A recent interaction I had with a Left Wing Big Shot led me to re-read my chapter on Machiavelli in my book Genio: The Story of Italian Genius. One thing that emerges from Machiavelli studies (literally an industry: between 2009 and 2017 there were no less than eight biographies of the man in the English language alone) is that there are several ways of interpreting his life and work. The most common, i.e., popular view is that he was amoral, a manipulator, whose most famous work,
This is an excerpt from a novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen, "The Committed":
"The American Way of Life! Eat too much, work too much, buy too much, read too little, think even less, and die in poverty and insecurity. No, thank you. Don't you see that's how the Americans take over the world? Not just through their army and their CIA and their World Bank, but through this infectious disease called the American Dream?"
Trump essentially told Z that he was holding no cards, and that he was little more than a douche bag and a buffoon. Which is, of course, correct. And then, European leaders, and American Democrats, rushed to defend Zel-Bag. But since he is a buffoon, this makes them buffoons. This fits well w/my theory abt hi-IQ morons. These morons are up in arms that Trumpi is putting an end to the post-WW2 order. They don't understand that this is his historical role (witting or not). They don't understand that a man can be an asshole and at the same time, an agent of History. They haven't a clue about the West to East tectonic shift, or the Modern to Something Else tectonic shift. Hi-IQ morons, and ignorant jackasses. So the Z-Bag man returns to Kiev, w/nothing to show for his visit. Historically speaking, we are getting somewhere. Of course he didn't cause the Russian invasion; that's nonsense. But we did, or rather Schmiden (a war criminal) did. Russia was trying to protect its borders from us, and from NATO, wh/he had every rt to do, and it looks like he has succeeded. Meanwhile, a lot of pro-Zelbag fools need a vigorous slapping. The Wafer Slapping Team (WST) has its work cut out for it.
I discuss some of this in my bk "Healing," the section that deals w/the work of Alfred Adler. Adler coined the phrase "inferiority complex," and he said it was the flip side of a superiority complex, wh/is probably a human syndrome, not just a Western one, altho the context of endless competition and one-upsmanship that prevails in the West makes it outstanding in this regard, I'm guessing. Why are Big Shots Big Shots? Adler wd say that hidden w/in them is a secret, namely that they believe themselves to be inferior (which, ironically enuf, they probably are!). To compensate, they swagger, become self-important, and humiliate others (or, in many cases, kill them) so that they can feel superior to them. Let's face it: humility, and basic decency, are rare commodities in our society--a situation that will probably get increasingly worse over time. Our president, a Napoleonic bulvan, is a role model for much, if not most, of the country. But I'm quite sure that if any of the Left Wing Big Shots I've encountered were president in his stead, they wd be just as bad; or nearly. Sad folks, all out to prove something.
I'd like to stop for a moment and take stock. The last couple of weeks have seen a flood of new subscribers to the blog. I'm still not charging anything for membership/participation, although I may decide to do so in a year or two; or five. But right now, I'm so grateful to you all, so appreciative of your energy and support. This groundswell suggests to me that more and more people are interested in Reality, rather than in the buffoonage offered by the MSM. Perhaps, over time, more and more Americans (and anyone else out there) will start looking at the country and saying, "Jesus, what a pile of crap!" as they search for authenticity in their lives, in alternative political possibilities, and in the sort of "reporting" that we try to do here. Thank you, and arriba!
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ps: The following quote may be appropriate: it's the last line of Frantz Fanon's bk, "Black Skin, White Masks": "O my body, make of me always a man who questions!" That's what we're doing here.
I just finished my new novel, "Reaching for Utopia." Now comes the editing part; with a little luck, it will be available on Amazon in a month or so. Spoiler alert: one scenario is the secessionist breakup of the US, followed by the collapse of the country. Fantasy? Maybe, but I just ran across a bk by David French called "Divided We Fall: America's Secession Threat," which takes the possibility quite seriously. French is terrified by the possibility, whereas I regard it as historically inevitable (or at least, a likely scenario; cf. Ernest Callenbach, "Ecotopia," 1975). As I've mentioned b4, the collapse of the US will be greeted by 80% of the planet dancing in the streets. But what songs to dance to? Let me suggest:
-"The Loco-Motion," by Little Eva
-"Twist and Shout," by the Isley Brothers
Wafers are encouraged to submit their favorites for the end-of-America event. Since it well might be a reality, we need to be prepared. Also to decide on the venue. MSG, perhaps.
