I am intrigued by the "cleaning your toilet" challenge. I am unable to participate, because that's one of the jobs my children do for their pocket money. They are growing up relatively well-off, and they need to understand the connection between work and reward, and appreciate the humble work done by so many in our society which keeps the rest of us comfortable.
A while back I was thinking about this for MPs and Senators. Here we often hear about their big expense accounts and all that. I think they should build a dormitory for them in Canberra, a men's and a women's (they already drink too much and there's a sexual harassment scandal every week), and they're rostered on to clean the toilets and showers. The dormitory will take some time to build, but with 226 MPs and Senators, they can start on the toilet cleaning right away.
The regular if not frequent wiping up of scattered piss, shit streaks and unblocking toilets clogged with bloody pads and tampons wrongly-flushed ought to remind them of their place in the world.
Thank you. It's a good job for the kids to do. It teaches them humility. So many talk of being connected to the Earth -- well, there's no greater connection to Mama Earth than cleaning up your own soil!
About five or six years ago, I worked at an English language school in Canterbury. The age of the pupils ranged from about 10 to 20, as school grades vary widely from nation to nation. I remember an outdoor event on the grounds, where my supervisor was encouraging me to 'get more involved!' and 'be enthusiastic!', because the job was suffocatingly boring.
Anyway, I remember some 10-12 year old girls trying to dance to the song 'Gucci Gang' by some terrible 2010s rapper. They were dancing in a decidedly inappropriate manner, of course, but the thing that got me was how tragi-comic it was. They were just *kids*, trying to move their bodies in the manner of fully developed women. It was ridiculous, on one level. It would have been laughable, had it not been so poignant.
But one isn't supposed to notice such things, in case one gets labelled as a 'Daily Mail reader' or 'QAnon MAGA hat'.
On a more positive note, are you familiar with the Chicago-based psychedelic-folk artist Constantine? His music has a mystical, pastoral sort of vibe that you might like: https://constantinedayoflight.bandcamp.com
Ugh, how sad. I remember that "song". Some mumbling over a stock beat. The usual drops of brand names (right in the title in this one), explicit references to sexual acts, and an artist with facial tattoos. It's downright funny how the Woke try to paint such things as empowering. One thing that goes unmentioned is the extreme heteronormativity of Hip Hop. When Sexxy Red talks about anal, it's a boy doing anal on a girl. Lil Pump, who was only 17 when Gucci Gang charted, talks about his prowess with young girls, not young boys. Hip hop artists do not promote LGBTQ sexuality; in fact, I would say they are homophobic by omission. Girl on girl for the pleasure of the male gaze isn't LGBTQ or trans friendly.
I had not heard of Constantine! Good for him. We are definitely birds of a feather in our way. Thank you for the recommendation.
Lil Pump! That's the one. I always got him mixed up with Takeshi69, who was even more ridiculous.
A few years ago a number of men came forward to accuse Afrika Bambaata of molesting them when they were boys. As a friend of mine pointed out, the controversy within the hip-hop scene was not so much about him inappropriately touching minors, which other rappers have been accused of doing (including Takeshi69), but more because the minors in question were *male*...
Yeah... I think Lil Pump's government name is Gabby or Gazzy Garcia. When a woman is promiscuous, she is called the "town pump". So that leaves me to wonder if he named himself with such a role in mind.
The Roman towel boy meme https://imgur.com/a/YpkyeBn/ seems to be the latest iteration of "No, I'm really not gay, truly I'm not!" when it comes to straight man anxiety. But again, pedos break the layered auric egg of a child and siphon it into themselves, permanently and irreversibly damaging the child. It is actually worse if the child has a natural arousal response as this only serves to enhance the amount and potency of energy being transferred. And since children are all essentially biologically female and etherically male until puberty, the only way a male pedo can be gay is if he is one of those rare dudes with a male physical and etheric body.
That whole 'towel boy meme' was... eyebrow-raising, to say the least. On one level, it's just (shale)-posting (or 'poasting'), but many a truth said in jest and all that. I don't miss Twitter, in any case...
