So true. The porn industry is massive, generating multiple billions every year. Perversion has always existed but I can only imagine how much perversion has proliferated since porn became instantly available at everybody's finger tips.
So true. The porn industry is massive, generating multiple billions every year. Perversion has always existed but I can only imagine how much perversion has proliferated since porn became instantly available at everybody's finger tips.
Degeneracy has been promoted, sold on a massive scale to the public, since the CIA began its programs post WWII. So people that are already degenerates and low-lives, sociopaths, psychopaths, sexual deviants - have it made. They've been coaxed out of the shadows and given the spotlight. If that isn't a sign of cultural collapse, I don't know what is.
I might fancy a hypothesis that the more fucked-up a society is/gets, the porn follows suit, perhaps like most everything else... porn, school, medicine... take your pick.
We are living in a fucked-up society, folks-- to be charitable with the definition of 'society'. As if we need to point that out.
People literally worship degeneracy and demand that it be included in all of our "entertainment" and culture, so I would tend to agree - 100%. Look at how low the bar has gone since, say, the 1950s. As family units have been destroyed to make way for the "freedom" of sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll, and "coolness." One of my sisters, a teacher, says the F word 3 times per sentence but that's "edgy." Nope, to me, it's just profane. I don't want to hear it. But that's OK now in regular society. Just as it is in Portland for a dad and his young son to be sitting eating ice cream cones near someone shooting up heroin. How "cool"!
It appears that when a society becomes too rich and unbalanced with too much spare time (which used to be spent on warding off winter starvation/disease) that it turns to debauchery. Nowadays we have technology to add to the firehose. Look out below.
BINGO! Spot on Yirgach. You get it. We as a society have had it far too good for far too long. Instead of worrying about our next meal or working to build our shelter, our people have ample mental "space" to think on other things. Thus, out of literal boredom, they proliferate perversion, filth, decadence and immorality. They glom onto "causes" such as the environment, animal rights, and of course sexual deviancy.
If we had to spend more time producing our meals and maintaining our shelter many of these things that our people obsess over would simply disappear.
The curse of a wealthy society is real and we haven't evolved to the point that we can overcome our own greed and desires for power.
Inclined to thing the process is circular or, perhaps, a spiral. Bad folks, bad porn, more bad folks, badder porn, and so forth. But these distinctions are niceties. Bottom line: both life and art imitate each other and each is execrable.
I bought a couple more power-tools over the weekend for building/woodworking, along with a two-for-one on tape-measures. I'm slowly going outside of my comfort-zone with this kind of investment that's getting expensive. It's sort of like when you start going beyond some critical point where it's hard to back out of and the pressure of commitment is increasingly hanging over your head. ('What am I getting myself into?')
I love acoustic musical instruments of many kinds, they can be very beautiful. Even in You Tube videos, where the subject has nothing to do with that, there might be the odd guitar or whatever lying or hanging around on the walls in the backgrounds.
Zazzy, you'll do fine. You already have the creativity; that's the hard part. The rest is easy. There are people who say, I'll believe it when I see it. The truth is, we see it, when we believe it. Look around - everything you see, was once imagined - a belief.
Cavemen sat around in caves on cold, hard, dirt floors until one imagined a thing that had four legs, was elevated, and could be cushioned with pelts or moss. He fashioned it one day and brought it in the cave. He called it a chair.
The others believed it when they saw it, but had he not believed it before seeing it, they'd all still be sitting around on their asses.
Good quality tools are worth the investment. Look for vintage tools, many will last a lifetime. Check out pawn shops - many people put up tools, when short on money. Garage and estate sales are also a great source of tools. All three can contain real bargains, quality tools at a tenth of retail - and usually better made.
I have a custom designed piece - a combination corner table/end table/3-bottle wine rack design - that I haven't licensed yet - a funky custom design. The flagship piece for Funksional Furniture - a shop adjoining the cafe, which will craft custom furniture, but also hire out to build tiny houses.
Good that you got two tape measures - the old carpenter's sage advice - "Measure twice, cut once."
I've built houses, decks, custom furniture, "turned" wood bowls (on a lathe) - carpentry/woodworking is a great creative outlet, you'll love it, but don't stress over it, enjoy it.
Thanks for the encouragement, advice and the good points/analogies, Ron.
So you've built houses, etc.? Well then maybe I'll see if I can get away with picking your brain on the odd occasion or at least you're welcomed to offer any advice any time.
There's a lot one can do in/with carpentry of course, that's what's great about it and the material, wood, but I'll take a shot at tiny houses, alone, maybe including timberframe. It is imagined that, given increasing poverty, increasing prices with everything, including home-prices and increasing homelessness, the market might be ripe for tiny houses on a dime.
Did you say that you have a friend from Bic/Rimouski and that you had an idea to relocate there?
So true. The porn industry is massive, generating multiple billions every year. Perversion has always existed but I can only imagine how much perversion has proliferated since porn became instantly available at everybody's finger tips.
Degeneracy has been promoted, sold on a massive scale to the public, since the CIA began its programs post WWII. So people that are already degenerates and low-lives, sociopaths, psychopaths, sexual deviants - have it made. They've been coaxed out of the shadows and given the spotlight. If that isn't a sign of cultural collapse, I don't know what is.