Anyway, I'll keep y'all posted on the publication of the bk. Each of you will wanna buy 200 or 300 copies, to give to friends. I'm thinking that a public rdg at MSG wd be a real triumph for Waferism.
Didju ever see the film "Idiocracy," from 2006? It's projected into 500 yrs from now. When I first saw it, I thought: 500? More like 5! And now, it's here! Life follows art, and these days, pretty quickly. Keep that in mind when my new novel, "Reaching for Utopia," hits the stands (abt a month from now, god willing).
The thing to realize abt the writers for the MSM is that from an ontological pt of view, they are quite stupid. Jokes, birdbrains, as you guys pt out. They have no awareness that the US is dying. They have no awareness of the tectonic shifts going on. The following might serve as your next post-it: BUFFOONS RULE! (Possible alternative: SHIT FOR BRAINS)
ps: Along those lines...something I began to realize only slowly. Mexicans in groups behave very differently from Americans in groups. Here's what I mean. One block down the street from my apt. bldg. in Mexico City there is a panaderia with outside seating. Most days, a group of us meet there for coffee and croissants at 9:30 a.m.; anywhere between 4 and 15 people show up. Not 2 mins. go by w/o someone cracking a joke. I've noticed this in other cafes as well. Mexicans are constantly laughing. My experience of people in American cafes is that they tend to be sullen. It's rare that they laugh. Now why wd this be the case? It's not rocket science. Mexicans tend to be happy. Americans tend to be unhappy. Why that wd be the case is a subject for another post, but let's just observe, for the moment, that the US is a buffoon culture, and Mexico is not.
Let me draw yr attn to an article by Dexter Filkins in the Feb. 10 issue of the New Yorker, on the sad state of the US military. From his description, it doesn't seem like our armed forces cd fight their way out of a wet paper bag. I quote:
"Recruiters are contending w/a population that's not just unenthusiastic but incapable. According to a Pentagon study, more than three-quarters of Americans between the ages of seventeen and twenty-four are ineligible, because they are overweight, unable to pass the aptitude test, afflicted by physical or mental issues...In 2021, the Pentagon found that only abt 9% of young Americans expressed a propensity to serve, the lowest in more than a decade. 'You wdn't believe the questions I get', a Marine officer who served three yrs as a recruiter told me. 'A lot of young people don't even know what the Marines are. They think we're some kind of police force'."
To me, this constitutes more of the Rot discussed below. Young Americans are pretty much a sad joke. They are badly depressed; stats of addiction and suicide are very high, and many, if not most of them do little more than play video games all day long, or stare into their smartfones. What the American Way of Life has done to them--esp., kill their spirit--is a terrible thing; tragic, really. They deserved better than that, and now they are just fat and stupid. Honestly, I'm quite angry on their behalf.
Of course, that the military can't find recruits is ultimately a gd thing, considering what our military does in and to the world. It's all karma on a grand scale. Everywhere you look in America, you can see that History is punishing us, and there's no question that we deserve it. We're pretty much a shitpile. For yrs now I've said we'd be finished by 2030, but now I'm wondering if it won't be earlier.
I've said this b4: once you realize that the American gov't, and the American people, consist of douche bags, the political scene is not v. hard to decode. Meanwhile, let me say that I adore Claudia Sheinbaum. Check out her speech of yesterday at the Zocalo. She's an intelligent person, she does the rt thing, and the Mexican people have given her an 85% approval rating. Claudia I love you! Come up here, replace this stupid gov't, por favor. (Replacing the stupid people will probably be more difficult. Lastima!)
You may not have been around for it. Bush Sr.'s response to people who cdn't afford health ins. was "Don't get sick." These politicians are utter buffoons.
Fartcoin does have a certain cache, but a few yrs ago I suggested that digital currency shd be called Bitrump. I think this is a bit (haha) more accurate, because in the end (haha) it bites you in the ass. Go, Bitrump!
Wafers-
This is an excerpt from a novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen, "The Committed":
"The American Way of Life! Eat too much, work too much, buy too much, read too little, think even less, and die in poverty and insecurity. No, thank you. Don't you see that's how the Americans take over the world? Not just through their army and their CIA and their World Bank, but through this infectious disease called the American Dream?"
