Apr 5, 2022·edited Apr 5, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD
I grew up in the '60/70 and it's true, everyday there was a man distributing unpasteurized milk to families and... in a glass bottle. Every drinkable thing was in a glass bottle, no cans, no plastic, from water to beer to coke. By the end of '60s the river was changing color almost everyday due to colorized textile industry in my home town. All little frog disappeared, no more fisherman on the river, but my dad bough a car, we had a b/w Tv set, fridge and electrical oven.
The economical boom of the 60s in Europe polluted rivers, seas, land. The Progress my friend...
Average people at that time had maybe not even finished Primary School. But mostly they owned their house/apartment. But couldn't understand what was going on. No culture of it.
My generation could study up to High School, but few went to University. Mostly they were the wealthiest but also many were the best in their fields. But in the late 70s we fought in the streets against the criminal power of Governments, wars, genocides, pollution.
Also during 60s in my country all cannabis fields disappeared, US asked to destroy them, to forbid the growth (it was drug.... pardon me? Ask Colorado now...), so US could sell us tons of cottons that wasn't as strong as cannabis. And most of all, it has no other use then wires, while Cannabis was also used for its great medical properties.
And so US Pharma could synthesize THC and TBD and sell its products to us, and make americans more rich than us.
Cannabis had also another wonderful natural use in agriculture: it was able to enrich the soil, so that farmers were alternating grain/corn cultivation with cannabis without buying fertilizer rather than organic one from their cows or horses.
Then the world start running "txs" to technology and chemical research and we had another great gift from US researchers: OGM food, OGM seeds, all patented all made to destroy agriculture and cultivation as we knew it. On the side of pharma products for agriculture there was the German Bayer that now owns Monsanto, but nobody as avoided the joint venture of two of the most dangerous companies in the food sector. UN, WHO? Just a bunch of criminals as they always have been since their foundation.
So as I lately ask here on Substack blogs: why americans didn't stand up, why americans have supported the destruction of the world as I knew it or made it happen without moving a finger?
There is a beautiful Latin sign in an old building, you can see walking in the street under the roof of this courtyard, it says" PANIS VITA - CANABIS PROTECTIO - VINUM LAETITIA " (Bread is life, cannabis is health, wine is social/fun"
That's the way I grew and I'm not envy at all of the younger ones.
"why americans didn't stand up, why americans have supported the destruction of the world as I knew it or made it happen without moving a finger?"
It wasn't until I experienced tragedy in my own life in my late 30s, and then moved abroad, that I realized how insular, self-centered, and narcissistic many Americans are.
It's the arrogance of empire. Of course, America is filled with good people as with any other place! But in a certain sense, it's "forgive them Father, for they know not what they do."
And in any case, as Americans, we can't control our politicians any longer. The only thing that would have worked in decades past is a massive tax protest to deprive the state of funding to do the evil things it does.
I'm sorry, but I think it's really that simple. Until people stop believing in political authority, we're going to continue to suffer this type of epic destruction and collapse, over and over and over, as humans have for 10,000 years.
Yep. Pretty much. Given enough time this fascist system will collapse on its own taking most of those who voluntarily became dependent along with it.
Many modern conveniences can be carried forward past collapse and it has to at least last as long as the half-life of pollution.
Roughly a third of the US population refused the injection, that is plenty of people to fix the problems and maintain the hierarchy. Just have to get through the next decade more or less.
My short list of what to do: 1.Grow food. 2. Buy ammo. 3. Personally hold US Constitutional money.
One can find 1/10th ounce Gold Eagles on Ebay. Overpaying to actually hold one is OK, its about having something to trade with personally should the internet get restricted or bank buy-ins occur. Compared to almost everything else we spend money on, saving some in this fashion is incredibly wise.
Also most investors are supporting what is tearing apart the planet. Take the money away from this fascist system.
I like your garden message and might help with tips should you be experiencing problems.
"The only thing that would have worked in decades past is a massive tax protest to deprive the state of funding to do the evil things it does."
The ability of the government to borrow and print money makes it nearly impossible to deprive it of funds. Reagan got tax cuts to try to starve the beast and it didn't work during his terms in office.
Paolo, what a sad and maddening story. Where did you grow up? As for why Americans did not stand up, I believe many if them did. That is why, in the early seventies, Richard Nixon started the Environmental Protection Agency. He was scared into it. A lot of good progress was made in the seventies. Then Ronald Reagan came in and took Jimmy Carter’s solar panels off the White House and started this whole insane greed fest of the eighties. I have never understood the worship of Reagan, or why Iran/Contra was not a bigger scandal.
christ almighty. well said. beautiful. thank you for that. which country are you from, will you tell us? And where is this latin sign and can you provide a link to a pic of it? It sounds like it is the kind of phrase that gets put up on buildings because it is in common use, common wisdom or something. Is it something like that? Can you provide any other information on it?
It's so different from the older people today, taking multiple pharmaceutical products for so much of their lives. Many seem to be in a sort of haze, disconnected from the world.
As a child, I had breakfast with my great-great grandmother most weekdays until I started school, knew and had conversations with three of my great-grandparents, and three of my four grandparents lived past 90 (one is still alive at 100 this year). I had no idea until I was in college how unusual it was to have family members who had met Civil War soldiers.
Extreme age seems to be a function of nutrition, physical activity, attitude, and genetics. My parents have the genetics, but between their excess weight from a modern American diet, the addiction to constant fear porn from their favored MSNBC, locking themselves down due to Covid (not a lot of exercise last couple of years) and their dependence on pharmaceuticals (including vaxx boosters), I fear they won't make it the next couple of years to 80.
Longevity runs in my family. Many of my grandparents and greats lived to their late 80s and 90.
My mother only lived to age 54. She was poisoned by the military and medical industrial complex. So was my husband, most likely (a case harder to prove).
These are the stories I'll write more about as I have the time, and what I intended the newsletter for in the first place! But that type of writing takes up emotional energy that a post like that does not.
I was chatting with a friend the other day and she told me she was feeling stressed about her husband's health, and so her doctor put her on anti-anxiety medication. She is in her 80s and her spouse is, too! I didn't ask how many medications she was on in addition to that. I think there is an epidemic of purposelessness and loneliness among many of our elderly, and-- as with western medicine in general-- it's easier to try to suppress the symptoms than address the root causes. Thanks for the reminder that it hasn't always been like this. I'm with you. I don't miss the laws that would have made my marriage illegal and the customs that would have labeled my children "half-breeds," but we've thrown out the baby with the bathwater and come up with new levels of absurd anti-science to sow misery from cradle to grave.
Yes. I'm not yet more afraid of the traditionalists who want to throw us back to the 1800s than I am of the modern pharma cult. The insane pharma fascist cult that wants to poke me with injection gunk every 3-6 months is a far greater danger to my life presently. But I don't really relish having to go back to fighting the do-gooder traditionalists, either, should they gain the upper hand.
All I want to do is to go back to the 90s. Why is this so flippin' hard? haha
"her doctor put her on anti-anxiety medication" - Please avoid any benzos at all cost. Quite dangerous for seniors. Try cal-mag calm drink supplement every evening. Works well for many.
"Is there a better world on the other side of all of this and how long does it take for us to get there?"
There is and that better world has been growing as the garbage system has been decaying. There are times where this better world takes a leap or two forward at other times it seems to grow slower. It seems to take it's biggest leaps after periods of intensified decay in the garbage system. We are currently in one of those periods of intensified decay. How long does it take for us to get there? Many of us are already there and trying to help it grow. That doesn't mean we don't see the garbage machine. It means we don't fit inside of it.
