It's Over

Posted by $ Abaco 4 years, 6 months ago to Culture
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After doing the work I've been doing (don't want to get too detailed on that here) and spending time with children in my spare time (coaching, helping at schools, etc.), and my efforts in research involving neurological health in America I've come to the conclusion that it's over. Probably in my lifetime America will devolve into something like an Ensenada with tall buildings. 300-pound gorillas like Federal unfunded mandates are simply too much for our society to handle with any success. I thought about this again last night in speaking with a friend who's actually trying to reform the charter school system where one of my kids goes. She's reading the applicable laws that are being broken and trying to work with the director to right the ship and I had to explain to her that they won't have any idea what she's talking about, don't care, and probably don't have the resources to do things the right way. She's wasting her time.

I've wasted my time too. I have given lectures to lawmakers that had their heads spinning - data, facts, reason and (dare I say it) a little ethics. I've gotten them to change their votes, something I'm proud of. But the machine is too big and too corrupt. A guy like me is like an annoying gnat.

Neurological health, it seems, is at the center of our problems. Sure, people are uneducated. But A LOT of people suffer from substantial neurological problems. And, their numbers are growing rapidly. Hordes of ranting mentally ill people are taking over in these parts. I have been called to speak next month to a large governmental organization that's supposed to do something about it - to discuss the engineering and infection control ramifications of building large medical faculties for such patients. But, it will be too little too late. An overwhelming majority of boys in my son's elementary school class have neurological problems, and this is a mainstream school. America won't be able to deal with the coming tsunami. No way.

Worst part is I'm pretty sure I know how we can correct this problem. But, we won't. And, unless you are involved as I am, around kids all day, you may not see that there is a problem. But...that mentally retarded news coverage you try to endure each night, that global warming story that won't go away, that person at your DMV or your doctor's office who repeatedly screws up your paperwork or your claims, that hobo camp in your town filled with men in their late teens and 20s...it's the same problem.


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  • Posted by Dobrien 4 years, 6 months ago
    In 7 th grade we had teachers who were college students. Our catholic school did not have enough nuns. During religion class we often had discussions of current or topical events. One day Mr Flynn started class by asking what is the biggest problem we will have in the future. Many said nuclear war. I raised my hand and said the country will have a lot of mental illness. I sensed this issue but my thinking was that of a 12 year old . Why I was asked ? I said we have been told that anyone can become President and clearly we get two bad candidates to choose from. That anyone can be Pres is just a big lie. My reasoning was flawed but ...... Drug addiction , Alcoholism ,depression are at an epidemic level. Not even considering the TDS and the cognitive dissonance from constant media lies and distortion.
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    • Posted by Pecuniology 4 years, 6 months ago
      The minimum age to be qualified to serve as President is 36. Current life expectancies are roughly 86 in the USA. That is a window of 50 years.

      Presidential elections are held every 4 years.

      This is an average of 12.5 opportunities to be elected President in the average lifetime.

      In a population of approximately 350 million, that works out to be a 0.000003571% probability. Granted, Presidential candidates self-select—which reduces the pool of candidates substantially below 350 million—but the claim is that anyone can become President.

      Technically, that is a greater than zero chance, but statistically is well within the noise band around zero.
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  • Posted by Pecuniology 4 years, 6 months ago
    Ayn Rand described this brilliantly in "The Comprachicos" (which is available as a PDF on Stephen Hicks's website).

    The insanity is largely induced through K-PhD indoctrination that reality is a social construct, reason is a myth, emotions supersede facts, etc. The children are taught beginning in nursery school that mathematics and logic exist as Hitleresque polyogisms, such that we have Jewish Science vs Aryan Science, dark-skinned Kinesthetic Learners vs light-skinned Verbal Learners, and a host of other schizophrenic nonsense.

    All of this was funny, when the members of Monty Python were making fun of it with their renditions of rambling sociologists. Now that it is driving legislation and the interpretation of statutes, regulations, and administrative rule, it is no long quite as entertaining.
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    • Posted by $ 4 years, 6 months ago
      Thanks for adding to the discussion. I am a huge Monty Python fan. My background is engineering, but I also worked in finance for six years. I operate on numbers, evidence and reason. I find that when dealing those tho operate with the social construct you mention I actually get offended. It's offensive to hear some of these modern excuses for arguments. And, as I point out here...it's getting crazier.
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  • Posted by Solver 4 years, 6 months ago
    Prepare for the endarkenment, where reality is ignored until it kicks enough people in the teeth.
    How many billions will be enough?
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    • Posted by Pecuniology 4 years, 6 months ago
      And, how will things have changed in the meantime?

      It is one thing to tell a resident of the Western Roman Empire that things will straighten out after the Fall. It is another thing entirely to tell him that he'll have to wait a millennium for the Renaissance.
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 4 years, 6 months ago
    Dear Abaco, I must confess my mother blamed diet for all the ills we have. I think she was ahead of her time. She was a Nutritionist!
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    • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 4 years, 6 months ago
      Nutrition, medicine, toxins all over the place and something no one considers...cosmic radiation...for every percentage lost in magnetic field strength, allows for more of them to affect, the weather, the brain and the body...and those effects can be substantial.

      Last year saw cosmic radiation topping all records, this year, NASA finally gave us an update...our shields captain, are now down, 20% from 15 percent 5 years ago, at this accelerated rate, we will be 25% down by 2022.

