Comments on: Are we in the grip of a mass psychosis?

By: Strange Daze: Opulence, I Has It

Strange Daze: Opulence, I Has It — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 14:11:29 +0000

[…] Are we in the grip of a mass psychosis? – The New NeoLeClerc on October 7, 2021 at 12:43 pm said: Yea – we are in the midst of a fever dream. A bat-bitten drooling fool, who hops about with his left foot ensconced between his dentures, spouts spittle-flecked fantasies of grandeur. His dear and glorious physician spouse prescribes pizza slices for troops who slumber on concrete floors. His noble son – our contemporary heir to Rembrandt – impregnates Arkansan exotic dancers, and smokes crack with Russian ladies of easy virtue. […]

By: david foster

david foster — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 16:36:46 +0000

RTF…there’s a great movie of ‘Rhinocero’, with Zero Mostel.

By: Rufus T. Firefly

Rufus T. Firefly — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 23:58:21 +0000

David Foster,

I have thought often of Ionesco’s, “Rhinoceros,” in the past 20 months, or so. Even went back and re-read it (it had been over 40 years).

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 21:48:05 +0000

“What I don’t understand is what makes someone want to be a totalitarian.”

I suspect ego and fear have a lot to do with it.

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 19:58:27 +0000

I see how people can become dominated by totalitarians.

What I don’t understand is what makes someone want to be a totalitarian.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 13:21:29 +0000

Stating the obvious (not that it would pass anything as rigorous as a Left-wing “fact checker” of course…the claim being, obviously, that “If all dissent has been crushed, then why is “Biden” still desperately trying to crush it?)…
https://dailycaller.com/2021/10/07/daniel-to-biden-unity-means-crushing-all-dissent/

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 12:45:23 +0000

“Whoa…”

Indeed.

And it goes without saying that once the 24/7 hate is implanted—i.e., implemented successfully and chaneled reliably—then “the job” is for all intents and purposes complete.

By: david foster

david foster — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 12:26:18 +0000

Several years ago, I asked ‘Are We Living at the Intersection of These Two Stories?’, the stories being:

–Heinlein’s ‘Year of the Jackpot’, about the (imagined future) time when everything went crazy in America, and

–Ionseco’s ‘Rhinoceros’, about a time when people started turning into these destructive beasts

https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/50743.html

I think it is time to republish this, with the title changed to: We Are Living at the Intersection of These Two Stories.

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 11:58:49 +0000

Marisa. I never heard “all”. To make that case means somebody’s going all conspiracy theory on us. Why would you do that?
Anti-vaxxers say that the likelihood is sufficient that, compared to the possibility of something like seasonal flu, take the flu. It won’t kill you.
To the extent that the Chinese lung mung kills somebody, it’s almost invariably associated with other comorbidities. And if you don’t have any of those…you might already have had the crud and have the natural immunities Pfizer says are superior to the jab. Why would somebody want others who are already immune to take the shot?
Or, if you haven’t had the crud even asymptomatically, and you are young and healthy, you still don’t need it. And since you don’t need it, you really don’t need the possible side effects.
Problem is that this has been sold, even with short cuts, as some kind of miracle drug. Not only were there no side effects, when there were, the reports were minimized or censored. That’s a real confidence builder, by golly.
Even baby aspirin has warnings. But to suspect this….that’s a flat-Earther thing.
One virologist said her studies with one of the drugs left her subjects–fortunately animals-with no germ cells. IOW, cannot reproduce.
So a disease which tears fhrough nursing homes and misses, or is missed by, the young and healthy has to rule everybody’s life.
If the Establishment could keep its story straight for as long as a week, and wouldn’t keep getting busted lying, and the big shots weren’t scorning to mask as the rest of us must–except scroom we don’t–people might not be so suspicious.
Nobody in the developed world worries about getting measles because they got they shot about age one or whatever. But this…gonna have to keep coming back.
Flu and cold virii don’t go away. To turn the world upside down in the hopes there’s a lot of money in fooling folks that this virus can be disappeared is stupid.

By: OBloody Hell

OBloody Hell — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 10:42:26 +0000

}}} A glass half empty is also half full.

Actually, it’s completely full. 50% air, 50% water.

😛

}}} 2. Partly as a consequence of this, people have become too amiable, to agreeable, too acquiescing.

Part of this, I’d assert, is much more due to social conditioning in schools.

“Don’t fight, run to the teacher” — don’t solve or work on your own problems, appeal instead to authority.

This is why bullies thrive these days, they have nothing to fear.

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.
— Walt Whitman —

Guess what? 🙁

}}} (I’ve decided it’s unfair to The Real Brandon and all the others of that name to tarnish their moniker. Give discredit where discredit is due.)

Oh, no. It’s a credit to Brandon, that we’ve included him as a part of the whimsy. HE knows what it’s about, and is probably quite pleased that he has become a placeholder for “Fuck Biden”…

😀