Worrisome Predictions for 2023

Roman street vendor in Pompeii

In our western, vastly declining world, it is depressing and scary to make predictions for 2023 because we never know what other variables may intervene that may skew our reasonable forecasts based on current facts.

Several podcasters have made projections recently as we approach the end of 2022.  Some of the predictions are based on common sense, available data, economic trends that don’t seem to add up, others can be found in plain sight, and others are based on events that are unfolding as we speak.

Several medical doctors have predicted that vaccine deaths will accelerate, and infertility and stillbirths will “explode” around the world. This is certainly based on statistical data coming from various countries that have reported a drastic decrease in births, including South Korea and death statistics. Whether there is a correlation between Covid-19 vaccinations, increased death rates, and infertility or stillbirths, that remains to be studied over time.

Larry Scott Spiegelman, MD., OBGYN in South Florida said that studies on infertility looked at sperm counts before and after vaccination and found absolutely no change. “And to date nobody has shown any signs of infertility as a result of the vaccine up to 42 days after receiving a full dose.”  What about after 42 days? The Truth About COVID-19 Vaccines and Infertility | Resource | Baptist Health South Florida

Following the dictates of the Paris accord, It is not difficult to see that Europe is committing government-sanctioned societal suicide by destroying the fossil fuel industry that provides them with the energy necessary to run a developed economy.  They are also destroying fertilizers and the farmers’ ability to grow food.

The climate change globalists consider domesticated animals too flatulent and, to reduce the methane gas, humans should kill off as many farm animals as possible and eat fake meat or insects.

Crop failures and food scarcity are on the horizon when all fertilizer producers, including those in Ukraine, are taken out of production.

The Russian-Ukrainian war added more fuel (no pun intended) to the European fire of destruction of the fossil fuel industry, oil, and gas.

BASF, one of the largest conglomerates in Germany, is moving its operations permanently to China where energy is cheaper and plentiful. https://www.ft.com/content/f6d2fe70-16fb-4d81-a26a-3afb93e0bf57

The nuclear industry and the hydroelectric power generation are also taking a hit, replaced by wind and solar energy generation which does not even come close to providing the Europeans and other developed nations with what they need in terms of industrial and home energy.

Inflation will accelerate, a no brainer, based on the expensive energy and shortages of so many goods and services and the inability to produce and deliver goods across the world in a timely fashion.

Money, including the U.S. dollar and the petrodollar, will be replaced by government-mandated digital currency which will control where you spend your money, how much, whether you are a compliant-citizen, and your social score is good enough.  

You will be allotted gas credits each month, based on how far you are allowed to travel in your current car which may or may not be electric but it will have a kill-switch; how much money you can spend on medicines, which doctors you may see, whether you will be allowed into a hospital or not, which schools you may attend, and where you can work.

You will be taxed at higher and higher rates, whatever the government and their “banksters” will decide, and you will be allowed so much for food per day, based on caloric intake permitted by your job. Rationing of money, goods, and services will be controlled by government with their fingers on your digital currency.

The escalating inflation will trigger more government bailouts/handouts for collapsing industries like the Teamsters Union. Biden used $36 billion from the American Rescue Plan, the $1.9 trillion corona virus relief package signed into law in 2021 and gave it to the Teamsters Union to prevent severe cuts to the retirement incomes of 350,000 Teamster workers and retirees, a very convenient bailout for his supporters harmed by the very inflation Joe Biden’s policies have created. President Biden releasing $36 billion to aid pensions of union workers (cnbc.com)

More fuel scarcity will be caused by Joe Biden’s policies and the climate change industry which will demand climate lockdowns based on consumer behavior and social scores.

There will be more population revolts across the globe against governments that have stolen elections like in Brazil, angry that gasoline and natural gas are expensive and in short supply on purpose. Revolts will also flare up more against new pandemic-induced lockdowns.

There will be more pushbacks against social platforms like Twitter and Meta who still suspend access and the freedom of speech of conservatives and libertarians.

Twitter employees, behaving like the immature and entitled children that they are, have suspended President Trump, the most powerful president in the world, from their social platform, but allowed the Ayatollah on Twitter.

What would have happened if Iran had attacked the U.S. and President Trump would not have been able to communicate with the American people on our own social platforms? Have these Twitter employees, behaving like their office is a day care, gym, coffee shop, yoga meditation, and sandwich bistro, thought about the countrywide consequences of their hatred for Trump?