Even though I almost never post, Twitter sent me a message saying I was cancelled or banned or something. This was about a year ago. I sent a message back to their bots saying "I have no idea why I was banned but I also DO NOT CARE, so bye!" I have not posted on the platform since.
Thank you for the compliment. I can see why you would give up. If I had young kids or grandkids, I would have to vet every movie and/or series by watching it myself before they did. That's how bad movies and series are these days, including cartoons.
I used to think that vetting for the kids was for over-zealous religious types (I used to roll my eyes at some relatives about that). No more. Movies have really become depraved. A couple of months ago I let myself get talked into going to that big flashy Oppenheimer flick and, well, smack in the middle of it, a buncha u-no-whut with the nekkids. Ick. I'd rather read the biography, or watch an old movie, or go do something else. Besides the theater was mostly empty and the floors dirty.
And I meant to add, I really appreciate your discussing the etheric.
Nudity in Oppenheimer? That seems so random -- was it a sex scene? And your comment about the theater being mostly empty and the floors dirty... YES. These places are dying yet there are always several HELP WANTED signs on the door for everything from management to cleaner of the popcorn machine. You're welcome about the etheric plane discussion -- I wish there were more people talking about it outside of Ecosophian circles but as far as I can tell, study of the etheric has become one of those lost occult sciences, at least for now.
Yes, it was. I felt like the person who says, there's going to be a fly in the soup and, whaddya know, the soup arrives, and there's a fly floating in it. LOL.
Yes, I expect that the dirty floor was lack of cleaning staff. Before covid, in this place it was reserved seating tickets, so this time when I went to my assigned seat and it was covered with popcorn and the floor had a spilled drink, I called the manager. Someone came in with a mop and cleaned it up, and they gave me a coupon for a free movie. Then, as the movie started, I realized, no need to have respected the seating assignments-- the theater was almost empty. I could have just gone and taken a seat at the other end of the aisle, which was fine. I let the coupon expire.
I am intrigued by the "cleaning your toilet" challenge. I am unable to participate, because that's one of the jobs my children do for their pocket money. They are growing up relatively well-off, and they need to understand the connection between work and reward, and appreciate the humble work done by so many in our society which keeps the rest of us comfortable.
A while back I was thinking about this for MPs and Senators. Here we often hear about their big expense accounts and all that. I think they should build a dormitory for them in Canberra, a men's and a women's (they already drink too much and there's a sexual harassment scandal every week), and they're rostered on to clean the toilets and showers. The dormitory will take some time to build, but with 226 MPs and Senators, they can start on the toilet cleaning right away.
The regular if not frequent wiping up of scattered piss, shit streaks and unblocking toilets clogged with bloody pads and tampons wrongly-flushed ought to remind them of their place in the world.
Thank you. It's a good job for the kids to do. It teaches them humility. So many talk of being connected to the Earth -- well, there's no greater connection to Mama Earth than cleaning up your own soil!
Biting Social commentary :) Good stuff!
Thanks!
About five or six years ago, I worked at an English language school in Canterbury. The age of the pupils ranged from about 10 to 20, as school grades vary widely from nation to nation. I remember an outdoor event on the grounds, where my supervisor was encouraging me to 'get more involved!' and 'be enthusiastic!', because the job was suffocatingly boring.
Anyway, I remember some 10-12 year old girls trying to dance to the song 'Gucci Gang' by some terrible 2010s rapper. They were dancing in a decidedly inappropriate manner, of course, but the thing that got me was how tragi-comic it was. They were just *kids*, trying to move their bodies in the manner of fully developed women. It was ridiculous, on one level. It would have been laughable, had it not been so poignant.
But one isn't supposed to notice such things, in case one gets labelled as a 'Daily Mail reader' or 'QAnon MAGA hat'.
On a more positive note, are you familiar with the Chicago-based psychedelic-folk artist Constantine? His music has a mystical, pastoral sort of vibe that you might like: https://constantinedayoflight.bandcamp.com
Ugh, how sad. I remember that "song". Some mumbling over a stock beat. The usual drops of brand names (right in the title in this one), explicit references to sexual acts, and an artist with facial tattoos. It's downright funny how the Woke try to paint such things as empowering. One thing that goes unmentioned is the extreme heteronormativity of Hip Hop. When Sexxy Red talks about anal, it's a boy doing anal on a girl. Lil Pump, who was only 17 when Gucci Gang charted, talks about his prowess with young girls, not young boys. Hip hop artists do not promote LGBTQ sexuality; in fact, I would say they are homophobic by omission. Girl on girl for the pleasure of the male gaze isn't LGBTQ or trans friendly.
