Phoenician (Canaanite) Trade With the New World

Table of Contents (clickable)

1. October 7th Massacre Prompting
2. Canaanites
3. Phoenicians
   • Special Section: Cedar, Ships and Coins
4. Departure from Accepted History
5. My Personal Point of Accepting Phoenicians in New World
6. Seafaring Maps
7. List of Sources
8. Author Support

The research and perspective in this blog post happened after the October 7th 2023 massacre of Jewish people. The next days after the massacre I saw the Hamas uploaded videos, the most horrendous videos I've ever seen. On the same day, immediately alongside this horror, massive amounts of people marched in support of the murderers. The supporters of murdering Jews were also ardent supporters of a predictable array of extreme views. It was then I saw an alliance of total perverted depraved evil, and gave me the open mind and energy to search for a historical and philosophical counter to that evil.

Throughout this post Canaanite = Phoenician. Greeks called them Phoenicians, Hebrews called the same Canaanites.

Canaanites -map and Wikipedia links

• https://www.britannica.com/place/Canaan-historical-region-Middle-East
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaan
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaan (Biblical Account)

Phoenicians

The Phoenicans were the preminent seafaring explorers and traders of the Middle East/Mediterranean for most of the 1st millennium BC before being eliminated by Alexander the Great in his siege of Tyre and then Rome's final and total annihilation of Carthage in 146 BC. Phoenicia was never an empire like the Assyrians, Persians, or Romans. It did not do conquests. It did trade, it did seafaring, and did the importing of goods exotic to the people of the ancient Middle East. If you were wealthy, which was almost solely aristocrats, you bought the luxury clothes and other things that show power from no one else but the Phoenicians.

Lebanon cedar is the how and why of this unique capability of the Phoenicians. Unique to the mountains of northern Canaan, this wood is what made transoceanic travel possible.

Few in the Middle East knew where these exotic things came from. It was a trade secret the Phoenicians carefully guarded, especially from emerging seafarers such as the Greeks and the Romans.

Special Section on Phoenician

• Cedar
• Shipbuilding
• and Coin Currency

1. Great reference on Phoenician cedar and even greater writing on money : How The Phoenicians Adopted Hard Money
2. Print of Phoenician built ships of Egypt and Canaan:  Egyptian and Phoenician ships -NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY DIGITAL COLLECTIONS
3. Several photos of Phoenician coins and where they were produced:  A History of Phoenician coins -Reddit
4. The oldest, largest and best-preserved vessel from antiquity. Made with Phoenician cedar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khufu_ship
5. The Cedar Forest -the glorious realm of the gods of Mesopotamian mythology. Entered by the hero Gilgamesh who dared cut down trees from its virgin stands during his quest for fame: 
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Forest

Lebanon Cedar. Phoenicians max leveraged this for superior ships, trade and wealth.

Everything written so far in this document is widely and long accepted as historical fact. Where I go after this point is not universally accepted, and I assume not wholly endorsed or accepted in academia circa 2024. I am not going to present magical thinking, humans transported by mystical means, or anything less than what is in the scope of normal and global human endeavors of trade, seafaring, and resettlement. 

We live in an era of extremely clear pictures of cultures that left no written record. Through a complex weave of DNA, artifact analysis, knowledge of exact points of origin for those artifacts, along with our precise data on climate and geology for every decade going back 10s of thousands of years - we know what people did without knowing their names or exactly how they looked. It is all forensic and conjectural. Conjectural is less than the proofs we have of activity of the Romans, Greeks, Persians or Chinese, because all those societies literally ran via a clerical bureacratic accountant class. To claim we live in uncertainty about all history outside of that over-documented paradigm should be a claim we question.  

We have amazingly clear understandings of Yamnaya culture- they domesticated the horse (a very aggressive animal that solely existed on the glacial edge), invented the wheel which they used on wagons for mobile living with their herds, ancestor worship via animal sacrifices and feasts, the first instance of hoarding wealth within a family rather than communal sharing, and these cultural practices quickly spread across races going into northern India and the Zhou dynasty of China. (Yamnaya-centric Russian Steppes-centric diffusionism for those cultural traits) 

It is in the spirit of how we know about the Yamnaya and imagine their lives that I would like the reader to consider and more deeply study Semitic(Canaanite/Hebrew) presence in the New World.

A counter statement to the above license and enthusiasm. Let us not want a history so much that we embrace and cling to what truly did not happen. It would be a good thing to shake incorrect histories out of accepted dogma. It is not a good thing to cling to the bizarre and exotic conjecture purely because that very bizarreness appeals to our personality and personal preferences. Proceed with caution with conjectures, acknowledging at every contemplation the difference between plausible, hard proof, and impossible without some form of magical intervention.

Personally, I operate with an attachment to trade as a fundamental need for humans, and trade itself has self-amplifying dynamics that strengthens its established channels and encourages finding more. Where there is less trade or no trade, that population falls back on the subsistence of gathering local food and reproduction. This is the most unsustainable form of human. The ideal of isolated subsistence as widespread (especially in pre-colonial America and Pacific islands), a default and a right is a perversity that has spread in popular culture. Consider anyone promoting this a liability.

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Phoenicians in Azores, Brazil, Amazon River, Peru and Mesoamerica. —a list of sources

Phoenician ships on the Amazon River: (ai generated)

Below is a list of books, videos and webpages with supporting information for a Semitic presence in the New World. Some of them are major, exhaustive bodies of research and others offer a little of this and that. I wanted the readers of my blog entry to have an open ended plunge into the subject and access to other's perspective.

That said, I want to present in short what initiated my acceptance of the Phoenicians in New World theory. The initial spark was the man on a horse statue the first Portuguese voyage discovered in the Azores. Right away, I thought the Azores are adjacent (further out to sea) to the accepted sea route the Phoenicians had to use for the long accepted Britian to Canaan trade. Then a little into that research I learned seafaring requires going out to deep sea then catching winds or current driving back to shore, that one does not operate near shore in a long traverse. These maritime factors make Phoenician contact with the Azores more likely than not. To restate that, it is highly unlikely the Phoenicians could have never discovered the Azores. The Azores angle was the spark that got my attention, what came next is the larger bang that convinced me. The Phoenicians certainly went down the northwest coast of Africa. It is there that a wind and ocean current provides ships easy and sure conveyance to Brazil [link] .

It is this Azores and Morocco to Brazil seafaring information that suddenly shifted my historical worldview dramatically. Suddenly, Phoenicians not having contact and not having trade with the New World became very hard to believe.