More on Trumpi's attack on Zelenskbag:
Trump essentially told Z that he was holding no cards, and that he was little more than a douche bag and a buffoon. Which is, of course, correct. And then, European leaders, and American Democrats, rushed to defend Zel-Bag. But since he is a buffoon, this makes them buffoons. This fits well w/my theory abt hi-IQ morons. These morons are up in arms that Trumpi is putting an end to the post-WW2 order. They don't understand that this is his historical role (witting or not). They don't understand that a man can be an asshole and at the same time, an agent of History. They haven't a clue about the West to East tectonic shift, or the Modern to Something Else tectonic shift. Hi-IQ morons, and ignorant jackasses. So the Z-Bag man returns to Kiev, w/nothing to show for his visit. Historically speaking, we are getting somewhere. Of course he didn't cause the Russian invasion; that's nonsense. But we did, or rather Schmiden (a war criminal) did. Russia was trying to protect its borders from us, and from NATO, wh/he had every rt to do, and it looks like he has succeeded. Meanwhile, a lot of pro-Zelbag fools need a vigorous slapping. The Wafer Slapping Team (WST) has its work cut out for it.
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Mo, Ron-
I discuss some of this in my bk "Healing," the section that deals w/the work of Alfred Adler. Adler coined the phrase "inferiority complex," and he said it was the flip side of a superiority complex, wh/is probably a human syndrome, not just a Western one, altho the context of endless competition and one-upsmanship that prevails in the West makes it outstanding in this regard, I'm guessing. Why are Big Shots Big Shots? Adler wd say that hidden w/in them is a secret, namely that they believe themselves to be inferior (which, ironically enuf, they probably are!). To compensate, they swagger, become self-important, and humiliate others (or, in many cases, kill them) so that they can feel superior to them. Let's face it: humility, and basic decency, are rare commodities in our society--a situation that will probably get increasingly worse over time. Our president, a Napoleonic bulvan, is a role model for much, if not most, of the country. But I'm quite sure that if any of the Left Wing Big Shots I've encountered were president in his stead, they wd be just as bad; or nearly. Sad folks, all out to prove something.
-mb
Wafers-
I'd like to stop for a moment and take stock. The last couple of weeks have seen a flood of new subscribers to the blog. I'm still not charging anything for membership/participation, although I may decide to do so in a year or two; or five. But right now, I'm so grateful to you all, so appreciative of your energy and support. This groundswell suggests to me that more and more people are interested in Reality, rather than in the buffoonage offered by the MSM. Perhaps, over time, more and more Americans (and anyone else out there) will start looking at the country and saying, "Jesus, what a pile of crap!" as they search for authenticity in their lives, in alternative political possibilities, and in the sort of "reporting" that we try to do here. Thank you, and arriba!
-mb
ps: The following quote may be appropriate: it's the last line of Frantz Fanon's bk, "Black Skin, White Masks": "O my body, make of me always a man who questions!" That's what we're doing here.
Wafers-
Check it out:
https://www.oakpark.com/2025/03/25/a-light-in-the-darkness/
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Waferinos-
I just finished my new novel, "Reaching for Utopia." Now comes the editing part; with a little luck, it will be available on Amazon in a month or so. Spoiler alert: one scenario is the secessionist breakup of the US, followed by the collapse of the country. Fantasy? Maybe, but I just ran across a bk by David French called "Divided We Fall: America's Secession Threat," which takes the possibility quite seriously. French is terrified by the possibility, whereas I regard it as historically inevitable (or at least, a likely scenario; cf. Ernest Callenbach, "Ecotopia," 1975). As I've mentioned b4, the collapse of the US will be greeted by 80% of the planet dancing in the streets. But what songs to dance to? Let me suggest:
-"The Loco-Motion," by Little Eva
-"Twist and Shout," by the Isley Brothers
Wafers are encouraged to submit their favorites for the end-of-America event. Since it well might be a reality, we need to be prepared. Also to decide on the venue. MSG, perhaps.
Anyway, I'll keep y'all posted on the publication of the bk. Each of you will wanna buy 200 or 300 copies, to give to friends. I'm thinking that a public rdg at MSG wd be a real triumph for Waferism.
-mb
Check it out:
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/20/world/video/eric-schmitt-trump-zelensky-digvid
To the avg American (= bozo), if the US says anything, it's true, whereas if Russia says it, it's propaganda. What if the reverse were true?
Zelensky = turkey; he is currently sitting around and beating off w/a vigor that's frightening.
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ps: Kash Patel is now FBI director. I'm very excited, given the damage he is going to do.
There was also some headline abt Trumpi attacking NATO. Gd. It shd never have been drawn up in the first place. Big mistake, said George Kennan.