People are going to continue home schooling, as the quality of education in the U.S. is getting worse, and the transgender revolution is destroying the family and morals.

As inflation spikes and food shortages will become more common, people will do more home gardening, bartering for food, swapping seeds, swapping services, and building more community gardens than are currently in use.

Mike Adams predicts that the dollar might be replaced with Goldbacks and junk silver. Goldbacks are notes which contain a certain minimum of gold foil imbedded into the currency which will not have a face value and are issued with different state names on it. https://www.apmex.com/product/204989/1-utah-goldback-aurum-gold-foil-note-24k?msclkid=914e821026ae143e3f06e18a35151466&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utam_campaign=CPA%20-%20Gold&utm_term=gold%20backs&utm_content=Goldbacks

Junk silver represents coins circulating before 1965 which contain 90% silver. Their value is based on the content of metal and not on the collectability or condition. They have value but collectors are not interested in them as coins.

Finally, another worrisome prediction involves the scarcity and distribution of medicines and medical equipment, which will affect the overall health and survivability of the population in general.

 

Christmas Cards

My Christmas card a few years ago when my fur baby Bogart 
was still alive.

I grew up with many old-world traditions, some fun, some different, none of which included the lovely gift of card writing at Christmas time. 

In my adopted country, I learned to love the simple gesture of sending a card during Christmas, to remind friends and relatives that they matter to us, that we are family, perhaps through friendship or through acquaintance. 

Sir Henry Cole, the founder of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, is credited with the invention of the first Christmas card in 1843. With the help of the Penny Post, everybody could afford to send greetings to loved ones.

In 1875, Luis Prang made the first American Christmas card in his Boston print shop. Today Americans send 1.6 billion cards annually and who knows how many electronic animated cards. I get at least a couple every year and they are delightful.

As a writer, it gives me joy to send cards, to remind in writing to the few left in my family that we all matter to each other, and celebrations like Christmas are not just to decorate a tree, have a party, get an ugly sweater, be ”merry” and drink, eat a lot of special foods that moms, sisters, aunts, grandmas have prepared with love, but to let one another remember that we matter, that we live, and that we still exist in this world that nobody truly understands and appreciates.

My mom left this world six months ago. There is not a day that goes by that I do not think about all the wonderful people, things and memories she created on this earth and left behind. It would take another lifetime to remember them all.

As I get older, I have fewer and fewer relatives and friends left, and this year, so far, I got four cards, but I am happy that those four are alive and doing well.

Merry Christmas and Healthy New Year 2023!

Pigments, Purple, and the Phoenicians

Herodotus, the “father of modern history,” a Persian subject, wrote his famous book, Histories, a detailed account of the Greco-Persian wars, the lives of important kings, and famous battles such as Marathon. He provided a cultural background to battles from the standpoint of geography, ethnography, and historiography.

His contemporaries accused him of providing “legends and fanciful accounts” in his Histories. Herodotus defended himself that he wrote what he “saw and [what was] told to him.” But a large portion of his accounts have been confirmed by modern historians and archeologists.

Herodotus traveled extensively, collecting materials and impressions for his book. On this journey of historical discovery, Herodotus, not a rich man, was probably a sailor and merchant, the preferred trades of most adventurers of those times.

Herodotus wrote about the Phoenicians, inhabitants of a coastal strip of land in the eastern part of the Mediterranean, land that is today Lebanon. The Bible refers to these Phoenicians as Canaanites.

Phoenicia translates as the “land of purple.” Famous for their rare and beautiful purple dye, Phoenicians from the cities of Sidon and Tyre also made fine glassware, colored beads, bottles, vases, goblets, delicate carvings of wood and ivory, richly embroidered fabrics, and decorative items made of precious metals.

Homer described Sidonian silver as “the most beautiful in the world.” When craftsmen from Tyre built Solomon’s temple and palace, they decorated it with exquisite ornaments of gold and silver.

Invaders forced the Canaanites in 1200 B.C. to start a maritime empire as traders along the Mediterranean between 12^th and 8^th centuries B.C., covering its ports of the known world at the time.