...and now two maps and that resource list

Orthodox/Confirmed/Accepted Phoenician Trade Routes 

Major winds and currents utilized by sea vessels

1. Youtube: Did Warriors From Ancient Carthage Escape To South America? | Carthage's Lost Warriors

   • 21:50 Large settlements in the Amazon.
   • 22:15 2000 years ago a cultural revolution occurred in the Amazon.
   • 23:36 Ancient axe made of 61% copper and 39% zinc.
   • 26:38 Celts (Iberian allies of the Phoenicians) in the Andes. Kuélap

2. Youtube: Proof of Phoenicians in America Before Columbus

3. Youtube: Were the Azores home to an ancient civilisation? – BBC REEL

4. Early "indigenous"​ of South America and the Caribbean Islands were the ancient mariner people, the Phoenicians. Their genetics remain indigenous

5. The Mystery of the Phoenicians and People of the North in the Americas

6. Phoenicians in Brazil-A Brazilian writing hosted on the U of California Riverside faculty server.

7. Theory of Phoenician discovery of the Americas -Wikipedia

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This is Part One of a series. See Part Two When Hebrews Diverged from Canaanite Child Sacrifice | When Jesus Visited Sidon and Tyre He Heard of the Old Trade in New World

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The Soros Evil: Helping Groups Outside Ones Family

 "When asked why his father fights for an open society, Alex Soros replied that in a non-Jewish state, a Jew can only feel safe when other minorities are protected, which is one of the most important driving forces why his father has been active in his philanthropy."

Believing a group can only feel safe IF they are helping other groups is a perverted idea. It is a veiled threat to the safety of people who practice the following form of fundamental good:

Good defined: Families form as a heterosexual couple intent on having their own children (genetic offspring, not adoption). This family functions with a primary directive of their wealth being generated purely for the betterment of their own offspring, and for their future generations.

I've noticed the following groups largely practicing the above: East Asians, Jews, and Republicans. 

I've noticed historic and contemporary groups hating this form of good. Nazi propaganda practically described Jews within my definition of good, and called it an evil worthy of extermination. 

Contemporary Leftists confront this good from several fronts -heterosexuals with pure offspring are replaced with LGBTQ with adoptees as a wholesome norm. Then they battle on the economic side by taxes that extract wealth from good families and redistribute to other families and other children. 

Returning to the definition of "good" stated above. The wider society is one in which everyone and every institution is support staff for the heterosexual capital hoarding family. 

The definition of evil is any individual, agenda or institution that works against the heterosexual capital hoarding family. 

Radical American Students Against All Jews

African migrants into Lampedusa Italy

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Meanwhile in Ireland

May 12 2023

Upper Sandwith Street, Dublin

Migrant shanty town burned

Hatred of moneylender and merchant class is the root evil of Hitler, Nazism and Fascists

An international reaction of performative outrage came about after comments made by Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas [ Palestinian Authority leader caused outrage after talking about Hitler and European Jews in a speech to his Fatah party ]. The core issue was calling Jews moneylenders, and the outrage was basically that moneylenders is a negative stereotype and it is wrong to label Jews as moneylenders.

Every bit of dialog on this I've read misses the most central main point of all main points.

Labeling moneylenders and market speculator merchantilists with a negative frame of reference is the specific wrong of Hitler, Nazism and Fascism

Speaking from the perspective of a US resident, I've seen our culture descend into an open hatred for banking, finance and mercantilist classes for several years now. On a pop culture level the shameless murderous impulse to kill that class was prominently displayed in the script of The Joker, when the main character kills a group of "Wall Street Guys" and later proudly confesses to it on national television.

In the US and maybe in the West in general, we are living in a time in which people who call the police on a car prowler are called fascists, and wanting law and order is labeled white supremacy and linked to Hitler's vision. This is all the thoughts and sentiments of a kind of social activist that ironically are the genuine Nazi brownshirts if they hate the market speculation classes. Which in all my personal social networks is the case, the very ones with unoriginal social justice stances do generally hate the market speculation classes.

This is not even remotely OK.

When my (ex) friends became NPC bots serving the Woke Orthodoxy

NPC

• In video games, an NPC is a non-playable character.
• In slang terms, an NPC is someone who doesn’t think for themselves or behaves very predictably.
• If someone is acting like an NPC in real life, they might repeat the opinions of others or be very predictable in conversations.

The War on Good: Russia the Last Good European Culture

Pearl Davis - Subverting the Dominant Paradigm

Pearl Davis is possibly the greatest agent of subversion and system disruption of the early 21st century. Pearl believes women should not be allowed to vote, women are not equal and divorce should be illegal.

Pearl and a few other female iconoclasts are strongly communicating:

• Good women should not be allies of bad women.
• Women who are not monogamous are bad women.
• Women with double standards are bad women.
• Good men should not treat bad women good.
• The male gaze (at beautiful or sexy women) is natural and OK.
• All discussion is on heterosexual issues, homosexual perspective and existence isn't a concern.

Vivek Ramaswamy - Against the Tyranny of the Minority

How do Orthodoxy Serving Media entities generate Values Sermons out of non-stories?

How do Orthodoxy Serving Media Entities generate Values Sermons out of a non-story?

Step 1) Individuals serving as watchdogs in social justice or environmental agenda groups obsessively watch in tiny corners of whatever, in this case city permits for tree felling, for an act they consider a breach of their extremist values.

Step 2) Their political activist organization, or informal network of allies, email a likeminded friend who is a journalist in a orthodoxy serving media entity.

Step 3) That journalist goes to their editor and presents the tiny event, and the editor decides if the story is inflatable from tiny non-story to a possibly viral values statement.

Step 4) The published values sermon reaches other like minded values extremists across the nation and world. 

Key point with the above is a niche and very miniscule amount of people leveraged their values into appearing demographically larger, this is a minority and extremist view presenting itself purely in a light of virtue and a normalized set of values.

"Tree advocates^{[ extremist watchdogs ]}, already concerned about the city’s dwindling tree canopy, spotted the permit to fell the giant evergreen, and activated their network^{[ contacted their likeminded journalist friend at orthodoxy serving media ]}."

The Non-Story Inflated Values Sermon:

https://www.kuow.org/stories/the-cedar-tree-named-luma-who-has-transfixed-seattle

ORTHODOX, (from Greek orthodoxos, “of the right opinion”), true doctrine and its adherents as opposed to heterodox or heretical doctrines and their adherents. The word was first used in early 4th-century Christianity by the Greek Fathers.

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BIPOC + TRANS SOLIDARITY

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Parents That Trans Their Child Will Cause A Forever War

Undercover: Trans Indoctrination Training for Educators

The Alt Right Intends No Harm to Law Abiding Citizens █ The Left Intends Harm to Normal and Patriotic People

The “racist” Alt Right doesn't even intend to cause harm to anyone but criminals or terrorists. They don't even want to restore de jure discrimination. On the other hand the Progressive Left overtly and sincerely intends to institute de jure discrimination and cause harm to honest and patriotic people.

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Muslim mass destruction and mass uprising in France

Mainstream Media Incapable of Critical View of Immigrants:

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US Supreme Court Defends Dissent and Struck Down Compelled Speech

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Reference:
Colorado Can't Force a Graphic Designer To Create Same-Sex Wedding Websites, Supreme Court Rules - Reason.com

Below are key points in the reference.

In 2021 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit … recognized that "Colorado's 'very purpose' in seeking to apply its law to Ms. Smith" was to stamp out dissenting ideas about marriage. [ Despite this admission ] the 10th Circuit held that the state government was within its authority to compel her to create such websites against her will.
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The majority did decide Smith's case by appealing to free-expression precedents rather than religious-liberty ones. In other words, the justices didn't say that the faith-based nature of Smith's beliefs about marriage entitled her to an exemption. Presumably, a secular person with moral or factual objections to expressing a particular message would receive all the same protections as a Christian or Muslim objecting on religious grounds. As it should be.

