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5500

Posted on by Dmitry

so. it is a milestone year. 15 years since college. 5500 days or so.

Looks like… looks like I did get an invite to some kind of reunion at that place where they served Bacon wrapped scallops once. Mmmm… Undercommit and overdeliver, right? I guess I should make an appearance.

Time to pause and reflect. I’ve been pausing and reflecting now for many years. Still not sure what I’m supposed to do with myself. and the years ahead…. Texas sociology looks kinda nice. I think I could make a contribution…

https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sociology/faculty/sb49337

Plus my higher Power Joel Osteen works near there. Texas… might be nice.

yes my views changed.. on life. and stuff. I used to think it’s one of the stupidest things in the world to run a Marathon. Now I’m hoping to do number 5 for me. Everything’s addictive. Even pain and suffering I guess.

what else.. what else can I say. Let’s talk about heartbreak. The most heartbroken person I know (sometimes) is my mother who resents that I never wanted to go into medicine. Oh I got plenty of friends.. who chose that path. and I still have Zero envy for them. I just never saw myself doing anything like that. Never felt the Calling. Had a calling to be a philosopher. But there’s no money in it. hehe. and they gave me a C in logic. fucking assholes.

Got an A in Polisci hehe. But… well ya that’s like getting a bad mental health diagnosis.. these days, isn’t it? if THIS makes sense to you.. then… then I don’t know. I don’t know what to do with you, young man. hehe.

No, no I really don’t remember shit from college. I got my job, and off I went. and then there were drugs.. institutions…

Oh, you know I did pick up a useful book this week. I wonder why it didn’t get more attention. Paul Stiles – is the American dream killing you?

it presents a critique of using “THE MARKET” as our higher power. Interesting guy, too. Worked for NSA, but also had a change of heart, I see. nice when that happens.

“While a human being is defined by his ability to distinguish between good and evil, to the Market good and evil are nothing but profit and loss…”

yes, I had some thoughts on the MARKET also. My therapist tried to tell me things about THE MARKET. I think, ultimately, I had to tell him to go F. himself… Market. you know who spends money in the Market? Usually women. and how much sense do they make?? Hahahahahahaha…….

sorry… sorry. that’s it. that’s all I got today, folks.

yes, it’s sad all this shit in Ukraine is still going on. maybe the Market can explain. someone. someone just didn’t get along, I guess. someone just couldn’t get along… I heard another quote about that recently –

…everyone discovers that people are not maximizing utility… they’re murdering each other… and so then the Geopolitics gets let back in. – Stephen Kotkin

Oh course we all know that one of the more sinister reasons for war must have been that guys don’t squabble over bitches. It’s that… supply demand sort of thing. sad but true…. you fall in love.. you go to war.. or maybe it’s the other way around. Fools rush in. Now, a seasoned man like myself just drinks and goes to meetings.

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a process of elimination…

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I know I should be doing something… but I just don’t know what.

I really don’t see any good ideas.

yes. half the time I really am just waiting… day dreaming… that some philosophical society will send me an award… or I get the Macarthur fellowship… it’s great. because you don’t even have to apply for those… you can just wait. hehe. and Visualize getting a fellowship. Like I said. I think I deserve it. it’s time.

yes, I’ve said many times, that some of my problem is being lazy, and feeling sorry for myself.

But look how far that got me! I’m 36. Not bad. World marathon record holder Kelvin Kiptum just died at 24. Hope he was sober… anyway.

what the hell am I supposed to do with myself?

I think I want to fall in love. hehe. Sometimes I run across the Deb McMillan Bridge in Rochester (MI) and see all these fucking locks hanging off it. fucking pisses me off. that really is a thing isn’t it? If you love someone, you go to the bridge, and you hang a fucking lock on it. Never got to do that.

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

I’m always really good at coming up with reasons not to do shit.

Where do I start. Sales. Been doing sales since I was 12. Yes, I think that contributed to my depression. I’m more manic than depressive honestly. but. still. I’m not fucking doing sales. No more.

