(Apparently I am a ‘legend’ at my hotel.)
ADVICE. Try, one day a week, for three weeks, to find something nice to say about or do for pretty much everyone you run into. And don’t wait for acknowledgement as if you want to be rewarded for it. Just do it.
Watch what happens.
It changed my life.
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-03 07:20:00 UTC
(worth repeating)
—What I like most, and what is difficult to recognize, is the HUMILITY of the Hovamal (heroic and individualist) and the ARROGANCE of Abrahamic scripture (authoritarian and collectivist).—
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-03 06:59:00 UTC
“Time for some Special K: The Return of K-Selection : Alphas.”
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-03 06:49:00 UTC
“Better a wolf of Odin than a lamb of Jehova”— (not sure)
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-03 06:47:00 UTC
(humor)
“Standing on the corner
Watching all the girls go by
You don’t know a better occupation
And neither do I
Than standing on a corner
Watching all the girls go by” — Dean Martin
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-03 06:40:00 UTC
THE LIE OF CULTURAL APPROPRIATION
Here is the propertarian translation of the criticism of Cultural Appropriation:
“I want something reason to feel good about myself, despite my people’s lack of excellences, achievements, talents, ability – I need to convince myself that I have status despite the contrary signals that I don’t.
“When competitors demonstrate yet another mastery, the mastery of my identity rituals, this deprives me of my false signals of status. It forces me to confront the reality of my status as it exists rather than as I wish it to be.
“Meritocracy only assists the superiors. The inferiors need means of finding acceptance and reward as well.”
(h/t Lesley Drabble )
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-03 06:20:00 UTC
CELEBRATE PLENTY AND CONSUMPTION, COOPERATE TO SAVE AND PRODUCE.
TED Celebrates. Church of R-Selection. Nothing More. It’s not cooperation. It’s rallying consumption. Drawing the other bees to the flowers. Nothing more.
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-03 06:14:00 UTC
INTOLERANCE IS A HIGH COST, A HIGH TAX THAT WE MUST PAY. TOLERANCE IS A FREE RIDING – A DISCOUNT, A THEFT NOT A VIRTUE.
Living Light – and safe.
Sure, I have the contents of a four bedroom house in storage. But otherwise, my life consists of a little red sportscar, six large duffel bags full of wardrobe, a suitcase full of computer gear, and my working computer, id, iPad/exterior monitor, sound system, prescriptions, cables, batteries, umbrella, rain poncho, cash and a few gold coins I keep in my (very fancy) backpack and I never ever take my eye off of it. I keep a cord lock in the backpack and lock it to whatever I can when I am in a public place. Worst case I have a run bag with me at all times.
Part of this habit is living in an iffy place during the revolution. Part of it is what my government did to me and am forever traumatised by. Part of it was what my divorce did to me. Part of it is autistic in that I must have rituals to remember where I put things. Part of it is just feeling that I don’t need to worry.
I sleep with my phone, backpack and laptop next to the bed. So I don’t worry about them
In America I always carry a sidearm out of advocacy. I have only needed it three times. Once when a psycho came after me and Allora when I turned his criminal activity in. And twice when people of different Color decided I was a target late at night. Yelling “help police!!” While pointing a sidearm is very different from returning the threat with macho.
I know too many people who have had car trunks robbed because someone watched them place items in the boot then either waited or followed them to their next destination and stolen them.
I have too much experience with east coast urban life. I know the evil men do. When I lived in Back Bay in Boston my heart raced twice a day: when I woke up and checked to see if my car was still there, and when I came home and checked to see that the door had not been banged in by thieves.
I never feel as unsafe in Ukraine as I did in every American city.
You know why?
Intolerance.
Men beat the hell out of you here for the slightest threatening action just like they used to in America.
Every man a sheriff. Every man intolerant. Every man a hangman.
Intolerance is a high tax.
But we must pay it.
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-03 05:21:00 UTC
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Source date (UTC): 2015-12-03 04:51:00 UTC
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