This week was kind of a big week for me. Not only did my wife and I celebrate our 8 year anniversary on Tuesday, but the day before that I quit my job at the Post Office to focus full-time on my painting business. So far this season I've been quite blessed with paint jobs, and my wife and I decided it just made sense to focus full-time on that. It also didn't help that at USPS, I would literally always be scheduled on Saturday and Sunday, and had no real opportunity for advancement unless I stuck it out for 5-10 years waiting for a route to open up, which has all the psychological and emotional anticipatory elements of waiting for your long-term abusive boyfriend to propose to you.
The observation I had about relative time and work is that yesterday I worked for just under 18 hours straight- 7:30 AM-1:17 AM. As I painted, here's how I spent my time:
-in silence, thinking
-narrating to myself as if I was working on one of the several essays currently in progress
-stopping to jot down notes, sometimes even complete paragraphs if I knew for sure I wanted to include it in an essay
-listening to news clips of the regime explain itself (man oh man, I am excited for this one particular essay...get ready to be white pilled on our new Ministry of Disinformation)
-listening to podcasts and interviews
-I took a break from serious stuff to listen to a full breakdown of a limited comic release of some dark dystopian Ninja Turtles comic called The Last Ronin. Surprisingly interesting. Prettt much everyone dies. (My wife and I went to trivia night at a downtown brewery for our anniversary, and it was the topic of one of the questions. I had time to kill, so I figured what the hell).
-etc. etc. etc.
Are 18-hour days something I want to make a habit of? lol, no. Those who recall the job I had in Montana last fall will know what a prolonged period of that kind of work will do to me psychologically. How I made it through the Jodi Shaw and James Lindsay interviews while there is a true miracle. That said, I can honestly tell you that 18 hour stretch was orders of magnitude more pleasant and less stressful than the first 5 hours at the Post Office casing and pulling down mail on a heavy mail day. I'm also probably a little less sore than I would be from a heavy mail day at USPS, too.
It's just strange how different people experience these kinds of things. Most everyone I knew who worked at the Post Office genuinely loved it there. I could never wrap my ahead around this, as I found that it to be the most stifling, soul-sucking job I have ever had (and I've had a lot of jobs). It's all relative, I suppose.
[Side note- one reason I'm busting my ass to get this job done by tomorrow is so I can spend all weekend writing and recording audio essays. One of those essays will contain my discussion with Pete, @redpoint5. I want to be careful how I write it, because I intend to pass it on to Travis at The Woke Reformation, who was also there, for him to read]
While driving yesterday, I had an idea to help facilitate more regular content creation, especially during this time when it is all but impossible to make videos outside of livestreams from my phone. The idea is that of a biweekly post that roughly takes the form of a newsletter, of which this is shall be the first volume. As an aside, evidently a synonym for biweekly is 'fortnightly,' which I'd totally use if it weren't for the association with a game of stupid dances.
My current plan for the format is as follows, though obviously this is likely to change.
-Introduction, brief life updates, and maybe a thought or two I've had lately that I wanted to share with you.
-What books I have been going through, and any excerpts or takeaways I feel are worth sharing.
-Any other noteworthy podcasts or media I've consumed lately.
-What stories I'm paying attention to (if any) and why
-Any questions I might have for you guys
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Alright, it's called TL;DR for a reason. Let's jump in.
As I mentioned earlier, we have Covid again. I'm not going to ...
I know it's been quiet here lately. I'll eventually explain what's been going on with my personal life (most of it has been a mixture of our new baby being really, really difficult, and perpetual sickness. For example, last week three our of the four of us had to go to the hospital) but this is what has consumed virtually all free time outside of work and family time.
Please consider helping us bring justice to these bastards. Their indifference and complicity in the harm done to these kids has to stop. Please help us make that happen.
For those who missed it, here's an open letter I wrote to my community last fall after the suicide of a former student, himself a victim of this school district:
https://returntoreason.medium.com/an-open-letter-to-the-citizens-of-albany-county-ca507fa24cd8
Thank you for everything you do. You guys are awesome, and I look forward to filling you in on what's been going on in the near future. See you soon.
ps- I will be...
Salutations! I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas. Here is my list of top ten the things I learned/conclusions I reached from this past year. Some are directly related to events, others are not. Either way, I tried my best to create a list of useful ideas for you to incorporate into your view of the present moment. I hope you find this list useful, as many of the items on it are lenses I find incredibly important for understanding the world around me. As always, I welcome any feedback you might have!
In Part 2, I use Conquest's Three Laws of Politics to expand on my specific critiques of Peterson's Manifesto, and flush out some of my own axioms that I failed to explain in Part 1. This is where I get into the nuts and bolts of how institutions deviate from their original purpose and begin to generate and pursue their own interests.
What began as a singular episode critiquing one of my intellectual heroes has turned into a multi-part series going after some foundational axioms of mainstream Conservatism.
In this introductions, I discuss Permanent Washington and the concept of accountability, and sew the seeds for what's to come in either trusting or rejecting many mainstream Western institutions.
It's worth mentioning that this recording, along with every other part in this series, has taken almost (in some cases more than) a day to upload. I have no idea why my internet is failing me as hard as it is, but here we are. Hopefully you find these recordings in time to assist you in your vote tomorrow 🤙
I've been wanting to do this for a while. It might have taken me two days to figure out how to get this from my phone to my computer, but I finally got it to work.
On Saturday, I used the voice recorder app on my phone to record a podcast covering Karl Schmitt, his discussions of power, and how we can map this onto our contemporary situation with The Regime that runs our country, and the Bureaucratic State which does its ideological bidding.
After listening to it, I realize there is some more context I need to add to the ending, so I might record another one tomorrow or Wednesday. Either way, it feels good to be recording stuff again. As always, I welcome your thoughts and feedback!
"We don't know where this thing isn't."
-Bret Weinstein
@JamesDerian suggested I pin and regularly update a thread of sources I'm compiling to illustrate the total societal takeover of Far-Left Orthodoxy, including their explicit targeting of our kids for indoctrination. Here is that thread.
Compromised entities:
Nickelodeon
Cartoon Network
Kellogg's Cereal
Mattel Toys
Lego
Sesame Street (SESAME STREET 🤦♂️)
PBS
CNN
The New York Times
The Washington Post
NPR
NBC News
Gender/Sexuality
Cartoon Network celebrating transgender children:
https://twitter.com/stage13network/status/1377332951659151360?s=20
More Cartoon Network trans stuff:
https://twitter.com/cartoonnetwork/status/1377259794294259717?s=20
Cartoon Network on "normalizing gender pronouns"
https://twitter.com/cartoonnetwork/status/1338539346530537475?s=20
Lego released "rainbow set" for Pride Month:
https://www.lego.com/en-us/aboutus/news/2021/may/everyone-is-awesome/
"Queer up your morning routine" with Kellogg's new cereal featuring edible glitter, ...