History. Well. you know. I talked about this before. they can’t even figure out what the hell happened on 911. Osama? heh. probably not. There’s Loose change (movie). there’s architects and engineers for truth. look it up. really. that’ll get you started. but… I bet if I open up a history book. it probably just says Osama. osama osama osama. hehe. No. I cannot take HISTORY seriously. Sorry. We’ve got to do better than that. I mean, actually. yes. I would be interested in figuring out what actually happened. but, apparently THEY dont want us to know. That’s why there’s all these fucking theories… and in my opinion… nothing really makes 100 percent sense.

Moving on to THE LAW. I probably wrote about this somewhere. the college friend who turned me on to Balzac all those years ago is actually a lawyer. hehe. LAWS ARE SPIDER WEBS… THROUGH WHICH BIG FLIES PASS. AND LITTLE ONES GET CAUGHT. Yes. there have been some great lawyers. Gerry Spence, I guess. But, mostly… I’m afraid it’s just going to make me even more insane.

Medicine. Well. you know. Some days I actually pray for cancer. hasn’t happened yet.

And speaking of Praying. How about theology. that’s always been big in America. Well. you know the story. I had an intervention. or something. they know. they know what happened. Cute psychiatric nurse starts talking to me about carpenters in Philadelphia. Not far from where Franklin flew his Kite (I just found out). and the Liberty bell. Very poetic. And shit, you know what. I think I saw God. something happened, that’s for sure. And since then, God hasn’t sent me a single email. So. Yes, some people busy themselves going to Divinity schools… but… well… honestly… what proof have you got, really? that God wants this or that. What fucking proof have you got to show me?

they didn’t even give me any pussy in college.

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot therefore be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in errors.

ROBERT OWEN
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London.

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Of course, I would never go against England because I was Basically raised on James Bond and the Hobbit. even in Russia. Why? Im not sure why….

And thats why this whole UK / Ukraine / Russia war seems unbelievable to me…

and I spent the last 10 years playing Runescape.

I think my great challenge in life has been to understand this Spiritual awakening thing some people like Eckhart Tolle talk about

Yes, I think it is real. and I think I had something like it. and I think it takes a lot of pain.

Love? yes. I love many people. Some of them are men and some of them are women

Bisexual? I would rather not put people into categories… like that.

I like to fuck girls, and talk to men…. how about that?

Alan Turing. Well. You know I keep hearing different versions of that story.

I believe the idea Today is more about who gets to make the babies… more than how to kill them, do you understand?

There are Elves out there who keep changing history. Really. they’re out there.

Sometimes they talk about “chemical castration” and sometimes… its suicide or something else.

I suspect what really happened is he got put into witness protection somewhere… and some BS got made up about what really happened. And maybe we did get to turn the war around because of him at Stalingrad.

Who the fuck really knows anymore. Right?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2084970/

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Mindfuckery and Geopolitics

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Mr David Brooks I think said writing’s about working out your own shit…. in public. and usually there’s some value in it for other people, too. I don’t think anyone in my family is Actually anti Semitic… on a good day, I think even my parents would agree that people should be judged by the content of their character…. on a case by case basis. There is ongoing discussion about what that “Content” should be… but that’s a story for another day.

they… they also say, you need to spend as much time walking out of the woods…. as you did getting lost in there. Some kind of metaphor. and Probably more or less accurate. So the mindfuckery, for me began in 1998. we’re going to America. hehe. it’s better there. that’s what they said. we won a Lottery. In 2011, I believe the mindfuckery began to end. I had a spiritual awakening. So what is that? 12 or 13 years each way. Sounds about right.

I understand that there is some confusion about what actually happened in 1991. I suppose much of the West saw it as some kind of victory? Whereas… if you pay attention to people like… Gorbachev… Jeff Sachs… maybe Mearsheimer… the idea was to establish friendly relations after Russia decided to abandon communism… something like that. Hence the LOTTERY.

