Exsanguination, Subconscious Messaging, and Followbacks
A potpourri for this #ThreeThoughtThursday
Notes:
I am traveling right now, but I can still respond to comments.
We haven’t done a #ThreeThoughtThursday in a while, so let’s…
#1 The Exsanguination Machine
Over the last few weeks, I have asked some important questions that have garnered a lot of interest. When is violence justified in response to totalitarianism? Why would the FBI search me on LinkedIn? If we try to leave and form new polities, will they let us go?
As we cast about for complicated answers, Demi over at
offered a simple reminder that I think bears repeating:Government’s core business model is to take, drain out, funnel away. Without extorting the citizens, there is no cash flow.
Wanting to be left alone interferes with government’s core business model, which, in their backwards parlance, would cause them to perceive “wanting to be left alone” as “a threat to national security,” even though, under natural law, @Christopher Cook is absolutely correct and in alignment.
It’s basically like the government is saying, “How dare you not allow me to steal from you?”
When we think about what to do and how to do it, we must remember that simple fact. Government is a giant exsanguination machine, designed to siphon as much as it can from you while still keeping you alive.
The system depends on it. Everyone who works in government depends on it. Every corporation with friends in government depends on it. The Military Industrial Complex…Big Pharma… they all depend on it. They’re not going to give that up easily.
By hook or by crook, they will have to give it up one day. Hopefully it will be peaceful and negotiated.
#2 Subconscious messaging in baseball article?
The following is an excerpt from an article about the New York Yankees’ search for pitchers this offseason. Check out the words I have highlighted:
“How they go about rounding out their pitching staff will be the focus of the first few weeks of 2024. With that as a backdrop, let’s examine the shape of the market right now, breaking down the several directions the Yankees can go before camp begins.”
Each of those words makes sense in context, and seems normal enough. But those words also all connote pitching in some way or other.
Rounding
Breaking pitches (sliders, curves, etc.) are more effective when they have more break. The rounder the arc of travel is, the more effective the pitch.backdrop
Drop, once again, is something a good pitch does…especially if it drops right as the batter swings. “Backdrop” also connotes “backstop,” which is the name of the big screen behind home plate, and is also a slang term for the catcher position.shape
Here again, “shape” is a term of art describing one aspect of a breaking pitch.breaking down
Breaking down is what most good breaking pitches do.directions
The directionality of a breaking pitch is an important characteristic. Does it tail away? Break down and away? Straight down? Down and in?
This is not some sort of earth-shattering discovery, but it is interesting. Was this intentional? Subconscious? Purely coincidence? Was this written by a human? By AI? Are things we read filled with more subconscious messaging than we realize?
#3 Followbacks
I recently learned that Substack has a built-in limit: you can only follow 3,000 accounts.
I discovered that I was no longer able to follow people, so I contacted support. The support person in tun contacted the engineering department and found out about the limit. She said they plan to raise the limit, but there is no timetable for when that will take place.
I tell you about this for two reasons:
First, so you know about the limit.
Second, so you know that if I have not followed you back, that is the reason why.
I make it a point to follow back everyone who follows or subscribes to me, so as soon as this limit is gone, I will go back to following.
In the meantime, I might try unfollowing some non-mutuals to get below the limit, so that I can start following you folks again. But that may take a while.
Happy Thursday!
This:
"When we think about what to do and how to do it, we must remember that simple fact. Government is a giant exsanguination machine, designed to siphon as much as it can from you while still keeping you alive.
The system depends on it. Everyone who works in government depends on it. Every corporation with friends in government depends on it. The Military Industrial Complex…Big Pharma… they all depend on it."
Don’t feed the beast. In truth - No one owns anything in this world anyway. We just pay to use things till we die and they will keep collecting money off the house, car, estate taxes etc… over avd over for centuries.
Pay off debts, pull all investments out of everything and create your own community or charitable trust with likeminded people.