I think the screed by the one anon about the dork playing a GBA in a bar and street performers might be the best tweets you've ever featured. But I might be biased because when I worked in the service industry I became 100% convinced that background music played at restaurants, coffee shops, parks, and literally every public place is a psy-op designed to make meaningful interactions and community building in third places impossible with Top 40 auditory terrorism being pumped at 170 decibels right over your head (and don't try telling the owner that dozens of customers have complained that the music is too loud because you don't understand that having Megan Trainor and the Chainsmokers blasting all hours of the day creates "ambience", you stupid pleb). Also it convinced me that Ed Sheeran was meticulously and scientifically crafted in a lab by a government agency that doesn't exist on paper as a psychological weapon against service industry employees everywhere.
Roger Scruton has a great piece on it called "The Tyranny of Pop Music", but I think Anon takes it to the next level.
I've found 1 (1!) restaurant in our city that plays only light classical music in the background, and has no screens. It's a Chinese place, they have some Yo-Yo Ma disc on repeat. Have had it on repeat for 10 years. When I have lunch there with associates we stay for hours buying sake and having a nice conversation.
If these restaurant managers and owners dumped all the screens and changed the music they'd legit make more money.
That's the business model of half the restaurants in Europe because the markup on drinks is much higher than on food and the labor required to serve alcohol is minimal. Not sure why so many restaurants have turned into noisy fast foods. Probably the proliferation of penny pinching patrons.
Europe sounds nice. In the US, it's bizarre. It's almost like they DON'T want us there. Just pay the money, get the food, wolf it down, and leave. I wonder if the blaring music and screens are part of that. Typically American, honestly.
There was an Italian theologian many years ago who claimed that fast food is Protestant, and that the reason for the difference in eating habits is due to the influence of the different religions in the respective lands.
The point of background music is to eliminate silence. Silence is nice but it's not secure or stable. A guy having a loud conversation on his phone outside becomes the most important person in the room.
The point about suicide is a perfect expression of modernity. It is a combination of "do as though wilt" and "everything has to be observed and applauded by others". For instance, the LGBQWERTY types could probably have trundled off to piss on each other in dark nightclubs whilst dressed in rubber suits and no-one would really have cared. But they just HAD to have everyone tell them they were marvellous. The lanyards, the parades, the jobs and NGOs, the new laws, the banning of criticism, the PrEP and PEP. It's a simultaneous demand to both be ignored and feted, a little like the Gameboy weirdo as well actually.
It's a spiritual childhood whereby these creatures are too immature to be content in their own skin yet demand the rights of the mature and capable.
Something to keep an eye on: Matt Taibbi has apparently been working on FOIA requests regarding censorship and just today released a ton of information.
Haven't read through it yet, but certainly important for anyone who cares about this type of stuff.
It's funny that Brianna Wu was mentioned by you today, I think a lot of what we see now regarding censorship really grew out of the groundwork of a lot of that stuff and the ongoing battles with people like kiwifarms and liz fong jones.
Like there's the battle of the ideas, but there's the ongoing underlying battle for the infrastructure and ability to freely share those ideas.
Not really a new thing, but just something to always keep an eye on.
Utah certainly has some beautiful places but the inhabited areas are some of the ugliest examples of strip mall America suburban car centric hell I've had the displeasure of driving past/through.
I'm not 100% in love with Scorched Earth Policy's views on books, but I will gleefully join him in the jihad against those gas pumps that blast sonic diarrhea at the customer.
What I'm saying is, there are days when I am depressed at the destruction of American society, and then there are the days when the gas machine decides I need to hear about Taylor Swift.
Re: Hotchman, de-Americanization is bad enough, but until they're breaking up families and shipping them to sub-zero labor camps, it isn't quite yet dekulakization.
I often think about my dumb, yet undeniably gritty ancestors coming upon the Great Salt Lake and the moment of indescribable joy they must've felt.. Then the devastating disappointment at the realization that the water can't be used... Yet still deciding to live there!
And despite being successfully cultivated and settled, that place still wants to kick you out. The air itself tries to smother you. The average view from an apartment in SLC is so concrete-y and depressing that it temps you to jump off a balcony.
Utah doesn't want to be lived in! She tries to tell you in any way she can, yet people insist. SMH
The lazy way of writing 15,000 words is to repeat ideas you’ve said many times before and that aren’t really relevant to the conversation. Yarvin was guilty of this in his debate with Rufo as well. Which is a shame, because Rufo is owed better takedowns.
I think the screed by the one anon about the dork playing a GBA in a bar and street performers might be the best tweets you've ever featured. But I might be biased because when I worked in the service industry I became 100% convinced that background music played at restaurants, coffee shops, parks, and literally every public place is a psy-op designed to make meaningful interactions and community building in third places impossible with Top 40 auditory terrorism being pumped at 170 decibels right over your head (and don't try telling the owner that dozens of customers have complained that the music is too loud because you don't understand that having Megan Trainor and the Chainsmokers blasting all hours of the day creates "ambience", you stupid pleb). Also it convinced me that Ed Sheeran was meticulously and scientifically crafted in a lab by a government agency that doesn't exist on paper as a psychological weapon against service industry employees everywhere.
