Rand Paul questions Democrat about the Equality Act which from the little I’ve seen about it actually seeks to enable children from basically any age, as in for example 4 years old, to decide on taking steps to change sex, and where parents have no rights whatsoever to intervene. This is simply demented. Who the hell would imagine children have the requisite maturity to take such utterly life-defining and drastic steps?
To quote again from the revolutionary figure Pyotr Verkhovensky in Dostoevsky’s novel Demons, “I can get them to go through fire if I just yell at them that they are not liberal enough.” The zombie-like responses Paul gets from Rachel Levine is vey telling in itself.
The mindset behind this is deranged. I saw a few minutes of the writer Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho, talking of how he used to be more or less apolitical in terms of being interested in that world, though certainly Democrat-leaning rather than Republican, but it was seeing the crazy way the media were going after Donald Trump that made him aware something very strange was going on; and also how the Democrats are certainly now something very different from what they used to be, and, by obvious deduction from their actions, in their ideological engine-room are so extreme as to be basically nuts. I might as well post that video altogether also. This the ten minutes extract I’ve seen from the hour long piece, which can easily be found if interested.
An etching from the great Spanish artist Goya from a book I have on him, Old Man Goya, in which the images are photographs of the etchings plates used by the artist, which then as in a photographic negative are reversed to become the image as seen by the public. The full image below, and to add, the image from the book obviously isn’t the full picture:
Two armies in a field, facing each other, and in between, whyever they were there, ambling about, sitting down, chatting and so on, were quite a few people, maybe, who knows, however they might have managed it, not having noticed the armies either side of them. Maybe though, which is much more likely, they did notice the armies but presumed in their innocence that this was all merely for show, a chance merely perhaps to dress up, and so naturally there would be no fight. But even if there really was such a desire to fight, perhaps they felt their civilised, calm presence in this field would have some kind of overpowering influence - the mere sight of them in the middle of the field would be enough in itself to keep the peace; whilst perhaps even if, inconceivably, the worst did come to the worst and fighting did actually break out, those doing the fighting would of course be polite enough to work around them, so to speak, out of respect and of course also to ensure their necessary preservation for whatever future would arise.
Unfortunately though, all these expectations didn’t meet with reality, and once the fighting began, which it did, their preservation proved it seemed not all that necessary to anyone; and so those in the middle, or at least those who weren’t quick enough in their scattering, quickly, amidst all the madness, came to grief.
Excellent piece by Steve Turley on this and the broader issues and agendas behind it. It also paints a very clear picture of how toxic Gates wilfully is towards Western civilisation, where he is funding the pushing of an ideology that seeks to undermine truth itself as being an evil symptom of ‘white supremacism.’ This is how inane and garbled this thinking is. This ties in again to Dostoevsky’s novel Demons, where the revolutionary character Pyotr Verkhovensky talks of how they will undermine all values, lower education standards, corrupt morally and so on to weaken society’s immune system against the intended radical left takeover. He says,“You know with us, Socialism spreads mostly through sentimentality,” which is shown here where as Turley succinctly shows their fundamental argument that there is no truth is simply self-contradictory nonsense as they are claiming this is true! And so rather than try to debate any such issues, they reach as quickly as possible for the moronic and emotive ‘white supremacist’ accusation to claim the victory. Thus Dostoevsky’s point of socialism spreading mostly through sentimentality.
One thing to add is, as suggested by the title, Demons or alternatively rendered The Possessed, Dostoevsky considered these radical ideas as actually demonic, and so the people under their sway in a genuine and modern sense demonically possessed. This isn’t half as out there as might initially seem as clearly the essence and agenda of these thoughts is to undermine truth, which, whether you regard the demonic as real or hypothetical, is its position as regards to truth; truth is its enemy, and so all it can ever do is parody, intellectually or morally, and as demonstrated with this math is racist garbage.
Georges Seurat is most famous by far for his great pointillist paintings, morphing from out of Impressionism, but great as they are, on the human level the figures therein tend to resemble statues more than living beings with real inner lives - though with the vital point being this parade of unreality is an intentional and natural outpouring of Seurat’s spirit rather than in some sense an artistic deficiency in his expression. I find it is maybe his drawings are the more interesting and intimate of his output, where Seurat as a feeling being living in the moment is more alive and present, and here this sense of spirit struggling to maintain reality within a modernising world is more nakedly obvious rather than masked and maybe normalised as it is by the monumentality of his paintings - and where focus tends to be put on the technical aspects of the art. What I’m talking about especially obvious with this drawing below, Child in White, and where never mind the spirit, even the physicality of the person is all but gone.
