3539 CE: New Sydney University Department of Antiquities
…Don’t be fooled, claims by [corrupted] and other members of the one percent. Their privilege is on full display when they say that they don’t see themselves as better than those poorer than themselves. The rich and super wealthy can cruise through life without a thought about their place in society. … ignorant of the fact that the most disadvantaged must constantly remember that they are less than the elites who don’t even recognize their existence…
When Romneyesqe platitudes … ignoring the lived experiences …
The curator examined the artifact again and again. Even after several years of study, Late Period English was difficult for her to understand. However many times she tried to read this sermon, this passage twisted her in knots.
Romneyesqe
That word was giving her particular troubles. Despite many attempts she could not find a single source to compare the meaning of the word. Even searching for the root Romney pulled in no results. Jotting it down on her notepad she moved on with the text.
… Whiteness demands that others overlook the vast inequality it generates and absolve each individual of the crimes they perpetuate. They insist that by making empty assertions of class-blindness, that they are free from any spot of culpability in the system they benefit from… destroying and oppressing people of color and the most disadvantaged.
This was a common articulation in the holy texts, and this was not the oldest form. The piece was dated to the Early to Mid 21st Century, with similar passages being well known. Yet it was the first derivation that she had seen to absolutely equate whiteness with class. No hint of metaphor, but a one-to-one relationship. It was this passage that attracted her to this artifact. She felt it held a key to unlocking more information regarding the collapse of the ancient world.
A 5 minute warning popped up on the terminal. She quickly scanned the document again for any additional words to cross check, and then disconnected. As she got up to leave, a thought flashed through her mind. Perhaps he would know. She disliked the Maslow, but the more she thought about it the stronger she felt that she had to ask him for help…
She entered the Department of Anglo studies and walked down the long hall. The Stone Floor clacked as she stepped across it revealing her presence to the entire building, but nobody stirred to greet her. On the wall was a large board with a directory pinned to it. She scanned down the list. “Dr. Henrie Maslow: 115“. She proceeded down the hall. As she approached room 115 she could hear a muffled discourse before the door swung open and a young red-faced man walked out of room 115. Peering in, there was an older gentleman, white mustache half concealing a wicked smile. Their eyes locked, and he sat up straight.
“Well, what brings our beloved Curator to my humble office?”
“Is this a bad Time?”, she hoped.
“Hardly, that was merely an … academic discussion between a student and his professor”. He motioned her in with his hand. “What can I do for you?”
“It’s about a passage I’ve been studying, part of the Mother Jones collection, It has been particularly difficult to understand, it’s ancient from the Early Collapse”
“Hmm, yes the religious texts often are, especially from that period” He noted. She rolled her eyes and continued. “Yes i was hoping you could help me out with a few words.”. Maslow looked her over, “You know I had heard you were back at your studies of the Collapse, isn’t that what lost you your last job?”. She began to remember why she didn’t want to come see him. “Are you going to help or not?”
“Of course, of course, but kindly leave me out of your acknowledgments in your next paper, I have a reputation”. He may have been teasing but it still stung. She pulled out her notepad, sat down and they began to work.
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150 responses to “The Bronzed Man Collapse: Chapter 1 A Prelude”
At least “stable genius” is timelessly unambiguous.
OTOH contemporaries struggle to make sense of seeming epithets like
the meaning of which has eluded even the most, um, edified scholars on the subject.
Where’s the rest of the story?
This is just the prelude. It’s right there in the chapter title.
it is a little on the short side though 🙂
Why’d you quote my Match.com profile?
Shaped like a tuna can? Won’t get in too deep, but will scrape the shit our of the sides…
You need to travel through time to get the next part. I recommend moving at a speed of no greater than 1 minute per minute, or else the gradient may rip your constituent atoms apart.
Well, apparently Joshua Chamberlain and his wife could do it.
Ask Paul Harvey.
*tries to find RSS feed to receive notification of the next installment*
I dunno man the world building is kinda sparse. Where is the long descriptive narration? This whole in media res thing can be confusing.