Roger Scruton has a great piece on it called "The Tyranny of Pop Music", but I think Anon takes it to the next level.
I've found 1 (1!) restaurant in our city that plays only light classical music in the background, and has no screens. It's a Chinese place, they have some Yo-Yo Ma disc on repeat. Have had it on repeat for 10 years. When I have lunch there with associates we stay for hours buying sake and having a nice conversation.
If these restaurant managers and owners dumped all the screens and changed the music they'd legit make more money.
That's the business model of half the restaurants in Europe because the markup on drinks is much higher than on food and the labor required to serve alcohol is minimal. Not sure why so many restaurants have turned into noisy fast foods. Probably the proliferation of penny pinching patrons.
Europe sounds nice. In the US, it's bizarre. It's almost like they DON'T want us there. Just pay the money, get the food, wolf it down, and leave. I wonder if the blaring music and screens are part of that. Typically American, honestly.
There was an Italian theologian many years ago who claimed that fast food is Protestant, and that the reason for the difference in eating habits is due to the influence of the different religions in the respective lands.
The point of background music is to eliminate silence. Silence is nice but it's not secure or stable. A guy having a loud conversation on his phone outside becomes the most important person in the room.
I'm reviewing that guy's twitter and he has several threads of gold. great find
Yeah he's got a bunch of long rants like this one that we've featured in prev issues.
The point about suicide is a perfect expression of modernity. It is a combination of "do as though wilt" and "everything has to be observed and applauded by others". For instance, the LGBQWERTY types could probably have trundled off to piss on each other in dark nightclubs whilst dressed in rubber suits and no-one would really have cared. But they just HAD to have everyone tell them they were marvellous. The lanyards, the parades, the jobs and NGOs, the new laws, the banning of criticism, the PrEP and PEP. It's a simultaneous demand to both be ignored and feted, a little like the Gameboy weirdo as well actually.
It's a spiritual childhood whereby these creatures are too immature to be content in their own skin yet demand the rights of the mature and capable.
Good post, thanks for the effort.
Something to keep an eye on: Matt Taibbi has apparently been working on FOIA requests regarding censorship and just today released a ton of information.
Haven't read through it yet, but certainly important for anyone who cares about this type of stuff.
Thanks for the tip. I did see something about this and will consider it for next week's Poast.
No worries.
It's funny that Brianna Wu was mentioned by you today, I think a lot of what we see now regarding censorship really grew out of the groundwork of a lot of that stuff and the ongoing battles with people like kiwifarms and liz fong jones.
Like there's the battle of the ideas, but there's the ongoing underlying battle for the infrastructure and ability to freely share those ideas.
Not really a new thing, but just something to always keep an eye on.
She's on the verge of redpilling after dealing with retarded leftists for so long
is she a "she"?
Utah certainly has some beautiful places but the inhabited areas are some of the ugliest examples of strip mall America suburban car centric hell I've had the displeasure of driving past/through.
Everyone thinks the average view out your window is Zion. No, it's Zaxby's.
I'm concerned to see how much you've featured on here that I've already read or seen in the previous week. Great minds think alike.
I'm not 100% in love with Scorched Earth Policy's views on books, but I will gleefully join him in the jihad against those gas pumps that blast sonic diarrhea at the customer.
What I'm saying is, there are days when I am depressed at the destruction of American society, and then there are the days when the gas machine decides I need to hear about Taylor Swift.
There are buttons on either side of these screens at gas pumps. Find the right column and push the second button from the top.
I see what you're saying, and that's a common sense solution, but I'm really hoping for that jihad.
Re: Hotchman, de-Americanization is bad enough, but until they're breaking up families and shipping them to sub-zero labor camps, it isn't quite yet dekulakization.
Really enjoyed Aimee's position on World War T.
Last week I said we need to pray for these people. This week our prayers were answered.
Keep praying, everybody. ✝️
I like that Scorched Earth guy's style 😅
I often think about my dumb, yet undeniably gritty ancestors coming upon the Great Salt Lake and the moment of indescribable joy they must've felt.. Then the devastating disappointment at the realization that the water can't be used... Yet still deciding to live there!
And despite being successfully cultivated and settled, that place still wants to kick you out. The air itself tries to smother you. The average view from an apartment in SLC is so concrete-y and depressing that it temps you to jump off a balcony.
Utah doesn't want to be lived in! She tries to tell you in any way she can, yet people insist. SMH
Yarvins response to Sam Kris wasn’t very good. A lot of his articles these days read as lazy.
I think he's said everything he wants to say. He's been blogging for a long time.
> Writes 15,000 word treatise
> "Lazy"
poor Yarv
The lazy way of writing 15,000 words is to repeat ideas you’ve said many times before and that aren’t really relevant to the conversation. Yarvin was guilty of this in his debate with Rufo as well. Which is a shame, because Rufo is owed better takedowns.
i am not a "post-leftist"
Apologies, the reference has been removed and the intern has been spanked in front of the whole newsroom.
thank you. the paragraph still makes literally no sense whatsoever but i guess that's your business
“What is this about/ Why does this redemption arc need to happen?” (sic): But remember, Dudlee Newrite here has nothing to learn about type and copy.
Consider every typo a fun easter egg for you to find, Joe.