Nail on head, Mary.
Thank you, Ron.
McAfee left some cryptic crumbs, maybe on Gab, a few years ago, regarding this. Cautioned to avoid it, as it was a funding source.
I'd need to try a search, maybe another time, it's past midnight on the East Coast... slow fade...
Here's as good a place as any to begin, a quick, somewhat random search, maybe it leads back to the posts around the alleged demise.
https://x.com/iluminatibot/status/1898149162069193025
I might fancy a hypothesis that the more fucked-up a society is/gets, the porn follows suit, perhaps like most everything else... porn, school, medicine... take your pick.
We are living in a fucked-up society, folks-- to be charitable with the definition of 'society'. As if we need to point that out.
People literally worship degeneracy and demand that it be included in all of our "entertainment" and culture, so I would tend to agree - 100%. Look at how low the bar has gone since, say, the 1950s. As family units have been destroyed to make way for the "freedom" of sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll, and "coolness." One of my sisters, a teacher, says the F word 3 times per sentence but that's "edgy." Nope, to me, it's just profane. I don't want to hear it. But that's OK now in regular society. Just as it is in Portland for a dad and his young son to be sitting eating ice cream cones near someone shooting up heroin. How "cool"!
It appears that when a society becomes too rich and unbalanced with too much spare time (which used to be spent on warding off winter starvation/disease) that it turns to debauchery. Nowadays we have technology to add to the firehose. Look out below.
BINGO! Spot on Yirgach. You get it. We as a society have had it far too good for far too long. Instead of worrying about our next meal or working to build our shelter, our people have ample mental "space" to think on other things. Thus, out of literal boredom, they proliferate perversion, filth, decadence and immorality. They glom onto "causes" such as the environment, animal rights, and of course sexual deviancy.
If we had to spend more time producing our meals and maintaining our shelter many of these things that our people obsess over would simply disappear.
The curse of a wealthy society is real and we haven't evolved to the point that we can overcome our own greed and desires for power.
Well said CP.
I know from many elders here in VT that life in VT was really brutal.
Very hard to imagine nowadays . Electricity was a God send and cheap energy a miracle.
Now they are doing everything they can to stop it.
Well said.
Inclined to thing the process is circular or, perhaps, a spiral. Bad folks, bad porn, more bad folks, badder porn, and so forth. But these distinctions are niceties. Bottom line: both life and art imitate each other and each is execrable.
You're channeling me this morning, Zazzy. Pick a place, let's start anew.
I bought a couple more power-tools over the weekend for building/woodworking, along with a two-for-one on tape-measures. I'm slowly going outside of my comfort-zone with this kind of investment that's getting expensive. It's sort of like when you start going beyond some critical point where it's hard to back out of and the pressure of commitment is increasingly hanging over your head. ('What am I getting myself into?')
Woodworking, heh? Perhaps pick up a geetar kit and become an amateur luthier. I've dabbled in it over the years.
https://guitarspace.org/acoustic-guitars/best-diy-acoustic-guitar-kits/
I love acoustic musical instruments of many kinds, they can be very beautiful. Even in You Tube videos, where the subject has nothing to do with that, there might be the odd guitar or whatever lying or hanging around on the walls in the backgrounds.
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Insomnia
youtu.be/hy1amTQZj8M?si=XCdLTMdF2cFNetZM
Zazzy, you'll do fine. You already have the creativity; that's the hard part. The rest is easy. There are people who say, I'll believe it when I see it. The truth is, we see it, when we believe it. Look around - everything you see, was once imagined - a belief.
Cavemen sat around in caves on cold, hard, dirt floors until one imagined a thing that had four legs, was elevated, and could be cushioned with pelts or moss. He fashioned it one day and brought it in the cave. He called it a chair.
The others believed it when they saw it, but had he not believed it before seeing it, they'd all still be sitting around on their asses.
Good quality tools are worth the investment. Look for vintage tools, many will last a lifetime. Check out pawn shops - many people put up tools, when short on money. Garage and estate sales are also a great source of tools. All three can contain real bargains, quality tools at a tenth of retail - and usually better made.
I have a custom designed piece - a combination corner table/end table/3-bottle wine rack design - that I haven't licensed yet - a funky custom design. The flagship piece for Funksional Furniture - a shop adjoining the cafe, which will craft custom furniture, but also hire out to build tiny houses.
Good that you got two tape measures - the old carpenter's sage advice - "Measure twice, cut once."
I've built houses, decks, custom furniture, "turned" wood bowls (on a lathe) - carpentry/woodworking is a great creative outlet, you'll love it, but don't stress over it, enjoy it.
Thanks for the encouragement, advice and the good points/analogies, Ron.
So you've built houses, etc.? Well then maybe I'll see if I can get away with picking your brain on the odd occasion or at least you're welcomed to offer any advice any time.
There's a lot one can do in/with carpentry of course, that's what's great about it and the material, wood, but I'll take a shot at tiny houses, alone, maybe including timberframe. It is imagined that, given increasing poverty, increasing prices with everything, including home-prices and increasing homelessness, the market might be ripe for tiny houses on a dime.
Did you say that you have a friend from Bic/Rimouski and that you had an idea to relocate there?