I mean I get at least that this story is borne out of white cishet male paranoia that advancing social justice will led to some sort of collapse, so at least we learn something about the author.
We need more critical literature review like this.
Preludes should leave you wanting more.
I don’t think you want to use that metric if you’re trying to get Leon a good score.
I’ve always found Honda Preludes to be a little too small.
Thus accomplishing the mission of entry-level cars.
Meeting fleet emissions standards?
Making you want another car as soon as you can afford it.
To weld the two preludes together?
I am so looking forward to this series.
Thanks. Unfortunately the world ends after being destroyed by SMOD. So it’s the end of the series too.
WRITE THE PREQUEL!!!!
Spoiler Alert, sheesh!
Romneyesqe
That word was giving her particular troubles. Despite many attempts she could not find a single source to compare the meaning of the word. Even searching for the root Romney pulled in no results. Jotting it down on her notepad she moved on with the text.
Look in the binder.
Romneyesqe
likable
I’m not an expert on this, but I suspect Mitt got a raw deal: there was an urge to find personal defects and evil motives that spun all out of proportion (like the dog on the roof of the car thing). I think most working class folk should have see Mitt Georgovich as a very decent guy with a very decent heritage. It would be more reasonable to think that his policies and business efforts were good for the working class; his healthcare system was fairly progressive, and his portfolio management saved jobs by recognizing market forces and responding to them before more cataclysmic failures came. I did sense that that his religion didn’t hurt him much, but I was in Texas at the time where most thought little of the binders full of Mormons in the neighborhood.
Mitt would have been fairly harmless as politicians go. A lot more harmless than what we got. I understand he is an eminently decent man, but still an establishment’s establishment pol.
The Trump wrecking ball was long overdue.
” It would be more reasonable to think that his policies and business efforts were good for the working class; his healthcare system was fairly progressive,”
INTERNAL CONTRADICTION SPOTTED IN SECTOR 8!
Oh, absolutely; not even my view: I’m not saying I agree. . . . in the long run, less government will mean more of everything for everyone.
I’m just saying that he could have run as a Democrat on that same platform and resume: lots of progs would have shown up at his rallies if he had only worn their stripes.
So…you mean like what he is morphing into now?
I’m screwing this up.
I just meant to say that he never struck me as a monster. I’m not a Romney guy; I didn’t vote for him; I haven’t researched him. But the situation strikes me particularly backward.
It’s merely ironic that the very people who might well have profited the most from his representation have been so attracted to his being torn down, particularly on points where they could have seen themselves as happy with his platform if, say, Jimmy Carter had trotted out the very same planks and MSNBC had explained to them that he was a good guy instead of a cad.
Poot George. Romenyesqe assumed to be Mittens. How much brainwashing does a guy need to go through to be remembered?
It’s still mindboggling to me that the
Democratsmedia were able to turn Mitt fucking Romney into a fire breathing libertarian wrecking ball who was going to dismantle the government nd turn millions of poor little hapless grannies into the snow to starve.What was remarkable to me was how many bought it. That is probably one of the reasons they thought they could get away with what they are up to now but they have really overstepped the bounds of credibility.
A white dog? Seriously?
Really. I mean, we’ve never even seen him around here.
Anyway, everyone knows you never turn grannies out into the snow; they hang around until spring thaw that way and you have to send a detail of orphans out to clean up the mess. No, you turn them out in summer, where they can wander away before dying and decomposing all over your estate’s expansive lawn.
That’s every R candidate since Nixon.
1960 Nixon, btw.
https://youtu.be/dDTBnsqxZ3k
The thing that’s hilarious is that if you look at Romney’s stint as MA governor, you see all sorts of things the proggies should adore including:
Romneycare which was John the Baptist to Obamacare’s Jesus, and
the permanent state law that made the federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent here, and led to the banning of AR-15’s in state.
