On the not-so-subtleties of human sexual conquest

No matter how you dress it up, *any* interactions based on attraction are only significantly differentiable when relative subtlety or bluntness is considered - and neither one of those concepts is any more objectively sincere—or less coercive—than the other. The only other significant variables beyond that are each party's comprehension—or not—of their own susceptibility to one approach or the other (and, of course, what each party either chooses to do or not do to moderate the inherent cognitive dissonance of such a situation).

Cat calls, small talk, indirect and direct flattery both sincere and dishonest, body language, arbitrary social rituals... all are explicit and conscious manipulations, all are objectification, and the success of any of them relies on both parties' pre-acceptance of a universal social contract stipulating that *some* measure of these behavioral compromises are acceptable. Only intellectual standards are absolute; anything less fundamental is always going to be either subjective or arbitrary or both.

Condemning one extreme of an inherently exploitative behavioral range is both moot and hypocritical - considering every one of us subscribes to one part or another of that same range, (or else only has sexual encounters of a purely derivative and incidental nature... very, very rare). In fact, an adverse reaction to an extreme behavior in this context simply reflects one's own attitude toward attraction and sexual rituals. A primary reason some—not many, but some—women react negatively to overly-overt displays of attraction from men is because it crushes their socially-inherited fantasies of control; when a woman accustomed to the prevailing social rituals of our era—in which men first present themselves as objects to women, to either be engaged or dismissed according to the females' own subjective preferences—can no longer completely and arbitrarily control the terms and circumstances of the interaction, the ego-satisfaction element of the interaction is removed - and with it the main incentive for which most people, (male or female), pursue trivial relationships: ego affirmation. Likewise, the tendency for males to over-display for females is a socially-precipitated reaction to males'—most often justified—preconceptions of being sexually trivialized in this manner before the encounter even occurs. If the female responds positively, the initial trivialization—the female of the male—is reversed, and the ego responds approvingly.

Simply put, some women derive more ego satisfaction from knowing that they can consciously manipulate the terms of a potential sexual encounter on their own, than other women derive from seeing a man theatrically display his sexual attraction to them. Intellectually speaking, the difference is trivial - but behaviorally, it means the former group of women find brash sexual assertiveness in men offensive, while the latter require it, and most women fall somewhere in between the two extremes... and so on and so on.

It doesn't really matter which is the chicken or the egg, when each guarantees that the other will almost always fail to live up to more conscientious standards of behavior. ("Even the most careful analysis of the shadows on the wall...")

Mmm, this has a hearty, musty, woody taste of denial - with some subtle aromas of cake detectable in the nose

Ray Rice BS

   Literal fucking craziness.

I can't help but point out the extreme irony and hypocrisy inherent in our society collectively not only allowing, but in fact *celebrating* the deliberate brainless violence of football—and practically worshiping the players as heroes—while simultaneously condemning their ... um, deliberate brainless violence. There's a reason that not everybody can be a professional football player - and it has almost nothing at all to do with athleticism. So, let me get this straight: players should only be allowed to behave bass-ackward-contrary to social "norms" when they're being PAID to do it - so millions of viewers can experience their own violent fantasies vicariously through them; but when they break through (society's) delusive fourth wall, and we suddenly realize they're actual human beings, actually doing real things—like they always have been—suddenly it's a crime instead of a celebrated national pastime? In what totally-impossible fictional reality is that a recipe for a) any kind of expectation of rational or consistent conduct in general, or especially b) a non-violent society? The entire causal chain is contaminated by stupidity and denial at every single point beyond its origin. I can't imagine any other *possible* outcome for a scenario like this one; our social environment practically guarantees it.


Hypocrisy just pisses me off. There's no justification for becoming incensed when inevitable problems secondary to other—deliberate—behavioral choices suddenly come to light. These conditions don't just exist by default; they require explicit maintenance to persist. If people are really so upset—for the right reasons—then they should do something about the actual problem - not just bitch uselessly about one of its insignificant poster-children. In a couple of months, all of this cathartic self-righteous fire will have successfully burned away its effigy (Ray Price) like it always does, and then—just like they always do—everybody will go back to pretending that this was just an isolated incident, and that only the symbol itself was responsible for the idea that created it, and that whatever arbitrary punishment was meted out was either just or effective.

MMM, that's an impossible amount of cake, right there - but shhhh... don't think! –just eat it!

America: the best country in the world?

Our country is the best country in the world.
Our government is the best government in the world.
— at falling over, and at taking over - respectively.

Since Lincoln, and likely even before, our masters knew that you just can't enslave a population by force; once people realize their freedom is being subverted, they will always fight back - and once they've started fighting, they'll fight to the death.