I had not heard of Constantine! Good for him. We are definitely birds of a feather in our way. Thank you for the recommendation.
You're weclome! Glad you liked Constantine.
Lil Pump! That's the one. I always got him mixed up with Takeshi69, who was even more ridiculous.
A few years ago a number of men came forward to accuse Afrika Bambaata of molesting them when they were boys. As a friend of mine pointed out, the controversy within the hip-hop scene was not so much about him inappropriately touching minors, which other rappers have been accused of doing (including Takeshi69), but more because the minors in question were *male*...
Yeah... I think Lil Pump's government name is Gabby or Gazzy Garcia. When a woman is promiscuous, she is called the "town pump". So that leaves me to wonder if he named himself with such a role in mind.
The Roman towel boy meme https://imgur.com/a/YpkyeBn/ seems to be the latest iteration of "No, I'm really not gay, truly I'm not!" when it comes to straight man anxiety. But again, pedos break the layered auric egg of a child and siphon it into themselves, permanently and irreversibly damaging the child. It is actually worse if the child has a natural arousal response as this only serves to enhance the amount and potency of energy being transferred. And since children are all essentially biologically female and etherically male until puberty, the only way a male pedo can be gay is if he is one of those rare dudes with a male physical and etheric body.
That whole 'towel boy meme' was... eyebrow-raising, to say the least. On one level, it's just (shale)-posting (or 'poasting'), but many a truth said in jest and all that. I don't miss Twitter, in any case...
Also, the appeal to a pederast of a young boy who looks like a 13 year old girl is obvious: looks the exact same but he cannot get pregnant.
Yikes. As much as the prog-left get the tag groomers - and with good reason - the Weird Online Right has some rooms to clean out of its own...
Even though I almost never post, Twitter sent me a message saying I was cancelled or banned or something. This was about a year ago. I sent a message back to their bots saying "I have no idea why I was banned but I also DO NOT CARE, so bye!" I have not posted on the platform since.
Excellent essay, thank you.
This is exactly why I gave up on going to see any movie made after 1980, more or less.
Thank you for the compliment. I can see why you would give up. If I had young kids or grandkids, I would have to vet every movie and/or series by watching it myself before they did. That's how bad movies and series are these days, including cartoons.
I used to think that vetting for the kids was for over-zealous religious types (I used to roll my eyes at some relatives about that). No more. Movies have really become depraved. A couple of months ago I let myself get talked into going to that big flashy Oppenheimer flick and, well, smack in the middle of it, a buncha u-no-whut with the nekkids. Ick. I'd rather read the biography, or watch an old movie, or go do something else. Besides the theater was mostly empty and the floors dirty.
And I meant to add, I really appreciate your discussing the etheric.
Nudity in Oppenheimer? That seems so random -- was it a sex scene? And your comment about the theater being mostly empty and the floors dirty... YES. These places are dying yet there are always several HELP WANTED signs on the door for everything from management to cleaner of the popcorn machine. You're welcome about the etheric plane discussion -- I wish there were more people talking about it outside of Ecosophian circles but as far as I can tell, study of the etheric has become one of those lost occult sciences, at least for now.
Yes, it was. I felt like the person who says, there's going to be a fly in the soup and, whaddya know, the soup arrives, and there's a fly floating in it. LOL.
Yes, I expect that the dirty floor was lack of cleaning staff. Before covid, in this place it was reserved seating tickets, so this time when I went to my assigned seat and it was covered with popcorn and the floor had a spilled drink, I called the manager. Someone came in with a mop and cleaned it up, and they gave me a coupon for a free movie. Then, as the movie started, I realized, no need to have respected the seating assignments-- the theater was almost empty. I could have just gone and taken a seat at the other end of the aisle, which was fine. I let the coupon expire.