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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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in one fell swoop, all of the reasons for keeping a job were eliminated… 2009

Posted on by Dmitry

In every age of India, yoga has produced men who became truly free…

Yogananda

I will write a book about all this someday… possibly.

why do you go to work… WHYYYYYYY

because someone told you to.

but when that’s gone… WHYYYYY??

well there’s money of course. depending on the job, they either pay you enough to buy beer, or perhaps make a baby. and they never paid Me enough to make a baby. and Aa people tell me that I shouldn’t drink.

So I went to college. and I got a fucking job. and then what?

I met other college-educated people who were completely full of shit. you don’t get smarter working a job. you just don’t.

Unless you’re at Accenture… and THEY ask you… are you LEARNING AND GROWING??

WELL ARE YA?? Are YA???

no. not anymore.

so then you’re free.

so you’re still there? At work, huh? Why? Are you trying to impress your father? he’s not impressed, Amanda… hehe. you don’t need to do this. why don’t you just make some babies instead? those things always seem to make the old man happy.

this Entrepreneurship thing isnt working out. I went to all the club meetings. but it’s not working out.

And now, any Employment that falls under FLSA (Fair labor standards act) coverage is absolutely detestable. I met the people who are supposed to be enforcing these laws, remember? yes, I did. I was one of them for a while. and that was it. they’re not going to help you. when your idiot managers or coworkers are fucking with you. you will not be helped.

Enough’s enough. when you need a drink. you grab a backpack, fill it up with Tall bois, and run like hell. 9 times out of 10, the police won’t catch you. the Loss prevention specialists are even less useful than the FLSA enforcement people, Thank God.

sorry… I am hung over… but I had to get some stuff out… there.

work……. work’s just a place filled with Sadistic, resentful bastards you want to Avoid. As long as Mom’s alive. I am staying away from Work. fuck work.

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People are Real. “money” isn’t…..

Posted on by Dmitry

If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter. (Gotti or Gottman… I’m actually not sure. One of those… starts with a “G”)

Money is Imaginary!

Clint Rogers

Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in ‘changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them’; for the more the oppressed can be led to adapt to that situation, the more easily they can be dominated.

Paulo Freire

Well, we all get to decide for ourselves what’s real or not, I guess. Jordan Peterson says Pain is real. Yes. Philip K. Dick? Real is that which doesn’t go away, when you stop believing it. So you figure it out. What’s real. What’s bullshit. I’m no revolutionary. I’m just throwing some ideas out there. I just want a BOOK DEAL, and I want to go back to Russia. Really, I do. I’ve been screaming about this for years on Facebook. But I need that book deal. That Snowden fucker didn’t even finish college as far as I know. He got an Oliver Stone film, too. Pretty sexy.

But, Im still going to go ahead and say that People are More real than “Money” – Crypto… Dollars…. Rubles. Fucking whatever it is. People are more real than money.

I’m actually very grateful to have worked at the US Dept. of Labor after college in 2009. Met lots of interesting characters. the “Boss” there was really good at kissing ass and playing dumb. He talked a lot about being PROFESSIONAL, which I think means “in Denial”

Just think… the FLSA law, which was my main area of study while I was there, that stipulates overtime compensation for All workers in America was passed in 1938. But even these days…. so many business owners seem to be confused about when they need to pay their people “time and a half”

They’d rather pay a lolyer to talk to me for a few hours, just to get clear on this simple idea of “time and a half for hours over forty.” well sometimes it was a little more complex, but usually not. When someone steals a fistful of cash, we don’t seem to be confused about the situation, you know? We’ll pull a gun on someone if they take that Money. But when people’s sweat and tears…. are shed, and some asshole’s trying to muddy the situation, we need to BE PROFESSIONAL and have lots of meetings, and interviews, and really, really, really get clear on the fact that people are exploited. Why?

I had years of talking to therapists and social workers who kept trying to talk me into doing some bullshit job because I haven’t worked in years… or because I caught some bullshit misdemeanor somewhere. And I intuitively knew that I had to push back on their bullshit. You ain’t gonna get away with this, you lying piece of shit. But only this year, did I come across the Paulo Freire book, which explained to me my intuition. So think about it, for a while. I’ve said this elsewhere and I’ll say it again. I’m done acting. I’ll live in a tent if I have to, but you ain’t paying me enough to be an actor. I got skills, you know? I got 4 years of college drinking under my belt.

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