“There’s some fierce cold weather around at the moment, but the funny thing I heard is that’s from the global warming.”
“How do you make that out?”
“Well if it’s warmer than it should be that’s from the global warming, but if it’s colder, even the coldest it’s been in decades,then that’s global warming as well.”
“That’s fascinating, and the funny thing is unless someone explained it to you like that, you’d think it made no sense whatsoever. So is it the cold or the warmth from the global warming they’re saying we have to be more scared about?”
“I’m not sure, but we don’t have much time anyway before everything goes to complete shit. The good news is though there are some wonderful people who could be just sat inside their huge mansions but instead they’re flying around in their private jets telling us about all this stuff and how we have to urgently cut down on our fuel consumption and so on to ward off this awful disaster that’s coming.”
“It’s great when you see someone walking the walk rather than just talking the talk.”
“It is yeah. And we could complain about the sacrifices they’re saying we all are going to have to make, but the reality is they’re the ones making the biggest sacrifices. I mean their electricity bills are probably going to be huge.”
“It’s hard to be cynical when you look at things like that.”
Such is the wealth of material available I could do little here other than post gems from the vaults of Joe Biden and still be kept busy, but I have tried to resist succumbing to that temptation which might otherwise, after a while, after all, get slightly monotonous. Here however is, I presume, a very recent slice of his public speaking that is so inspirational and befitting of the status of the most powerful figure on earth and the most popular US president ever that I feel I have to share it.
Has any country ever had a democratically elected head of state remotely akin to this man? Yes, yes, I know he wasn’t democratically elected either, but you know what I mean.
A work by Leonardo da Vinci. The beast in the boat suggests more a bull to my mind but is apparently a dog, and if interested more on the allegorical meanings then you can have a look here: https://www.rct.uk/collection/912496/an-allegory-with-a-dog-and-an-eagle. I admit I tend to be far more interested in experiencing such images and their power nakedly rather than being too interested in their time-bound meanings or interpretations. Those moments in time or historical circumstances obviously fade away but the image continues to traverse future time, and so its power to resonate becomes much more solely a matter of the intrinsic image and its relation to our inner beings rather than to some external circumstances. Though even that can be a bit all too intellectual, and rather than being all concerned with how it resonates at some deep level, I really posted it because I like the picture!
Where would you be if you ran out of momentum? Most likely you’d be stuck wherever you happen to be when you ran out of it. Though maybe you happened to be facing uphill at that moment when momentum was lost, and rather than simply being stuck you actually start going backwards, back from where you came from - at least that is I suppose if you were somehow on wheels, in a car, whatever. Maybe if there were no wheels you’d be like I said simply stuck, and there’d be little in the way of movement in any direction. That might only be for a while however. Maybe you just need refuelling - it’s not that you lost all belief in where you were going, it’s just that the energy going out wasn’t being replaced by energy coming in.
If you did lose all belief, that is of course a more serious matter - though it mightn’t even to add be a bad thing. If you were going say in the wrong direction it’s good to lose belief in it, and having lost this belief momentum in its direction thankfully is lost also. It’s a different matter if you were going in the right direction. Then like I said it’s hopefully just a matter of refuelling, and away you can go again.
You have to watch what you say nowadays. Why is that? I suppose it’s because we have progressed so much you have to be careful you don’t end up looking stupid, not having progressed at the same rate as everyone else, and somehow in your stupidity giving away the fact.
Progress of course was declared the great new Ideal some hundred or two years ago, leading us down the path of wherever it was going, and now I suppose we’re in its midst, the midst of its realisation I mean, us having done all that progressing, and now for instance people who used to be men can now be women and triumph at women’s sports, whereas previously they were stuck let’s say competing against other men who might have been that bit better than them, and so disappointment was their unfair lot.
But now we’re leaping over all such unfair facts and hurdles, and everyone, or at least everyone progressive is rejoicing - though admittedly all this mightn’t be so wonderful if you happen to be a woman who began as one, so to speak, and now you’re up against and losing most depressingly to a woman who didn’t begin as one, but was originally of the more let’s say muscular gender.
Setting that minor issue aside, it must be a proud realisation for such newly victorious athletes not simply to taste such noble victories, but to know their triumphs are also the triumph of a great philosophical ideal. And if they didn’t know, someone should explain it to them.
