Sunday 11/10/24
A white knight--as per what that means in modern society--is really a sexual opportunist. Ours is a world filled with slithering human creatures, but few out-slither the white knight. The white knight has no shame. They will say whatever it takes for their dicks. Whatever they think it takes. They're like animals on the floor under the dinner table hoping that crumbs--in the form of vaginas--fall to them. A white knight shares some of the thought processes of the rapist with whom they have a distant kinship but one that exists nonetheless.
Human behavior--which is becoming post-human behavior--is dictated by technology. People used to be scared by the idea of aliens taking over the human race. Or scared enough that Hollywood picked up on the theme. Humanity is being taken over now. There is a dictator, an overlord. It's not a politician. It's technology. Most people are neither smart enough nor human enough to understand what is happening.
People probably see more language than they ever have before. When I'm on the T, I look up and down the car and I'm usually the only one not staring at the screen of a phone. I can see what some of my neighbors are looking at. Usually it's words. Sometimes it's images, but more often than not it's words.
But no one can understand the words they read. No one can use words to communicate clearly. No one formally reads words as an activity; that's not what this is. This is looking in order to belong and because people are too lazy, too incapable, too uncurious, too unhuman, too dead, in effect, to do anything else. They're machines that are plugged in. The union between machine and human is moving along towards completion, and with that comes the end of humanness.
For all of that staring at words, no one can spell words correctly. Isn't that something? Nothing gets through. It's similar to someone staring at a single image and then the image is removed and they couldn't tell you what they'd been looking at. Looking without seeing. You're holding three fingers up in front of my face, I'm looking at three fingers in front of my face, but I'm not seeing three fingers in front of my face. We don't just look this way--we think this way.
People are just sitting glazed over in front of these things--words--and it's like a parrot learning words--without really learning words--to say back. People learn the same phrases. Then they all use the same phrases. They're not using words to communicate or connect or educate or inspire or empower or heal or build. They're using those phrases and what little language they do have at their disposal--the same as the parrot has little at its disposal--to participate in what now passes for society and community, more and more of which is online, where all people do is say what many other people just said in the same few words and phrases.
There's been a lot of talk over the past few days about the cost of eggs. I don't eat eggs because of the cholesterol. What percentage of Americans do you think give any thought to how they eat? What percentage of Americans do you think make decisions about what they should and shouldn't eat because of their health? What percentage of Americans do you think make an effort to eat healthily? How many people do think look at the ingredients before buying something? Look how much sodium is in that food? How much sugar? How many people do you think cut out foods that are bad for them? What percentage of Americans do you think just eat what they damn well feel like because it's what they want?
Most just eat whatever want to eat, right? Look at people. Walk down a street. What percentage of American adults on that crowded street are obese? What percentage of people couldn't stand to drop fifty pounds? Thirty?
How seriously does someone like that take their health? That seems pretty important, doesn't it? Health. But they don't appear to care about it at all. If you don't care about your health, and you're never going to, what do you think you really care about? What would rise to the level of garnering your honest concern? Probably not much, right?
People have concerns, as they should, about affordable health care. But why do these people seemingly have no concern at all with their health in their everyday lives? Isn't that kind of hypocritical? What role do you think prevention has in health? In living a long life? In staying out of the hospital?
Pretty big, right? Massive. What's the number one cause of death? Heart failure. How much control do you have over your heart? It's quite a bit, isn't it? Think of all of the things you can do for your heart if you want to. In terms of diet, exercise. What you drink. What you don't drink.
Not only do people choose not to act on any of that--I'm not going to exercise, give me that big steak, yes, I'd love some more drinks, thank you, I will have a big slab of pie for dessert, oh, are those cookies--it's like they actively move in a destructive fashion. Then, when they fall apart, it's off to the hospital, and without affordable health care, that's a big problem.
But you also probably could have avoided it. Yes, I know, that's not the issue itself with the cost of health care. I'm simply pointing out a considerable inconsistency. You can take care of the car. You don't have to run it into every mailbox you drive past and then bring it to the mechanic when the wheels fall off and the engine catches fire. Nothing is stopping you from treating the car like you value it and are grateful to have it.
Look at almost everyone you knew from college. What do they look like now? Why? And this applies just as much to people who are ten years out of college. Five.
And people are much more likely to intellectually, mentally, and spiritually lazy than they are physically lazy. You have to move some. You don't have to think. You don't have to grow.
It's like in sports when a team is going bad. What are you going to do? Fire the coach or fire the players? Can't fire the players. There are too many of them. The coach gets fired.
The world is similar. It has to adapt--devolve--because it can't fire the players; that is, almost all of the people in the world. We are in the slime now. Metaphorically we're more in the slime than we were physically--or at least not less so--when we were coming out of the sea as whatever we were, passing through the ooze on the way to becoming humans. We're reversing the journey. It's not literal, but that doesn't mean it's not worse.
Most of the energy people have goes to complaining. That's what they use their energy for. A person will do nothing in their lives, as if they can't do anything. But they'll complain. They always have the time and energy for complaining. I think people would rather complain than believe that they don't have things to complain about.
Children are among the last true humans in the world. They are--up until an age, a time--relatively unaffected by all of this. They are creatures of humanity. Not the machine. Not of brokenness. Lethargy and dissipation. They're on the way up. They're learning. They're thinking and learning to think. When we cease to learn, when we cease to try to learn, when we stop learning how to think--which we must do until our very last day--we become less human. You can become human in no more than name only. It's very common.
People will film themselves crying--for attention, on screens, because of their mental illness-- over an election that will change nothing. Not really. Mental illness is general. That is the problem. Mental illness makes technology's takeover that much easier. And now mental illness just worsens and spreads.
What's to stop that spread? It's like when you become a certain weight. How do you lose the weight on your own? You need a procedure. Without that procedure, you're just too far gone. You can't even exercise if you wanted to. We're like this now collectively in terms of where we're at mentally, except there isn't a procedure as a "fix." Think of it like the 600 pound person has to drop that weight on their own. How? It's possible, but highly unlikely.
This election was something of a referendum on not just the mainstreaming of mental illness, but the celebration of mental illness as things that it's not. Again, I hold with neither party, but that was why that happened. People dig deeper into their screens. They go further down the echo chamber. They don't think. They have no way to start thinking, no means. They don't know how. They haven't a clue how to think. They don't know what thinking is. They're being overtaken. They're very limited machines. And that's just about everyone.
People are like, "I'm so scared, I'm so scared, I'm going to be arrested by the gestapo."
No, they're not. Performing, though, as if that were the case, is about other things. It has nothing to do with reality, on the whole or for that individual.
The thing everyone should be scared about is the takeover. That humans are moving to a post-human world and are deep in what may prove an irreversible process right now.
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