That’s what makes him such a worthless piece of shit. He saw the disaster those policies were in MA, and he pretended that they weren’t bad so that he could paint himself as a great leader. Needless to say he had no coherent explanation as to why Obama implementing similar policies was bad when he did it in state they were good.
If he had truly cared for his country, he would have either stood up against Obama properly or – better yet – simply stood aside so that someone who could oppose Obama could mount a campaign.
But his ambition for personal glory subsumed any love for his country…. perfect for a politicians.
NOT OUR TEAM!
Thank you, Tarran. I never bought Romney as the eminently decent father figure type. He was/is your classic RINO whom at the very best would have been Obama-lite.
He would not have weaponized all three letter agencies, instead doing only maybe one, and sicked them on his political opponents?
No, he’s an R so his strategy would have been to ‘meet his opponents halfway’ aka capitulating to their demands in the name of bipartisanship.
And now before I am off to the cursed doctor’s office I leave y’all with this bit of joy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJY4asP8lT4
You couldn’t get an appointment with an uncursed doctor? What about the witch doctor who laid the curse?
#OooEeeOoooAhAhTingTangWallaWallaBingBang
OT: I was doing this way before it was cool.
https://www.thehour.com/news/article/Never-Googlers-Web-users-take-the-ultimate-step-14116157.php
Oh, FFS.
Christ, is there anyone on the planet who’s not conscious of diversity these days?
*scrolls through LinkedIn*
It took me fewer posts to find a diversity virtue signal than it took that owl licks to get to the center of the tootsie pop.
So…two hoo hoo hooooooooo?
I’d rather drop Google for how they will get into bed with governments to suppress people but hey, whatevs.
I thought YouTube already unpersoned that wrongthinker. I seriously doubt anyone woker is gonna come along.
It’s a double-edged sword. We just spent a week in Rehoboth with my wife’s whole family–something like 30 argumentative Irish Catholics, as if there’s another variety–and everyone used Waze on the trip there and back. On the one hand, I appreciated the rerouting and the warnings about accidents and so forth. On the other hand, I was creeped out and annoyed by ads popping up for Denny’s or the Old Navy outlet based on our travel route.
Enjoy your afternoon, good Glibs: golf awaits.
I normally drive 260 yards. Yesterday, without trying at all, I popped one over 290, no help, no cart path. I’ll be starting a new religion today based on that miracle and will advise if any prayers or incantations prove particularly helpful.
He got all of that one!
Unfortunately, the hole was only 130 yards from the tee thanks to a bend in the fairway.
His shot landed on the next hole.
I have done that before. Driver or 3 wood? Well, I can’t reach the water anyway, so lets hit the driver. Wow, that was a good one, how far is it gonna roll….splash!
will advise if any prayers or incantations prove particularly helpful.
Have you tried anabolic steroids?
Not everyone is avoiding Google just to protect their data. Amy Manlapas, a high school teacher in Atlanta, said the company’s recent failure to more strongly condemn a conservative YouTube personality for repeatedly mocking a gay reporter caused her to stop using the video sharing site. She said she is researching document-storing software for her files so that she can drop Google Docs, and plans to eliminate her use of Gmail and other Google services.
“I don’t want to give my time and money to a company that’s not going to be conscious of diversity,” she said.
“79.2% of google users say it’s heading in the wrong direction.”
That doesn’t mean they agree on the “right” direction.
Same as all those Americans who think the country is headed in the “wrong” direction.
IOW, she hasn’t done shit and almost certainly never will.
Nice how she’s concerned for Andy Ngo, though. Oh wait…..
Probably because, in the texts she studies, the words have no meanings.
Word salads suck ass.
And not in a “HM would love that” kind of way…
I want to read more, so mission accomplished Leon.
I’m confused and or curious if there is purposeful capitalization in the text where it shouldn’t normally be.
For example:
“Is this a bad Time?”, she hoped
The Stone Floor clacked as she stepped across it revealing her presence to the entire building, but nobody stirred to greet her.
I’m confused and or curious
This usually leads to a Rule 34 moment.
I had to look up rule 34. Technically correct….the best kind of correct.