And as for the losers who might perhaps have previously even been winners, they would surely find great solace in the same knowledge - again if someone was kind enough to explain it to them.
There was this city, and within it, each in their own chosen spot, a bunch of liars began from morning till evening roaring out their lies, loud and relentless. Wherever they’d come from and why they’d come was all a bit of a mystery. Maybe they were carried away by some enthusiasm, maybe they were getting paid, who knows.
Will they ever shut up, the people wondered. Some tried to shout the liars down but wearied of it soon enough. If it didn’t come naturally to you, it seemed, all this shouting, it would soon wear you out. You couldn’t keep going at it long. It took a special talent.
And then in time, their defences worn down perhaps, the people, most of them, by and large stopped wondering about whether the liars would ever shut up, and began instead to accept them - as part of the furniture, so to speak. They grew so used to them they would probably even have found it unsettling not to hear them shouting away. The silence would have been eerie.
Some however who refused to reconcile themselves to the liars would block their ears whenever in their vicinity, and so try to pass on by ‘undefiled’ as one of them described it. Such actions enraged the liars who in response would shout all the louder, and venomously targeted these enemies of theirs, much to the entertainment of some, and who might themselves even join in with the targeting. No, the best thing for now anyway it seemed, if you wanted an easy life, was either to just accept them or, however you’d manage it, avoid them altogether.
However I have heard of some youths, less respectful maybe, who began to behave very differently, gathering to laugh at the liars, even sometimes throwing apparently eggs. And as for being targeted venomously - that they found hilarious, which, miracle of miracles, even did on occasion manage to shut the liars up. Maybe it’s they who will have to move on.
I’m posting this link specifically in relation to what Steve Turley has to say about “resentment politics.” If you want to just get to the meat of it here, go 13 minutes in, and it’s specifically then the next several minutes. Superb stuff.
He was choking on the fumes. Fumes? He was lucky there were fumes. You could live on fumes. Fumes is something. Yes, but he was choking on them. He was surviving on them more like. If you took away the fumes, what would he be left with?
This is how mental these people are, and is very suggestive, to put it mildly, of how deranged the reality they feel free to push is. Just to add, it brings to mind the fantastical, vicious satire of Victor Pelevin’s dystopian novel S.N.U.F.F. and how tuned in it is to the essence of certain things.
The days are getting longer but the weather is getting worse. That must have some hidden depths to it surely, that line, but, whatever they are, those depths, if indeed they are, rather than getting all clever and analytical I’ll try to avert my gaze and leave them be. Maybe though in reality it really is the most ordinary of sentences and that’s as far as it goes, pure ordinariness and nothing more; but I have a feel for these things, and I feel there is more. I’m very alert to these things. I suppose we could say, without spoiling things and getting all intellectual, it must be, with these lengthening days and worsening weather, the winter in its rage fighting off the inevitable approach of spring. “Inevitable?! There’s nothing inevitable about it! Watch what I do now!”
I haven’t watched this documentary yet on the US election, which claims to show, as in its title, with certainty that the Presidential election was fraudulently stolen. The reason I haven’t watched it yet is this to me couldn’t already be a more obvious truth, so I’m not exactly on tenterhooks. Mike Lindell is the CEO of a company called MyPillow, and for his pains plenty powers that be have been trying to sink his company, his reputation; and to add the Google owned Youtube, that doorway to all kinds of everything, has kept deleting this documentary as soon as it appears on its platform. Just as a general point, if the documentary had precious little evidence to back up its claims, what would anyone have to fear from it being aired? It would simply be easily dismissed.
A great line I heard when they really start going after you personally and viciously when you are making such serious claims about such powerful people, is that these very kind of responses show you are most likely right over the target.
To add, Mike Lindell would have been perfectly aware that there could be the most serious consequences from going down this kind of direction, but obviously felt it was still necessary to his conscience.
So anyway, like I said, I haven’t watched this yet but that’s the link above.
A very simple and uncontroversial post to the relief I’m sure of millions. My family going back a generation or two on my mother’s side and her mother’s side were lighthouse keepers around the coast of Ireland, and one memento of that period is this humble fork, whose initials C.I.L. signify Commissioner of Irish Lights which oversees the running of the lighthouses. Lighthouse keepers would only serve a certain duration in each lighthouse, even if living there with a full family, before being posted to another. Probably the most famous one where a grand uncle and uncle of mine served is The Fastnet Rock below, situated off the coast of West Cork.