First, I celebrate the Supreme Court's crushing Colorado state law that was designed to stamp out dissenting ideas about marriage. Secondly, I want to celebrate the Supreme Court's nuanced ruling stood against government law designed to stamp out expressing views that run counter to a particular message.

Extrapolating further than the scope of the Supreme Court decision, it gives us the phrases to articulate what is wrong, and what to make happen.

Here is the demand: Pride messaging in the form of anything from large city parades to K-12 school events to corporate employee events cannot have one molecule of coercion or compelled participation.

Demanding a uniform message for a city, for a school, for a company or any other social forum on issues of sexual preference or gender identity is a totalitarian demand. The demand of "love and acceptance" is Orwellian 1984 doublespeak with hate and unacceptance for anyone that doesn't comply. Our rights and freedoms come from laws. The LGBTQ community have all those rights in the US. Demanding "love and acceptance" is a hateful brownshirt march through the streets to find anyone who personally considers non-heterosexuals perverts.

People considering those who are gay or cross-dressers to be perverts is something the Pride Flag agenda very much wants to entirely forever sweep away.

So if you are heterosexual, and have the opinion, a great service you could provide to the maintenance of freedom in your society is to occasionally say people who are gay or cross-dressers are perverts.

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The Misleading Rhetoric of Extrapolating on Special Relativity

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I am not arguing or denying in any way Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity. Rather, I have a critique and caveat on certain ways of interpreting it's meaning into our lives.

In the referenced video below physicist Sabine Hossenfelder uses a thought experiment to illustrate the relativism of various points of phenomenon in relation to two observers. (embedded video starts exactly at this subsection).

The clever omission here is what I will call biological functionalism(really could be called biological agency). The word functional really gets at the core of this more than agency.

Back to the train scenario. Sure the train and train lights are not experienced at the same time due to light traveling different distances to different viewers in the Universe. My point of disagreement on the rhetoric is the existence of a functionalism in the biological beings watching the train and the lights.

The gaps in (micro) time of the lights are within the thresholds of time in order to pull off a functional relationship to the train, and for the biological observer to potentially gain what they want for pleasure or survival.

A dog watching the arrival of the train knows from previous experiences when the lights do a certain thing and the train slows it is preparing to stop at the station the dog is sitting at. The dog knows it's favorite human leaves for days and returns on this train. It perceives the lights and sounds of the train slowing well enough to react functionally.

Back to the rhetoric in the video. This claim of meaninglessness, or the other claim of entirely different realities depending on the position of the observers, is dubious. This is not how biological beings experience the Universe, it is how atoms experience the Universe. And it is not an illusion the biological beings have conjured up as if in an opiate-driven dream. Biological agents very effectively intervene in the atomic chaos of the Universe -they move things around, they shape things. Regardless of lack of precision through the lens of physics, biological agents effective intervene in the atomic chaos and move the atoms, placing them where the biological entity wanted them, for a duration of time functionally relevant to biology.

We could extend this biological agency up to cultural/social unit agency -with clans, cities, corporations, and nations deciding where to dig up rocks and where to put them after grinding or melting them.

The rhetoric of relativity accuses us of seeing illusions, patterns and meaning where there isn't any. There is something very wrong in this claim. It is to talk as if the atoms and physics of the Universe are the final, wise, non-illusion perception of reality. The rhetoric suspiciously leaves out biological functionalism, and by extension cultural technological functionalism.

The illusion, the lie, is actually in the rhetoric.

...and there is a logical link between this rhetoric of illusion and meaninglessness as a grounding orientation in academic promotion of post-modernism to fresh waves of young adults in college.

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Woke War on Objectivism

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Two propositions:

1. The truth is subjective.
   • elevates opinions, feelings, identity, partisanship, and perception to the status of truth.
   • implies that truth is relative, fluid, and immaterial.
   • tends toward philosophical skepticism and disengagement with opposing arguments.
2. The truth is objective.
   • makes truth seem hard to reach, because objectivity isn't easy.
   • implies that truth can be a stubborn constraint on realizing our hopes.
   • tends toward pluralism, since no point of view can monopolize truth, and truth cannot be kept segregated into seperate subjective parallel worlds.

There is a decades-long smearing of objectivism and promotion of subjectivism on the Left. From the 90s Leftist promotion of mysticism (in all kinds of cultural traditions), to the emergence of personal experience as the referenced source in college coursework.

I think there is and will be a lot of culture war battling on objectivism versus subjectivism, especially as right-sided culture warriors are blind to the epistemological roots and fight without seeing the rhetorical playing field for the simplicity it is.

My longheld stance on the dichotomy is this: subjective never gets to have a default value above zero in social/public currency.

One's personal subjective experience is exactly that, personal and internal.

The Leftist focus on subjective references are formulaic performances which are more predictable than messy objective reality.

So first LGBT BIPOCs learned the formula, then through repetition and drift the performances evolved into unrealistic mystical camp. This lauded subjectivism isn't in the inspired, savant, genius, gifted artist realm. It is silly and poorly executed cosplay. We've been asked to fundamentally rearrange reality around the stupidest end of our internal depths.

Gender Identity is Subjective and Being Protected By Religious Fervor :

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On Elitism and Privilege in the US : More Millionaires and Billionaires Is Good : More Patriotic Americans is Good

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Referenced interview:
Will the elites ever behave? Aspirational oligarchs could spark a revolution. - BY PETER TURCHIN AND MARY HARRINGTON unherd.com

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Main Action Shots of the Interview

TURCHIN: Exactly. What we see in the historical record is that all complex societies go through periods of good times, maybe a century or so long on average, and then periods of disintegration. During the good times, after a couple of generations, the elites get used to the fact that life is good and stable, and that’s when the iron law of oligarchy kicks in. The elites are very strongly tempted to convert their power into goodies for themselves — and if there’s nothing stopping them, that’s what they do. They basically reconfigure the economy in a way that depresses the wages of workers and creates a “wealth pump” that funnels riches directly to the owners and managers of corporations.

TURCHIN: Precisely. Those elites in the US and the UK had 30 glorious years. But by the late Seventies, they started getting selfish. That’s when we began to see the separation between worker productivity and worker compensation. And immediately — within another 30 years — the numbers of uber-rich people exploded in the United States. The number of decamillionaires, those with $10 million or more, increased tenfold from the Eighties to 2010.

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I agree with Turchin (and probably got some ideas from him) about:

• Elite overproduction.
• Elites are neither good nor bad.
• They are a necessary managerial hierarchy, because we live in a society.
• They cyclically start out as the hero revolutionary visionaries and end up corrupt self dealing degenerates (ideally stretched over multiple generations.)
• The current elite have been degenerates since around 1970 and this has something to do with economic stagnation.