It's human nature.

Instead, our government has become the most skilled in the world at using that nature against us. Government, my hat is off to you! Here's how you've done it:

First, occupy and distract the populace with trivial tasks that provide our necessities for basic physical survival - but only if we spend nearly every waking hour performing these tasks. Next, ensure there are not enough hours in a day for parents to sufficiently educate their children - and create "educational institutions" to occupy said children with lessons about the merits of obedience, compliance, and adherence to the status quo, all while stripping the curriculum of anything that might encourage intelligent creativity or individuality. Then, deny us access to the tools we need to physically protect ourselves - because at that point, none among us possess enough energy to either notice or care. Finally, quietly manipulate our nearby environments in increments small enough to avoid undue attention, but significant enough to ensure we can't ignore them. Piece by piece, build these deliberate events into an ironclad web of imaginary fear - laced with just enough real danger to preempt any would-be probing questions about the authenticity of these "dire threats to our lives."

As the ripples slowly but surely spread across the world, the populace will become afraid. If you ensure that we see at least a few of those fears take tangible form, we'll become even more afraid - and, as our instincts for survival kick in, we will ask ourselves, "What is the best way to defeat these threats? How can we most efficiently apply our—now VERY limited—energy toward protecting ourselves?" Then, lacking the intelligence and pliable skills necessary to invent an ideal solution for these problems you've created for us, and without the tools to defend ourselves against a threat we believe to be growing closer every day... we will happily trade our freedoms for your protection. All of them - every last one. We won't think for a moment to question our actions OR your intentions - because you've guaranteed we know very little of either ourselves or the real world beyond your veil of propaganda. Our children follow in our footsteps, believing more and more with every successive generation that the "solution" we've chosen is the best one - based on what you teach them "on our behalf."

At the point in time when a society begins to allow its questions to go unanswered, and the lack of answers to go unchallenged, freedom is truly dead and gone.

Wake up, America - this is the DEFINITION of slavery. You're eating, breathing, drinking, and working toward your own continued enslavement. And now, our government has started to apply the formula that successfully enslaved US... to the rest of the world - while we stand by, shaking in our fucking boots, praising God that we're still alive "despite the innumerable terrors beyond our borders" and somehow believing that we're still living like people.

WAKE UP! We're pathetic, domesticated animals, and this—your life—is a CAGE.

In today's news: Stupid is the new "Black"... LITERALLY!

Truly brilliant! Whenever *I* go out to any of the ubiquitous socially-conventional sex-shopping-malls, (colloquially but inaccurately known as simply "bars" or "clubs" by the less intellectually-burdened among us), and then proceed to pay somebody else for a few tallllll glasses of poison—and sugar!—so I can intentionally incapacitate myself to the point that I can no longer make rational decisions about even the most fundamental concepts such as my physical safety and emotional well-being, (never mind those imagined principles I was preaching about until the first Long Island Iced Tea), I ALWAYS MAKE DAMNED SURE TO BE "SMART" ABOUT IT ALL.


And now, I can be even smarter... about choosing to be an unabashed utter - fucking - idiot in a public place full of people who—like me—are just there for some innocently desperate mutual-insecurity-masturbation and a little bit of utterly selfish opportunistic social engineering - i.e. "getting summ" - oh, but only from the RIIIIIIGHT PEOPLE; it's important to pick the best of the worst-of-the-worthless, you know!

YAYYYY!

It's AMAZING to know that our tax dollars are being spent on funding for educational institutions of such prodigious ambition that they produce students like these. I can't think of anything better to spend the hours, days, months, years, and eventually decades of my life supporting. Can you?

If you answered yes... well, then somebody's just not drinking enough poison, you party pooper, you!

The fact that somebody's actually invented a(nother) product to enable folks to avoid using—just a modicum! A MODICUM!—of common sense is evidence of ideas that are not only not an awful lot of good, but are actually an awful lot of really fucking terrible: DENIAL & APATHY. Not only do people not care in general - which makes them even more stupid than what used to pass for average... but they now no longer care about *being* stupid... AND they're in denial about it being the worst possible behavior a human being can exhibit.

Stupid is the new black - LITERALLY!


... "bbbbbut, Mr. Blase! What about the VICTIMS!? Don't you care about the VICTIMS!?"

