I think we have maybe a 20 year window to change the course of history and avoid irreversible worldwide civilizational stagnation.

— scientism (@mr_scientism) September 3, 2019

Agreed. The other great threat, besides global climate change, is the liberal apocalypse of everyone living like 13th Century peasants, except the culture has changed too much for us to really live like that and survive with any sanity intact.

Liberals are screwing up any chance they have of influencing the future and building something better because all they can seem to prattle on about is how much they are just going to be forced — forced, I tell you! — to take away from everyone.

I hope I don’t need to say this, but that’s not a winning strategy or even one that makes sense. But it appeals to their variant of authoritarian asceticism so it won’t go away, and they will lose much because of it.

Satire doesn't work if the satire is so underplayed the people you are satirising think it's actually a celebration of them; see also – Fight Club. https://t.co/uq5DYKKuKR

— Pharrell Hawggz (@Mister_Woodo) September 1, 2019

The real problem is that most people don’t understand that satire is in fact satire even if you put 200 point flashing fonts before, during, and after the work stating in unequivocal terms THIS IS SATIRE.

To the left, because we have dumb people, this means we should ban anything that makes any sort of satirical point. Not the best solution, really. I am so done with “liberals,” the left, any of that, because it’s all just recycling tired ideas from the dustbin of history.

Training hard now in my 40s, I notice very little difference from my 20s. It’d probably be more noticeable were I world-class athlete or something.

The main difference I’ve noted is that it’d take me a day or two to fully recover in my 20s, and now it might take an extra day. I can lift the same amounts relative to my progression, I am gaining muscle as quickly, and I’m not injuring myself.

It helps that I am not overtraining now and I was then, by force. Thanks, US Army.

If someone tell you that you can’t get really strong and muscular in your 40s, they probably are just attempting to keep you down at their level of apathy and lethargy. Don’t listen. Just show up looking all strong and fit and then avoid them after because they are an anchor.

Anyone who thinks that Jeffrey Epstein just happened to be taken off suicide watch while two guards just happened to be asleep while all the cameras just happened to malfunction while some extra unknown dudes just happened to be around and regular checks just happened to be missed is an enormous fucking fool.

Really. If anyone believe anything about that was on the up and up, they can’t be trusted with any idea or opinion. They are dipshits of the highest order.

When a known underage trafficker who had been supplying half of the country’s elite with girls dies, it’s not an accident. How could you be so damn clueless? Epstein had a burn book on trillions of dollars of wealth. No way he’d keep breathing to trial. None.

I guess it’s some sort of misguided wish and to believe that the system somehow works? I don’t know. But Epstein’s murder is the system.

I don’t think all of this is possible, but so much more is possible than aging Boomers and centrists claim is achievable. So very much more.

We’ve had a complete instigated failure of imagination and prerogative, and undermining of possibility, with countless near-mindless myrmidons of abridgment declaring that nothing that hasn’t been done yet is possible, even in principle. Not realizing they are corporate-sponsored guided missiles of expectation-destruction, they shamble across the land desultorily mumbling, “Buy who will pay for it?” Never mind that we squander entire countries’ worth of resources weekly, that entire inconceivable coffers of wealth are locked up in the accounts of billionaires, that the defense industry spends more in a few days than the entire R&D funding of the world in toto.

These missiles of hopelessness are of course controlled by corporations and their enablers, who need a stable, predictable environment to skim maximal profits, to loot society’s wealth and knowledge, to continue to exist parasitically. Their propaganda, not physical and cognitive reality, tells us what is possible and that “possible” coincides exactly with what will gain and hold for them the most profit and the most power. Nothing else.

If you think anything other, then you aren’t much of a systems thinker, or a thinker period.