Kinda racist?
The Black guy lazing around. No job. Wasting his time. But not due to any lack of ability. No, it’s due to lack of opportunity.
Or, at least, the culture is messed up such that he’s all messed up psychologically and unable to strive to make the most of opportunities that are available.
EARLY ASSESSMENT OF Omicron Variant IS IN, and the news is good!
Yesterday, the redoubtable Dr John Campbell — the retire nursing school lecturer in Northern England who has done almost daily YT lectures on Covid-19 since the beginning — has come to these judgements (SEE yesterday’s talk):
First, what’s happened in South Africa, where Omicron is outcompeting Delta variants, will come soon to the rest of the world. His guesstimate is in only months time.
Third, Campbell believes this is very good and may herald herd immunity by exposure to this almost benign, flu like, Omicron Variant.
I know that Campbell has been on the beam and in certain ways. ahead of the curve (eg, Vitamin D, Ivermectin). I trust him because he’s earned my trust (although there are others like DrBean and Dr Mike Hanson regularly cover this ground on YT and often reach overlapping judgements).
The first two points look solid to me. The latter, rather theoretical, despite good historical precedent behind it.
SA has had about 5,000 Omicron cases identified. Campbell suggests the real incidence may be 20 to 40 times that there. Other sources today say over a thousand cases of Omicron in the world (outside SA) have been found, including 17 states — yet another cute claims a majority of states.
Omicron is at least a magnitude more transmissible than Delta, possibly two.
Early on, one virus commenter suggested that Omicron was loaded with all the novel parts of other variants and therefore was unstable. Therefore it could become extinct and annihilate itself.
I won’t comment on this interesting speculation.
But I will say that if Campbell is right, then the future beyond Covid-19 pandemic is not beyond the horizon. It’s right there, on the horizon, almost, soon in reach. Next year.
LATE EDIT: “Third, Campbell believes this is very good and may herald herd immunity by exposure to this almost benign, flu like, Omicron Variant.” Campbell says most cases ID’d in SA came as a consequence of admission to the hospital, not because of presenting symptoms. They were simply tested for the virus as a standard screening to segregate infections and take other usual measures.
That’s how “low-key” these new infections are, symptomatically. Strikingly low key.
In fact, I’m going out on a limb to say that I’m yet to read about any deaths yet caused by the Omicron Covid-19 virus.
Who’d have thought it!
Hold on!
If the omicron variant will actually lead to true herd immunity, how will the medical fascists be able to terrify (and CONTROL) the proles?
Will they then be forced to segue quickly into the Global Warming(TM) scam a bit earlier than they planned…?
(…as an elated Greta waits with bated breath…)
Yes, Barry Meislin, and who will buy all those third ‘vaccine” doses?
Kate:
Biden will start a “Strategic Vaccine Reserve” in some cave and the NIH will buy them all to store and let rot.
I think we need a new “derangement syndrome” expression. What should we call believing/spouting their own bullshit for so long they no longer have any contact with reality? Or maybe Clintonian level lying for so long that truth no longer has any meaning or even exits?
The #2 in the Energy Dept (under the idiot Granholm) went to the big World Petroleum Congress in Houston and told shale producers “The reality is the Biden administration is not standing in the way of increasing domestic oil production to meet today’s energy needs.”
He was heckled by the crowd of shale fracking executives.
This is an extreme version of pissing on someone and telling them it’s raining. The Democrats have been like this since the Clinton administration. We now have 3 decades of relentless, ridiculous bullshit. They lie about everything all the time. Do they believe anything they say? Do they think we believe it? Are these people severely damaged psychologically or malevolent?
These oil executives know better than anyone what roadblocks the Democrats’ policies have thrown in front of them. Does the administration have anything to gain by calling them stupid? Or is this just what happens when people mindlessly repeat the daily talking point without any thinking at all? Like reading a teleprompter all the time?
Have politicians always lied? Sure. But not like this. Not even one-tenth as much as this. And not ever on such a relentless, all-encompassing level.
