The World Cup

 FUP FIFA and FUP the World Cup. How do people get conned into an enthusiasm for something that stupid? I'm sure the TV broadcasts feature the same fake continuous crowd noise you hear in the background of every football broadcast. You don't hear that in any real game, if you are there in the stands. That noise is a product of social engineering, and it is designed to keep the viewer on edge. Otherwise you'd fall asleep. And the tension it creates is relieved by the commercials, which makes the advertising more effective. In short, when you watch the world cup crap, you are being manipulated, just as the football broadcasts manipulate you. And if you ever watch a slow moving sport like baseball on TV you even hear a fake sound when the pitcher throws-- baseballs in the real world, don't sound like that, don't sound like a rocket or jet airplane when they are thrown. Another example of sonic hype to keep the morons watching. And all of this shit exists in order to sell you something. And if you fall for any of it, well, you're stupid. Objectively, the human animal is rather stupid and easily conned. Sorry. It's always possible to wake up, but that's dangerous for the ruling classes, who have a vested interest in preventing you from waking up. They need to keep you stupid. They need to keep you under control. Welcome to reality.

That's really the true purpose of religions and their associated institutions: CONTROL. 

Still Clustering

 And the other part goes on as well. Was anyone really dumb enough to believe that "peace deal" 41 would actually hold? Is anyone still dumb enough to believe anything Mutt Rubio says? Is anyone still dumb enough to believe anything the top turd says? Sure! Of course! MAGA! They're dumb enough to keep eating the shit they're fed. They'll believe any lie as long as it comes from the top turd in the outhouse. They have a definite affinity for sick pieces of shit. Maybe they sense some sort of kinship there, like calling out to like. "I believe I LOVE that man, because he is just like me!" Ah, love. A majestic thing. 

Meanwhile, summer-like heat rolls on, though it has not been quite as hot as the earlier forecasts had it. Air is drier and we continue to have somewhat windy conditions as well. Hot Junes are typically followed by a milder July, and rain chances are not zero, either. Might get some more rain midweek, and that would be a nice turn. 

I've begun my study of the I Ching. It will be quite a while before I'll even begin to feel competent enough to use it. So much ancient wisdom! So many books to read and so many books to re-read! I doubt that I'll have time enough but I'll do the best I can. One book I'd like to re-read was something by Arthur Koestler on synchronicity, a Jungian concept involving the deep roots of what we call coincidence, as I recall. Acausal relationships among events. I read that many years ago. I'd like to explore that in the light of what I've learned since then.

Speaking of MAGA perversions-- look at the Bible Belt.

A Cloudy Morning, Again

It will be hot again today but not off the charts, and the day begins with a lot of cloud cover. Iced coffee on the patio just before sunrise was very enjoyable. Light winds were cooling, and the ground is still sodden. I wonder where this enthusiasm for soccer came from. I think the sport was promoted here as an avenue for the usual actors to make money. Americans used to regard soccer as boring. Guess what-- it's still boring. So I guess most people can be persuaded to enjoy a boring spectacle, or think they enjoy a boring spectacle. Other people do and we all must do what other people do, don't we. Fall in. Conform. Well, I don't do that. I'd like to say that I've never done that, but when I was a lot younger I was more easily influenced. So I have zero interest in the World Cup. Zero. And I have zero interest in most popular enthusiasms because I find them to be quite stupid. War is the foulest of all popular enthusiasms. 

All too often, those who serve their countries, end up serving the devil. Sad but true. Nations are never great. Nations are a monument to human imperfection. Nations, in order to survive, must be evil, to one degree or another. It is not easy, and it requires vigilance, as a citizen of any country, to minimize one's own complicity. Every citizen, of every country, gets sucked into the pit, but we should fight to avoid the lowest and foulest depths. Try to maintain at least some vestige of personal integrity. Don't serve the myriad gods of this world. 

More Storms More Rain

 I don't think any of last night's storms were severe. It was good to get more rain, but it really is starting to get very soggy out there. Mosquitoes are bad. If the city is too poor to pick up trash illegally dumped within the city limits, if it can't make a minimal effort to keep Lubbock clean and attractive, then I doubt that they will spray for mosquitoes, even though the mosquitoes are a public health menace. Why should a pack of self-absorbed ego-tripping fat cats give a damn about public health? I would say that Lubbock is going to the dogs because the mayor and city council are worthless. Are they corrupt as well? If so, I would not be surprised. 

Actually, grifting seems to be the name of the game at all levels of government, top to bottom. Feed thyself. Take the money and run. 

Hot

 Yes, it is hot and we do have level two severe storm chances. So it could be another round of wild weather late this afternoon. So it goes. I guess the maga morons don't understand that their country lost yet another war, and poured lives and assets down the drain in the futile effort to win that war. I guess the maga morons don't grasp that their country has been conquered by a hostile foreign power, is controlled by a hostile foreign power. Maga is nothing if not profoundly stupid. There are actually magas who think that God sends them text messages on their smart phones. Maga looks at a fat, senile, diseased career criminal and they see an emissary from on high, come to save them. But nothing can save them because they are terminally dim-witted and fated to be tools and fools. So it goes. Oh well. This is a problem I can't solve. I can just look on and shake my head. So sad. Someday that piece of crap will DIE. Will be DEAD. And what will the magas do then? I'm looking forward to higher interest rates, by the way. I did a LOT yesterday. I really worked up a sweat. I was out in the heat and doing honest work. Even at my age I am not afraid to get down and get dirty. I do NOT get out of breath. 

Unlike the top turd, who can't even walk a few steps without experiencing difficulty breathing. What a man!