So yes things will get worse but they will get better too, much better. I think that you Monica and many, many more like you -- millions and millions are part of that better world and are planting the seeds to make that better world more prevalent tomorrow.
Amidst the darkness there is a light on the horizon. It is the rising rays of a new culture.
I remember back in 2002ish when an aquaintance became convinced that it wasn't the Saudi's who brought down three towers in NYC. She had every book ever written. She talked about it constantly to anyone who would listen. She made me think about and wonder how the 3rd tower could go down on it's own. But, back then some part of me understood how that was a huge rabbit hole to go down.
I follow all of the substackers every day. Have several books on 'pandemic'. Spend 2 hours a day, at least, reading and making notes.
Now I understand how sad, alienated, frustrated, angry, and lonely taking a position like that felt to her. She eventually got cancer, wouldn't see a doctor and died.....
Having balance in life is important. Take care, everybody.
Yes. It's a grief process for me, what we're going through. But I've been through grief before and it gets easier each time I do it, as I know that I have come out on the other side every time.
I have confidence that humanity will come out on the other side more enlightened, more awakened, and more socially and physically healthy than it has been in the last 50 years or so.
It's the uncertainty with how long that process is going to take exactly that is getting to me.
One of the reasons I like your substack is that I too have suffered through trauma and grief at the hands of medical system in USA. My new husband is somehow afraid that now I am not a liberal feminist dem anymore and may well be on my way to Qanon. I am so ready for some truths to be revealed via the propaganda major media outlets so somethings will be settled. But, I can't hold my breath. All the best to all the warriors.
“One of the reasons I like your substack is that I too have suffered through trauma and grief at the hands of medical system in USA.”
Yes. Thank you for the affirmation! A lot of the corona Substack folks — and thank goodness for them, but I include people like Malone and Kirsch — are reeling in somewhat of disbelief now because they thought the system was working. Kirsch thinks it's just about the vaccines and he force everyone to wake up somehow and then we go back to normal. Berenson seems of this mindset too.
It was never working. It has not been working for 500,000 terminal cancer patients who die every year, deprived of many good treatment options, as people like Berenson label them quackery. (That guy is a one-trick pony.) Malone has much wisdom, though. He is smart enough to realize the complexities of living systems. I am glad, though, that people like this have woken up, because now it has given me strength to speak more broadly and loudly about the mass genocide known as "modern medicine."
“My new husband is somehow afraid that now I am not a liberal feminist dem anymore and may well be on my way to Qanon.”
Oh god. These people are such idiots! I am sorry to say that about your husband, but you are not alone. Also my former romantic partner has become completely dumbed down and cruel over this as well. At least it made it easier to abandon any possibility that a relationship with him could work.
QAnon! A delicious bit of projection. I didn't vote for Trump either time. I don’t even know what the fuck QAnon is but they are obsessed with it and think all our information comes from there. All we are doing is thinking for ourselves, while they in the meantime are brainwashed by BlueAnon.
I have friends in New Zealand like this, too! It’s all incredibly alienating. They cannot see beyond their own noses or the propaganda on state-run media that they refuse to pull themselves away from. And it’s all driven by fear and a cult of safetyism.
I know health nuts who refused to eat anything non-organic for years who are happy to turn themselves into a GMO over and over again now with these frankenshots, even though there’s NO evidence they work for any significant length of time, and are likely making things worse through harming innate immunity. Endless infections and cancer due to the obsession with the adaptive immune system. Unbelievable.
“I am so ready for some truths to be revealed via the propaganda major media outlets so somethings will be settled.”
Not going to happen. This is the global equivalent of a Jim Jones cult.
“But, I can't hold my breath. All the best to all the warriors.”
We are def on the same page. By the way, and I can't say much, but it is looking like there is an uptick of Downs Syndrome being found in fetuses in the last few months. It is very concerning.....
Apr 5, 2022·edited Apr 5, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD
Indeed, the mental sharpness of those oldsters stands out. They were mostly not deaf either! Now there may have been a selection for only the best and the brightest. After all the concept of senility as ‘second childhood’ is old. Also, were there not fewer of them? The rural village in which I live now has a remarkably high number of people living well into their nineties.
My great-grandfather was very sharp until he passed in his late 80s. He was only forgetful, tired, and with headaches for a month or so until we discovered he had a brain tumor. He passed away only a month after that.
Way to go! My dad was 84 and in full command of his mind till the end. Mom went on another 9 years but was predeceased by most of hers. If I could choose I would rather go Dad’s way.
I moved back to the US from the UK late last year. One of the things that I notice here is the relative disappearance of the elderly. I assume most are in care homes or shut up in their houses. In the UK, the elderly are a visible presence everywhere. You see them on the bus, in the shops. Many seem to live quite independent lives. My allotment site was largely populated by people older than me (I'm in my mid-60s). The allotment neighbours on one side were in their 70s, behind me was a gentleman in his 70s. The man across the way was in his 80s. All out digging, sowing, harvesting their plots. It's also completely normal to see groups of elderly people out hiking in the countryside. Thanks for reminding me of what's truly normal.
New Zealand is like this, too, and I presume it continues even in covid times. I'm not sure, as I left a month before the madness started down there. Generally speaking, the US has a very unhealthy culture in which people are inside all the time, lacking in exercise, and driving everywhere to get to everything. The UK, NZ, Oz, and Europe have better "urban planning" -- I think it is not central planning, but the result of the lack of so many zoning and other laws that really kill small businesses in residential districts. I don't see young or the middle-aged out enjoying life in the US, either. This was the case even before covid. It's difficult to detail all the social dysfunction in the US because it's so diverse. I've often said, the US has an innovative culture and one of the things it's innovating faster than anything else is social dysfunction. How long were you over in the UK?
I lived in the UK for almost 20 years, so I've spent about half of my adult life there. I first visited in the late 80s, back when I met my now ex-husband. We lived in the US for quite a while and then moved back to the UK in 1999. Since then, I've bounced back and forth several times, with and then without him.
It's still obvious that the UK developed during a time before cars, with the tiny roads and greater emphasis on pedestrian culture. One thing I really love is the public green space. Every place I lived there had public woods/parks/canal towpaths/fields where people could walk.
Yep! New Zealand has inherited much of this culture. Part of it's cultural. New Zealand certainly has a car culture, but it also has much more cohesive town centers, or at least it did, until covid forced many small business owners with shopfronts under.
Big Pharma’s childhood vaccines were given immunity from liability in the USA in 1986. That’s when jabbing kids went from 4 or 5 to now 72 jabs by the time they are 18.