But, honestly, as I’ve written here, and elsewhere, I can’t see what great good it did me, so far, to move to the States, from Russia. Everyone seems to work a lot. My mom used to get upset and start packing her bags every 6 months or so… hehe. And now I’m begging “Them” to send me back to Russia. Because I don’t understand. I really do not understand what the hell is going on around here. They said the schools are great. Well I believe I did test that theory. University of Michigan. I am an alcoholic. thank you. now what? I remember taking a Marriage & Family class. So I think I did my part… hehe. I am still not married. The main thing I remember learning is that The Family is an extremely violent institution. Fair enough. Perhaps those are the facts. I won’t argue. But I don’t recall hearing any Great solutions worthy of a Great institution… University of Michigan… ahem.

Another major source of confusion, for me was… I began to run into these… uhh… well Russian Jews I guess. I understand they left as refugees a few years earlier. Mostly worked in engineering fields. A lot of them got jobs within the auto industry. I mean… I don’t know. I suspect they may have had more reasons to Leave Russia or USSR than we did… but the fact they were better off than my parents and I really disturbed me. I mean. what the hell. I’m a goddamn lottery winner. That’s what I remember. About 1998.

And now… well I don’t know. My parents go to work and I write poetry.

Who gives a shit who blew up the Nord Stream? Russia…. US… Norway. Who gives a shit. the problem, as I see it, you cannot have the “defensive” NATO alliance which should have been phased out after 91, continue to expand, while taking advantage of Russian resources. I think most Russians have some respect for the West and it’s culture (especially Europe), but if this Unfriendly behavior continues, naturally, Russia decides to sell the oil & gas elsewhere. Ya can’t have it both ways. Do ya get it yet??

Live not by Lies!

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a quick lesson in how to think.

Posted on by Dmitry

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Someone said it… many years ago.

a lesson in how to think… and maybe history. I’ve been sort of thinking about this since February and I think today something clicked, and maybe someone will see some value here.

so my thesis here is that the Universities of Yale and Cambridge are engaged in the activity of Propaganda. This is my third post on the blog about the Subject, and hopefully the last. It would be nice I think for everyone if the conflict wraps up soon.

Propaganda, defined by Oxford as information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view… I think. yes, I copy pasted that from somewhere.

Perhaps this a case of Genuine ignorance, but come on, you’re a Cambridge professor for fuck’s sake. Aren’t you?

The language that THEY are using is… Russian Empire… Imperialist ambitions. Aggression aggression aggression. And I have to say that’s a new sort of idea for me, when it comes to Ukraine. My grandparents had a little apartment near the Sea of Azov. I’d spend my summers there. In the early 1990s. I don’t remember any Aggression. There just wasn’t any aggression, back then, in Mariupol. We’d go to the beach and eat cotton candy and stuff. That’s what I remember. Had a pretty happy childhood, actually, until they dragged me to the USA. I have not seen a lot of Mr. Putin’s declarations of his imperialist ambitions. I’ve seen him talk a lot about Ukraine and Russia as being friendly nations. Both were part of the USSR a little over 30 years ago, after all. The Crimea referendum of 2014 is Some evidence of that. Isn’t it? That’s a big chunk of the story these “Historians” keep trying to ignore. Or misrepresent.

You’re trying to attribute Incorrect Motives to Putin, or Russia… or whoever it is. I’m not sure why, but that is my conclusion. And why do you keep nourishing these resentments, instead of looking for a real way out? Why?

Why?

So, I will ask You, Mr Rory Finnin, Mr Tim Snyder, where the Fuck did this Aggression come from? Are you sure it’s all Russia? Mr. Putin can also show you lots of evidence of Nato shit getting pumped into Ukraine. I can see how he might view that as very unfriendly. Very, very unfriendly.

Mearsheimer predicted years ago that Ukraine will be wrecked and here we are. But don’t play dumb and act like you didn’t see this coming. and like you had nothing to do with it. who the fuck do you work for? Yale, or MIC?