— no. There are no such things as victims. Let me ashk yew a question: does rain "deserve" to fall? In reality, the perception of justice, fairness, or any kind of arbitrary equity is a fallacy - a delusion meant to sustain the belief that "anything is possible," which in turn is essential to the way that we humans live in the present age. Cause-and-effect is the only *actual* law of the universe; humans, for all our seeming complexity, are actually very simple machines once you become AWARE of all the moving parts. Even our own self-reprogramming has pre-programmed boundaries... in turn limited by deeper programming, some of which we can never consciously access (without the technology of the near future, at least - but more on that in another post). Part of that programming is opportunistic social engineering, or taking advantage of others for our own benefit. It's an evolutionary instinct that's responsible for our being alive right now - and because there are nearly unlimited opportunities within our environment to apply this instinct to our continued advantage over anyone who doesn't do the same, it'll never change. It can't ever change. All a person can do to prepare is simply be conscious and honest about this - and then simply choose not to deliberately create self-vulnerabilities. 

That's all there is to crime, of any kind: cause-and-effect. 
Cause-and-effect. Cause-and-effect. 
Learn the cycle, avoid being caught in it. Learn the cycle, avoid being caught in it. 
Ignore the cycle, maybe get caught in it. Ignore the cycle, maybe get caught in it. 
Repeat whichever part is applicable to you for every minute of your life, and you have a lot of opportunities to either get taken advantage of, (in any one of MANY ways), OR a lot of opportunities to be left to your own devices. Math is science for a reason. LEARN IT. FOLLOW IT.

... "bbbbut, Mr. Blase! ... Victims?"

No!  The non-sequitur "Being a victim" is a result of a linear process; its twin "being a criminal" is also a result of the same linear process - just earlier in the chain of events. They are both derived from the same precipitating events or circumstances. If you choose only to follow the chain as far as is easy or convenient, that's your stupidity to... well, evidently, to deny outright; unfortunately, language gives you plenty of tools to continue to efficiently evade reality. There are MANY words we employ in our every day lives which serve only to obscure the existence of ideas that we either aren't willing to pursue or aren't capable of understanding. "Victim" is such a designation, given to only one side of a coin that always has two equivalently-weighted sides. Just because it's the side that a majority of people can empathize with doesn't make it any more valid or significant than the other. On the contrary, until the word "criminal" and "victim" are synonymous—i.e. until the intellectual state of society as a collective rises to the point that we can analyze ALL events objectively and draw from them ALL of the lessons conveyed by ALL of the facts—using one or the other as self-contained, separate—and of all things, contradictory!?!?—ideas simply adds either a falsely-pejorative or -complimentary context to a reality which is NEVER either of those things. This actually perpetuates the cycle, continuing to make ALL OF US "VICTIMS" by default.

Somewhere, there's a single point of origin which PRECEDES and completely moots the concepts of both "criminals" and "victims" alike, and it is that distant point of origin which is, in fact, the only important item upon which we must focus. Put another way, you could say that criminals and victims are equally victimized by circumstances which, generally speaking, are FAR  beyond the awareness of average people; even if you were to confine the analysis to the current fallacious binary system of "criminals vs. victims," everybody is actually a victim - and universal constants must be universally reduced out of any equation in order to solve it. Again... MATH = VITAL FO' SURVIVAL.

Calling people victims, or criminals, obfuscates the fact that they are simply two relatively-insignificant results of a much longer chain of increasingly significant events - which we are collectively unwilling to either acknowledge or examine in sufficient detail as to either understand or prevent.

Returning to the simpler original topic of test-strips-turned-nail-polish... the NET EFFECT that these four fucking morons actually achieved is going to be a lot MORE women raped in the future. As with all non-solutions that enable an underlying problem to fly under the radar and endlessly repeat itself and its long chain of symptoms... this one invention will only push the drug industry to be more creative. There is a DEMAND for these drugs, and that demand—another insignificant result of a longer chain of events obfuscated by denial and language—will only continue to increase with time. With it, the suppliers will become increasingly effective at satisfying the demand. In not too long, the pendulum will swing back in the other direction - and, then, the particular kind of stupidity exhibited by women who trust complete strangers in an obviously-unsafe environment will be even more dangerous than it was before now. (I KNOW! That last sentence is fucking ridiculous!)

It's called a "cycle" for a reason.

Fact? – Or fact trumped by irrational belief? YOU decide!

Impossible "Biblical fact" of the day:

The real-world city referred to in the Bible as "Jericho" is actually between 11,000 and 15,000 years old (at least)... yet, also according to the Bible, the Earth—actually, the entire universe—itself is less than 7,000 years old.

Could The Holy Spirit of God have missed a typo somewhere in Genesis 5? Seems like an unlikely oversight for an Infallible Supreme Being of the Entire Universe, Past, Present and Future - but, then again, I will admit a sliiiiight bias toward "reality."