I disagree about:

• Turchin says the elites are basically the 1% or decamillionaires. No, that's an arbitrary threshold and not the natural boundary of our elite class culture. Unlike any previous civilization our elite is massive, maybe 10% or even 30%. It is unlike any bureaucracy seen before the 20th century.
• Turchin gives the wealth pump a lot of weight, but I see it as one of many side effects of degeneracy. Also its less of a pump than people just kicking the ladder down behind them. Inequality and wealth concentration isn’t a problem in itself. It's too easy to confuse important producers with useless parasites. The problem is that people don’t trust the system. Feeding envy and distrust doesn’t solve anything.
• Turchin sees Occupy Wall Street, Antifa, etc. as anti-elite revolutionaries. I see them as degenerate hooligans employed as the elite's morality police. The new KKK. (The Proud Boys and Oath Keepers aren't revolutionaries either. Moms for Liberty and Gays against Groomers are. So are the Yang Gang, Mises Caucus, etc. Revolution doesn't mean politically motivated violence or theatrics, it means actually trying to overturn the political order.)

It's not about who has a lot of power and money. It's power with or without money, money with or without power, and celebrity with or without power or money. It's not about haves vs have nots. It's mostly about people who think they deserve to have more without contributing anything special.

It's not about tearing people down. It's about not bailing out the too big to fails. If you need special treatment then you were never special in any way that deserves our support.

Simply put I don’t want to overthrow 30,000 imaginary oligarchs. I want to see 30 million actual wokes mocked into submission.

An income level or net worth threshold is not a class, and our society is basically classless. Our elite is a culture.

I want to replace the politically correct elite culture of experts and bureacrats with an even BIGGER elite class of patriotic Americans with common sense.

I want more millionaires and billionaires, not because they deserve it but because it's a man's duty to try sometimes, and women should support that.

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Seattle Homeless Taskforce and Seattle Social Housing Developer Board

Meet the 13 people appointed to bring social housing to Seattle

Thomas "Raven Crowfoot" Whittaker : Political and moral elite amongst Seattle Woke: Convicted rapist of 13 year old girl and 15 year old girl.

Raven Crowfoot (Convicted rapist and KC RHA board candidate Thomas Whitaker's alter ego): What is it like to be homeless in Seattle? — Rise Seattle Podcast

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Dating for Monogamy and Marriage

In the video the girl says "if you are dating a Chinese girl, and it is going well, soon she will be thinking about marriage".

Personally, my entire adult life I approached dating and relationships with that exact attitude. I was either thinking of marriage, monogamy and having kids within the first few dates, or I was already absolutely decided on never being seriously interested in that girl.

It is unfortunate this more wholesome approach to relationships has migrated away from the US to other cultures such as Chinese. It is unfortunate progressive identity has purged and shamed wholesome and healthy relationship goals.

Rockers then Hippies then Punkers ...decades of this patten... then FRAGILE-WORDS-ARE-VIOLENCE

 Reference: 

Why the Mental Health of Liberal Girls Sank First and Fastest - JON HAIDT MAR 9, 2023

Jonathan Haidt Substack Archive

This blog entry is a my own tangental take on the referenced article "Why the Mental Health of Liberal Girls Sank First and Fastest" by Jon Haidt. First and foremost the article is worth far more of a read than my blog entry. The article is full of validated history and data presented by an academic. If I give it a summary my summary pales in comparison to reading it. It is a missing manual that explains where this sudden emergence and spike of non-binary, trans identity, and more especially the proud clinging to fragile as an identity, and words and ideas or violence. Please do yourself a favor and read Haidt's writing.

The gist of my blog post is not a problem or even any form of alarm with trans existing. It is to point out the rise of fragility and intolerance - intolerance of words/speech and the labeling of speech as violence.

"Phelps-Roper interviewed several experts who all pointed to Tumblr as the main petri dish in which nascent ideas of identity, fragility, language, harm, and victimhood evolved and intermixed"

Tumblr happened to be the gathering place for these ideas to be nurtured into the social front page news force they are today. While the article does dwell on generalized potential pathos of mobile phones in the hands of tweens and teens, the explosion of trans identity, fragility, words are violence happened primarily in one app the kids just happened to popularize.

I want to emphasize that a social media platform is just a Web 2.0 and 3.0 glorified version of older WWW website forums. These forums had topic headings and sometimes hundreds of comment threads. I created dozens of these forums using PHP-BB software on several sites.

Here is my extension of the article's content. Throughout the post war we've had each generation of youth define themselves with a new overall style. Rockers, hippies, punk rockers, disco, etc. In the case of rockers-hippies-punk it is obvious each subsequent was designed to outdo, undo or shock the previous gen style.

In the genesis of each style the kids hang out somewhere, frequent and consume some kind of media. In these places style and ideas are escalated. ( e.g. You aren't a real hippy, me and my brother smoke pot everyday and have taken acid a few times. Your favorite band isn't really punk, my favorite band is X, they are real punk.)

The trans-fragile-words-are-violence gen simply are a continuum of this same pattern of gen differentiation. They had a hang out space in which they developed their own generation's identity, along the way escalating each other....just like every gen at least since the 50's.

I am saying there is nothing special here. Previously the kids established their hangout space in some small town pool hall, or live venue, or especially famous record store (e.g. Fallout Records in Seattle) or whatever might be the local place for the trafficking of these ideas.

The hangout space in this case just happened to be an internet forum. I'm not interested in or threatened by existence of screens and wi-fi. In the 50's the threat was the rise of record stores which were places selling a very different kind of music from what the nation listened to in the form of live big band and orchestral stuff mostly recorded in New York, the kids were buying records of southern poor bad boys and playing guitars of all things. I'm not going to be that old man outraged or threatened by whatever new media the kids have decided to use to burn down the old ways and differentiate themselves from their parents.

What is special is how public schools and college faculty responded when this new gen aged and entered college. The petri dish for this new style/culture wasn't out in the open at newly emerging record stores, or live venues that might have gotten human interest story in the national news ( look at these hippies, they smoke pot and some read about Zen ). No, this gen developed totally out of view of anyone not on the platform itself.

The schools were unprepared for this wave of new culture. It was strange, very well organized, and intransigent. Colleges caved to this new pressure. In the case of public schools, initially they may have pushed back on the bathroom issue, but were spotlighted and shamed on a national level with NPR.

What we as a society were blindsided by, and unprepared for, was the perfectly blended mix of a new thing: proud fragility and intransigent, blatent intolerance for words and ideas.

Proud fragility and intransigent, blatent intolerance for words and ideas.

My blog post is basically over. Below is the conclusion of the referenced article, and the Great Untruth's bullet list is worth putting on everyone's living room wall.

In conclusion, I believe that Greg Lukianoff was exactly right in the diagnosis he shared with me in 2014. Many young people had suddenly—around 2013—embraced three great untruths:

1. They came to believe that they were fragile and would be harmed by books, speakers, and words, which they learned were forms of violence (Great Untruth #1).



2. They came to believe that their emotions—especially their anxieties—were reliable guides to reality (Great Untruth #2).



3. They came to see society as comprised of victims and oppressors—good people and bad people (Great Untruth #3).

Liberals embraced these beliefs more than conservatives. Young liberal women adopted them more than any other group due to their heavier use of social media and their participation in online communities that developed new disempowering ideas. These cognitive distortions then caused them to become more anxious and depressed than other groups. Just as Greg had feared, many universities and progressive institutions embraced these three untruths and implemented programs that performed reverse CBT on young people, in violation of their duty to care for them and educate them.

