Lying Liars

Grow Low

Chill Clowns, Lying Liars

Progress and cosy nostalgia.

This essay isn’t as much degrowther nonsense as I thought it’d be. It still leans that way, but not to the pathological degree that the modern left tends to. You know, the version that would kill billions and cause a regression of 500+ years in societal progress.

But it’s still pretty bad. It’s not even that it gets many points wrong, exactly. It’s just all steering the wrong direction. The modern left has been so stunned and staggered by their recent losses to those that they see as their inferiors that they can’t even think.

I don’t have the energy to write a long-ass essay (or assay) myself this evening, but I will say that in the disavowal of progress and improvement for a focus on fixing things now, the modern left precludes any advancement in the future as well. This essay is, strangely, an example of what it decries: nostalgia for something that can never be and furthermore has never been. It’s a fiction based on a fiction; a dream whose dreamer is deceased.

Relatedly, the left could’ve had Elon Musk on their side. But most of them are not interested in conversions and conversation leading to solidarity. They want vengeance no different than the thug conservatives — they just couch it in squishier language. And here I use “conversion” deliberately because the left’s asseveration and beliefs are as religious in nature as any ecclesiastical evangelism ever seen on this Earth.

And now my three minutes are up and this mini-essay is at an end.

Driving Housing

Chill Lying Liars, Political Economy

Charles Hugh Smith: Unaffordable Housing and Homeless Encampments: How Did It Get This Bad?

Charles is one of the few (maybe a few dozen?) in the country who actually understand how housing prices currently work in the United States. Basically no one in the press does. None of the real estate “analysts” except maybe one or two do. Zero real estate agents do, of course, because they know nearly nothing.

It’s insane that something so important and that is the repository of vast wealth is so poorly understood by so many. I think that is deliberate, though — if people actually comprehended how it works and why it works that way, far more of them would rebel against it and demand change.

Hence, all the propaganda is designed to lead one down the wrong epistemic path.

Masked

Chill Lying Liars

Well, that was a massive lie that KN95 masks were more comfortable and easier to breathe through than regular masks. Because I was spraying pesticide, today I wore a 3M KN95 mask. It felt like an alien facehugger was attached to my face. The metal parts were extremely poky and it didn’t even seal all that well despite my best efforts. It was also much harder to breathe than even a double cloth mask. I felt like I’d run a 10K after some very mild physical activity — and I’m in good shape.

So yeah…that was another Covidian lie.

Mania

Chill Lying Liars, Rant

The problem with Covidians (other than a poor understanding of science and immunology) is that they believe the world should cater to their manias and paranoia. And the only ones that happens to reliably is billionaires like Jamie Dimon. So good luck with that.

Covidians would’ve basically ended all of civilization now in a failed attempt to forestall a fairly-mild virus. So, you know, glad we didn’t do that.

And what’s weird is that nearly all the Covidians out there politically align with Russia and believe Ukraine and Ukrainians should be genocided. I am still trying to understand that.

Postdict

Chill Lying Liars

It was predicted by the Covidians that US would experience economic collapse and that civilization would end due to Long Covid. I still see me some civilization around here and here’s how the US economy is doing:

Whoa that’s a mega-crash! Ok, not. It was all a lie.