And to show it could get pretty wild and scary, with the genuine sense of threat of it even being demolished by the force of the waves, and with obviously nowhere to run!
Another place served, amongst plenty others, was the Bull Rock, in the Beara Peninsula, also in County Cork. At such postings the family would live nearby on the coast whilst the lighthouse keeper would serve his spell on the island. Imagine the feat of building these structures on such pieces of landscape, getting the rocks and materials out there, and of course often with pretty unfriendly weather.
Steve Turley on the second impeachment of Donald Trump, but the main reason I’m posting this is the broader issue, a favourite theme of Turley’s, which is the growing populist movement arising largely as a result of and in direct opposition to the oligarchical push of the globalists. Trump of course seen as a figurehead of this populism countering the rule of an incestuous ‘feudalizing’ political elite, and thus the on the surface quite bizarre drive to continue going after him, even after he’s been removed from office, and obviously on such ridiculous grounds - despite whatever rubbish is spun by the mainstream media, owned as it is by these same globalists. The last 3 or 4 minutes are especially on that theme, and helpful for those like me who are getting some helpful nuggets of education in such bite-size but not falsely simplistic segments. And you can always skip through his little ads!
Just to add to the point in the video where Turley quotes from one of these mainstream media journalists who is commenting with dismay about the huge, ever-growing and blindingly apparent disconnect between wider America and the Washington political elite. Given that she apparently accepts this as self-evident, I wonder how she might explain how Joe “740 Million Billion” Biden is in terms of accredited votes by far the most popular US President ever. A mystery. An anomaly even - though of course there must be some explanation. I wonder what it could be.
Here is Senator Josh Hawley talking of how he will not bow down to the liberal and woke mob who are out through the current US administration, Big Tech, the mainstream media and so on, to silence all dissent. As Hawley very correctly stresses, and has been going through the fire of very direct personal experience, there is no interest in principles of democratic debate and government. Instead what these people want is absolute rule on their part, and absolute subservience on everyone else’s. I’ve stressed here to and beyond the point of tedium that this is the essence of leftist ideologies, and just to lift from yesterday’s piece on Time magazine’s article on how an alliance of left-wing activists and business titans “saved democracy” through obviously subversive and very undemocratic means.
“Left-wing activists don’t even believe in a democratic system of government. Their ideology espouses one-party rule by themselves, and towards which end the most unscrupulous means are justified, the culmination of which methods is a revolutionary coup to overthrow the existing powers.”
This is obviously at a very accelerated rate what is playing out at the moment, though simultaneously it has been so crudely displayed, that unprecedented numbers of even very regular people are aware it is happening - though for those immersed within the false worlds of the ‘liberal’ mainstream media, a very different world is presented.
A quite pronounced interest of mine has been Russian literature and history, and it is very interesting to see the replaying of the processes that occurred there through the 19th and into the 20th century in terms of the spread of left-wing ‘liberal’ ideologies and radical movements to endeavour to successfully incarnate those ideologies through revolutionary means. (I put liberal in inverted commas as it is clearly far more illiberal than liberal.) Unfortunately for me I see this piece is becoming large in scope but anyway... That Russia and America should parallel each other is not that surprising. Both in modern terms are very new countries, with for instance Boston and New York being older cities than St Petersburg; and so while both are very obviously influenced deeply by Western European thought and culture, through being such virgin territories, there is a striking freshness, vigour and daring to be comparative to Western Europe, but there is also, because of this newness, a comparative susceptibility to dangerous ideas finding fertile ground to breed and be pushed to extreme levels. As a body politic you could say there is a much weaker immune system through its comparative youth.
And so just when in Russia in the early 1860s, serfdom was abolished, and things were allowed to develop ‘organically,’ the people and the state should have certainly matured together and the future be a positive one, with incredible figures like Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov and so on arising from within raising the cultural consciousness; but instead the nation was infected with the leftist ideologies which scorned this maturing, instead promoting subversion and destruction, leading on eventually to the revolution of 1917 and subsequent totalitarian communist rule. Even still though for all the infection of particularly the intellectual classes or elements, without the catastrophe of World War 1, there would have been no chance of their successfully grabbing power. So in short a maturing freedom was overpowered by a doctrine of totalitarian coercion.