I adore Dr. Price's writing and work, and have long been a fan (and am also familiar with WAP and its teachings). :) I referenced Price's seminal nutritional classic in another article you may enjoy, if you haven't seen it:
There was a natural assumption that life, and lives-unborn, elderly, children, were valuable. No algorithms were employed to determine who should be allowed to live. When did we become Logan’s Run? My parents said it was the day Roe v Wade and Doe v Bolton made abortion legal up to birth. I was 13 that year and started protesting in numerous ways immediately because I’d learned in public schools(!) that civilizations kill their offspring because they’ve LOST ALL HOPE. But it didn’t appear to be the case. Life looked like a big party in our universe. So why would women opt to snuff out the lives of their own kids? Was there an undercurrent of despair? Was the loss of a sense of transcendence a factor? How could “make love not war” segue into “I need to off my baby in order to get ahead in business”? One of my son’s high school buddies killed himself when he figured out that his mother had aborted a sibling around the time that, as a kindergartner, he started pleading with mom and dad for a little brother. She was about to be promoted at work. It was not just the loss of the sibling that pushed him over the edge. It was rather the realization that mommy’s love was capricious. It was sheer luck that he was living, and his brother had been sucked into a medical waste container. He was plunged into depression and no counselor could help because they’re mostly women who view abortion as a societal net good. He downed a bottle of benzos with vodka. Suicide is the #1 cause of death for the under 24 crowd. And as Monica has pointed out, suicide is now “medical care”! But how is it that people are unbelievably afraid of death (from a cold/flu?) yet easily turn to suicide, and vehemently call for the deaths of those who are sanguine with taking life (and death) as nature, Fate, or God delivers it? We have entered a Godless, post-Christian age where child grooming is taught by teachers on Tik Tok, but the unmasked and unjabbed and unapologetically traditional in outlook are quickly branded and ostracized, silenced. Did it start with abortion, or was abortion the result? Or a symptom of something larger? Why doesn’t anyone talk about the elderly who died in the nursing homes? Is it because nobody cared about them anyway? I’m getting my garden in too on this pretty sunny day while making lists of things I’ll need during the looming apocalypse. But these questions keep my mind unquiet.
Your son’s friend was suicidal over a narcissistic mother. Unfortunately, there are so many of them. I am sure he was badly treated in other ways.
I got sucked into the moral panic over abortion as a religious teenager, but as an adult I have come to a different view.
Unfortunately, infanticide is common in our species and has been going on thousands of years. It’s not new. As you are religious, you are no doubt familiar with many biblical tales of infanticide.
I believe it likely has multiple causes, but in the paleolithic era (stone age), up to 25% of infants were killed after birth.
My personal view is that highly intelligent animals have somewhat unique problems due to their intelligence.
Sometimes chimp groups carry out war on other chimp groups.
Cetaceans kill for fun. They often will kill a seal, play with it, and then not eat it. It’s terrible.
And yes, humans kill their offspring. As for the elderly, the Eskimo left them behind on icebergs when they were too old to keep up. (This is different, however, than deliberately depriving them of care.)
After infanticide of born infants became unacceptable in more recent agricultural times (but as Beth points out in her reply is becoming acceptable yet again), abortifacient herbs and coat hangers came about.
This ALL happened well before abortion was legalized during the era you discuss.
But none of this is new. The human baby requires tremendous resources to sustain in comparison to other mammals that begin walking and taking care of themselves right away after birth, and also have the strength to grip to mother’s body hair and thus bear more of the burden for their rearing. Human babies require immense levels care until age 2.
Motherhood is quite frankly exhausting for many women. I understood and took this seriously, and it’s why I never wanted to have any (although I never went to great pains to avoid pregnancy... perhaps I am simply infertile).
Abuse of young primates in crowded, stressful conditions also appears to exist in other species, too. Robert Malone wrote about it in one of his posts recently.
In my opinion, the task in our modern age is to acknowledge biological realities like this, and also to realize that the current genocide is (in my opinion, and I think the evidence supports it) driven by monetary collapse and happening on many fronts. When the elites steal the population’s accumulated wealth, the genocide gets worse because there aren’t enough resources to go around and people are fighting for bare survival.
Some of us simply don’t have the resources for children, JP. I love children and I love my young relatives, but I never had the financial, mental, emotional, physical, or social resources to have them. I was never pregnant to my knowledge, nor did I have any abortions.
I simply wasn’t interested in having any and neither was my husband, despite being 20 years my senior and having no children himself from a prior marriage. We were busy with other things that we found much more interesting at the time.
I’m not ashamed of that, and while I am past childbearing age, I’m not keen to see quirky women such as myself dragged back into a world where their only role is to be confined to being an unwilling breeding mare and milk cow by “do gooders” who think they know how others should live.
I’m glad I was born in 1975 rather than 1875, and we’re not going back. We’re moving forward.
"dragged back into a world where their only role is to be confined to being an unwilling breeding mare and milk cow" - Oh my. This phrase is supercharged stuff. As a man, I can't quite get to that. I'm not particularly keen on responding much to what "society" norms might be. When my kids were young my wife stayed home, her choice. But I earned well enough we could manage despite knowing we would never become rich in material stuff. She certainly could nurture better than I but still it took the two of us. And yes I know what green poop is. I knew her burdens and she knew mine, we were partners in our business. I have no idea nor care in some respects what others choose to do. Sadly much ended when we had no children to hold us together - she went her way and I went mine. I still help her now that she has ended in a nursing home situation. But I am not able to help her myself. Can't even lift her wheelchair now to put into the trunk. Our children are far from us busy, some now giving us the greats.
I only wish I was steady enough like that fellow doing the tap dance. I can still do a step or two as long as I have something nearby. Loss of balance seems progressive despite the daily exercises. But at least I can still walk some lugging around some O2. At 82 I feel fortunate that I am still here because I have too many friends who are not. Whether good or bad, at 82 the chance of reaching 92 is better now than when I was 62.
OTOH, average lifespans have been greatly extended by modernity. Much of that is a result of a cleaner world and improved medicine. Whether that continues might depend on our choices. Many dietary choices are awful. I can't cook very well but do it anyway heeding my wife's instruction about reading labels. The ,local Korean and Indian restaurants enjoy my custom in my takeouts of foods well beyond my skill.
I'm not describing your wife or anyone else who was a good mother. I'm describing what I would be if I was dragged unwillingly back to the 1800s. The bad thing about the covid debacle is that it is dragging back aspects of traditionalism that I'm not too keen on, if enforced by a bunch of religionist radicals who think they know how to tell others how to live. Get it? It's just a different side of the same coin of the mask Nazis and the vaccinators. I'm not interested in living in either world.
My grandmother could only have 1 child, suddenly went infertile for reasons nobody understood at the time, and took on nineteen foster babies. Nineteen!!! And they adopted one of them. (She was mysteriously able to conceive 12 years later and had two biological children.)
So, I come from an absolutely amazing family that loved children enough to take on the responsibility of care for nearly 20 foster babies, and who poured their heart and soul into their children and grandchildren. My grandmother is still alive, was taking care of babies 40 hours a week until a few years ago, and the love is still a two way street. My mother desperately wanted to have more children, but couldn't, because chemotherapy and radiation wrecked her body. So, I am keenly aware that I was lucky enough to be born and to exist at all, only a few years before her body was wrecked.
I'm actually a fairly traditional woman in appearance and with regard to household roles otherwise. Why do I even need to state this?
I'm tired of being pathologized by woke idiots who think I'm a victim because I don't put pronouns in my bio and dye my hair green.
But I'm also tired of childless women such as myself being pathologized by the religionist and traditionalist crowd who somehow think we are broken because we never wanted a baby. Enough of the fucking stereotypes of intellectuals, professional women, and so on. GTFO.
If others want to go back to the 50s, I have no problem with that. I'm simply making clear that some of us aren't coming along just because society has jumped the shark in the opposite direction now.
JP opened this can of worms, not me. I'm just defending my right to exist (on MY website, no less) and to think for myself and to be an individual.
I'm tired of people arriving to assume my politics and other beliefs merely based on the covid stuff, or to tell me I'm evil because I believe in evolution (yes, that's happened, too). Many peoples' worlds are very small.
Sorry, I can't account for those who wish to control. I don't see traditional roles as going back to anything, it's not retrograde. And even in the 1890's females were part of running the show even if history can't acknowledge that. Nobody should question another's choices free of harm. And if you wish to become an addict, your choice although I would question the choice. I can agree whole heatedly that the evangelists of all stripes including the new woke religion need to stop proselytizing. Who in the hell do you think you are applies!