“Biden will start a “Strategic Vaccine Reserve” in some cave and the NIH will buy them all to store and let rot.”
Love it. Made me smile.
TJ, thanks for that update.
The incidence of the moronic may be even higher as it seems the PCR test isn’t’ set up for it, so more complex sequencing test is needed, from what I’ve read
PS in her adjacent blog post, she notes how Japan — the third biggest economy in the world — joined COP 26 in Glasgow, yet has quietly called for DOUBLING oil and gas as energy resources, domestically. Well, well. More good news.
It seems we have a leading dissenter nation among the mindless Climate Goreham’s,
What should we call believing/spouting their own bullshit for so long they no longer have any contact with reality?
Paranoid schizophrenia?
BACK IN REAL WORLD OF HUMAN EVILS, Politico reports on a long 36 page memo from key witnesses to the DC National Guard and how they didn’t respond on Jan6th:
“He says the Army has created its own ‘closely held’ revisionist document regarding the riot that’s “worthy of the best Stalinist or North Korea propagandist.’
There’s always more SHYTE to hit the fan where the malevolence of the Deep State is concerned.
“…Japan…”
Self-preservation is still a value there (though they really ought to should find a way to encourage more Japanese babies to be born…).
Case in point: their pragmatic decision to fight Covid with Ivermectin (in spite of the fact that the drug, though itself developed in Japan I believe, was not officially approved by the government as a treatment for Covid—in line with almost all western “experts”), which resulted in what Dr. John Campbell characterized as the “Japanese Miracle”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1GF0H9V_1g
– – – – – – – – –
In the meantime, with his political party heavily promoting what he calls a “national security threat” one might wonder why Larry Summers is still a Democrat…?
(Habit? Fashion? Old-dog-new-tricks syndrome? I wanna be like Dershowitz? Peer pressure or the fear thereof…?) https://freebeacon.com/campus/top-dem-economist-says-woke-math-is-a-national-security-threat/
H/T Blazingcatfur blog.
Key grafs:
‘A top Democratic economist says the rise of “antiracist” math curricula is a national security threat.
‘Larry Summers, a Harvard economist who led the National Economic Council under former president Barack Obama, shared a letter on Monday signed by almost 600 academics that condemns the rise of woke math initiatives in K-12 schools. The letter says the initiatives have devalued foundational math courses such as algebra and limited advanced math courses “to reduce achievement gaps.” Summers called rigorous math instruction “an economic and a national security imperative…”‘
“Testing for the desired results”….has become “follow the science”(TM)…..
@ TJ > “Third, Campbell believes this is very good and may herald herd immunity by exposure to this almost benign, flu like, Omicron Variant.” and the JoNova observation “Is Omicron the vaccine we’ve been waiting for?”
Thanks folks. Continuing on the reassessment of Japan, let’s go back to
Japan of — and prior to — World War II.
The Left gold’s it’s deepest enmity the German Nazis. Great to bash All Things European (and White).
The fact that Imperial Japan killed up to 30 million civilians while prosecuting the war and was even so evilly barbaric, it took the Nazi Ambassador in Shanghai to hit the world wide siren during the Rape of Nanking against Japan, eludes them.
Indeed, the fact that the Pacific War was really a fight for Japanese racial supremacy contradicts everything the Left gaslights us into Believing.
Here’s one hard stat: Allied officers under German imprisonment died at the rate of 3 or 4%. But those under Japanese as POWs died at 27% rate.
Stark and horrific differences.
University of Cambridge trained historian Mark Felton takes an hour to explain the eightfold reasons for Japanese brutality. https://youtu.be/kpVgDgKpQS8
In short, it was a perfect storm of Japanese institution’s and doctrines, plus several borrowings from Europe, especially Prussia.
Listening to this audio podcast via YT 8s 8tsekf rather brutal. You can absorb it in a few takes instead.
The Left is stupid, evil, and ignorant today — they don’t know their own faults and evils, but are sure to achieve the latter if we let them.
