Feb 26

Built Lie

Book review: “Power and Progress” – by Noah Smith.

The problem with this is that most of the reviewed book consists of distortions and lies — but so do most of Noah Smith’s claims. He’s an economist. His entire field is built on lying to people about their own lives and about how prosperity functions. In many important ways, promulgating those deceptions is why the field of economics exists at all.

It’s important to remember that when reading anything penned by an econ.

Notice that Noah’s whole shtick is to claim against all evidence — and often using completely bogus “evidence” — that workers have never had it better, housing is actually cheap, wages have kept pace with productivity, etc. And then you look at the real world and realize this is heinous clown-level shit that is obviously false.

The entire field of economics should be dissolved and rebuilt from scratch.

Feb 25

Bon Hoz

Today, I figured out Bon Iver and Hozier are not in fact the same entity.

They both suck so who cares. But now I know.

Feb 25

You Get Knocked Down

I get pretty tired while working out, but the most exhausted I’ve ever been in my life was from fighting. That’s a whole different kind of spent there.

One fight I got into, I got knocked down (not from a head hit) and I was so damn wiped out that I could not even lift my arm up off the ground. Luckily I’d knocked the other guy down at the same time so I had a little time to recover.

The only film I’ve seen portray this aspect of fighting relatively realistically is Atomic Blonde (I linked to the correct time in the video there). Just like Charlize and her attacker in that bit, all I could do was roll around on the floor uselessly for 10-15 seconds. No film is realistic as to fighting, but that one felt far more real than most.

Feb 24

Soul Stare

Whats one compliment you got that you remember till this day?

A very close friend of mine in high school told me that I could see everything about her so clearly that it was like my eyes were burning through right to her very soul.

She intended this as a compliment (despite how it sounds) but also said it was incredibly intense for someone to be able to do that. But I’d known her since kindergarten. I’d witnessed every step of her metamorphosis from an awkward, gawky shy isolato with a dead mom to a charismatic, extroverted and talented young woman. I’m not glad I grew up where I did, but I am glad I got to see that.