Inventors of glass blowing and of an alphabet that eventually became the basis of most written alphabets, the Phoenicians were also recognized for their purple dye which Imperial Romans used to color their official togas adorned with Tyrian purple.

Purple symbolized power and rank in the Roman Empire. Emperors adorned their bodies with purple tunics, senators wore tunics with a double purple stripe down the front; and other nobles wore a narrow stripe down from each shoulder.

The purple dye survived as a commodity long after the western Roman Empire had fallen. Europeans bought the dye from Levant through the Middle Ages. Phoenicia had fallen by then to the Saracens (North African Muslims).

How did the Phoenicians make their sought-after and expensive purple dye? Their shores were blessed with two kinds of shellfish, the murex and the buccinum. Each had a long sack or vein filled with a yellow fluid which turned purple when exposed to light. In the Phoenician main cities, Tyre and Sidon, the dye harvesting became a major industry.

To trap the mollusks, the fishermen gathered them in deep water in narrow-opened baskets baited with mussels and frog meat. Once trapped, the shells were brought to dye pits where the sacks were removed, pulped, and heated in vessels made of lead in the process of removing any other biological matter present. According to historians, a “fixative” was added to make the dye color fast.

The mollusk pits were located away from residential areas as the smell around them was quite unbearable and it took three days for the fluid to dry. Tons of shells were found near Tyre and Sidon, evidence of the massive overfishing which caused near-extinction of the murex and buccinum in the waters of Phoenicia.

It was estimated that 10,000 shellfish produced just one gram of Tyrian purple dye, just enough pigment to dye the hem of one garment. Wearing something dyed fully in some shade of purple would have cost a fortune.

Next time you wear purple, remember the expensive Tyrian purple. Beautiful pigments have been a luxury for century for most humans, only the rich could afford stunning-colored silks and cloth.

Some paint pigments were rare and quite expensive during George Washington’s time. For example, he imported a beautiful teal green color paint from England to have his dining room walls covered in this shade at Mount Vernon.

Another rare and expensive color is Lapis Lazuli blue. As a matter of fact, the only people who used it first were the ancient Egyptians. Lapis Lazuli blue was priced as its weight in gold. This Lapis Lazuli blue did not come to Europe until the 14^th century.

A more recent color is YInMn Blue, discovered by researchers at the University of Oregon in 2009, used in plastics and industrial coating by 2017 and accepted as safe by EPA in 2021. A mere 1.3 oz. cost $179.40.

Old Masters’ pigments were made of various minerals and clay. An interesting color, Prussian Blue, was invented in 1710, the first modern synthetic pigment made by oxidation of ferrous ferrocyanide salts, replacing the expensive lapis lazuli dye. Cobalt Blue was invented in early 19^th century.

A perfectly red color is vermilion, a scarlet pigment from a mineral, cinnabar (kinnabari in Greek) born from volcanic activity and alkaline hot springs. The crystals are red in color but also contain a heavy silvery-white toxic liquid metal element of mercury. Cinnabar used to be called “dragon’s blood.” It was used in antiquity by many cultures.

Luxurious color hues, azure blue, flaming reds, vibrant greens, pure gold were shades that once only the rich could afford. The vast array of artificial colors today gives us a range of beautiful garments that are in some way, richer than the richest royals ever had and any ordinary citizen can afford them. It does not cost a fortune to have one’s favorite gown dyed a certain color.

Having grown up in the poverty of communism, our clothes and school uniforms came in the ugliest, drabbest shades of black, brown, ink blue, and grey. But, using plant pigments she found in the country, grandma was able to dye scratchy wool yarn strange shades of green, yellow, ochre, and a washed-up maroon. I made a promise to myself that, if I was ever able to afford beautiful clothes, I would only wear bright colors, hence my fascination with Lilly Pulitzer prints and vivid colors.

The Bubonic Plague Pandemic of 1348

Walsham le Willows today

The bubonic plague pandemic of 1348 England killed off a third of its population. As many as three generations of men were killed, allowing a single male heir, sometimes a woman, to inherit property from multiple peasant farms, making them more economically sound and increasing their wealth.

The bubonic plague was caused by a bacterium, Yersinia pestis, previously unknown to 14th century English. The black ‘buboes,’ which were used to describe the pestilence in the 17^th century as the Black Death, emerged in the area close to where the bacterium entered the body. Contact with donated clothes after the death of a family member spread the plague like wildfire.