David Goldman has a very good article over at Asia Times about the next Pearl Harbor.
@TJ:
You’re missing one small detail re why we don’t constantly hear about Japanese wartime brutality, but I don’t want to get put on moderation again.
😛
Gosh, I thought you were probably kidnapped by aliens…either that or the Chinese caught up with you. Or both?
The Japanese are an interesting case. They behaved with the utmost punctilious regard for the (Western) Rules of War against China in 1895, Russia in 1904/5, and WWI.
They did such a good job of integrating Taiwan into the Empire after it was annexed at the end of the 1895 war that the Taiwanese never could quite stomach the alien KMT regime after WWII.
Korea not so much. But anyone who knows Koreans knows that they are a fractious people. That’s an understatement.
The joint action against the Boxers which Japan participated in was a bit of a free-for all. But the Boxers deserved anything they got.
A bunch of stuff happened after the death of the Meiji Emperor (figurehead) and the Genro- (important people). Doubtless Mark Felton goes into some of these factors.
@Barry Meislin:
When you’re in a hole or the Sin Bin (take three guesses what topic dunnit), the best plan is to keep digging until you come out the other side somewhere around Three Mile Island. So I spent the week going long on Alibaba. Not necessarily a retirement nest egg strategy I’d recommend to anyone.
FWIW, and contra the China Syndrome movie, the Antipode of the Three Mile Island plant is approximately Augusta, Western Australia and nowhere near China.
Place looks like it would be improved by a surfacing puddle of molten reactor core.
At least I don’t think it was the Aliens and I’m running on implanted coverup memories right now. As for Pooh, I couldn’t possibly comment.
Oh.
I would have assumed that you must have said something naughty about the BeeGees or something….
(Not my cup of tea, either actually, but what do I know? I’m one of those who happen to like Suzanne Vega, actually—i.e., the earlier incarnation—well, among a host of other stuff…. Also have a soft spot for Tomás Luis de Victoria and was a Josquin groupie for quite a while….)
@BarryMeislin:
“and was a Josquin groupie”
A man of taste and refinement.
I’ve just gotten in a new pair of HK Human Filing Cabinet Apartment size-appropriate small bookshelf speakers which sound stage very nicely for polyphony. The Orthodox Chant of the New Rome will have to await arrival of the matching sub-woofer. Next week with any luck the neighbours get to meet Vladimir Miller whether they like him or no. He won’t just be below the staff; he’ll be crashing through the floors underneath me.
Zaphod:
I’m halfway through 3BP.
After the Red Guard/Gulag chapters it does become regular sci-fi, albeit from a Chinese POV.
I can understand why you called it Lovecraftian early on, though later the book moves past incomprehensible horror-fantasy to well-thought-out, hard science-fiction. Cixin Liu’s rep as the Chinese Arthur C. Clarke is justified. Liu earns his praise.
It’s a good read as well as a fascinating light upon Chinese culture since Mao.
@Huxley:
Keep on keeping on. I’m nearly done with The Dark Forest and am still enthused.
“as well as a fascinating light upon Chinese culture since Mao”
The thing to get is that healthy cultures move on. Unhealthy cultures don’t. I like posting here, so won’t speculate too much on why West has gone down the perpetual scab-picking rabbit hole.
Re recent Chinese literature, for an idea of what the post-2012 Reaction is all about, the book to read is Shanghai Baby.
Zaphod:
I hardly consider the West or America stuck in a rabbit hole. Nor do I consider the Chinese a particularly exemplary model of a healthy culture.
Our current version of the Red Guards has gone on longer than I like (and killed far, far fewer people than the horrific Chinese version BTW) but a substantial backlash is baked in and is already starting to change things.
In 1969 John Mitchell, after Nixon appointed him Attorney General, said:
___________________________________
This country is going so far to the right you won’t recognize it.
