Someone wanted to murder someone so they did: ICE and America

Friday 1/9/26

What is a country? Is the United States a country?

To me, it's now just a place where people live. Mostly unintelligent, uneducated, lowest common denominator, selfish, narcissistic people, with brutish, base, and corrupt elected officials who attempt to run the country for their own personal gain and to gratify their desires and satiate sick needs. Of lust, power, money, control. The goal--and the motor of their cold, unchecked, detached, inhumane, un-human psychosis-- is debasement, servitude, and slavery. No, not that kind. There's more than one kind.

I saw the video of the ICE...what...official? I'm not going to use that word. Dragoon. Henchman. Thug. I saw the video of the ICE dragoon/henchman/thug murdering that woman in Minnesota. Because she tried to drive away. Not over, but away. Which she was doing. There was no threat. Someone wanted to murder someone so they did. It's right there in the video.

Why would you stop for ICE? Why would you do anything they said? Why wouldn't you try not to? Getting away from ICE is the natural and smart response to ICE.

Then you have a president and his minions like his vice president--who only isn't as bad as the President because the President is so accomplished in evil--saying nothing to see here, and, what's more, what a great job by the ICE official, that's what we're talking about, no way was this criminal, what a hero, you should be grateful, slaves...erm...Americans.

Here's the thing about our lack of education, our lack of literacy, our lack of communication skills, our lack of intelligence, our lack of thinking skills: It makes it easier for these things to happen and be gotten away with. Lobotomized sheep don't rise up. Individuals who think well, communicate well, and who have courage, rise up and impel others to do so, such that people actuate their individuality to greater degree and work together as a collective, a community.

This is what the eroding of the American mind down to a puddle makes American society and Americans more vulnerable to. It's what you get with tl;dr culture. People think they're making some boast, that they're cooler than thou, they're above shit like that, loser shit like that, the world changes, man, and you're stuck in the past if you aren't like them, when they embrace that attitude (when they're really just projecting/overcompensating, because they're not just an idiot, but a pathetic, hollow, insecure idiot who knows on some level what an idiot they are, what a stunted piece of trash they are, not smart, not funny, not interesting, not even an adult save that they're likely fatter than they used to be, or will be soon enough, as befitting how lazy they are, whose whole existence is centered on hiding this truth and trying to get others to believe things about them that are false and that they know, somewhere back in the darkest parts of mind, the parts that can haunt a person the most, what they're truly about; then that person dies, and that's all they lived for, that's what they did with their time, and nothing more, not when you get down to the truth of it), but they're setting themselves up, and their children, and their children's children, for suffering. Mental illness. Loneliness. A life without joy. Without awareness. A life of stupor and torpor. A life not worth living, without the tools necessary to change that life into one that is. In a world that's worth living in. Or a country. Or a community. A home.

It's just going to get worse if it doesn't get better. If people don't get better, smarter. If they don't think more and better. If they don't learn. If they don't stop being intellectually lazy. If there's nothing written that is worth reading. If that which is worth reading isn't read.

There's no floor here. The downward levels are limitless. It'll be the end of humanity. I'm not overstating this. It'll be the end of anything just and good and natural. It's already happening. Stages have been gotten through. People just can't see it. They get sidetracked by whatever. Screaming about Trump. Posting a thousand selfies. Lying to themselves, lying to everyone they know. Adopting poses and losing themselves and their minds/ability to cogitate. It's happening. Right now. Has been.

I use the example of the center field and the fly ball. If the center field moves back first, he can always come in on the fly ball and make the play. But if he first comes in and misjudges the ball, and it carries over his head, he can't reverse course and track it down. It one-hops the wall and the batter legs it out for a triple.

We reach a point culturally where we will never be able to make up the ground we need to running back for that fly ball. Then it's over.

I fear that this has already happened with reading. No matter what someone might have. I might have. I have. It could be the best thing ever. Not just the best writing, but the best thing a human ever made. The most vital, that which could do the most good. Which has coded within it the most enjoyment and joy that a person might ever have. But they've come in too far and the ball just rockets over them on its way to one-hopping the wall.

Increasingly, giving someone anything intelligent, that would help them, could move them, make them laugh, make them cry, help them know themselves better, help them be better--in other words, add so much to their lives, and assist them in adding to the quality of their lives--is like putting a document in their hands that is written in a language foreign to theirs.

Sure, all that is in the document, but it can't be processed or partaken of. It's just something you handed to someone who can't use it. Can't get what there is to be gotten out of it.

That's us now, generally speaking. Not just with a literature thing. (You don't have anyone in the world right now who can create great writing that's worth reading anyway.) But with everything.