There were three types of plague, based on the route of infection:

1.      Bubonic plague was spread by fleas from small animals and body fluids from dead ones – 30-90% of those infected die within ten days unless treated with antibiotics.

2.      Septicemic plague was spread by infected blood from flea bites.

3.      Pneumonic plague was caused by exposure to the cough (airborne droplets) of an infected individual or may have been the result of the initial flea bite and then following septicemic plague infection. This type is almost always deadly unless treated with antibiotics.

After the plague ended in 1349, the nobility could not find people to fill positions [wages rose to such an extent that a law was passed to convince peasants to accept wages from the pre-plague period; it did not work] and were forced to offer incentives never before given to the peasant class. For example, records reveal that a peasant was seen plowing the land in noblemen’s attire, with holes and tears, but a nobleman’s clothing nevertheless, as an incentive to do the work.

In the village of Walsham, about 100 miles north of London and 26 miles west from the port of Ipswich, the Black Death [the name was not used until seventeenth century] arrived in 1349. Out of the 1,200 residents on tax rolls, half died from the plague. Expecting the Black Death to arrive, records show that some peasants decided to go to the pub and get drunk instead of showing up for work. They knew death was imminent, why not have fun one last time?

In one family, William Cranmer’s family, the tax records show that three generations died within a couple of weeks, the grandfather, the father, and the brother of Olivia Cranmer. She was mentioned previously in tax records as having had to pay a few shillings in penalty taxes for having given birth to a child out of wedlock. The landlord of the manor had her married to a landed farmer named Robert, who also died of the plague.

The death records from the bubonic plague were accurate because each peasant had to pay a death tax, i.e. a horse, a cow, a yew, or whatever animal the family had.

As a survivor, Olivia inherited a total of 40 acres of land. But how was tax on the property going to be paid since women were not allowed to own property? To fix this problem, the lord and the tax collector allowed Olivia to become a landowner legally, thus being able to pay taxes on her 40-acre farm.

Olivia lived comfortably into her sixties, a remarkable age in medieval times, but especially since she survived the bubonic plague. She was in good condition financially, as she received a pension.

Many women in this period benefited from the Black Death financially. They were even allowed to become apprentices in different professions, traditionally only performed by men.

Waves of subsequent bubonic plagues followed, and it will be 300 years before the population of England grew to the pre-pandemic numbers of 1348.

The Cranmer Farm still exists today in the village of Walsham and farming continues on the same acreage as it was done during the medieval period by William Cranmer when the plague hit in 1349 and claimed the lives of so many of his family members.

Historical Narratives and Should We Change Them to Fit our Modern Culture?

As history is being modified in front of our eyes, to match the narrative of the ruling political class and of the billionaire elites running the tech industry and other crony capitalist empires, one wonders what parts of our history that we believed to be true and accurate have been embellishments of writers from long ago, with their own agendas, or perhaps writing years, decades, and centuries after the fact?

Are historical events based on fact, are they part of surviving records, or have they been orally transmitted, or mis-translated unintentionally from an obscure language and text by a scribe or scholar with good or nefarious intentions?

Pictograms on cave walls, on exterior rocks, before writing had been invented, hieroglyphs on pharaonic tombs, cuneiform writing on tablets, recorded important events in the lives of those who existed thousands of years before us.

Was writing invented to record major events in people’s lives, such as wars, conquests, tribal leaders, life under rulers, births, marriages, disasters? Did people attempt to give more meaning to their lives, to prove that they had existed?

People across the centuries left behind poems and books, epic poems, works of art, their autobiographies, biographies of others, built fancy mausoleums, pyramids, cathedrals, churches, monuments, arches, aqueducts, ancient roads like the Roman Via Appia, still existing in some parts of Italy today, and statues that commemorated their existence, moments in time, significant achievements, defeat, and victories in their lives.  

Their efforts, if they survived the ravages of time and of robbers, and the destruction of those who disagreed with them or fought them in wars, became sources for historical record, including famous epic poems in various cultures such as the Odyssey and the Epic of Gilgamesh from Mesopotamia, the earliest surviving literary text and the second oldest religious text.

Another epic poem, the Iliad, attributed to Homer, although not a historical work, was used at times as a building block for our collective history. But it was not written until the sixth century B.C. in Homeric Greek.

