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Sep 26Liked by Jean-Baptiste Guillory

Read a piece that claims the world does not hate Americans, that western culture perfuses & perfumes most everywhere & still is dominant.

https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/no-the-world-doesnt-hate-america/comments

Watched the vid you put up yesterday, the incisive, cannot be disagreed with, indictment by the unnamed (that I could see, find) apparently muslim man.

And just read this piece of yours.

Rust Cohle: "Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey, he said for you to give me your fucking share.”

“That way” has been humanimal from the start. That is the state since long before the “states united.” Crossing the Atlantic turned no corner.

Breaded circuses on a stick (or a flagpole) are popular worldwide? That was never just a Roman Empire predilection?

Sell the sizzle-stick, not the steak, saith the Sales 101 guize wires … but that only works because so many nervous systems are predisposed to being just so deposed.

Call it steakholder capitalism, maybe (these days): be allowed to hold the stick-stake-flag pole thru which the feel-good (or merely better) drugs & vibes are pumped & right into the palms of all those grasping hands.

Puff Daddy, puffer fish, Puff, the Magic Dragon - ride it, cowboys!:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPj-WcYZiBQ

The grass is often greener ~ follow the yellow brick road, thru the self/other-smoking opium poppy fields ~ anywhere elsewhere.

Astroturf, especially from the cheap-seats, is, very seamlessly green, too.

Gunboat “diplomacy” & “markets” ~ & Fast Eddie Bernays & behavioral Econ &&& ~ have, continue, to strip mine & strip mall the planet & snow globe the shaken consumer/consumed to/bits … & the bitizens call out for more.

Populism? Sentimentalism’s descent … into “Friends” reruns on a continuous loop, manifesting the destiny of perfectly Polly Wanna Cracker accent-less American speech patter? And not just in alcohol bars, right?

But the Mathew Perry reality? And the ripple effects of those sunk stones? Not so much.

Pay no attention to that little man behind the curtain … of one’s own blindered eyes.

Cranial colonization is a skull fracture … & the collective-cranium broken bones are reset just so: pull up a pic, or vid, of “Master Blaster” to see a visualization of the planet-wide petrie cult/ure-bone remodel-reset; Tastes Great(reset)! Less Filling(reset)! Meet the reset, same as the preset.

Easy-peasy Vietnamesy/Japanesey hate-into-love, or tolerance, or Stockholm Syndrome, or fairweather fans love a winner … seems like *this*, getting in touch with the feminine bio-imperative penchant for cozying up to the foreign-new “strongmen” that murdered-neutered the previous local strongmen batch (& plenty of women, too); its a Dating Game, with hatchets, bachelors & bachelorettes!:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP34Yoxs3FQ

Feelings aside, what do “you” know … & what do “you” deny, ignore, & not want to know?

Because what is specialist-emphasized is always dwarfed (or just outrightly misidentified, mistaken, misattributed) by what is corrupt union-shopped & lynchmob-subcontracted out & away … “that’s somebody else’s specialization & I only gots this one small wheelhouse lug nut to polish.”

JG Saxe’s poem about the wise blind men & the elephant was about that conscious/subconscious lack of conscientiousness then, before then, & now, too. That changelessness is the only constant. No ship in a bottle can bob in the same river twice … just ain’t true … but all those rievers running through “it,” this stage-world, will forever continue to insist self(indulgent/entitled)-interestedly otherwise.

The elephant never forgets, it is said, & “the” elephantine “people” never remember, it is shown.

Yes (prosecuter below). But. Human condition. Not this or that cardinal direction. “The West” Volk may have - or not - surpassed the other compass points gangs, but the differences are of degree, not kind … & self-righteous assertions contrary are most typically a dead (cat bounce) giveaway - - same as “it’s all good bro”/ptimism is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PcyI20vtzc

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