You Can’t Gaslight Me
It’s only the beginning of June and Canada is already burning from coast to coast. Meanwhile, Russians lead by their czar Vladimir the Last have completely lost the plot as well as their minds, and almost half of US population would still happily vote for Donald J. Trump while cheering and stomping to the rhythm of inanities spouted by professional opportunistic liars and sellout whores of the likes of Tucker Carlson, Jordan Peterson, Max Blumenthal, Alex Jones, or the utterly average (but “edgy”) Joe Rogan.
Apropos Trump — as I said many times, his popularity does not surprise me one bit as he literally embodies the American Dream:
Steal some sacred land,
Build a family empire,
Become president.
Anyway, I digress … so, while citizens of NYC enjoy Mars-like sceneries and air pollution that puts even Peking to shame, so-called liberal voices, especially those money oriented, have nothing better to do than to pander to people with nonfunctional sexual orientations or non-white skin color, in most cases simply to make profit, but also in deluded attempts to make friends or be seen as decent citizens. But most probably only to be seen as decent citizens worthy of friendship, trust, and making business with, all in order to make profit.
And if not that, there are always those fanboys who shit their pants in spastic frenzy seeing the latest Apple scuba diving mask lunacy (definitely with planned obsolescence already baked in as per the usual Apple shtick), or the rather underwhelming feats of what is essentially a sophisticated search engine and collage maker paraded as Artificial Intelligence, which is merely a poor attempt at masking its inherent idiocy. Well, shit in — shit out, but it’s AI anyway.
All of that very much reminds me of religious people. The orthodox literalists who would burn even their own kids at the stake if they, for example, came out as queer or questioned some hard core BS theological pretzels, as well as the liberal hypocrites, who wear their rather fickle tolerance on their sleeves and consider themselves to be somehow better, smarter, and more humane, occupying a higher moral ground than the rest — you know, holier than holier than thou — while spreading unrealistic ultra positive vibes and talking about poor and all-encompassing love from behind the exclusive barriers of paywalls and books or workshops for sale.
Well, as I was told, even Bibles are sold, so, what’s the big deal. Thus, I always imagine Jesus sitting on the Mount behind a fence and the twelve apostles collecting the entrance fee — let’s see, thirty pieces of silver look just about right. Or I like to picture Buddha making his sangha subscription based. After all, he must put food on the table despite being enlightened and all.
Frankly, I’m not surprised that people look up to debauchery of professional Kasperls or court jesters euphemistically called celebrities and artists, or get their kicks from ever more bloody and neck breaking feats of modern-day gladiators engaging in what we call sports. Well, at least in (some of) those cases one can appreciate the sheer amount of craftsmanship and skill arrived at not only by talent but first and foremost by enormous amount of grit and hustle. Like yeah, it’s absurd how so much energy can be wasted in such stupid ways, but look at what people are capable of. Simply breathtaking. Imagine if that energy was spent in more creative ways.
Hence, I don’t wonder that there are people who still feed the ambition that they will “make it,” that their ticket to fame and fortune is out there and their appreciation day will come despite them being closer to grave than they are to their day of birth. I said I don’t wonder, but still, I shake my head. I mean, those people are old enough to know better. After all, even e.g. Gen-Z has seen through the sham, however, young and stupid as they are, it’s not unforeseen that they are either wallowing in nihilism drunk and high for days on end, or they hustle their youth away in order not to think too much about the bleak prospects the future holds for them. All the while consuming the living shit out of this planet exactly as they were molded by society to do.
And almost everyone will argue that they have no choice. Like that mother who insists that she has to steal or sell her body because she has to feed her children, even though there is always a choice. In extreme, a choice between starving to death in dignity and dying being a stealing, whoring scum (or worse).
However, the greatest irony is that no matter whom I criticize (and I left out a lot of BS that could be tackled), I always get the same unison reaction, “Yeah, well, you know, that’s just like, uh, your opinion, man.” Well, sure. Go ahead and live your life as you please. But don’t try to gaslight me — you just defend the indefensible and make petty excuses. I already know that your ways don’t work, and I know very well where they lead.
After all, it’s only the beginning of June and Canada is already burning from coast to coast.