United States: Interpreting the Past: Possible Futures

My blog entry is mostly an endorsement to watch the referenced videos and a spotlight on one of it's predictions. The narrator is Rudyard Lynch, a professional in social/political predictions. I have to admit I'm a fanboy of his videos on history and culture. I've likely read as many books as Rudyard, and thoroughly have my own views. Still, I find his reading list and how he distills and processes his knowledge to be excellent.

1. Youtube: America’s 21st century(Golden Age, Civil War....) by Whatifalthist
2. Youtube: The Coming Far Right Backlash by Whatifalthist
3. Youtube: The 7 Emotions that Push Civilizations by Whatifalthist
4. Youtube: Supplementary video playlist focused on regional divisions of US culture

The 7 Emotions that Push Civilizations : Envy section.

Definition of envy is the desire to take away someone else's nice things. Insighful on Marxism, Feminism, Social Justice, Postmodernism and the ultimate bundle of them all in Woke. Insightful for a thought experiment of a US civil war with Leftists versus Right.

1. No ability for self-critique.
2. Hating others success and wanting to destroy.
3. Feminists hating other womens beauty and undermining any advantage that beauty might have.

The 7 Emotions that Push Civilizations : Pride section.

Think of European colonization periods of Germanic tribes invading Roman territory and killing peasants, and same type invading as Spanish Conquistadors killing Chalcolithic level civilizations. Insightful for a thought experiment of a civil war with the more violent ends of the Right being driven by the Pride emotion.

Video Quotes and Main Prediction on a 21st Century US Civil War:

...as this video explains [...] all the variables line up statistically for America to have a civil war. The right has so much more punching power than the left.

All things that determine which would win a civil war are:

1. Loyalty of the Armed Forces
2. Control of resources food and territory
3. Militaristic and warlike spirit appeal to aggressive young men
4. Weapons ownership
5. Centralized geography

The American Right has a clear powerful advantage over the Left.

America cannot have a civil war given the Right would immediately win. This is similar to how there have been other left-wing movements that have tried to gain power and then have it immediately crushed by right-wing militaries in places like Germany, Argentina, Hungary, Brazil, Chile, Indonesia and many others. The Left believing they'll have a successful Revolution and the public will rise on mass in support of their Revolution only to realize that the countryside and the Army still hate them is a common pattern across history.

...the more developed a country is the more likely it is to go towards right-wing radicalism. [...] this is why (less developed) countries like Vietnam, China or Russia went towards communism while Spain, Germany and Japan (more developed) went for fascism. Not a single Western Christian country and especially no Protestant Germanic countries have ever gone for leftist radicalism. Thus with this precedent established America if it goes in any radical direction will go radical right.

Fanatical Religious Military Dictatorship

The last time the English-speaking world had a severe social and political crisis was with the English Civil war in which the faction that ended up winning in the end was an arch conservative group -the Puritan military dictatorial theocracy. An interesting fact is that the American Civil War was in many ways a repeat of the English Civil War and that the descendants of the parliamentarians settled in the North and the royalists in the South.

(In a 21st Century civil war ) an American version of Oliver Cromwell or a religiously fanatical Army Commander eventually taking over power seems relatively plausible.

Women Loose Nearly All Rights and Become Primarily Mothers

Since social justice has made man-hating socially acceptable and this tends to target more intelligent women young men look for female approval and thus being told masculinity is inherently toxic and oppressive while telling young women that they don't need men, and men are gross ... this will create a horrible counter-reaction in a right wing takeover.

Historically when there's a large class of sexless young men they always cause revolutions or wars. This adds up to conditions that would breed a very sexist movement. A big reason every society ever in human history has been a patriarchy is that in the most blunt terms young men are a more dangerous demographic than young women. Future leaders of the Right looking to convince young men to fight for them could easily pawn off female oppression and controlling women's sex as a powerful way to motivate their base. I don't think the handmaid's tale is likely but I don't think it's impossible.

The reason that women have been so horribly oppressed over history is they simply can't resist a unified patriarchy. The patriarchy has every reason to exploit them due to feminism's man-hating excesses, this would be used as an excuse for why women didn't deserve rights. Although I think the right-wing regime would probably evolve into moderation.

West Coast becomes latest Rust Belt

in a post civil war America with the Red States, and especially the Inter-Mountain zone and Texas, becoming the powerbase of the country...I can see the West Coast becoming the latest Rust Belt.... just like Pennsylvania and Detroit...dominated by rampant drug use, crime, abandoned buildings and brain drain. I can see this in current trends of 2023 without a civil war.

Civil War and the Disgust Factor in Motivation for Right-wing Revolution

The Right backlash may be driven by disgust towards the final stages of Leftist culture. Various stylistic markers such as proud ugliness, anti-fitness and female obesity the Left have strongly asserted into the mainstream are potential targets of Right-Disgust. A large amount of the general population very much including racial minorities could join in with the Disgust reaction.

 

Great: Not in Character: It is in Geography

Contemporary discourse strains to find value in all people and all places. Another mode of valueing is to look at character.

Here is a counter to those ways of thinking. Great is in power, and power is rooted in material reality. Material reality in the form of technological supremacy, and technological supremacy relying on ubiquity of the source materials. Geographic advantage is the ultimate root of this materialist perspective.

1. A loving and sharing culture versus one with ubuitious material advantage.
2. A loving and sharing person versus a person with ubuitious material advantage.

Ubuitious material advantage wins.

Real Women Crave Dad-vibes from Their Man

I have a friend that posted in an email thread his idea that Real Women Crave Dad-vibes from Their Man.

Example Scenario:

A girlfriend doesn't know how serious her boyfriend is about her long term. So in a social situation she goes up to a viable alternative to her boyfriend and starts flirting with him, in front of her boyfriend. That is a test. What she's looking for is:

1. Immediate intervention by her boyfriend.
2. Her boyfriend establishing relationship boundaries.
3. Her boyfriend doing this in a strong way, like a father.
4. Her boyfriend doing this in a calm way, like a father.

However there is a massive and constant earthquake of values-changes happening under the foundation of relationships that make even marriage proposal inadequate, and almost impossible for the woman to get the dad-vibes she's looking for. For example: the notion that it's never appropriate for a man to set boundaries on a woman's sexual behavior. Now she can NEVER get the dad vibes she's looking for without feeling that he is in some way abusive. Proposal = male dominance. Shutting down her flirting with others = male dominance.

I have a counter-point to the fidelity testing above. I believe testing is inherently destructive to human relationships. Marriage proposals minimize the need for such testing. Fidelity and intent are clearly stated with language, like civilized people. The testing scenario is very Hollywood cinema-esque as an ideal, but in reality has all kinds of potential for enraged males going to their car and coming back in the scenario with a gun. In 2023 America the chances or the gun outcome is a higher probability than the Hollywood romantic script with the dad-vibe strong calm man winning the girl.

Just speaking for myself, I've had girlfriends and a wife test me. I deliberately acted like I had no feelings about them hanging out with an ex-boyfriend, just to see their test burn their own self-worth.

The Horned Ones: Northern European People Invading the Middle East

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Isolationism : Choose One: Trade or War

The three relations of one nation to another:

1. Trade of goods, and also likely intermarrying, in mutually advantagous transactions.
2. One weaker nation paying tribute to the stronger nation. There is trade of goods and forced sex, entirely by strongarm coercion.
3. No trade or transfer of any kind. Exterminate the weaker nation/city/village.

