, which I will probably desist from attempting to turn into some cohesive essay type piece.
The second video below gives a more comprehensive view of the performance, and is also very good at giving an overview of the ceremony as a storyline, though a little after 13 or so minutes when he moves onto attempting to rationalise or comprehend the essence of it all, I wasn’t exactly enthralled and moved on.
From an article by a CNN writer, Devan Cole, the following quote:
“biological sex” a disputed term that refers to the sex as listed on students’ original birth certificates.
It’s not possible to know a person’s gender at birth.
Just posting this cos I love his first minute and a half or so that Dave Rubin does here! Brilliant. Even if you have no interest in whatever follows, definitely worth a glance at that little bit.