      Will the magnetic poles keep moving, meeting somewhere in the Indian Ocean or stop and go back to once they came...we don't know but with weak shields and low sunspot activity not only is earth vulnerable but every person on earth as well.

      At some point, it will make a vulnerable man go crazy, a prone man die, or your next baby a monster or a genius.
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      • Posted by Dobrien 4 years, 6 months ago
        Thanks brother
        Lots of influences for the 7,000,000,000 + people
        To navigate. The disgusting waste of money , time and the lack of attention to the remediation of things we can positively influence on leftist causes Like Climate Change. It is a travesty what the great “unwashed” promote.
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  • Posted by exceller 4 years, 6 months ago
    Handling the mental health issue has been with us for decades and it's getting worse.

    It is a problem that States are not able to deal with due to its prevalence and the problems it presents how to diagnose and remedy, without ignoring the many "regulations" set by the gov.

    Bureaucrats will not touch it. They are incompetent to solve a grave issue like this.
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    • Posted by $ 4 years, 6 months ago
      The son of a very close friend of mine is a teacher in a private school in southern California. He teaches history and this is not a special-needs school, but a school for normal kids. 100% of the boys in the school (hundreds of kids) have autism. 100%. Think about that, and about the long-term ramifications for our society.

      I remember when my mom went expat. She was gone 15 years. When she returned she had one question for me. "What in the hell happened to Americans?" In the 15 years she was gone a notable change had occurred while most of us were sitting here like frogs in a pot of warm water. But, to her it was clear as day. Something was wrong. I wasn't sure then. But, I am now.
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      • Posted by $ 25n56il4 4 years, 6 months ago
        When my oldest child was in the third grade, his teacher (not a doctor) advised me that he needed attention getting medication. I told her to take a Valium. His IQ was off the scale and she was boring him to death. He graduated from college Sumna Cum Laud and only completed the 9th grade in high school! He drove a tank in the Army for 3 years. He is the most normal person I ever met!
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      • Posted by Mitch 4 years, 6 months ago
        I agree something is off, not everyone is wondering into the oblivion, aimlessly, though. These people are building the society we will be forced to live in, unless we act. I think it’s deliberate and the people enacting are simply tools, they don’t realize the harm they are inflicting upon our society. Where as the types like George Soros have an agenda to collapse capitalism; I’m sure that a lot of this stuff can be tied back to Soros.

        Do you really think that 100% of those boys with autism really have autism? Do the drugs make parenting easier?
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        • Posted by Solver 4 years, 6 months ago
          More like, “We must have change! Let’s burn down society and hope something better rises from the ashes.”
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          • Posted by Dobrien 4 years, 6 months ago
            It is obvious everything pushed by the media and pop culture is decaying US. You can’t have the 📺 on and not see an add for anti depressants.
            Just saw one being advertised to boost the poison you are already taking. Funny during the commercial they state that two out of three people on anti-depressants find it isn’t enough. That .333 average in baseball gets you to the Hall of Fame but in anything else it’s a fail.
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        • Posted by exceller 4 years, 6 months ago
          "I think it’s deliberate and the people enacting are simply tools, they don’t realize the harm they are inflicting upon our society."

          I take issue with that statement. I think they are very well aware of what it does to society. That is the goal: to "change" society. For us it is harm, for them it is "change for the better".

          That "better" is a communist gulag, with the DS in control.

          On the role of Soros: the same enablers consider Soros an essential part in their efforts.

          Some time ago I asked a friend what did he think of Soros. His answer was: "He is good".

          I did not ask him to elaborate. He is one of the brainwashed on the left.
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          • Posted by Mitch 4 years, 6 months ago
            I agree with you that they want these changes, I’m saying that they have been lied to that it’s a good thing; 40 years of brainwashing takes a toll. People like you and me and see that these policies will end us. It’s the evil SOB like Soros that collapses a countries money system for fun and profit, I’m saying that they are tools of this class of asshole.
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            • Posted by exceller 4 years, 6 months ago
              Yes.

              One of the posters on these pages was referring to a conversation with someone whom he considered informed and intelligent.

              That person insisted that "people want socialism". When the poster challenged him with facts that socialism/communism is not a viable system and there has not been any evidence throughout history that it worked in any country, he replied that "people want to experience it and know how it works" before discarding it.

              How do you argue against such an idiotic opinion?

              "We have to pass it to know what's in it" comes to mind. It is a modernized version of "Those who don't know history repeat it" - with the exception that WE KNOW HISTORY. Despite the fact of the left's ever persistent drive to change it.
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              • Posted by Pecuniology 4 years, 6 months ago
                When I was a child, I had a book of joke that included the story of Little Mable Moneybags that is relevant here, mutatiis mutandis.

                Little Mable Moneybags was a very privileged little girl, who wanted for nothing. One day, her teacher instructed her to write a story about a poor family.

                "Once upon a time, there was a family that was frightfully, frightfully poor. The mommy was poor, and the daddy was poor. Their daughter was poor, and her puppy and her kitty were poor. Her pony was poor, and the father's racehorses were poor. The chauffeur was poor, and the butler was poor. The family chef was poor, and the maids were all poor. The goundskeeper was poor, and the yacht captain was poor. They were all frightfully, frightfully poor."

                If one changed the word poor to socialist, then one would have an idea of how American 'socialists' view socialism.
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