In 1969 the US looked on the verge of a leftist-hippie revolution. The assassinations of JFK, MLK, RFK. The increasingly violent anti-war movement. The astonishing cultural impact of mass LSD dosage on the population.
1969 was about the peak of all that. Most people did a straight-line calculation of how much farther to the left and farther out we would be in ten years.
John Mitchell said we were going hard to the right. And he was right.
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I must have played this track from “The Soul Album” a couple thousand times. It still speaks to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQww3HeL8M4
Otis was a great loss.
If you love Otis (we do) check out Arthur Alexander.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Alexander?wprov=sfti1
Kinda racist?
The Black guy lazing around. No job. Wasting his time. But not due to any lack of ability. No, it’s due to lack of opportunity.
Or, at least, the culture is messed up such that he’s all messed up psychologically and unable to strive to make the most of opportunities that are available.
EARLY ASSESSMENT OF Omicron Variant IS IN, and the news is good!
Yesterday, the redoubtable Dr John Campbell — the retire nursing school lecturer in Northern England who has done almost daily YT lectures on Covid-19 since the beginning — has come to these judgements (SEE yesterday’s talk):
First, what’s happened in South Africa, where Omicron is outcompeting Delta variants, will come soon to the rest of the world. His guesstimate is in only months time.
Second, this new variant appears to be unusually benign. SA has this explosion of Om, yet no rise in deaths recorded yet. South Africa Omicron weekly cases (top), Covid-19 deaths (middle), and vaccinations (bottom):
https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/sacoviddeaths.jpg?itok=2kXznaG0
Third, Campbell believes this is very good and may herald herd immunity by exposure to this almost benign, flu like, Omicron Variant.
I know that Campbell has been on the beam and in certain ways. ahead of the curve (eg, Vitamin D, Ivermectin). I trust him because he’s earned my trust (although there are others like DrBean and Dr Mike Hanson regularly cover this ground on YT and often reach overlapping judgements).
The first two points look solid to me. The latter, rather theoretical, despite good historical precedent behind it.
SA has had about 5,000 Omicron cases identified. Campbell suggests the real incidence may be 20 to 40 times that there. Other sources today say over a thousand cases of Omicron in the world (outside SA) have been found, including 17 states — yet another cute claims a majority of states.
Omicron is at least a magnitude more transmissible than Delta, possibly two.
Early on, one virus commenter suggested that Omicron was loaded with all the novel parts of other variants and therefore was unstable. Therefore it could become extinct and annihilate itself.
I won’t comment on this interesting speculation.
But I will say that if Campbell is right, then the future beyond Covid-19 pandemic is not beyond the horizon. It’s right there, on the horizon, almost, soon in reach. Next year.
Perhaps early in the first half of 2022? ZH has a fresh roundup, drawing on NYTimes ,(so you don’t have to go there):
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/omicron-confirmed-one-third-us-states-first-cases-confirmed-russia-thailand
LATE EDIT: “Third, Campbell believes this is very good and may herald herd immunity by exposure to this almost benign, flu like, Omicron Variant.” Campbell says most cases ID’d in SA came as a consequence of admission to the hospital, not because of presenting symptoms. They were simply tested for the virus as a standard screening to segregate infections and take other usual measures.
That’s how “low-key” these new infections are, symptomatically. Strikingly low key.
In fact, I’m going out on a limb to say that I’m yet to read about any deaths yet caused by the Omicron Covid-19 virus.
Who’d have thought it!
Hold on!
If the omicron variant will actually lead to true herd immunity, how will the medical fascists be able to terrify (and CONTROL) the proles?
Will they then be forced to segue quickly into the Global Warming(TM) scam a bit earlier than they planned…?
(…as an elated Greta waits with bated breath…)
Yes, Barry Meislin, and who will buy all those third ‘vaccine” doses?
Kate:
Biden will start a “Strategic Vaccine Reserve” in some cave and the NIH will buy them all to store and let rot.