As the USA steadily transforms into a North American fortress, and leaves it's role as global policeman, I am both enthusiastic about the end of very stupid nation building and other interventions...and also mindful of my numbered list above. That numbered list is based on every scenario I've studied on history. They only fall into those three slots.

We may have religions or secular humanist views that all humans and cultures are intelligent, complex and valid. The United Nations and hundreds of religious faiths may claim to honor and respect all of humanity. You as a voter may vote for the preservation of all life.

None of that matters. Here is what matters. A nation is sitting somewhere out there that we do not have any trade with, any material ties to. We make zero dollars on their existence. If we bombed them, we could divert tax dollars to the purchase of those bombs, and suddenly someone is making money. We go from not making any money to making some money.

That is a greater force of nature than any amount of valuing life for no reason other than being good. One has weight, the other is pure vacuum.

Restorative Justice and Equity

I first heard the phrase restorative justice in 2003 while working at a county dispute resolution center. (I was in charge of everything computer+network for the organization).

The phrase has a lot to do with legal thought, social thought, and moral thought (moral thought should be categorized as religious thought and theological thought, because it is).

In a legal context here is a simple example of restorative justice, and there is nothing wrong with this kind. Let's say someone moves into an apartment that is 1200 dollars a month rent. A month after moving in, the shower stops working. The renter notifies the property manager. The property manager promises to fix it but never does. Eventually the renter takes this to a dispute resolution center, asks the property manager to agree to attend a meeting to resolve the issue, or be taken to actual civil court for a lawsuit. The dispute resolution people take the side of the renter, and tell the property manager to compensate the renter for wrongdoing by paying the renter 40 percent of the rent the renter has already paid. The renter gets a few thousand dollars for not having a shower fixed.

Any talk about applying the above to social issues is basically working on the assumption that a wrong in the past was committed, and the wronged party should be compensated in some way.

This gets complicated very fast when it comes to several hundred and several thousands of years of history.

Also, laws in all countries change over time, often changing incrementally every year or few years. Example, it was legal for children of any age to work in factories and dangerous jobs in 1900 and before. Then it became illegal and certainly no companies have done this in the last 80 years.

We've changed laws and made them fairer and fairer over time, to women and minorities.

Where this gets into deep theological thought, and religious thought, is if people are claiming a moral absolute for all of history. For instance, we do not have slavery now because we discovered a (religious) moral absolute for all of time and all of the universe.

That is not the case at all. Slavery was outlawed because of people's values and preferences changing over time. The people most against it were the early adopters of the industrial age. They had factory machines that did labor, the era of needing slaves was over. People in industrial Northeastern US and Britain tried to end slavery in Africa, the southern US, and the Arab world.

It is perfectly fine to say one is against slavery and want to end it. But to claim the discovery of a moral absolute (which is sort of like discovering a scientific absolute such as water freezes at 32 degrees) should never be respected in rational civic discourse. ( ...a rational civic discussion between people of various religious faiths and degrees of secularism trying to come to a functional legal framework most in the nation/state/city/institution can abide by).

Slavery is wrong is not a fact of the Universe, it is a preference. A perfectly fine and good preference.

By looking back on history, and mistaking our contemporary standards of behavior as forever standards that those people of the past should have been doing ...is...silly. Doing this silly thought and demanding less jail time, or higher pay, or more jobs for today's descendants of the so called wronged...is...a form of inequality in the realm of justice and economics.

It is just an agenda of unfairness and deliberately giving more liberty and money to certain classes of people.

One can be for progress, fairness, a better life offered for all without allowing today's equity unfairness agenda to succeed. Equity and restorative justice is an attempt to end fairness and rule of law, and already has.

Slavery is but one of dozens of issues within the agenda of restorative justice. Any outrage regarding slavery should contain mostly references to Islam, as all the slaves in the US were made into slaves and sold in African markets by Islamic operators. African slavery went big in 800AD with the rise of Islamic seafarers connecting Asia to African ports. All talk of restorative justice on slavery must contain reference to the Islamic Slave Trade for the discussion to have any academic, factual merit.

Another restorative justice tactic is to give greater social acceptance to the LGBTQ community, and less to thoroughly heterosexuals. The higher status is considered compensation for their lower status in the past. Heterosexuals should never treat LGBTQ with a higher form of praise or acceptance, and should never acknowledge messages degrading heterosexuality or shaming sexuality centered around having children.

Yet another tactic is to claim misandry is perfectly deserved and fine based on history and culture [ respond to this with I AM ENDING MISANDRY and MISANDRISTS DON'T GET TO SPEAK.].

Baba Yaga Feminism VS Baba Yaga Feminism

I recently found a distinct type of feminism, and interestingly, there is a strongly negative take on it.

BABA YAGA FEMINISM

Here is the "battle":

www.baba-yaga-feminism.com  

         

VERSUS 

rutgers.edu/Baba Yaga's Ecofeminist Manifesto

     

 

Creepy Islamic Propaganda Appealing to Swingers

 

Understanding Wokeness as a Make-Work Strategy for the Management Class

Link to article referenced in the video podcast above:
Wokeness, the Highest Stage of Managerialism
Well-educated progressives wield institutional power to impose a new political and social order.

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[ 09:45 ] The Consultant/Management class finding an ideology that allows them to be decide distribution of wealth

...basically looking to find relevance and jobs for themselves because we have this bloated cadre of liberal arts majors who their path to control and prestige is by finding an ideology that allows them to intermediate in terms of the distribution of resources...

[ 18:55 ] The Consultant/Management class as moral leaders demanding tithes from the productive classes or else we will burn in Hell

In Western countries truckers are melting down, farmers are just going totally wild and all of it is because in the productive economy people are tired of paying more and more tithes, especially in Europe. All of this is sort of situated in basic taxes on things that working-class people need to actually work gasoline. The gas tax in Europe which you know the managerial class says is it's for the good of everyone, it goes to things we all need like the environment.

It is really reminiscent of a tithe in medieval society, where if you don't pay 10 or 15 percent of your harvest to the church we're all gonna die, you will literally go to hell and your immortal soul will be down there forever. And this tithe goes to sort of feather the nests of these increasingly out of touch moral leaders of the flock.

The gas tax these days it doesn't really go to road maintenance it goes to hiring more consultants. These liberal arts majors are not going to get hired by Ford, they're not going to get hired by Exxon they're not going to get hired by anyone and so at the end of the day this class imposes a rising cost on ordinary productive class people by hiring their own kind.

...which is contributing to....

all of these freakouts like the Canadian tractor protests the stated reason was that these vaccine mandates but you didn't have to scratch the surface very much to find people complaining about overzealous regulation, rising taxes environmental fees and so on and with no commensurate rise in wages. This class of managers who tell us all that well you know we really have to pay them 20 percent of our income in taxes and fees because otherwise we're all gonna die like the planet will literally be consumed by fire (doomsday environmentalism)...

...these people they sooner or later going to hit a ceiling where they are trying to squeeze the peasantry for more tithe money and it's going to cost more than it generates ...what will that will produce politically?

...this is behind the immense and incredibly dangerous polarization in the US right.