I’ll try to prevent this from going much further so just to quickly compare with the US where their very Constitution embeds within the State notions of great virtue and self-protection for the integrity of the nation. However it’s easier to formulate an ideal than embody it, and so then hopefully it’s a question of the maturing of the country to realise those notions. Interestingly more or less a hundred years after Russia’s emancipation of the serfs the Civil Rights movement occurred in the US, and ‘emancipation’ of black Americans. However rather than ideally the onward advancement and maturing of society from there, this issue has been used as a weapon by the leftist ideologies to foment unrest and subversion of the stability of the country as a whole, just as happened in Russia a century before. Every minority cause these leftist elements champion is in truth a weapon to further the goal of total power, of slurring and silencing opposition. It should never be taken at face value.
Anyway I could obviously go much further with this broad subject, but I’ll leave off rather randomly there for now.
And below directly quoting from the actual article run by Time magazine, though stressing that given this article is lauding the premeditated arranging of the electoral process to get the right result which “saved” democracy. Remember this like virtually everything through the mainstream media is propaganda in favour of an ideological position of Trump being the enemy who must be vanquished, and so everything must be read through that lens. The news media has become so corrupted regarding integrity to journalistic objectivity that there is it seems barely even the felt need anymore to pretend to such objectivity, and in that light the title to the Time article is grotesquely revealing:
The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election
“It was all very, very strange,” Trump said on Dec. 2. “Within days after the election, we witnessed an orchestrated effort to anoint the winner, even while many key states were still being counted.”
In a way, Trump was right.
There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans.
Just to rudely interrupt: an alliance between left-wing activists and their supposedly sworn enemies, the business titans. Diametrically opposed forces beautifully united in integrity to “protect the election.” Oh right, not to corrupt the election but to protect and save it. To add, left-wing activists if true to their ideology don’t even believe in a democratic system of government. Their ideology espouses one-party rule by themselves, and towards which end the most unscrupulous means are justified, the culmination of which methods is a revolutionary coup to overthrow the existing powers. As for the type of the business titans here involved, oligarchical rule again by themselves but under the cover of democracy would seem the default ideal.
So anyway, these were the forces uniting to protect and save democratic integrity.
Their work touched every aspect of the election. They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time. They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears.
They recruited armies of poll-workers. Just a line like that should really be allowed sink in. With what kind of incentives did the fabulously wealthy tycoons manage to recruit them, I wonder? And when polling stations were shut down for things like burst pipes, I wonder what the armies of recruited poll workers then did. We even have film footage of exactly what they did in Georgia after all the legally required monitors were ordered to leave the building, whilst a select few oddly stayed behind. Then, once the undesirables had left, suitcases of ballots were produced that had been hidden from view, and the few remaining poll-workers kicked back into action.
As for the successfully pressurised social media companies taking a hard line against disinformation, that obviously equates to the massive coordinated shut down efforts to actually render illegal within those platforms even debating the issue of voter fraud, as well as of course similar blanket efforts across the media as a whole, owned as it is by this very cabal of powerful forces and figures the article is referring to.
They executed national public-awareness campaigns that helped Americans understand how the vote count would unfold over days or weeks, preventing Trump’s conspiracy theories and false claims of victory from getting more traction.
Remember this article is talking of how all this was premeditatedly planned for.
“The untold story of the election is the thousands of people of both parties who accomplished the triumph of American democracy at its very foundation,” says Norm Eisen, a prominent lawyer and former Obama Administration official.
We just have to understand what these people mean when they say such things.
An ink drawing from the Ming Dynasty era. Just took the photo from a book I have, hence the wonky shape even after trying to edit it into more symmetrical form. I’d lose more than I’d gain in cutting into the picture to force it back into the appearance of being a rectangle. Sometimes reality refuses to bow down.
Some numbers are very big. There are for instance 1,000 billions in a trillion, which is of course a particularly big number. Joe Biden however thinks on a much vaster scale again, and has it seems a particular penchant for things equating to sums such as 740 million billion dollars or even 800 million billion dollars, as he shows above and also from some years back below. By any kind of reckoning this is an astronomically greater amount of money than exists in the world, and so this is surely exactly the kind of man you want overseeing the wise allocation of huge sums of money. An ambitious mind that sees into the great beyond without regard to normal human limits. In short, a visionary.
Satire is only an appropriate device when used against imperfect institutions, people, thoughts and so on; and so Google with various other Big Tech bodies, together affectionately termed The Holy Alliance, have united in announcing that satire will heretofore be regarded as hate speech when seen to be targeting “legitimate realities” and will absolutely not be tolerated. It can only be used against “illegitimate realities.” Thus the corridors of discourse will be protected.
