Well, Americans are known for their optimism and Bill Whittle is the type. Me too, in my post-Pink-Floyd way. (It’s fifty years since the Summer of ’71 when I first heard “Ummagumma”!)

Who’s to say you aren’t peddling Depress-ium?

I’ve seen this country swing from 50s conformity/Jim Crow to 60s civil rights/go-go hipness to 70s tie-dyed hedonism to 80s Reagan conservatism to 90s hi-tech/Clintonism to 00s 9-11 shocks to 10s Obama-Trump polarization.

America is a very dynamic country. The straight line is not your friend when predicting its moves.

I don’t see censoring YouTube dislikes and, more importantly, any debate over Covid’s origin and treatment, 2020 election fraud, criticism of Biden, etc. as a sign of the Left’s power.

I’ve been wondering when the good ship America would start changing direction. With Youngkin and now Rittenhouse, I think we’re seeing it. There’s nothing hopeful on the horizon for the Left/Democrats in 2022 and 2024. Covid was a gift in 2020 that won’t be repeated. Far more Americans are now aware how corrupt, deceitful, divisive and unwise our elites are.

You may disagree, of course, but how do you see them getting through the next few years without losing substantial power?

As the philosopher Dylan said, “Don’t speak too soon for the wheel’s still in spin.”

PS: Still have 15 mins to go on the Spanish Bird Video. Can only digest in small doses as prolonged exposure might exorcise me. And we wouldn’t want that. She does seem to have some weird eye movements going on.. but hard to tell given don’t know how many people in room or where interviewer sitting

It appears to me that recent research does not support either earlier findings or the presently accepted body language wisdom on the specific correlation between directionality of lateral eye movements, and truth-telling or category of memory retrieval.

Nonetheless, after watching the video half a dozen times just to review the very point you are considering, it seemed to me that she was casting back mentally – or trying to – to a primary visual or auditory experiece.

Now, as good philosophical naturalists and default atheists, we must assume a priori that what she is actually reporting cannot be what she thinks she is reporting. But the BBC interviewers when asked by her after the interview if they believed now, replied that they now at least believed that she herself believed.

She certainly seems to be an utterly transparent person.

The apparent discrediting of the phenomenon and the fantastical sounding claims by the lapse of time and the passing away of some of the subjects, does not take away the importance of this matter as a psychological phenomenon.

Of course for those with some familiarity with or interest in Christianity mooted as Truth, rather than just as a consoling or solidarity reinforcing social practice, there is the disquietingly accurate “revelation” ( which at the time appeared to be a nonsensical prediction) of an emergent wholesale apostacy within the ranks of the Church prelature. By 1961 standards, this 1965 announcement, seemed preposterous at the time it was made: a complete impossibility, not mere improbability.

Even in 1980, when the BBC Everyman documentary was released, the makers were unable to grasp the specific sense of the second announcement and described it as a reiteration of the first, but in stronger terms. They completely missed the specific reference to the mass of defecting and Hell bound prelates, as the crux of the 2nd “message”.

There is also the problem.of the other three girls and their independent and individual experiences, and the very public and documentary record of these strange events.

I personally don’t know what to make of this historical event, but think it is fascinating.

Either the human organism is very mentally different from the way we usually think about it ( women especially perhaps) , or reality is very different from what naturalists assume it to be.

But of course in the current naturalistic context in which the multiverse is taken as a serious theoretical concept, it becomes clear that the grounding of that old and presumptive billiard ball materialism, gave way under our feet some generations ago.

Bill Whittle peddles High Production Values Hope-ium to the Tactical Zimmer Frame Set.

The tide has a metric crap ton of turning to do.

https://amgreatness.com/2021/11/18/terror-in-the-capitol-tunnel/

“…Future court filings, interviews, and security footage will slowly reveal to the public how law enforcement, beginning at around 1 p.m. that day and continuing for hours, attacked and beat American citizens who dared to protest the election of Joe Biden. Further, it will become clear that Joe Biden’s Justice Department, with compliance by D.C. District Court judges, are keeping several eyewitnesses to the terror in the tunnel behind bars awaiting trials delayed until at least the middle of 2022. Nichols’ hearing for bond is set for December 20, at which point he will have been incarcerated for more than 11 months. (He has no court date.)”

Funny thing about YouTube getting rid of the dislike count is that tech influencers are falling over themselves to reassure their audiences that they will post their like/dislike totals as pinned comments.

YouTube has removed the Thumbs-Down feature from its videos.

The reason:

Biden, Harris, Pelosi and Fauci were getting terribly ratio’d by mere American citizens with deplorable attitudes. Kinda conflicts with the Narrative.

Cowards. I’m sure that’s why many/most of the comment sections on liberal sites have disappeared.

“Perhaps your point is post-Floyd.”

We inhabit a Post-Floyd West. Until such time as such unmentionable actions are taken so as to render it a Post-Post-Floyd World.

“In light of our China conversation perhaps I would have been better to ask you whether Rittenhouse should have been disappeared lest his one case roil a nation of 390 million.”

Touché!

Nah… On second thoughts… stuff that for a joke.

*adopts random Zen posture*

“No. But George Floyd should have been.”

And with that, I’m fresh out of Koans.

Exegesis: It all (loaded word coming right up in this year of Our Lord, 2021) Depends ™

I’d certainly advise against constitutional conventions and similar stupidities. You just never know where they’re going to end up going.

Darren Wilson and George Zimmerman shot two blacks (Brown and Martin) dead with bullets. Wilson and Zimmerman were acquitted. Perhaps your point is post-Floyd.

In light of our China conversation perhaps I would have been better to ask you whether Rittenhouse should have been disappeared lest his one case roil a nation of 390 million.

For whatever reason I am not as pessimistic or impatient as many on the right. These are dire times but Old Glory still has some innings left before we need a revolution or a Constitutional Congress.

“had one of Rittenhouse’s bullets so much as given a Black a flesh wound that night, he’d be in the can for life.”

Possibly but not necessarily so. The venue would determine the outcome. In that if in a rural part of a Red State, it would never go to trial at all.

“You say I don’t get America. I am merely asking why you people don’t want to win.”

Clearly you don’t understand why we haven’t revolted already. Here’s a clue; Pyrrhic Victory. Civil wars are horrific. Circumstance has to reach the point where the left’s actions produce enough ‘rope’ with which to hang them. Terrible reckonings take a long time to build. In 2021, the actions of the leftists within the democrat party are doing far more to open eyes than ever we on the right could achieve. But “eyes open, wide shut” are stubborn things.

As a bookend to your posted video, do not, I repeat do not google up the latest offering by Rakkasan101st on YouTube. You have been warned.

There are more things in Heaven and Earth.

PS: Still have 15 mins to go on the Spanish Bird Video. Can only digest in small doses as prolonged exposure might exorcise me. And we wouldn’t want that. She does seem to have some weird eye movements going on.. but hard to tell given don’t know how many people in room or where interviewer sitting. Lots of tricks of the trade.

They’re a spent force. They’re done. It’s been clear they were done since election night 2016, if not earlier. Though it’s becoming more obvious as time goes on.

https://accordingtohoyt.com/2021/11/19/spit-out-that-black-pill/
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I’ve been seeing the Left/Democrats way over their skis since Biden was elected. And I’ve thought that some of their agressiveness is desperation, because they can feel the brass ring slipping out of their fingers.

So Sarah links to a well-wrought and original blog essay which starts with an analogy to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor as a desperate throw that fails on its success.
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The Decisive Battle

https://tinkzorg.wordpress.com/2021/11/02/2740/