The world’s recorded history probably started with Herodotus when the Roman orator Cicero called him “the parent of history” two thousand years ago. He began writing history the way we understand history today, not the will of some gods from the Roman or Greek Pantheon, but history with real and specific causes, a systemic investigation of geography, geology, politics, and economics.  

Herodotus (484-425 B.C.) wrote his Histories, a detailed account of the Greco-Persian wars, the lives of important kings, and famous battles such as Marathon, Thermopylae, Artemisium, Salamis, Plataea, and Mycale. He also provided a cultural background to the battles from the standpoint of geography, ethnography (the scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures), and historiography (the study of historical writing).

His contemporaries accused him of providing “legends and fanciful accounts” in his Histories. Herodotus defended himself that he wrote what he “saw and [what was] told to him.” But a large portion of his accounts have been confirmed by modern historians and archeologists.

Herodotus was born in Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire at that time; although a Persian subject, he spoke Greek in its Ionian dialect. He was likely schooled in this dialect and studied the works of the Greek poets Homer, Hesiod, and Sappho. The writing gift ran in the family – his uncle Panyassis was a famous poet.

Herodotus traveled extensively, collecting materials and impressions for his book. On this journey of historical discovery, Herodotus, not a rich man, was probably a sailor and merchant, the preferred trade of most adventurers of those times.

It is evident from his book that he admired Athens very much and it stands out in his writings. While in Athens, he met a lot of influential people, i.e., Pericles, a politician and general, dubbed “the first citizen of Athens,” and Sophocles, the Greek playwright.

In 446 B.C. Herodotus read his Histories in Athens publicly - he was so admired that he was rewarded with ten talents, a considerable sum of money in antiquity, with specific weights in gold and silver.

Traveling as a citizen without a country, Herodotus wandered until he established himself in the city-state of Thurii (the modern Calabria in Italy) where he became a citizen, and it is believed that he wrote his Histories in this town, in Ionian dialect, and it is here that he died at the age of 55.

History (from the Greek word, historia, inquiry) studies and documents the past. But history is not just documents, it records in writing the memory of others, the discovery and collection of facts, and how they are interpreted by using written documents, oral accounts (skewed perhaps on purpose, or lost by the passage of time), artifacts, and studying new or old materials such as dirt strata, fauna, flora, tattoos, utensils, pottery, weapons, etc.

Modern historians debate constructively or not, how to interpret new evidence and sources. Should we judge history and change it based on our modern standards of morality and culture that may differ from the past?

Searching for the past allows us to better understand the present. But we should not alter the past to appease those who are offended by historical facts that they deem unacceptable in our cultures today. No matter what historical sources we reference and consider, whether we agree with them or not, all comprise the history of humanity, a history we can learn a myriad of lessons from, a history which is evidence of our collective existence across the millennia.

 

 

 

 

Incitatus, Political Ineptitude, and Senators

When in Rome, do as the Romans do. – attributed to St. Augustine

The Roman Empire lasted over a period of 1,000 years, beginning with the 27 B.C., and ending in the East with the Byzantine Empire. The Roman Empire is the post-Republican period of ancient Rome, and it stretched around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia. It was ruled by emperors, with the capital Rome in Latium until 476 A.D.

The imperial insignia was sent to Constantinople (the Eastern Empire eventually became the Byzantine Empire) after the capture of the Western Empire capital in Ravenna by Germanic barbarians when the last Emperor Romulus Augustus was deposed by the barbarian leader Odoacer.

The end of classical antiquity is considered 380 A.D. when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. According to historians, the Middle Ages began after this significant event.

There were approximately 185 emperors in the Western and Eastern Empire throughout its tumultuous history, some better than others.

The Roman Empire died slowly for many reasons, i.e., greed, political ineptitude, criminality, imperial insanity, murder, immorality, expansion across the globe, far and wide colonization mismanagement, severe political corruption, military campaigns, lead poisoning causing severe debilitations, sexual perversions and depravity, barbaric tribal invasions, and more.

Historians, often writing years and decades after specific emperors had died, with prejudice and often minimal and biased sources, have been considered as the ultimate source of information for that period.

Suetonius wrote in the Lives of the Twelve Caesars (121 A.D.) about Caligula’s (third Roman Emperor) alleged deeds and intentions during his reign (37-41 A.D.).