I think we need a new “derangement syndrome” expression. What should we call believing/spouting their own bullshit for so long they no longer have any contact with reality? Or maybe Clintonian level lying for so long that truth no longer has any meaning or even exits?
The #2 in the Energy Dept (under the idiot Granholm) went to the big World Petroleum Congress in Houston and told shale producers “The reality is the Biden administration is not standing in the way of increasing domestic oil production to meet today’s energy needs.”
He was heckled by the crowd of shale fracking executives.
This is an extreme version of pissing on someone and telling them it’s raining. The Democrats have been like this since the Clinton administration. We now have 3 decades of relentless, ridiculous bullshit. They lie about everything all the time. Do they believe anything they say? Do they think we believe it? Are these people severely damaged psychologically or malevolent?
These oil executives know better than anyone what roadblocks the Democrats’ policies have thrown in front of them. Does the administration have anything to gain by calling them stupid? Or is this just what happens when people mindlessly repeat the daily talking point without any thinking at all? Like reading a teleprompter all the time?
Have politicians always lied? Sure. But not like this. Not even one-tenth as much as this. And not ever on such a relentless, all-encompassing level.
“Biden will start a “Strategic Vaccine Reserve” in some cave and the NIH will buy them all to store and let rot.”
Love it. Made me smile.
TJ, thanks for that update.
The incidence of the moronic may be even higher as it seems the PCR test isn’t’ set up for it, so more complex sequencing test is needed, from what I’ve read
Interesting: https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/covid-19-a-pandemic-of-fear-manufactured-by-authorities-yale-epidemiologist_4106244.html
Ah! Mirth and amusement amidst the clouds and blowhards!
Let me share a link to Dr Campbells talk, yesterday…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Paq17X6ucQ&t=866s
…For those seeking more good news to chew on.
JoAnne Nova in Australia notices this Omicron fail to alarm, too. And adds some remarkable graphs of data.
https://joannenova.com.au/2021/12/is-omicron-the-vaccine-weve-been-waiting-for/
PS in her adjacent blog post, she notes how Japan — the third biggest economy in the world — joined COP 26 in Glasgow, yet has quietly called for DOUBLING oil and gas as energy resources, domestically. Well, well. More good news.
It seems we have a leading dissenter nation among the mindless Climate Goreham’s,
China sends lunar rover to investigate strange ‘hut’ on far-side of moon:
https://nypost.com/2021/12/06/china-sends-lunar-rover-to-investigate-hut-on-far-side-of-moon/amp/
Also,’In July 2019, Yutu 2 made another unique discovery when it found a bizarre, colorful “gel-like” substance ”with a mysterious luster.” The substance has not been explained.’
stan —
What should we call believing/spouting their own bullshit for so long they no longer have any contact with reality?
Paranoid schizophrenia?
BACK IN REAL WORLD OF HUMAN EVILS, Politico reports on a long 36 page memo from key witnesses to the DC National Guard and how they didn’t respond on Jan6th:
“He says the Army has created its own ‘closely held’ revisionist document regarding the riot that’s “worthy of the best Stalinist or North Korea propagandist.’
“Every leader in the D.C. Guard wanted to respond and knew they could respond to the riot at the seat of government,” reads the memo.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/absolute-and-unmitigated-liars-former-dc-national-guard-official-says-generals-fabricated
===========
There’s always more SHYTE to hit the fan where the malevolence of the Deep State is concerned.
“…Japan…”
Self-preservation is still a value there (though they really ought to should find a way to encourage more Japanese babies to be born…).
Case in point: their pragmatic decision to fight Covid with Ivermectin (in spite of the fact that the drug, though itself developed in Japan I believe, was not officially approved by the government as a treatment for Covid—in line with almost all western “experts”), which resulted in what Dr. John Campbell characterized as the “Japanese Miracle”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1GF0H9V_1g
– – – – – – – – –
In the meantime, with his political party heavily promoting what he calls a “national security threat” one might wonder why Larry Summers is still a Democrat…?