[ 26:19 ] Refusal of the liberal arts soft science majors to realize their low worth, and accept their proper place working at McDonalds.

What is already happening in countries where both the working class and the managerial class struggling is the self-reinforcing cycle of violence and polarization.

One class says well you know I can't get enough to live we have to rob someone else and we have to pass different political laws to make sure that we get to rob our enemies of stuff then you know people react on the other side saying well you know all of these liberal demons or whatever, we can't keep living like this we have to push back the pushback generates its own pushback and off you go.

[ the Choice ]

are we going to

1. squeeze the nurses for more income make life harder for truckers and farmers...or
2. are we gonna say to the managers and the consultants "sorry liberal arts major Manager/Consultant...you're gonna have to work at the local burger joint".

If you pick option A, and screw over the truckers screw over the nurses and so on, sooner or later you're gonna start seeing the same sort of social explosions that you're seeing in the Netherlands that you saw in the U.S, that you saw in Canada, and they're just going to get worse over time but if you say

"oh well you know sorry uh I guess you can find a job at McDonald's I'm sorry but two environmental consultances is more than enough for a city municipality of 20,000 people"

...if you say that to these management/consultant people, they're going to start really really messing things up and they know how to do that because in some ways they're overrepresented in a lot of institutions with a lot of social and political heft in the West.

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Russia 2022 : Liternoye Assassinations of Executive Leadership by Vladimir Putin

Prerequisite historical economics: Gazprom is the state oil enterprise that historically has brought income to Russia by pipeline export to Germany and Europe. Gazprombank is the (massive) monetary transational enterprise connected to Gazprom exports.

Eliminated

• Leonid Shulman [ head of Gazprombank ] found stabbed in his home in St. Petersburg.
• Feb 25. Alexander Tyulyakov [ former Gazprom executive ] found hanged in his apartment garage in St. Petersburg.
• Feb 28. Mikhail Watford Tolstosheya [oil/gas tycoon from Ukraine ] found hanged in his home in UK.
• April 18. Vladislav Avayev [former vice president of Gazprombank, Gazprom ], along with wife and daughter. Mode of death: gun shots. Gun in Vlad's hand. Location: Moscow.
• April 20. Sergey Protosenya [Exec at Novatek natural gas], along with wife and daughter. Mode of death: Sergey was hanged, his wife and daughter hacked and stabbed to death. Location: Spain.
• Vasily Melnikov [ MedStom medical ]. Vasily, his wife and two minor children were stabbed to death in their own home. Office of Foreign Assets Control Sanctions Entry

References

Vladimir Putin — the ‘liternoye’ killer [ https://thehill.com/ ]

Here are all the Russian oligarchs who’ve died under strange circumstances this year [ https://fortune.com/ ]

THE SUSPICIOUS SUICIDE OF RUSSIAN OLIGARCH LEONID SHULMAN [ https://grunge.com/ ]

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Putin Analysis By Vlad Vexler

I've discovered political philosopher Vlad Vexler and endorse the majority of the insights in the following videos. None of the following are a general contempt or hatred of Russia and the Russian people that has become a new norm of Western progressives. One of the best takeaways from these analytics is the concept that there isn't a Russian citizenry, but rather Russian people living on a territory.

The Postmodern Hell Of Russian Propagandan [Youtube Link] offers an analysis that matches up with a lot of others regarding the Putin regime in regards to psychological warfare inflicted primarily on the Russian population and secondly on Europe and North America. The video explores and articulates the distinction between alternative reality propaganda and manipulation of reality propaganda. I recommend watching this video before the "Gone Fascist" video, at least to better understand context.

The REAL Reason Putin's Gone Fascist [Youtube Link] is in my opinion the most important video of ths series. The screenshots below highlight rhetorical phrases Putin used in a March 16th, 2022 speech (archived at the Kremlin website http://en.kremlin.ru/multimedia/video). The choice of phrases all in a single speech are worth the attention.

The REAL reason Putin might start a nuclear war [Youtube Link] is pure predictive and projection into the future. It is worth watching because of one premise it articulates and promotes which is that the Putin war methodology isn't a plan nor about meeting strategic goals, but rather adhoc escalation, creative destruction of the status quo international order. A gambling strategy of chaos to throwing the chess board in the air and see if the pieces land in way that puts Putin in a better place than everyone Not-Putin.

Origin of Gender Concept

My commentary before the encyclopedia entry.

I don't see any need for controversy on this. I once knew someone with Androgen Resistance Syndrome, they were active in the trans advocacy scene in Olympia/Seattle, and we used to laugh and joke, totally cool person that was cool with me. And that's a key part of the mix, a person on any point, or points, on the sexual spectrum of possibilities has to be just as OK or more with me for the whole tolerance thing to be a thing. I'm an athletic hetero guy that's attracted to intellectual/athletic females with having babies as a big part of that turn on. You have nothing but good to say about that.

But really "cheering on and supportive" is a silly naive concept of allyship. The most enlightened stance is ambivalence along with peaceful coexistence.

Final personal point: Conservatives shouldn't be outraged at other's sexuality. Those with a sexuality that is not having children are in a voluntary extinction program. They pour money into our economy, and then gone.

Final intellectual point: The inventor of the gender concept also says that heterosexuality is ideological. Remember this is in the branch of psychology, not biology. Ideologies don't have babies, biologies do. A fine counter to hetero-is-deological and can be undermined by ideological change, is to be biological and have offspring. One step further is to make your offspring wealthy and fit. The multi-gender proponents can win the ideological war, then they age into a personal life of irrelevance, and then gone.

End personal commentary.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Money

John William Money (8 July 1921 – 7 July 2006) was a New Zealand psychologist, sexologist . He was one of the first researchers to publish theories on the influence of societal constructs of gender on individual formation of gender identity. Money introduced the terms gender identity, gender role and sexual orientation .

In his studies of intersex people, Money found that there are six variables that define sex. While in the average person all six would line up unequivocally as either all "male" or "female", in hermaphrodites any one or more than one of these could be inconsistent with the others, leading to various kinds of anomalies. In his seminal 1955 paper he defined these factors as:

1. assigned sex and sex of rearing
2. external genital morphology
3. internal reproductive structures
4. hormonal and secondary sex characteristics
5. gonadal sex
6. chromosomal sex

and added,

"Patients showing various combinations and permutations of these six sexual variables may be appraised with respect to a seventh variable: 7. Gender role and orientation as male or female, established while growing up."

He then defined gender role as;

"all those things that a person says or does to disclose himself or herself as having the status of boy or man, girl or woman, respectively. It includes, but is not restricted to sexuality in the sense of eroticism. Gender role is appraised in relation to the following: general mannerisms, deportment and demeanor; play preferences and recreational interests; spontaneous topics of talk in unprompted conversation and casual comment; content of dreams, daydreams and fantasies; replies to oblique inquiries and projective tests; evidence of erotic practices, and, finally, the person's own replies to direct inquiry."

Money made the concept of gender a broader, more inclusive concept than one of masculine/feminine. For him, gender included not only one's status as a man or a woman, but was also a matter of personal recognition, social assignment, or legal determination; not only on the basis of one's genitalia but also on the basis of somatic and behavioral criteria that go beyond genital differences.