BTW my God and evolution get along just fine. I buy into the thought we are still evolving. Hopefully the vaccine insanity hasn't altered that progress.
So why are there so many narcissistic mothers? Perhaps because the culture preaches that only a crazy person would undertake such an expensive and exhausting task like child rearing. I’ve recently noticed an uptick in cultural portrayals of women who DO have children as unhinged. As I write this, I’m watching a discussion of the films of John Ford. A French critic once asked Ford why he wasted time portraying mothers? Ford’s reply: “Do you have a mother?” The implication is that everyone honors their own mother. But not now. Motherhood was once an honored pursuit. After all, the future of the species depends upon it, but when intellectuals frame motherhood as something which occurs amongst the great unwashed, uneducated, thoughtless, and of course polluting masses, then we careen toward Idiocracy. I’m not calling out you Dr. Hughes or anyone else. But it should concern us. “As American as Mom and Apple Pie” is laughable now. If women reproduce now it’s either because “reproductive health restrictions” “force” her to, or it’s to gain an accessory to post on Instagram. Where there is no respect for Motherhood, children will continue to be groomed in classrooms, and abused by the craven and ignorant via vaccines and puberty blockers. This is inherently bad news even for those with zero interest in children themselves. Who the heck will pay for all the entitlements? They are a pyramid scheme reliant on a growing younger demographic. There’s no “social security lockbox.” I would direct people to the time on this continent 600 years back when the Aztecs slaughtered children to appease the gods. Very complex problems for a complex people? Do we dare not call it simply wrong to do this?
"I would direct people to the time on this continent 600 years back when the Aztecs slaughtered children to appease the gods."
Exactly. The sacrifice of the vulnerable is not a modern problem.
There are many complex things going on here, including recurring historical cycles.
I'm 100% with you that many women have children thoughtlessly and that motherhood is a noble pursuit. I had a wonderful mother who was not a narcissist.
I only ask that you meet me halfway and acknowledge that this role in life is not for everyone.
There is a tendency to glorify various points in the past as a sort of golden age -- I too have this tendency, but it's a seductive lie. There never was such a period.
"Who the heck will pay for all the entitlements?"
No one. That's why those responsible for this pyramid scheme are collapsing it before it's been discovered that they've stolen everything.
That's my point exactly. Those of us in our younger years, even if we're just Gen X, who have had our resources stolen by the state to fund one the greediest generation on earth (boomers), don't have the luxury to live in fantasyland.
When we point fingers, there are three pointing back at ourselves.
Ah, I can't resist jumping into this interesting thread, especially since I'm a "boomer." I live on less than $20K a year and work to earn about half of that, despite, obviously, being of retirement age. So I don't consider myself to be greedy, but then I'm not your typical boomer either.
Like you, I never had children. I'm sure there are wonderful mothers out there. I've met some of them. Unfortunately, my mother was not a good role model. Neither was my father for that matter. So my sister or myself didn't have children, by choice. The intergenerational trauma that I can now trace back at least three generations thankfully stopped with us. So definitely I can agree that that role in life is not for everyone. There is no point is bringing ever more people into the world who will be traumatized by their family situation. Let it stop with me.
"Motherhood was once an honored pursuit" - Indeed. And an important one. Just as once teachers, ministers, nurses, doctors and the police/military were not considered "money" jobs but service work and considered quite honorable work. I do observe that no amount of automation is likely to erase the need for these people of service.
Thank you so much for sharing this story on the dignity of life. My state (CO) just signed a radical abortion up to birth law and I am reeling.
While pondering society’s course, I remind myself that morality in past generations was fertilized by community. Neighbors talked to neighbors. Families maintained connections to their clan. Two generations ago it was not unusual for children and grandchildren to live with their grandparents in the same home (check the census - it’s an extraordinary revelation). Most certainly neighbors and extended family did not agree on all matters (perhaps even disagreed on every matter) but I propose that their proximity to one another was a feature that promoted moral virtues (compassion, temperance, etc.) and societal stability. Variety and intimacy of personal interactions within your community make polarization difficult.
Our attention at this time is so focused on communities far away (DC, NZ, Ukraine, China, etc. and toward people we have no personal relationships with - Covid has further separated our personal relationships.
I would propose that our current condition has provided us with the perfect opportunity for our own Great Reset. A sincere expansion of our personal interactions within our communities/families is needed. We have allowed technology, media, corporate interests to displace and isolate us from our community. We cannot rely on top-down management to change society. We must get our hands dirty. It can be uncomfortable because we’ve had decades of distancing ourselves from community and personal interaction but it must be done. The human condition is based in socialization - it improves our bodies, our minds, and our souls.
Born in '51 in Appalachia ... honestly dont remember ever getting sick ...... live in Europe 30+ years and now I am blackmailed to pay a penalty for not being vaccinated... we are living in a very 'interesting' time.
BTW, Please link to Bitchute or Rumble or someone other than fascist YouTube -- there is no way I will use that site.
Thanks, you have a very good blog -- but pray for a Giant Comet -- because that would be the only 'reset' that would actually free us from our numbness.
Haha! I sympathize with your nihilism (which is not really nihilism, it's seeing no way out of the current mess), and I wrote about something similar to that in this post:
Was going to send this report to you earlier with a comment but my 'pseudo-nihilism' (HHAA!! good descriptor! ) prevented me!
The PDF is from a German group and represents a massive effort both on their part but most tellingly on the Industrial/Governmental associations -- its called the Network Analysis Corona Complex and it pretty much explains why we NEED a meteor. The expression 'follow the money' has never been given more depth -- there is NO WAY these people are going to stop. https://clubderklarenworte.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Netzwerkanalyse-Corona-Komplex.pdf
Ever read Martin Armstrong? Check him out :: https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/ -- just about all of the economic heavyweights (My prehistoric Diploma) are calling for massive upsets in the worlds socio-economic systems -- many leading to wars.
At any rate, its not a bad time to do some serious introspection and discover what is really important in our lives
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Taking it day by day. The damage done by the Ardern government is just appalling. At least jab mandates have been partially lifted, so effected businesses like hospitality have less restrictions. I’d also hazard a guess that over half the population have now contracted Omicron and the hospitals are coping, with infections dropping rapidly. However there are still many who have swallowed the blue pill, drunk the kook-aid and are riven with fear. Truly sad in so many ways. On the bright side, we still have our wonderful natural environment, so it’s off to the beach in our caravan for a few days to chill and hopefully catch some fish!
Yay! <3 Yes, it's quite weird to imagine the psychological damage that has elapsed in the 9 months since my absence. :( I hope the businesses will choose to open up again rather than continuing to shoot themselves in the foot by choosing to apply vax passes. But who knows. Maybe they are brainwashed, too.
Wasn’t the average life expectancy in 1920 like 55?
How about we just allow people to make their own medical decisions and stop forcing doctors to behave like mechanics with standardized solutions and no patient say in the process.
I grew up in the '60/70 and it's true, everyday there was a man distributing unpasteurized milk to families and... in a glass bottle. Every drinkable thing was in a glass bottle, no cans, no plastic, from water to beer to coke. By the end of '60s the river was changing color almost everyday due to colorized textile industry in my home town. All little frog disappeared, no more fisherman on the river, but my dad bough a car, we had a b/w Tv set, fridge and electrical oven.
The economical boom of the 60s in Europe polluted rivers, seas, land. The Progress my friend...
Average people at that time had maybe not even finished Primary School. But mostly they owned their house/apartment. But couldn't understand what was going on. No culture of it.