— Only *you* are qualified to be the judge of this incontrovertible scientific fact.

Have they isolated the genes for "being an idiot" or "denial" yet?

As a student of science and history, my laugh lines look forward to the inevitable day in the next, oh, 6-7000 years or so, when some poor nincompoop discovers an ancient copy of the great Lovecraftian mythos, takes the time to decipher it, and recognizes a few vague references to events that might actually have occurred in human history - at which point the population of this only-theoretically-theoretical future will commence its worship of the One True God—Cthulu—for several thousand years... until some poor nincompoop discovers an ancient copy of...

War.. FOR peace! C'mon! DUH!

http://q13fox.com/2014/08/07/u-s-begins-humanitarian-airdrops-over-northern-iraq/

Exactly! This guy GETS it: "war FOR peace."

Sometimes you gotta break a few hundred thousand bodies with bullets to make an omelette, right?

And sometimes you just gotta burn a few family trees to the ground to light that propane stove - otherwise, when you bring home those hard-won economic yolks from your righteous foreign ventures, you'll have no way to make said omelette!

Breakfast being the most important meal of the day... I just don't see any way around it; a bunch of Iraqis gotta die.

Hell, if we don't keep bombing the shit out of random countries all over the world, someday we might not have the right to bomb the shit out of random countries all over the world at all.

... And who's gonna make our omelettes then? US!? F--- that! Bombs away! 

Football is gay!

It's hilarious, sometimes, to see something brilliant thrust out into the public... where it goes completely over the heads of almost everybody who experiences it. Case in point:

... everybody realizes that this particular selection of social satire is a double-dicked dildo, so to speak? You weren't distracted by the glitter, right? –sooo, you all caught the "football is gay" metaphor?

This wasn't simply a lesson on moronic hyper-sexuality both in and out of entertainment media; it WAS that, but that's just one slice of the bread. The other slice is FOOTBALL: one of the most epitomical examples of the shameless sensationalization of inane behavior in American entertainment media.

In the middle of this brain-sandwich can be found the meat of the sketch - those ingredients that complement both ideas and make it a meal: football players (and some fans) celebrate their hormono-maniacal masturbation in exactly the same way—psychologically speaking—as flamboyant gays flaunt their mindlessly stereotypical deficit for attention. Both demographics exhibit behaviors so ridiculous that they are ultimately defined most honestly by their pathologically-myopic participation in brainless social ritual than by any small amount of individual identity that might exist in its shadow.

Critical analysis: eat up!
–AND FOR THE LOVE OF FUCKING INTELLECT, mind your crumbs!

Worship a la Facetious

Dear God,

Of all the places you've never been, Facebook is the one that makes the most sense for you to inhabit.

Please, master, tickle me with electricity if this mere mortal's musings muss up my master's moratorium on meaningful deviations from tradition, but might I suggest a chapter in the New-New Testament on the subject of philosophy? I've heard that the concept of rational thought is so highly prized in Heaven, even, that only the most exquisite heavenly alcohols are derived from its distilled essence - and that it is so rare and valuable that nearly none of your flock will ever taste it in either their now- or after-lives.

What a gift that would be!

Sincerely,

Sincerity

If this ain't rosy-colored as my shit, I haven't been eating enough Red #40

"What we're going to have to do is combine selective actions by our military to make sure that we're going after terrorists who COULD harm our personnel overseas or EVENTUALLY hit the homeland..."

- Your grateful dictator, Obama.

Isn't it reassuring to know that our military regime will stop at nothing to kill anybody, anywhere in the world, who COULD, EVENTUALLY, threaten American security? - Don't worry, though! I'm sure that if this completely unregulated abuse of power were being directed at American citizens, somebody would know about it by now...

Anyone out there still in denial about what's in store for us over the next few decades? Please speak up if so, and I'll happily point out the fucking obvious again in whatever way works for you.

Get uncomfortable, you morons

People far too often enjoy the comfort of opinion without the responsibility of thought.

Daily Brain-bran

"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things."

- Churchill

Totes Copasetic, Bros and Bras

I just realized something truly horrible: the up-and-coming generations have no idea who Phil Collins is! Also, in other news, they're fucking morons.

A girl in the drive-through at BK tonight asked me how I'm doing, and I replied with my usual, "Oh, you know - just 'another day in paradise'," and she smiled and said cheerfully, "mmhmm!"

So, naturally, I reached through the window and strangled her once she'd handed me my fries. Or maybe I just really, really wanted to... I'm not really sure - my memory gets fuzzy sometimes where the best gratuitous violence is concerned.