Caligula planned, derisively perhaps, to make his beloved horse, Incitatus (Fast Moving in Latin), a consul. The equine Incitatus would welcome politicians and patricians to dine with him in a house where servants fed him in a marble stable with an ivory manger and imperial purple blankets. Incitatus was purportedly adorned with a collar of precious gems.

Cassius Dio (155-235 A.D.) wrote that Incitatus was fed oats mixed with gold flakes and Caligula had made him a priest.

These accounts were discredited by some historians who believed that the current emperors were perhaps discrediting previous emperors, or the writers were after more readership indulged by sensationalism. Some historians wrote that perhaps Caligula had intended to provoke the Senate staffed initially by 100 senex (“old men”) from the patrician class, whose jobs were so easy to perform that even a horse could do it.

There is no solid evidence that Incitatus was ever made a consul. The story of Incitatus seems to exemplify political ineptitude.

There is a record via Josephus, writing under his emperor-patron Vespasian, that the “mad” Emperor Caligula tried to have a statue of himself installed in the Temple of Jerusalem in 39 and 40 A.D. Had he not been murdered in 41 A.D., this desecration would have started a war as the Jews would not have taken kindly to such an insult.

The history of the Roman emperors is brutal, as the use of violence was a typical method to obtain and to keep power. For example, the reigns of both Claudius and Caligula had been blood-soaked.

According to the World History Encyclopedia, there were initially 100, then 300 members of the Senate chosen from the patrician class during the 3^rd century B.C. During the reforms of Sulla in 81 B.C., the number increased to 500 senex. Julius Caesar increased the number to 900, some of whom came from non-patrician classes, important individuals from cities. Augustus reduced that number to around 600. Roman Senate - World History Encyclopedia

Roman Senators served for life and their rank “carried certain privileges such as the right to wear a toga with Tyrian purple stripe (latus clavus), a senatorial ring, special shoes, an epithet (later with three ranks: clarissimi, spectabiles, illustres), certain fiscal benefits, and the best seats at public festivals and games.” Senators could not leave Italy without the entire Senate’s approval, could not own large ships, or bid for state contracts. Roman Senate - World History Encyclopedia

How things have changed over the centuries! All it takes today to become one of the 100 powerful Senators, often for life, is an ignorant populace who votes by mail because they might get sick with a virus they are vaccinated and boosted against, swayed by a brainwashing and disingenuous main stream media, the deep pockets of a few elites interested in the election of the candidate they support, and sufficient boxes of ballots “cast” for Democrats by dead Americans and illegals, found miraculously in dark hidden places, and then counted weeks and weeks after election day.

The American Left Marches to Deliver Cultural Marxism

The midterm elections are over. The predicted red tsunami fizzled to a few bubbles in a washtub. The blues have won again. Who chose the color for the conservative party to be red and the socialists to be blue? Was this another ploy to conceal how communist red the Democrat Party had become?

Congress barely returned to the GOP with a razor thin margin and, as such, will predictably do nothing to salvage what is left of the country and of the economy. The Socialist Democrats have been re-elected in most states and their new brethren joined them in Congress.

The Millennials and the Generation Z have turned up to vote, in uncharacteristically high numbers, motivated by the abortion slogan, ‘my right, my body.' They needed a venue besides TikTok to whine about their pronouns, facial rings, tattoos, having to work, and having to pay for their social justice college degrees.

Generation Z voters and Millennials are destroying the west. Their brainwashed, uninformed, and drug-happy individuals drive the narrative in the mainstream media and through outrageous and nonsensical acts of civil disobedience. They are malleable tools/fools in the arsenal of the rich globalists and American elitists, the “useful idiots” the Soviets described artfully.

Older generations, dedicated to their ways of voting, are helping in the destruction because they are swayed by the media, happy to read the communist papers, too tired to search for themselves, or entrenched in their old Democrat Party, not understanding that the Democrat Party had been hijacked long time ago by the Soviet commie activists who had promised that they will turn America into communism through miseducation.

It is important to lefties that abortion, marijuana, and other debauched ways be continued under the Democrat Party who promises perennial welfare and does not shy away from introducing more perversions and immorality into public schools, starting in kindergarten.