Some voices have questioned whether such definitions may be verging on being perhaps a little bit vague, and that the policy could possibly be unwittingly open to accidental abuse. However, a spokesperson has assured everyone that won’t happen.
This is something I wrote years ago. I’m not sure why I didn’t post it then. Maybe the world was not ready.
The following are all taken from an essay from 1929 by D H Lawrence, titled The State of Funk. Maybe he meant something wholly different from its modern usage but we’ll ignore that. He writes "What is the matter with the English? They are in a state of blue funk, and they behave like a lot of mice when someone stamps on the floor." This suggests the driving rhythm of funk as we know it surely, but presumably a bluesier, heavier and less uplifting form than regular funk. He goes on to say: "When a people falls into a state of funk, then God help it. Because mass funk leads to mass panic." The curious later line: "If we fall into a state of funk, the best thing is to have no children." Also "Patience, alertness, intelligence, and a human goodwill and fearlessness, that is what you want in a time of change. Not funk."
Lets face it; he really didn't like funk music, even though it didn’t yet exist. Which given his celebration of the body and sexuality is interesting. Perhaps he did protest too much. Another example of his paranoia: "Funk spells sheer disaster." Is he maybe going too far? Did he fear it would stray too far from pure rock n roll?
On a slightly more serious though related note, below from Lawrence's close friend, Aldous Huxley in hisbook Devils ofLoudun: “No man, however highly civilized can listen very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn-singing & retain intact his critical & self-conscious personality. It would be interesting to take a group of the most eminent philosophers from the best universities, shut them up in a hot room with Moroccan dervishes or Haitian voodooists, & measure, with a stop watch, the strength of their psychological resistance to the effects of rhythmic sound. Would the Logical Postivists be able to hold out longer than the Subjective Idealists? Would the Marxists prove tougher than the Thomists or Vedantists? All we can safely predict is that, if exposed long enough to the tom-toms & the singing, every one of our philosophers would end by capering & howling with the savages."
Finally just to show that above really is from a D.H. Lawrence essay and not simply a product of my subversive and feverish imagination, here’s a photo to prove the point. Otherwise, you never know, I might get accused of fabrication, hate speech and the like. “You have proven yourself an enemy of the integrity of Western culture. You are now banned from Twitter and Facebook.”
As I wrote the other day, it is perhaps even dangerous for undefended human souls to be exposed to the hypnotic oratorical skills of such a man, bent and shaped as they may helplessly be to his will. Here quoting from the Declaration of Independence, Biden masterfully replaces the Creator who has endowed man with certain unalienable rights, with “you know, the Thing”; and this act of insidious spiritual subversion is done so subtly that it takes close to superhuman focus, whilst one is being swept away along on the currents of emotion, to even notice any such act has taken place. We must train ourselves to in spite of everything be on our guard; and who can blame those who fail to notice the all but invisible signs and red flags that occasionally slip into view that something may be amiss.
The best thing to do of course if there’s a storm is to get in out of it, that is unless for some reason you have to be out in it ... though maybe there doesn’t have to be any have to about it; you simply like being out in it, the drama, the wildness ... Doubtful though, and more likely it’s a case of necessity, you’re on say your urgent way somewhere, and so you battle through it, the storm, head down, wind howling, rain lashing. There’s no use complaining, reconcile yourself and get on with it.
You could whilst out there envy all those safely sat indoors - warm fires, loving families, wine - but what good would that do you? Who knows though, they might even envy you ... though again, yes, that’s doubtful.
Who knows, maybe there are some people who read some of what is written here, and for those so familiar with some recent past posts, I came across some small interesting thing, relevant to here, in Dostoevsky’s Demons just a while ago. I have done a few posts based around randomly opening this novel and seeing where my gaze lands - maybe it will be loosely relevant to whatever is being written or broadly thought about - and interestingly it has been relevant, and even to a very striking degree. And so the following from Demons:
Mechanically he opened a thick book that was lying on the table (he sometimes did divinations this way, by a book, opening it at random and reading on the right-hand page, three lines from the top).
I have read this novel before, and more than once, but still quite a while back and I honestly have no recollection of that single sentence - which in a book of over 700 pages is hardly surprising; and I doubt very much there was some subconscious connection inducing the energetic parallel.