Anyway, the point is: the ability to comprehend irony is being bred out of our youth. They are losing their instinctual senses of humor - and of justice, and intellectual propriety. They are being trained, fresh out of the womb, to be oblivious to the absurdities of our daily lives... and, as those lives and behaviors become more and more ridiculous, this new general populace simply becomes more and more complacent.

Is it any wonder that we have actually devolved to the point, now, where we as a nation take—and, worse, flaunt—PRIDE in programming our youngest and most vulnerable members of society - then sending them overseas to kill for our economic interests? If they can't think effectively anymore, I suppose it makes sense; soon, mindless errands will be the the only things they're good for at all.

Thank god we have the public education system to teach them to think freely, objectively, and for themselves. Thankfully, parents are fulfilling their BASIC obligations to their biological imperatives - ensuring—at all costs!—that their children are NOT being overtly conditioned to think less, ask fewer questions, be more selfish, or ignore reality whenever convenient.

Hah, can you just IMAGINE what our world would turn into if that weren't the case!?

Phew. I don't even want to think about it.

It makes me really glad that history has proven that, as worse graduates to worst, we can still all just sit back, relax, "be ourselves" and trust that it'll all work itself out in our best interests - no worries, man.

Habeas' Corpse: Us

Nobody can claim ignorance any longer, thanks to this Information Age. So, since you now know what our military actually does these days ('cause you wouldn't just ignore a terrible truth if you could access it in 3-4 minutes, right?) - what would YOU do if you get drafted for the next invasion? (My answer: it involves a shootout... assuming we're still allowed to own guns then).

Here's another good one: what will YOU do when martial law comes to your state? (My answer: see above).

I should probably close with something lighter, so here's a funny joke:

So, habeas corpus walks into a government-run bar, right? And never walks out.

Hahahaha! — What, you don't find that funny? 

THEN AMERICA IS NOT FOR YOU - TERRORIST!

Weeeee...

As human civilization continues to circle the drain in its decrepit dingy of denial, I find myself failing to muster enough energy even to laugh anymore as everyone aboard screams "Yayyyyy - faster!"

— "Thank god there's no age limit for THIS ride," the younger ones say excitedly;

— "I'm so happy we worked hard so we can afford this for our children," the older ones say proudly;

"Well, looks like we can still get away with charging more from the next generation," say the puppet masters knowingly from inside their nearby submarine...

Happy Farce of July!

Come to the New World > slaughter the indigenous population > colonize their lands > move the few surviving tribes to reservations > where they sell us fireworks that we use to celebrate > our "national birthday"...

Hah. You couldn't make this shit up.

 

Resistance is Fertile

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within. We pay for perpetual ignorance with our finite souls and call the transaction "living" - and right up until the very end, we still somehow believe that we've been profiting the entire time.

Wake up! Life and intellectual death are mutually exclusive.

PSA: Language is a real thing.

ATTENTION, SELF-RIGHTEOUS "FEMINISTS:" the *intended* meaning of this word that you megalomaniacal ignoramuses use to describe yourselves actually belongs to a completely different and, in fact, OPPOSITE word: "egalitarianist."

"Feminism," to the *utter* contrary, is—by both definition and real-world effect—the fascist promotion of women's interests to the EXCLUSION of all others. In other words, "feminism" is one of several literal OPPOSITES to the concept of "equality."

In other words, you're all fucking-backwards! Every time you use the word "feminism," it's an embarrassment to intelligent women everywhere. Unfortunately, that's not really a big deal; the vast majority of the human population is currently perpetuating similar oblivious stupidity via one or another misinterpreted "cause" without realizing it.

Here's the real problem, then: by failing to realize that you're improperly using language belonging to a cause to which you're completely oblivious, you are inadvertently—but highly effectively—advocating for the opposite of what you claim to believe in; i.e. you're perpetuating the problem you think you're fighting against.

GG! Just as with all other things, please either use your brain or kill yourselves.

– I honestly have no preference.

You know what really shrivels my fignuts?

I hate when people misrepresent science for the purpose of entertainment. Scientists deal with evidence, not proof. Anyone who can't tell the difference has no legitimate claim to an opinion on anything.

WHY AREN'T CHILDREN TAUGHT HOW TO THINK *PROPERLY*? WHY!? Oh... school is a federal program, and we wouldn't have or need federal anything if people used their brains... so in order for us to receive *some* education, we can't risk a functional level *of* education. Seems like a perfect system to me.

Begin educational sprint here (don't worry - it's still legal... for now):

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AnythingIsPossible

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EvidenceVersusProof

Trendy fucking pussies.

Rational idealism should not be confined to fiction.

"The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible."

— You, there, reading this: what is YOUR excuse?