As you destroy the western civilization, Millennials and Generation Z, remember that there is no such thing as a free meal and socialist dictators are not very tolerant, and your debauched and crazy lifestyle will come to an end in a truly socialist society.

Gen Z and Millennials, as you are actively destroying your country, screaming in public that you want a better future, free of climate change, and you are tired of capitalism, remember that, once you are at the mercy of the totalitarian government, all the benefits afforded to you by a capitalist economy will cease to exist.

Destroying public property, chaining yourselves on major streets, and gluing yourselves to priceless works of art, while screaming that “the planet is dying, stop using fossil fuels,” you are shooting yourselves in the proverbial foot and worse.

Without fossil fuels, life as you know it, will cease to exist. You will be very cold, very hot, in the dark, unable to go very far, no smart devices, no food, no water, no sanitation, no medical care, no medicines, no cars, everything that you enjoy and makes life worth living will disappear and you will exist in a state of constant misery and pain unlike any you can possibly imagine. You will be just a cog in the government machine, you will own nothing, and be forcibly happy about it.

You are going to have to work in many unpleasant and undesirable jobs and locations, wherever the communist party in charge of the government tells you to go. The TikTok barista whining and crying about how hard his job at Starbucks is, where there are too many customers and not enough help for the baristas, will be history.

As you cry that your human “rights’ are taken away from you and you cannot have an abortion on demand in your neighborhood, and even kill your baby after it is born, remember that dictatorial regimes do not offer abortions at all, and it is harder and more expensive to even find birth control pills. Nobody offers them to you for free and you cannot demand or get any freebies.

Employees at Twitter, Facebook, and Google, while you enjoy safe spaces to find yourselves, yoga, free health food, lattes, free daycare, free gyms, and other obscene benefits at work, remember that socialist regimes do not give you such a work environment, on the contrary, you get bare minimums, and your “rights” are constantly infringed upon and even taken away at the comrade in charge’s whims.

I did not grow up in America, but I experienced the tail end of the seventies when the journalist liars and brazen socialists anchored the five channels we could watch, the same famous media “giants” and personalities who kept us in the dark with their monopoly on public opinion and asymmetric information.

Before the social media arrived in the twenty-first century, we venerated these public opinion shapers, adopting their Democrat Socialism one report and one news hour at a time, while we firmly believed that we had “capitalism,” i.e., free markets, fair elections, and an American culture free of indoctrination by media stars, public schools, and academia.

It is not the social media that caused the fundamental transformation of society, it is the owners and executive of various corporate boards, colleges, schools, who control the platforms, aiding and abetting the “deconstruction of American education” which is now identified as cultural Marxism. People smarter than I am know that, to fix this problem, we must have technology in the right hands. But who decides what the right hands are?

Technology so far, fully in the hands of the “woke and progressive” generations, has stifled debate and divergent opinions through heavy censorship on their social platforms and ad hominem attacks, and has controlled what they deem “disinformation” and “misinformation” by using and citing as reliable sources the same news media empires who had helped shape the Cultural Marxist public opinion in the first place.

Woke-ism is now present in many TV shows, movies, series, and books.

Publishers no longer pretend to print books by conservative or libertarian authors. The bookstores are drowning in woke and liberal authors, on more outrageous topics than one can recount, authors whose ramblings are not worthy of publishing but come in many editions. Democrat Socialist politicians have many books in print, dedicated to their “accomplishments.”

Formerly family-friendly channels have adopted scripts and made movies in which the characters represent racial diversity (even when the original books were written for Caucasian characters), homosexuality, transgenderism, social justice, and other topics dear to the woke generation’s heart.

Ads present non-whites as more intelligent and the “dumb” white people have either disappeared, have a minor role, or a non-speaking part in the ads.

Characters in movies and TikTok video “celebs” sport heavy facial rings, more tattoos than ever, and pink, green, orange, purple, and blue hair.

Unattractive and fat men pretend to be women, models, women sports contestants, and beauty pageant winners. Dishonest reporters of all stripes address the woke pretenders with the pronouns of their fantasy reality, further distorting truth, and making an insane mockery of biology. In this insane world, men can have babies, and women must share a bathroom with men suffering from dysphoria.

The American left marches on to deliver Cultural Marxism. Everything degenerate and immoral goes as America devolves into the days, months, and years of a comatose empire moving into a reality worthy of the twilight zone.