My generation could study up to High School, but few went to University. Mostly they were the wealthiest but also many were the best in their fields. But in the late 70s we fought in the streets against the criminal power of Governments, wars, genocides, pollution.
Also during 60s in my country all cannabis fields disappeared, US asked to destroy them, to forbid the growth (it was drug.... pardon me? Ask Colorado now...), so US could sell us tons of cottons that wasn't as strong as cannabis. And most of all, it has no other use then wires, while Cannabis was also used for its great medical properties.
And so US Pharma could synthesize THC and TBD and sell its products to us, and make americans more rich than us.
Cannabis had also another wonderful natural use in agriculture: it was able to enrich the soil, so that farmers were alternating grain/corn cultivation with cannabis without buying fertilizer rather than organic one from their cows or horses.
Then the world start running "txs" to technology and chemical research and we had another great gift from US researchers: OGM food, OGM seeds, all patented all made to destroy agriculture and cultivation as we knew it. On the side of pharma products for agriculture there was the German Bayer that now owns Monsanto, but nobody as avoided the joint venture of two of the most dangerous companies in the food sector. UN, WHO? Just a bunch of criminals as they always have been since their foundation.
So as I lately ask here on Substack blogs: why americans didn't stand up, why americans have supported the destruction of the world as I knew it or made it happen without moving a finger?
There is a beautiful Latin sign in an old building, you can see walking in the street under the roof of this courtyard, it says" PANIS VITA - CANABIS PROTECTIO - VINUM LAETITIA " (Bread is life, cannabis is health, wine is social/fun"
That's the way I grew and I'm not envy at all of the younger ones.
"why americans didn't stand up, why americans have supported the destruction of the world as I knew it or made it happen without moving a finger?"
It wasn't until I experienced tragedy in my own life in my late 30s, and then moved abroad, that I realized how insular, self-centered, and narcissistic many Americans are.
It's the arrogance of empire. Of course, America is filled with good people as with any other place! But in a certain sense, it's "forgive them Father, for they know not what they do."
And in any case, as Americans, we can't control our politicians any longer. The only thing that would have worked in decades past is a massive tax protest to deprive the state of funding to do the evil things it does.
I'm sorry, but I think it's really that simple. Until people stop believing in political authority, we're going to continue to suffer this type of epic destruction and collapse, over and over and over, as humans have for 10,000 years.
Yep. Pretty much. Given enough time this fascist system will collapse on its own taking most of those who voluntarily became dependent along with it.
Many modern conveniences can be carried forward past collapse and it has to at least last as long as the half-life of pollution.
Roughly a third of the US population refused the injection, that is plenty of people to fix the problems and maintain the hierarchy. Just have to get through the next decade more or less.
My short list of what to do: 1.Grow food. 2. Buy ammo. 3. Personally hold US Constitutional money.
One can find 1/10th ounce Gold Eagles on Ebay. Overpaying to actually hold one is OK, its about having something to trade with personally should the internet get restricted or bank buy-ins occur. Compared to almost everything else we spend money on, saving some in this fashion is incredibly wise.
Also most investors are supporting what is tearing apart the planet. Take the money away from this fascist system.
I like your garden message and might help with tips should you be experiencing problems.
Due diligence on the Ebay sellers, pay attention to 100% Positive Rating with a lot of transactions.
"The only thing that would have worked in decades past is a massive tax protest to deprive the state of funding to do the evil things it does."
The ability of the government to borrow and print money makes it nearly impossible to deprive it of funds. Reagan got tax cuts to try to starve the beast and it didn't work during his terms in office.
The reason to take care of yourself now. Take a different road, this one has too many deep potholes.
Paolo, what a sad and maddening story. Where did you grow up? As for why Americans did not stand up, I believe many if them did. That is why, in the early seventies, Richard Nixon started the Environmental Protection Agency. He was scared into it. A lot of good progress was made in the seventies. Then Ronald Reagan came in and took Jimmy Carter’s solar panels off the White House and started this whole insane greed fest of the eighties. I have never understood the worship of Reagan, or why Iran/Contra was not a bigger scandal.
christ almighty. well said. beautiful. thank you for that. which country are you from, will you tell us? And where is this latin sign and can you provide a link to a pic of it? It sounds like it is the kind of phrase that gets put up on buildings because it is in common use, common wisdom or something. Is it something like that? Can you provide any other information on it?
I found something - very interesting: https://www.thecannachronicles.com/canabis-protectio-1390/
The mental sharpness is what jumped out at me.
It's so different from the older people today, taking multiple pharmaceutical products for so much of their lives. Many seem to be in a sort of haze, disconnected from the world.
So very different than our current President who cannot speak a coherent sentence on his own.
As a child, I had breakfast with my great-great grandmother most weekdays until I started school, knew and had conversations with three of my great-grandparents, and three of my four grandparents lived past 90 (one is still alive at 100 this year). I had no idea until I was in college how unusual it was to have family members who had met Civil War soldiers.
Extreme age seems to be a function of nutrition, physical activity, attitude, and genetics. My parents have the genetics, but between their excess weight from a modern American diet, the addiction to constant fear porn from their favored MSNBC, locking themselves down due to Covid (not a lot of exercise last couple of years) and their dependence on pharmaceuticals (including vaxx boosters), I fear they won't make it the next couple of years to 80.
Longevity runs in my family. Many of my grandparents and greats lived to their late 80s and 90.
My mother only lived to age 54. She was poisoned by the military and medical industrial complex. So was my husband, most likely (a case harder to prove).
These are the stories I'll write more about as I have the time, and what I intended the newsletter for in the first place! But that type of writing takes up emotional energy that a post like that does not.
I was chatting with a friend the other day and she told me she was feeling stressed about her husband's health, and so her doctor put her on anti-anxiety medication. She is in her 80s and her spouse is, too! I didn't ask how many medications she was on in addition to that. I think there is an epidemic of purposelessness and loneliness among many of our elderly, and-- as with western medicine in general-- it's easier to try to suppress the symptoms than address the root causes. Thanks for the reminder that it hasn't always been like this. I'm with you. I don't miss the laws that would have made my marriage illegal and the customs that would have labeled my children "half-breeds," but we've thrown out the baby with the bathwater and come up with new levels of absurd anti-science to sow misery from cradle to grave.
Yes. I'm not yet more afraid of the traditionalists who want to throw us back to the 1800s than I am of the modern pharma cult. The insane pharma fascist cult that wants to poke me with injection gunk every 3-6 months is a far greater danger to my life presently. But I don't really relish having to go back to fighting the do-gooder traditionalists, either, should they gain the upper hand.
All I want to do is to go back to the 90s. Why is this so flippin' hard? haha
"her doctor put her on anti-anxiety medication" - Please avoid any benzos at all cost. Quite dangerous for seniors. Try cal-mag calm drink supplement every evening. Works well for many.
"Is there a better world on the other side of all of this and how long does it take for us to get there?"
There is and that better world has been growing as the garbage system has been decaying. There are times where this better world takes a leap or two forward at other times it seems to grow slower. It seems to take it's biggest leaps after periods of intensified decay in the garbage system. We are currently in one of those periods of intensified decay. How long does it take for us to get there? Many of us are already there and trying to help it grow. That doesn't mean we don't see the garbage machine. It means we don't fit inside of it.
So yes things will get worse but they will get better too, much better. I think that you Monica and many, many more like you -- millions and millions are part of that better world and are planting the seeds to make that better world more prevalent tomorrow.
Amidst the darkness there is a light on the horizon. It is the rising rays of a new culture.