(Habit? Fashion? Old-dog-new-tricks syndrome? I wanna be like Dershowitz? Peer pressure or the fear thereof…?)
https://freebeacon.com/campus/top-dem-economist-says-woke-math-is-a-national-security-threat/
H/T Blazingcatfur blog.
Key grafs:
‘A top Democratic economist says the rise of “antiracist” math curricula is a national security threat.
‘Larry Summers, a Harvard economist who led the National Economic Council under former president Barack Obama, shared a letter on Monday signed by almost 600 academics that condemns the rise of woke math initiatives in K-12 schools. The letter says the initiatives have devalued foundational math courses such as algebra and limited advanced math courses “to reduce achievement gaps.” Summers called rigorous math instruction “an economic and a national security imperative…”‘
And should one talk about the “irredeemably flawed” PCR testing scandal?
Probably not….
Oh the hell with it…
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/casedemic-hideous-scandal-irredeemably-flawed-pcr-test
“Testing for the desired results”….has become “follow the science”(TM)…..
@ TJ > “Third, Campbell believes this is very good and may herald herd immunity by exposure to this almost benign, flu like, Omicron Variant.” and the JoNova observation “Is Omicron the vaccine we’ve been waiting for?”
Scott Adams tweet I saw earlier today:
https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1467843496157474820
“Should we figure out if Omicron is so mild it acts as a natural vaccine before rolling out a vaccine to stop the vaccine?”
Speaking of Japan…
Remembering the “Day of Infamy”:
https://amgreatness.com/2021/12/05/misremembering-pearl-harbor/
+ related: Correcting a covered-up, terrible mistake:
“The Forgotten Casualties of Pearl Harbor – Inside the Accidental Bombardment of Honolulu on Dec. 7, 1941”—
https://militaryhistorynow.com/2020/04/26/the-forgotten-casualties-of-pearl-harbor-inside-the-accidental-bombardment-of-honolulu-on-dec-7-1941/
Thanks folks. Continuing on the reassessment of Japan, let’s go back to
Japan of — and prior to — World War II.
The Left gold’s it’s deepest enmity the German Nazis. Great to bash All Things European (and White).
The fact that Imperial Japan killed up to 30 million civilians while prosecuting the war and was even so evilly barbaric, it took the Nazi Ambassador in Shanghai to hit the world wide siren during the Rape of Nanking against Japan, eludes them.
Indeed, the fact that the Pacific War was really a fight for Japanese racial supremacy contradicts everything the Left gaslights us into Believing.
Here’s one hard stat: Allied officers under German imprisonment died at the rate of 3 or 4%. But those under Japanese as POWs died at 27% rate.
Stark and horrific differences.
University of Cambridge trained historian Mark Felton takes an hour to explain the eightfold reasons for Japanese brutality.
https://youtu.be/kpVgDgKpQS8
In short, it was a perfect storm of Japanese institution’s and doctrines, plus several borrowings from Europe, especially Prussia.
Listening to this audio podcast via YT 8s 8tsekf rather brutal. You can absorb it in a few takes instead.
The Left is stupid, evil, and ignorant today — they don’t know their own faults and evils, but are sure to achieve the latter if we let them.
David Goldman has a very good article over at Asia Times about the next Pearl Harbor.
@TJ:
You’re missing one small detail re why we don’t constantly hear about Japanese wartime brutality, but I don’t want to get put on moderation again.
😛
Gosh, I thought you were probably kidnapped by aliens…either that or the Chinese caught up with you. Or both?
Well, glad you returned (or were returned) unscathed—I hope—and none the worse for where….
– – – – – – –
Meanwhile, Twitter may have changed hands, as it were, but they’re still as warped as ever—indeed, “problematic information” must be suppressed!!
“Governments warn of heart problems from COVID vaccines, but Twitter calls research ‘unsafe'”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/health/governments-warn-heart-problems-covid-vaccines-twitter-calls-research-unsafe
File under: Just NOT the facts, ma’am….