Black-
Didju ever see the film "Idiocracy," from 2006? It's projected into 500 yrs from now. When I first saw it, I thought: 500? More like 5! And now, it's here! Life follows art, and these days, pretty quickly. Keep that in mind when my new novel, "Reaching for Utopia," hits the stands (abt a month from now, god willing).
-mb
Sven, comrade-
The thing to realize abt the writers for the MSM is that from an ontological pt of view, they are quite stupid. Jokes, birdbrains, as you guys pt out. They have no awareness that the US is dying. They have no awareness of the tectonic shifts going on. The following might serve as your next post-it: BUFFOONS RULE! (Possible alternative: SHIT FOR BRAINS)
-mb
ps: Along those lines...something I began to realize only slowly. Mexicans in groups behave very differently from Americans in groups. Here's what I mean. One block down the street from my apt. bldg. in Mexico City there is a panaderia with outside seating. Most days, a group of us meet there for coffee and croissants at 9:30 a.m.; anywhere between 4 and 15 people show up. Not 2 mins. go by w/o someone cracking a joke. I've noticed this in other cafes as well. Mexicans are constantly laughing. My experience of people in American cafes is that they tend to be sullen. It's rare that they laugh. Now why wd this be the case? It's not rocket science. Mexicans tend to be happy. Americans tend to be unhappy. Why that wd be the case is a subject for another post, but let's just observe, for the moment, that the US is a buffoon culture, and Mexico is not.
Wafers-
Let me draw yr attn to an article by Dexter Filkins in the Feb. 10 issue of the New Yorker, on the sad state of the US military. From his description, it doesn't seem like our armed forces cd fight their way out of a wet paper bag. I quote:
"Recruiters are contending w/a population that's not just unenthusiastic but incapable. According to a Pentagon study, more than three-quarters of Americans between the ages of seventeen and twenty-four are ineligible, because they are overweight, unable to pass the aptitude test, afflicted by physical or mental issues...In 2021, the Pentagon found that only abt 9% of young Americans expressed a propensity to serve, the lowest in more than a decade. 'You wdn't believe the questions I get', a Marine officer who served three yrs as a recruiter told me. 'A lot of young people don't even know what the Marines are. They think we're some kind of police force'."
To me, this constitutes more of the Rot discussed below. Young Americans are pretty much a sad joke. They are badly depressed; stats of addiction and suicide are very high, and many, if not most of them do little more than play video games all day long, or stare into their smartfones. What the American Way of Life has done to them--esp., kill their spirit--is a terrible thing; tragic, really. They deserved better than that, and now they are just fat and stupid. Honestly, I'm quite angry on their behalf.
Of course, that the military can't find recruits is ultimately a gd thing, considering what our military does in and to the world. It's all karma on a grand scale. Everywhere you look in America, you can see that History is punishing us, and there's no question that we deserve it. We're pretty much a shitpile. For yrs now I've said we'd be finished by 2030, but now I'm wondering if it won't be earlier.
-mb
Wafers-
Check these out. While America beats off, Bolsen nails us to the wall. For how many yrs now (25) have I been saying, "It's over!"?
"White People" Don't Know Their History Either | Shahid Bolsen
America: The Re-Balancing Has Begun
Badr's Lesson: Choosing Your Ground in the Battle of Ideas
The "Moral High Ground" of the West | Magna Carta, Charter of the Forest, and Broken Treaties
America: The Fatted Calf for Slaughter
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Jack, Black-
I've said this b4: once you realize that the American gov't, and the American people, consist of douche bags, the political scene is not v. hard to decode. Meanwhile, let me say that I adore Claudia Sheinbaum. Check out her speech of yesterday at the Zocalo. She's an intelligent person, she does the rt thing, and the Mexican people have given her an 85% approval rating. Claudia I love you! Come up here, replace this stupid gov't, por favor. (Replacing the stupid people will probably be more difficult. Lastima!)
-mb
David-
It's all too amazing, isn't it? Step by step, the West is self-destructing.
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David-
You may not have been around for it. Bush Sr.'s response to people who cdn't afford health ins. was "Don't get sick." These politicians are utter buffoons.
-mb
Black-
Fartcoin does have a certain cache, but a few yrs ago I suggested that digital currency shd be called Bitrump. I think this is a bit (haha) more accurate, because in the end (haha) it bites you in the ass. Go, Bitrump!
-mb