Thank you for the encouragement. <3
I remember back in 2002ish when an aquaintance became convinced that it wasn't the Saudi's who brought down three towers in NYC. She had every book ever written. She talked about it constantly to anyone who would listen. She made me think about and wonder how the 3rd tower could go down on it's own. But, back then some part of me understood how that was a huge rabbit hole to go down.
I follow all of the substackers every day. Have several books on 'pandemic'. Spend 2 hours a day, at least, reading and making notes.
Now I understand how sad, alienated, frustrated, angry, and lonely taking a position like that felt to her. She eventually got cancer, wouldn't see a doctor and died.....
Having balance in life is important. Take care, everybody.
Yes. It's a grief process for me, what we're going through. But I've been through grief before and it gets easier each time I do it, as I know that I have come out on the other side every time.
I have confidence that humanity will come out on the other side more enlightened, more awakened, and more socially and physically healthy than it has been in the last 50 years or so.
It's the uncertainty with how long that process is going to take exactly that is getting to me.
One of the reasons I like your substack is that I too have suffered through trauma and grief at the hands of medical system in USA. My new husband is somehow afraid that now I am not a liberal feminist dem anymore and may well be on my way to Qanon. I am so ready for some truths to be revealed via the propaganda major media outlets so somethings will be settled. But, I can't hold my breath. All the best to all the warriors.
“One of the reasons I like your substack is that I too have suffered through trauma and grief at the hands of medical system in USA.”
Yes. Thank you for the affirmation! A lot of the corona Substack folks — and thank goodness for them, but I include people like Malone and Kirsch — are reeling in somewhat of disbelief now because they thought the system was working. Kirsch thinks it's just about the vaccines and he force everyone to wake up somehow and then we go back to normal. Berenson seems of this mindset too.
It was never working. It has not been working for 500,000 terminal cancer patients who die every year, deprived of many good treatment options, as people like Berenson label them quackery. (That guy is a one-trick pony.) Malone has much wisdom, though. He is smart enough to realize the complexities of living systems. I am glad, though, that people like this have woken up, because now it has given me strength to speak more broadly and loudly about the mass genocide known as "modern medicine."
“My new husband is somehow afraid that now I am not a liberal feminist dem anymore and may well be on my way to Qanon.”
Oh god. These people are such idiots! I am sorry to say that about your husband, but you are not alone. Also my former romantic partner has become completely dumbed down and cruel over this as well. At least it made it easier to abandon any possibility that a relationship with him could work.
QAnon! A delicious bit of projection. I didn't vote for Trump either time. I don’t even know what the fuck QAnon is but they are obsessed with it and think all our information comes from there. All we are doing is thinking for ourselves, while they in the meantime are brainwashed by BlueAnon.
I have friends in New Zealand like this, too! It’s all incredibly alienating. They cannot see beyond their own noses or the propaganda on state-run media that they refuse to pull themselves away from. And it’s all driven by fear and a cult of safetyism.
I know health nuts who refused to eat anything non-organic for years who are happy to turn themselves into a GMO over and over again now with these frankenshots, even though there’s NO evidence they work for any significant length of time, and are likely making things worse through harming innate immunity. Endless infections and cancer due to the obsession with the adaptive immune system. Unbelievable.
“I am so ready for some truths to be revealed via the propaganda major media outlets so somethings will be settled.”
Not going to happen. This is the global equivalent of a Jim Jones cult.
“But, I can't hold my breath. All the best to all the warriors.”
Yes. <3
We are def on the same page. By the way, and I can't say much, but it is looking like there is an uptick of Downs Syndrome being found in fetuses in the last few months. It is very concerning.....
Indeed, the mental sharpness of those oldsters stands out. They were mostly not deaf either! Now there may have been a selection for only the best and the brightest. After all the concept of senility as ‘second childhood’ is old. Also, were there not fewer of them? The rural village in which I live now has a remarkably high number of people living well into their nineties.
My great-grandfather was very sharp until he passed in his late 80s. He was only forgetful, tired, and with headaches for a month or so until we discovered he had a brain tumor. He passed away only a month after that.
Way to go! My dad was 84 and in full command of his mind till the end. Mom went on another 9 years but was predeceased by most of hers. If I could choose I would rather go Dad’s way.
I moved back to the US from the UK late last year. One of the things that I notice here is the relative disappearance of the elderly. I assume most are in care homes or shut up in their houses. In the UK, the elderly are a visible presence everywhere. You see them on the bus, in the shops. Many seem to live quite independent lives. My allotment site was largely populated by people older than me (I'm in my mid-60s). The allotment neighbours on one side were in their 70s, behind me was a gentleman in his 70s. The man across the way was in his 80s. All out digging, sowing, harvesting their plots. It's also completely normal to see groups of elderly people out hiking in the countryside. Thanks for reminding me of what's truly normal.
New Zealand is like this, too, and I presume it continues even in covid times. I'm not sure, as I left a month before the madness started down there. Generally speaking, the US has a very unhealthy culture in which people are inside all the time, lacking in exercise, and driving everywhere to get to everything. The UK, NZ, Oz, and Europe have better "urban planning" -- I think it is not central planning, but the result of the lack of so many zoning and other laws that really kill small businesses in residential districts. I don't see young or the middle-aged out enjoying life in the US, either. This was the case even before covid. It's difficult to detail all the social dysfunction in the US because it's so diverse. I've often said, the US has an innovative culture and one of the things it's innovating faster than anything else is social dysfunction. How long were you over in the UK?
I lived in the UK for almost 20 years, so I've spent about half of my adult life there. I first visited in the late 80s, back when I met my now ex-husband. We lived in the US for quite a while and then moved back to the UK in 1999. Since then, I've bounced back and forth several times, with and then without him.
It's still obvious that the UK developed during a time before cars, with the tiny roads and greater emphasis on pedestrian culture. One thing I really love is the public green space. Every place I lived there had public woods/parks/canal towpaths/fields where people could walk.
Yep! New Zealand has inherited much of this culture. Part of it's cultural. New Zealand certainly has a car culture, but it also has much more cohesive town centers, or at least it did, until covid forced many small business owners with shopfronts under.
One correction: I know of no virus capable of closing a business. Only governments are capable of doing that.
Yes!
Could someone explain the significance of the "1986 Generation"? What happened after that?
Big Pharma’s childhood vaccines were given immunity from liability in the USA in 1986. That’s when jabbing kids went from 4 or 5 to now 72 jabs by the time they are 18.
You can follow the vitality rabbit even further, check the work of Weston A. Price (https://www.westonaprice.org/).
