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The muddlers are worse than the cancellers 2
Following from here. This morning the anti-cancellers are weeweed up about: Apparently it wasn’t a real cancel, just a postponement of class coverage, so again this is more muddling than cancelling. Fact: FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS A MYTH. Censorship is permanent and normal. If you go back 1000 years in Russia and in England/America, you’ll…
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Finally a realistic fable
I’m constantly hammering on the permanence of status and caste and popularity. Meritocracy is a cruel fraud, and most of our myths and stories are designed to ruin unpopular and low-status people. Reprint on the theme: = = = = = START REPRINT: All human traits and talents and tendencies are innate and permanent. Some…
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Return to Truman
CNN and MSNBC are pushing ‘limited nuclear war’ to destroy the entire world. All the peaceniks and hippies are superhawks. We’ve seen this pattern before. MBS radio news from Feb 3 1950: Republican representative Robert Hale said the country isn’t frightened enough by atomic weapons. But Senator Elbert Thomas says people are too jittery. He…
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Sucker filter in pricing
As usual, Wolf’s excellent graphs show the end of the “pandemic” project. This was planned as a two-year project, March 2020 to March 2022. A specific set of stock demons were scheduled to Zoom up during the two years. Zoom, real estate flippers, delivery services. They knew the schedule, so they knew when to pull…
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Some things don’t change
From an otherwise uninteresting 1948 WBZ station brochure: Caption: Talent arrives with costumes for video rehearsal. Video was brand new in ’48, and talent was still operating in Vaudeville mode. Traveling between theaters, carrying their own costumes and props. The car in front is a base-model Hudson business coupe, probably belonging to one of the…
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Portable!
From April ’64 Sponsor magazine, a reminder that cameras everywhere are a recent phenomenon. If you wanted to record video remotely in 1964: Portable (in a van)! Roll-in (with two big guys to lift it)! Pocket-size (if your name is Gulliver)! The van is what really caught my eye. The artist montaged pieces of several…
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Everybody’s gettin into da act.
Since I disconnected from TV and radio, I’m no longer getting constant IV floods of media toxin. But I can still recognize the floods by an occasional oversplash. Most of the “independent” “journalists” have suddenly turned neocon again. Non-intervention is fine when China or Saudi or Israel is invading other countries. Non-intervention goes out the…
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The missing element, part 2
Continuing from here. Passive vs active, facts vs experience, in education. Here’s a sharp comparison from the early ’30s. RCA was promoting the passive version in a sneaky way. VITALIZED EDUCATION Radio has added to the plan of teaching a third dimension through which it may project a living personality into the school room or…
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Aside from personal feelings…
Putin has decided to retake Ukraine in a dramatic way. If he had done this before 2020, I would have been disappointed and disgusted at the way he’s doing it. But two years ago Putin joined the “virus” holocaust, and I gave up on him at that point. He’s indistinguishable from Trump or Biden or…
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More rambling
Still thinking about Okla…. The Okla Historical Assn made a series of podcasts a few years ago. This one, from 2018, is a long interview with former governor George Nigh. He was governor in the 80s, and started his term in the last year that I lived in Enid. According to Wikipedia he’s still alive…
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More random 1915 notes
A 1915 book by the Okla Geological Survey includes plenty of non-geological info and pix. These caught my attention: 1. For some reason Cadillac decided to call its stupid rebadged Citation the Cimarron. I’ve always been puzzled by the choice. GM was aiming at Euro-inclined and Eco-inclined buyers, not Okies. The actual Cimarron is not…
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The magic lantern lasted longer…
Last year I delved into the intersection of science and entertainment in the 1850s, focusing on the Magic Lantern. = = = = = START PARTIAL REPRINT: I had thought the magic lantern was just a slide projector with light furnished by flame instead of electricity. The machine was partly similar, but the ACTUAL USE…
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Constants and Variables 170
Doggy logic: Every time I bark at the mailman he goes away, so my barking is responsible for keeping the house safe. I’m powerful! Human logic: We’ve been protesting every day for two years, and finally some of the torturers are going away. We’re powerful! The doggy logic is actually better, because it starts with…
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Still more Zenith musings
The Zenith memory pulled me back into those first few months after release from prison. I was appreciating freedom, but I was starting out on the wrong track AGAIN. What was the wrong track? COLLEGE, and especially college courses in physics and math. College drove me crazy, drove me into hopeless depression which led inevitably…
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Musing leads to reprint
Thinking again about the 1969 jail experience in previous item leads to this especially apropos reprint from 2019, before the “virus” holocaust. = = = = = START REPRINT: Listening to Tom Gresham’s gun talk show. Guns are definitely Not My Department, but Gresham is one of the few sources of plain common sense and…
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