Later he took the position that heterosexuality is another example of a societal and therefore superficial, ideological concept.

The Inside Story from Seattle Street Campers: June 2022

Dad and I went and talked to some street campers and a bail bonds lady in Seattle. One guy and his wife from the other side of the Cascades were camping with car and tent because he has multiple hospital visits for a leg thing over several weeks. Another guy moved here from Georgia after his mom died. He was on the street for a while. Then he moved into a shelter and now he helps maintain the shelter. They all warned us to steer clear of the dense encampment by the courthouse. They also said being homeless in Seattle was getting scarier because of tweakers.

We talked to them about the general homeless scene, and the Black Lives Matter protests, and none of them mentioned the lack of nice $600 apartments as an issue for anybody. So I just don't buy that, and all the expert sources I can find online agree that affordable housing is not the main issue for primary homelessness (squatting or sleeping outside.)

I also don't buy the story that "they aren't coming from out of state." For starters, Seattle isn't the whole state. People from Central and Eastern Washington aren't local. The South Sound isn't local. Maybe most of the criminal lowlifes camped out in front of the courthouse are local, but it looks to me like a lot more people are migrating to or through the city because camping is allowed and the city does help them - and of course because there are many luxuries to living in the city - but a lot less if it is overrun with open air drug markets and meth zombies.

I did learn that the ordinary campers aren't the problem. Some of them are actually making dangerous alleys safer. Most are only passing through, or working their way up to a place in a shelter and then a job and paying rent. However the policies which allow them to camp outside while minding their own business also allow crazy and bad people to camp outside, dying in despair, terrorizing everyone, including their fellow street campers. It's not viable.

And it's got almost nothing to do with the cost of housing, except that nobody's going to buy any of those places, build more condos and lower rents under these circumstances.

"Silence is Violence" is Belligerent Hate of Good People

The video footage of a needless murder of an arrested George Floyd emerged and people on all sides of the political spectrum were admitting it was time for police reform. A police reform bill was put forward by a Republican of African-American heritage, and it went nowhere because Democrats said it was not enough. Then those that held the editing power of the BLM website posted these lines which, ironically...marginalized hetero guys like George Floyd:

We are self-reflexive and do the work required to dismantle cisgender privilege and uplift Black trans folk, especially Black trans women who continue to be disproportionately impacted by trans-antagonistic violence.

We build a space that affirms Black women and is free from sexism, misogyny, and environments in which men are centered.

We foster a queer‐affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking, or rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual (unless s/he or they disclose otherwise).

[ See my full list of quotes and analysis here: Black Lives Matter "What We Believe" Translated ]

...and then the massive all summer long property violence with interviewed perpetrators saying "We built this country, we can tear it down".

Mainstream America saw the highjacking of honest reform to serve something else...and they abandoned the pathological extremists.

It is into this chronological context the extremists dared to prominently display the "Silence is Violence" message. I had no reaction to the message until recently when I thought of real life applications in which it breaks into something wrong, then I realized how intolerant and belligerent the message is. It all begins with simple thought experiments.

Think of the archetypical Engineer type, or Science type (I have a Bachelor of Science and was a Software Engineer). They are engrossed in the subject matter of their work, and even outside of work their hobbies and reading interests tilt towards the complex ends of our material world. They may vote, but their conversations and passions are not in sync with social justice rhetoric.

Think of the archetypical Asian Restaurant Entrepreneur type (I'm good friends with a few). They are busy with their work lives. The work incessantly. They save. They try to keep as much of their money within their own family. They push their children to be as privileged and economically powerful as possible. They don't have time nor interest in helping local struggling communities, the historically oppressed, or send some of their wealth to BIPOC groups.

These two archetypes are silent and uninvolved in what the social justice advocates want dialogue on. And it is because these archetypical groups are too busy being more capable, intelligent, relevant and socially redeeming than the social justice archetype.

Pathology, incompetence, illiberalism, intolerance and belligerence are much higher in the social justice camp. When we hear such imposing messages as "Silence is Violence" we should respond with correction and make it plain we revere a few archetypical groups as higher in very real value due to intellect and work ethic over social justice activists.

Let them know their station and those they cut down are actually of greater value.

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Remedy and Inoculation Against Both American Left and Right Ignorance

I've noticed a kind of orthodoxy and USA-first/US-only perspective amongst many on the Left the last few years. Not a patriotic USA-is-great stance, but a focus on US history as the main or only history for reference.

A common rhetorical claim is that we (the US?) has historical amnesia, that these things have not been taught in school. I don't know how anyone gets away with saying such a thing -in my hillbilly Bible Belt Arkansas elementary school we learned of the Trail of Tears, the antebellum Southern slave plantation economy and more before sixth grade. A companion claim is that white people are uncomfortable with these historical facts and trying to suppress the information in schools or general discussion.

And what if this is true amongst some whites, or some particular school districts? (I mean historical amnesia or suppression of some historical events) The last thing I am advocating is enabling such a practice in any academic setting.

What I will advocate is more history, not less. This undoes abuses and prejudices from either extreme. Specifically, more history of the world, treating the US as a small footprint of both time and land area in the mix of it all.

In another of my blog postings The African Slave Traders Who Exported to the Middle East and Asia it undoes the myopic ignorance error of the 1619 agenda by highlighting slave trading beginning around 200 BC that involved no Europeans, only African slave ports created by an African society, Arab slave traders linking west Africa to Arabia/India/China and Arab, Indian and Chinese slave buyers.

I must interject a point here on war in African and Native American cultures regarding slavery - do you know what had to be done with enemies in war? I mean the ones not killed in battle and I especially mean the women and children. They were all either entirely killed or taken into slavery. Muslim kingdoms did this to Eastern Europeans (Ottoman versus Russian). In the case of Africa, the tribal societies made a business out of it, instead of genociding an opponent tribe they got a few foreign made items in exchange for the slaves. Don't wince at this little child, Seattle is named after a native chief that genocided the Chimakum tibe, killing all the men, women and children except a few, with the remaining few taken into slavery [Wikipedia:Chimakum].

How about expanding the mind of an American by finding stories of natives, trappers, colonial forts, and Wild West lifestyle (Cossacks) that is all in Russian territory? How about Russian trade in Hawaii before the US? Or indigenous natives (Ainu) with bows and arrows fighting the Japanese, and the indigenous natives are a combination of white and smaller part Siberian? Or those same Ainu moving north and battling Chinese and Russians, the same Russian agenda of fur trade that is operating in Alaska? Well, the set of Youtube documentaries below deliver on all this and more.

• YOUTUBE: Why the Russian Colonization of the Americas Failed
• YOUTUBE: Ainu - History of the Indigenous people of Japan
• YOUTUBE: Wild EAST: The Cossack World

True Progress is Not Pramila Jayapal

The Point is an Alliance of Radical Utopian Movements

The sex and gender distinctions within feminisms are secondary to the collective identity, hence terms like "person," "queer," "fem," "intersectional" "ally" and "LGBTQIA BIPOC" (which is intersectional and includes queer, person and sometimes ally.) It's easy to make fun of the alienating vibe of these ever changing terms, but that is the point of them: they are collective identities for radical utopian movements. They are not supposed to be tailored to your biology, psychology, personal sex life and local social environment.