I adore Dr. Price's writing and work, and have long been a fan (and am also familiar with WAP and its teachings). :) I referenced Price's seminal nutritional classic in another article you may enjoy, if you haven't seen it:
https://themariachiyears.substack.com/p/modern-ignorance-and-ancient-wisdom-513?s=w
Loved this one too! Read like a Sunday, newspaper column I used to read 👍
There was a natural assumption that life, and lives-unborn, elderly, children, were valuable. No algorithms were employed to determine who should be allowed to live. When did we become Logan’s Run? My parents said it was the day Roe v Wade and Doe v Bolton made abortion legal up to birth. I was 13 that year and started protesting in numerous ways immediately because I’d learned in public schools(!) that civilizations kill their offspring because they’ve LOST ALL HOPE. But it didn’t appear to be the case. Life looked like a big party in our universe. So why would women opt to snuff out the lives of their own kids? Was there an undercurrent of despair? Was the loss of a sense of transcendence a factor? How could “make love not war” segue into “I need to off my baby in order to get ahead in business”? One of my son’s high school buddies killed himself when he figured out that his mother had aborted a sibling around the time that, as a kindergartner, he started pleading with mom and dad for a little brother. She was about to be promoted at work. It was not just the loss of the sibling that pushed him over the edge. It was rather the realization that mommy’s love was capricious. It was sheer luck that he was living, and his brother had been sucked into a medical waste container. He was plunged into depression and no counselor could help because they’re mostly women who view abortion as a societal net good. He downed a bottle of benzos with vodka. Suicide is the #1 cause of death for the under 24 crowd. And as Monica has pointed out, suicide is now “medical care”! But how is it that people are unbelievably afraid of death (from a cold/flu?) yet easily turn to suicide, and vehemently call for the deaths of those who are sanguine with taking life (and death) as nature, Fate, or God delivers it? We have entered a Godless, post-Christian age where child grooming is taught by teachers on Tik Tok, but the unmasked and unjabbed and unapologetically traditional in outlook are quickly branded and ostracized, silenced. Did it start with abortion, or was abortion the result? Or a symptom of something larger? Why doesn’t anyone talk about the elderly who died in the nursing homes? Is it because nobody cared about them anyway? I’m getting my garden in too on this pretty sunny day while making lists of things I’ll need during the looming apocalypse. But these questions keep my mind unquiet.
Your son’s friend was suicidal over a narcissistic mother. Unfortunately, there are so many of them. I am sure he was badly treated in other ways.
I got sucked into the moral panic over abortion as a religious teenager, but as an adult I have come to a different view.
Unfortunately, infanticide is common in our species and has been going on thousands of years. It’s not new. As you are religious, you are no doubt familiar with many biblical tales of infanticide.
I believe it likely has multiple causes, but in the paleolithic era (stone age), up to 25% of infants were killed after birth.
My personal view is that highly intelligent animals have somewhat unique problems due to their intelligence.
Sometimes chimp groups carry out war on other chimp groups.
Cetaceans kill for fun. They often will kill a seal, play with it, and then not eat it. It’s terrible.
And yes, humans kill their offspring. As for the elderly, the Eskimo left them behind on icebergs when they were too old to keep up. (This is different, however, than deliberately depriving them of care.)
After infanticide of born infants became unacceptable in more recent agricultural times (but as Beth points out in her reply is becoming acceptable yet again), abortifacient herbs and coat hangers came about.
This ALL happened well before abortion was legalized during the era you discuss.
But none of this is new. The human baby requires tremendous resources to sustain in comparison to other mammals that begin walking and taking care of themselves right away after birth, and also have the strength to grip to mother’s body hair and thus bear more of the burden for their rearing. Human babies require immense levels care until age 2.
Motherhood is quite frankly exhausting for many women. I understood and took this seriously, and it’s why I never wanted to have any (although I never went to great pains to avoid pregnancy... perhaps I am simply infertile).
Abuse of young primates in crowded, stressful conditions also appears to exist in other species, too. Robert Malone wrote about it in one of his posts recently.
In my opinion, the task in our modern age is to acknowledge biological realities like this, and also to realize that the current genocide is (in my opinion, and I think the evidence supports it) driven by monetary collapse and happening on many fronts. When the elites steal the population’s accumulated wealth, the genocide gets worse because there aren’t enough resources to go around and people are fighting for bare survival.
Some of us simply don’t have the resources for children, JP. I love children and I love my young relatives, but I never had the financial, mental, emotional, physical, or social resources to have them. I was never pregnant to my knowledge, nor did I have any abortions.
I simply wasn’t interested in having any and neither was my husband, despite being 20 years my senior and having no children himself from a prior marriage. We were busy with other things that we found much more interesting at the time.
I’m not ashamed of that, and while I am past childbearing age, I’m not keen to see quirky women such as myself dragged back into a world where their only role is to be confined to being an unwilling breeding mare and milk cow by “do gooders” who think they know how others should live.
I’m glad I was born in 1975 rather than 1875, and we’re not going back. We’re moving forward.
"dragged back into a world where their only role is to be confined to being an unwilling breeding mare and milk cow" - Oh my. This phrase is supercharged stuff. As a man, I can't quite get to that. I'm not particularly keen on responding much to what "society" norms might be. When my kids were young my wife stayed home, her choice. But I earned well enough we could manage despite knowing we would never become rich in material stuff. She certainly could nurture better than I but still it took the two of us. And yes I know what green poop is. I knew her burdens and she knew mine, we were partners in our business. I have no idea nor care in some respects what others choose to do. Sadly much ended when we had no children to hold us together - she went her way and I went mine. I still help her now that she has ended in a nursing home situation. But I am not able to help her myself. Can't even lift her wheelchair now to put into the trunk. Our children are far from us busy, some now giving us the greats.
I only wish I was steady enough like that fellow doing the tap dance. I can still do a step or two as long as I have something nearby. Loss of balance seems progressive despite the daily exercises. But at least I can still walk some lugging around some O2. At 82 I feel fortunate that I am still here because I have too many friends who are not. Whether good or bad, at 82 the chance of reaching 92 is better now than when I was 62.
OTOH, average lifespans have been greatly extended by modernity. Much of that is a result of a cleaner world and improved medicine. Whether that continues might depend on our choices. Many dietary choices are awful. I can't cook very well but do it anyway heeding my wife's instruction about reading labels. The ,local Korean and Indian restaurants enjoy my custom in my takeouts of foods well beyond my skill.
"Oh my. This phrase is supercharged stuff."
I'm not describing your wife or anyone else who was a good mother. I'm describing what I would be if I was dragged unwillingly back to the 1800s. The bad thing about the covid debacle is that it is dragging back aspects of traditionalism that I'm not too keen on, if enforced by a bunch of religionist radicals who think they know how to tell others how to live. Get it? It's just a different side of the same coin of the mask Nazis and the vaccinators. I'm not interested in living in either world.
My grandmother could only have 1 child, suddenly went infertile for reasons nobody understood at the time, and took on nineteen foster babies. Nineteen!!! And they adopted one of them. (She was mysteriously able to conceive 12 years later and had two biological children.)
So, I come from an absolutely amazing family that loved children enough to take on the responsibility of care for nearly 20 foster babies, and who poured their heart and soul into their children and grandchildren. My grandmother is still alive, was taking care of babies 40 hours a week until a few years ago, and the love is still a two way street. My mother desperately wanted to have more children, but couldn't, because chemotherapy and radiation wrecked her body. So, I am keenly aware that I was lucky enough to be born and to exist at all, only a few years before her body was wrecked.
I'm actually a fairly traditional woman in appearance and with regard to household roles otherwise. Why do I even need to state this?
I'm tired of being pathologized by woke idiots who think I'm a victim because I don't put pronouns in my bio and dye my hair green.
But I'm also tired of childless women such as myself being pathologized by the religionist and traditionalist crowd who somehow think we are broken because we never wanted a baby. Enough of the fucking stereotypes of intellectuals, professional women, and so on. GTFO.
If others want to go back to the 50s, I have no problem with that. I'm simply making clear that some of us aren't coming along just because society has jumped the shark in the opposite direction now.
JP opened this can of worms, not me. I'm just defending my right to exist (on MY website, no less) and to think for myself and to be an individual.
I'm tired of people arriving to assume my politics and other beliefs merely based on the covid stuff, or to tell me I'm evil because I believe in evolution (yes, that's happened, too). Many peoples' worlds are very small.
Sorry, I can't account for those who wish to control. I don't see traditional roles as going back to anything, it's not retrograde. And even in the 1890's females were part of running the show even if history can't acknowledge that. Nobody should question another's choices free of harm. And if you wish to become an addict, your choice although I would question the choice. I can agree whole heatedly that the evangelists of all stripes including the new woke religion need to stop proselytizing. Who in the hell do you think you are applies!