The Japanese are an interesting case. They behaved with the utmost punctilious regard for the (Western) Rules of War against China in 1895, Russia in 1904/5, and WWI.
They did such a good job of integrating Taiwan into the Empire after it was annexed at the end of the 1895 war that the Taiwanese never could quite stomach the alien KMT regime after WWII.
Korea not so much. But anyone who knows Koreans knows that they are a fractious people. That’s an understatement.
The joint action against the Boxers which Japan participated in was a bit of a free-for all. But the Boxers deserved anything they got.
A bunch of stuff happened after the death of the Meiji Emperor (figurehead) and the Genro- (important people). Doubtless Mark Felton goes into some of these factors.
@Barry Meislin:
When you’re in a hole or the Sin Bin (take three guesses what topic dunnit), the best plan is to keep digging until you come out the other side somewhere around Three Mile Island. So I spent the week going long on Alibaba. Not necessarily a retirement nest egg strategy I’d recommend to anyone.
FWIW, and contra the China Syndrome movie, the Antipode of the Three Mile Island plant is approximately Augusta, Western Australia and nowhere near China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusta,_Western_Australia
Place looks like it would be improved by a surfacing puddle of molten reactor core.
At least I don’t think it was the Aliens and I’m running on implanted coverup memories right now. As for Pooh, I couldn’t possibly comment.
Oh.
I would have assumed that you must have said something naughty about the BeeGees or something….
(Not my cup of tea, either actually, but what do I know? I’m one of those who happen to like Suzanne Vega, actually—i.e., the earlier incarnation—well, among a host of other stuff…. Also have a soft spot for Tomás Luis de Victoria and was a Josquin groupie for quite a while….)
@BarryMeislin:
“and was a Josquin groupie”
A man of taste and refinement.
I’ve just gotten in a new pair of HK Human Filing Cabinet Apartment size-appropriate small bookshelf speakers which sound stage very nicely for polyphony. The Orthodox Chant of the New Rome will have to await arrival of the matching sub-woofer. Next week with any luck the neighbours get to meet Vladimir Miller whether they like him or no. He won’t just be below the staff; he’ll be crashing through the floors underneath me.
Zaphod:
I’m halfway through 3BP.
After the Red Guard/Gulag chapters it does become regular sci-fi, albeit from a Chinese POV.
I can understand why you called it Lovecraftian early on, though later the book moves past incomprehensible horror-fantasy to well-thought-out, hard science-fiction. Cixin Liu’s rep as the Chinese Arthur C. Clarke is justified. Liu earns his praise.
It’s a good read as well as a fascinating light upon Chinese culture since Mao.
@Huxley:
Keep on keeping on. I’m nearly done with The Dark Forest and am still enthused.
“as well as a fascinating light upon Chinese culture since Mao”
The thing to get is that healthy cultures move on. Unhealthy cultures don’t. I like posting here, so won’t speculate too much on why West has gone down the perpetual scab-picking rabbit hole.
Re recent Chinese literature, for an idea of what the post-2012 Reaction is all about, the book to read is Shanghai Baby.
Zaphod:
I hardly consider the West or America stuck in a rabbit hole. Nor do I consider the Chinese a particularly exemplary model of a healthy culture.
Our current version of the Red Guards has gone on longer than I like (and killed far, far fewer people than the horrific Chinese version BTW) but a substantial backlash is baked in and is already starting to change things.
In 1969 John Mitchell, after Nixon appointed him Attorney General, said:
___________________________________
This country is going so far to the right you won’t recognize it.
https://www.necessarystorms.com/home/the-silencing-of-martha-mitchell
___________________________________
In 1969 the US looked on the verge of a leftist-hippie revolution. The assassinations of JFK, MLK, RFK. The increasingly violent anti-war movement. The astonishing cultural impact of mass LSD dosage on the population.
1969 was about the peak of all that. Most people did a straight-line calculation of how much farther to the left and farther out we would be in ten years.
John Mitchell said we were going hard to the right. And he was right.