Seriously.

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Tracking Yale University disinformation efforts

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so this is a sequel to the last post here.

I’ve spent time in at least 4 former Soviet republics, as far as I know, so I’ll just start by saying the fact that two of these could be at war to me seems insane. But… well, every news outlet seems to agree. There really is a war… people are dying. Over a million refugees fled. So far.

I am even more shocked by these… “history” panelists who keep blaming Russia for everything. This is just not okay. I guess they mention Ukrainian students in the audience… so perhaps some of this is just about telling people what they want to hear. But don’t be fooled. This is not good history. Watch Jimmy Dore for good history. Seriously. Oliver Stone also made a pretty good movie on Ukraine in 2019. He tries to present a balanced view.

If Tim Snyder truly doesn’t want war, the question I would ask is WHAT HAS THE UNITED STATES BEEN DOING, in these 30 years, which contributed to this conflict? Let’s start with that, Tim.

I watched the video twice. And what do they talk about? Rebuilding Russian Empire? Interesting… Putin is deranged? So you guys are Psychologists, too, huh? Nellie is talking about Abandoned pets at some point. I think they’re just trying to piss me off… Snyder is still telling people that Crimea was SEIZED… VIOLENTELY. as if the voice of Crimeans at the 2014 referendum counts for nothing.

He says he is Pro-facts and Anti-propaganda.

No, Tim Snyder. You ARE full of shit.

Why aren’t Russian security concerns about Nato expansion Mentioned? Why aren’t the Neo-Nazi battalions mentioned? Why isn’t the 2014 coup discussed, and the failure of Ukraine to abide by Minsk agreements?

Why, Tim? Why? You say you want to talk to Russians. Well here I am. Stop lying.

Nicolai Petro interview.
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It’s not Okay to Lie.

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Are you stupid, or do you just work for the US State Department?

Dmitry Dyatlov

It’s not okay to lie if you’re a New York times Journalist. And it’s definitely not Okay to lie if you’re a Yale history professor.
It’s the 24th of February, 2022, and according to every newspaper that I follow, there is in fact a Russian invasion of Ukraine. Even RT.
So what’s the problem?


My problem is that a Propagandist named Timothy Snyder, nominally appointed to be History professor at Yale University, in a Speech delivered at a book shop (Politics and Prose), April 2018, was telling people that Ukraine had already been INVADED in 2014…
What he called invasion was actually a peaceful referendum conducted by Russia in Crimea, which was done to allow Crimeans to make a choice between remaining part of the now-US-puppet-controlled Ukraine, and becoming incorporated into the Russian Federation. They were pretty clear about what they wanted.
It’s good to have options, isn’t it? I think it is.

See, for me, it all began with a LOTTERY.
I think it’s called a Diversity Visa Lottery, and it’s still going on as far as I know. Look it up.
What I was told, at the age of 10, was that we had won it. THE LOTTERY. and we were going to America, because it is SO MUCH BETTER HERE.
I’m still not sure exactly what was going on in Samara, Russia, which caused my parents to decide to uproot and drag the family to Oak Park, Michigan, but I suppose there were some Economic forces at work. I’ve read a little bit about the “Great Contraction” of the Russian economy in the 90s. How bad it really was I don’t know. I can’t recall a time in my life when I felt hungry, and perhaps I should be grateful for that.
But, I also know for sure, that my father is a piece of shit, and perhaps that was the biggest Problem of them all. We’ll get to that. Eventually.

Anyway, I’ve been unemployed for a number of years, living with my codependent parents. I like to drink. Alcohol. And I am open to considering history professorships at Ivy League universities, because people keep telling me that I should get a job or something.

As Jimmy Dore once said “It’s Easy… this is what I am up against…” which in my case is the fool named Timothy Snyder. No, I’m not going to do a debate. I would probably just beat his ass if I ever met him.

Dmitry Dyatlov

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