I remember reading something like that years ago … that there are some historians who think that we haven’t left the dark ages yet. In everything else with technology and information we’ve progressed but we still think and act the same way we have for the past 2000 years.

And the more I read about the subject over the years the more I realized that as human animals, our modern species have only been around for about 50,000 years. In all that time, we’ve only ever been fearful, short sighted, frightened creatures that wanted everything as quickly and as much as possible all the time. We couldn’t do it before but now we can.

In that 50,000 year timeline we’re only on the very tip of history … it’s going to take us millennia to change.

Don’t do drugs

Don’t do sex

I’m indigenous Canadian and both my parents survived residential school in the 50s. Residential school for indigenous people back then was forced on us, especially for children where they were systematically abused by Christian missionaries. Mom was not so abused but dad was terribly traumatized to the point where sex and anything sexual or remotely sexual was forbidden. Just about everything in life to him meant burning in everlasting hell. Drugs were no different but less so.

So our indigenous Christian home just dealt with it all by forbidding everything.

How did it turn out?

I have seven siblings and we all ended up with alcohol and drug addiction by the time we were teenagers. I cleaned up early and I’ve been sober for 29 years, all my other siblings never fell off the deep end (thank God) but I’m the only one who got officially ‘sober’.

I didn’t have kids but everyone else in my family did before anyone was married. One of my younger brothers picked up the slack for me by having children with four women. I have over 40 nieces and nephews, some by the family, some brought in, some married in and others illegitimate.

We’re all one big happy family … but we’re all gonna burn in hell. Lol

Maybe we were all dead inside to begin with … and then we created an internet that offered nothing of value in return.

Imagine swallowing it

When all powerful bosses who think they control everything and everyone realize who has the most power.

Good for the workers … now watch government lackies step in to support big business.

Whatever happens it should show the country that solidarity matters … hopefully it spreads everywhere else.

General rule of thumb for me to interact with a website and read or watch whatever I want … if you require me to do more than two things to show me the content I came to see, I’m closing the tab or windows and moving on.

If it’s really important and security related, I’ll take my time and carefully examine everything I do.

Otherwise I’m not clicking more than twice and definitely not using my keyboard to see your dumb website or TikTok video.

Racists always mean what they say

It’s only when they’re caught or called out on what they said that they want to back track on everything.

It takes a coward to say terrible things anonymously and it’s only a coward that pretends they didn’t mean what they said.

Now I know why these things stink so badly

Mine is wear a medical grade mask in public spaces.

It does multiple things.

First it protects you from air borne pathogens like viruses and especially COVID.

Second, if you are confronted or people get mad at you for wearing one, it immediately let’s you know what kind of people are around. If they’re the type that will get mad at you for wearing a mask, it’s definitely a place to leave and avoid in the future. A mask is a great way to weed people out in public.

My wife has lifelong lung problems now and we can’t risk any infections. So wearing a mask is necessary for me … and at this point in my life, it’s normal now and I find that it’s normal for most people. 90% of the people that see me in a mask notice but immediately understand and don’t make an issue of it. It’s 10% of the loudest idiots that make it a problem and a mask is a great way to unmask them (pun intended)

Therefore … take five minutes and make up whatever calculations so that you either pay nothing or very little, send it in and let them figure it out.

No sense doing all that work if they already know anyway because they’ll send you corrections and tell you what you have to pay.

No wonder China wants to invade

This is too stupid for me … I turned if off and will just watch the highlights tomorrow

And this is supposed to be a contest for leadership of the most powerful, most developed, most modern nation in the world?

The worst part of all this is that everyone on the planet will be affected by what Americans will decide on … and that is an absolutely scary idea.

The main problem with the debate is that the audience that is listening has to actually also be SANE.

If you have nutjobs listening to all this … they’ll love Trump no matter how reasonable Harris may sound.

The trouble has been, is and will always be … the general intelligence of the US population.

My story didn’t mean to imply how to become a millionaire … it’s a story of how to live within your means

All my property value is probably less than one small urban apartment and all my old vehicles are worth less than one brand new car.

I work for myself and don’t bother expanding. It all just means that the money I make was only for myself and only within my means. My house would probably be looked at like a country bumpkin but I’m not a right wing libertarian … I’m actually a liberal supporting socially minded leftist who also supports minorities and LGBT and women’s rights.

I’m indigenous Canadian and from the very start of my life I knew I was on my own so I had to live that way … but it didn’t mean that I gave up supporting others around me who were dealing with the same issues.

Or … don’t bother going to school and just work in construction and manual labor in your own small business.

It’s what I did for myself and now I own four properties and several vehicles without any debt. It’s all remote properties and all my vehicles are all old used and well worn … but at least I own everything outright.

Yay!! For the economy and investors!!!

Right!!?

Right?

So we all accept that there is no democracy and do our best to support the nicest plutocrat or oligarch?

I guess what I’m saying is that at the very least, we should stop deluding ourselves in believing that this is a functioning democracy.

It’s like recovery from addiction … the first step to dealing with the problem is admitting the problem.

When money and finances determine who gets to be in political office and the same wealth heavily or completely dominates the government …

… that isn’t a democracy

That’s an oligarchy, a plutocracy, an aristocracy … it’s everything else but a democracy … but what do I know, I don’t have enough money to have a say any way

High beam? … you mean WWII era night time aircraft bomber search lights from Dresden

These iron posts and beams sure are holding up a lot of shit