BTW my God and evolution get along just fine. I buy into the thought we are still evolving. Hopefully the vaccine insanity hasn't altered that progress.
Cheers!
So why are there so many narcissistic mothers? Perhaps because the culture preaches that only a crazy person would undertake such an expensive and exhausting task like child rearing. I’ve recently noticed an uptick in cultural portrayals of women who DO have children as unhinged. As I write this, I’m watching a discussion of the films of John Ford. A French critic once asked Ford why he wasted time portraying mothers? Ford’s reply: “Do you have a mother?” The implication is that everyone honors their own mother. But not now. Motherhood was once an honored pursuit. After all, the future of the species depends upon it, but when intellectuals frame motherhood as something which occurs amongst the great unwashed, uneducated, thoughtless, and of course polluting masses, then we careen toward Idiocracy. I’m not calling out you Dr. Hughes or anyone else. But it should concern us. “As American as Mom and Apple Pie” is laughable now. If women reproduce now it’s either because “reproductive health restrictions” “force” her to, or it’s to gain an accessory to post on Instagram. Where there is no respect for Motherhood, children will continue to be groomed in classrooms, and abused by the craven and ignorant via vaccines and puberty blockers. This is inherently bad news even for those with zero interest in children themselves. Who the heck will pay for all the entitlements? They are a pyramid scheme reliant on a growing younger demographic. There’s no “social security lockbox.” I would direct people to the time on this continent 600 years back when the Aztecs slaughtered children to appease the gods. Very complex problems for a complex people? Do we dare not call it simply wrong to do this?
"I would direct people to the time on this continent 600 years back when the Aztecs slaughtered children to appease the gods."
Exactly. The sacrifice of the vulnerable is not a modern problem.
There are many complex things going on here, including recurring historical cycles.
I'm 100% with you that many women have children thoughtlessly and that motherhood is a noble pursuit. I had a wonderful mother who was not a narcissist.
I only ask that you meet me halfway and acknowledge that this role in life is not for everyone.
There is a tendency to glorify various points in the past as a sort of golden age -- I too have this tendency, but it's a seductive lie. There never was such a period.
"Who the heck will pay for all the entitlements?"
No one. That's why those responsible for this pyramid scheme are collapsing it before it's been discovered that they've stolen everything.
That's my point exactly. Those of us in our younger years, even if we're just Gen X, who have had our resources stolen by the state to fund one the greediest generation on earth (boomers), don't have the luxury to live in fantasyland.
When we point fingers, there are three pointing back at ourselves.
Ah, I can't resist jumping into this interesting thread, especially since I'm a "boomer." I live on less than $20K a year and work to earn about half of that, despite, obviously, being of retirement age. So I don't consider myself to be greedy, but then I'm not your typical boomer either.
Like you, I never had children. I'm sure there are wonderful mothers out there. I've met some of them. Unfortunately, my mother was not a good role model. Neither was my father for that matter. So my sister or myself didn't have children, by choice. The intergenerational trauma that I can now trace back at least three generations thankfully stopped with us. So definitely I can agree that that role in life is not for everyone. There is no point is bringing ever more people into the world who will be traumatized by their family situation. Let it stop with me.
"Motherhood was once an honored pursuit" - Indeed. And an important one. Just as once teachers, ministers, nurses, doctors and the police/military were not considered "money" jobs but service work and considered quite honorable work. I do observe that no amount of automation is likely to erase the need for these people of service.
Thank you so much for sharing this story on the dignity of life. My state (CO) just signed a radical abortion up to birth law and I am reeling.
While pondering society’s course, I remind myself that morality in past generations was fertilized by community. Neighbors talked to neighbors. Families maintained connections to their clan. Two generations ago it was not unusual for children and grandchildren to live with their grandparents in the same home (check the census - it’s an extraordinary revelation). Most certainly neighbors and extended family did not agree on all matters (perhaps even disagreed on every matter) but I propose that their proximity to one another was a feature that promoted moral virtues (compassion, temperance, etc.) and societal stability. Variety and intimacy of personal interactions within your community make polarization difficult.
Our attention at this time is so focused on communities far away (DC, NZ, Ukraine, China, etc. and toward people we have no personal relationships with - Covid has further separated our personal relationships.
I would propose that our current condition has provided us with the perfect opportunity for our own Great Reset. A sincere expansion of our personal interactions within our communities/families is needed. We have allowed technology, media, corporate interests to displace and isolate us from our community. We cannot rely on top-down management to change society. We must get our hands dirty. It can be uncomfortable because we’ve had decades of distancing ourselves from community and personal interaction but it must be done. The human condition is based in socialization - it improves our bodies, our minds, and our souls.
Born in '51 in Appalachia ... honestly dont remember ever getting sick ...... live in Europe 30+ years and now I am blackmailed to pay a penalty for not being vaccinated... we are living in a very 'interesting' time.
BTW, Please link to Bitchute or Rumble or someone other than fascist YouTube -- there is no way I will use that site.
Thanks, you have a very good blog -- but pray for a Giant Comet -- because that would be the only 'reset' that would actually free us from our numbness.
Haha! I sympathize with your nihilism (which is not really nihilism, it's seeing no way out of the current mess), and I wrote about something similar to that in this post:
https://themariachiyears.substack.com/p/on-the-end-of-the-world?s=w
Hail The Sweet Meteor of Death!! haha!
Was going to send this report to you earlier with a comment but my 'pseudo-nihilism' (HHAA!! good descriptor! ) prevented me!
The PDF is from a German group and represents a massive effort both on their part but most tellingly on the Industrial/Governmental associations -- its called the Network Analysis Corona Complex and it pretty much explains why we NEED a meteor. The expression 'follow the money' has never been given more depth -- there is NO WAY these people are going to stop. https://clubderklarenworte.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Netzwerkanalyse-Corona-Komplex.pdf
Ever read Martin Armstrong? Check him out :: https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/ -- just about all of the economic heavyweights (My prehistoric Diploma) are calling for massive upsets in the worlds socio-economic systems -- many leading to wars.
At any rate, its not a bad time to do some serious introspection and discover what is really important in our lives
I really am wondering if Ron Santos would accept Kiwis as political refugees? Sigh…
Addendum: err, that should have been Ron DeSantis…
DeSantis?
Yes, sorry, my bad. One of the many hazards of commenting late in the evening!😅
No problem. I get it.
Tell me how things are going there? You would be more free here, and not just in Florida. Still, I miss New Zealand.
Taking it day by day. The damage done by the Ardern government is just appalling. At least jab mandates have been partially lifted, so effected businesses like hospitality have less restrictions. I’d also hazard a guess that over half the population have now contracted Omicron and the hospitals are coping, with infections dropping rapidly. However there are still many who have swallowed the blue pill, drunk the kook-aid and are riven with fear. Truly sad in so many ways. On the bright side, we still have our wonderful natural environment, so it’s off to the beach in our caravan for a few days to chill and hopefully catch some fish!
Yay! <3 Yes, it's quite weird to imagine the psychological damage that has elapsed in the 9 months since my absence. :( I hope the businesses will choose to open up again rather than continuing to shoot themselves in the foot by choosing to apply vax passes. But who knows. Maybe they are brainwashed, too.
Wasn’t the average life expectancy in 1920 like 55?
How about we just allow people to make their own medical decisions and stop forcing doctors to behave like mechanics with standardized solutions and no patient say in the process.
"How about we just allow people to make their own medical decisions"
100% agree, actually.
This was a treat, thank you.