Sure… purposeful. I mean I meant to do that. For some values of “meant to” and conscious action. You can’t prove anything!!!
dOnT’ teLL me What todo.
Have not had to use that with the frequency I used to do so after I got divorced…
I kind of miss needing to tell people this though…
Thanks by the way!
Kind of OT: Shes’s not going nowhere. Nice grammar congresswoman.
Tlaib: ‘I’m not going nowhere, not until I impeach’ Trump
USA TODAY Rebecca Morin,USA TODAY 18 hours ago
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WASHINGTON – Rep. Rashida Tlaib, one of the four Dempocratic congresswomen of color who have been the target of President Donald Trump’s racist “go back” attacks, said Monday that she is not going anywhere until the president is impeached.
“I’m not going nowhere, not until I impeach this president,” she said while speaking at the national NAACP convention in Detroit, receiving a standing ovation.
President Donald Trump’s racist “go back” attacks
I love the way it is presumptive that this was racist.
It wasn’t. It was nationalist.
idiot#1: IT’S WHAT PLANTS CRAVE!
someone: But why?
idiot#1: BECAUSE IT HAS GOT ELECTROLYTES!
someone: But why?
idiot#1: BECAUSE IT HAS WHAT PLANTS CRAVE!
/Similar logic used to accuse someone of being a racist…
It was nationalist in sentiment, it was racist in execution.
Gee. That kinda rhetoric makes me think she won’t accept the results of a free and fair election if she loses. : Faints:
She’s not as pretty as AOC or as ‘diverse’ as Omar, so she’s trying hard to distinguish herself as the most insufferable of ‘the squad.’ It’s a battle between titans in that sense.
There is something vaguely repellent about her mug; it’s like the Innsmouth Look but more froggy than fishy.
Classic arrogant, undeservedly self-confident smug look with a hint of scumbag entitlement.
Middle Eastern Sandra Bernhard
LOL
They all have their powers.
Has someone made the dolls yet? Because someone is going to make the dolls.
I’ll put money up if any Glibs know how to get toys made. They will be pull string and say their stupidest gafs verbatim.
Economics is hard!
Not hating Jews is hard!
“I think the first thing that we need to do is kind of break the mistaken idea that taxes pay for a hundred percent of government expenditure. It’s just not how government expenditure works,…..We can recoup costs, but oftentimes you look at, for example, the GOP tax cut, which I think was an irresponsible use of government expenditure.”
SMDH
You would need some sort of update feature as new gaffes are generated.
Just have a wireless connection open to each of them for live speech.
We both missed the true answer – sell the new gaffe packs as microtransactions.
if you’re *not* going *no*where, then you are going somewhere.
More noise from the four twats of the apocalypse.
Trump calls Tlaib ‘crazed lunatic’ at teen summit
Would it surprise you that there is no mention or video of her crazed outburst?
I will say that, purposeful or not, Trump has normalised the “Squad” to Democrats again. He rescued them from the Democratic machine. For what purposes only time will tell.
Make them the face of the party and run against them. That worked well enough with Roy Moore.
Whether intentional or not, Trump needs ‘the squad.’ While their supporters might be loud, they are a tiny minority that Trump can destroy in a national election. The last thing he wants is for the DNC to look centrist and sensible.
For what purposes only time will tell.
Oh, that one’s easy. He wants them to be the face of the Democratic party. He wants to make sure that, no matter who his candidate is in 2020, the public sees him running against the Democratic candidate with “the squad” over their shoulder.
Exactly. I think it’s quite brilliant. He’s not running in a fringe-driven primary. In a national election, they’re not going to run to the center.
Tell us what you really think, totally-not-biased AP.
It’s still mindboggling to me that the…media were able to turn Mitt fucking Romney into a fire breathing libertarian wrecking ball
It’s where they screwed up. Portraying Romney as some sort of “Libertarian Nazi” got them where they wanted. But it cost them their credibility. After that, no one who didn’t want to do so willfully could believe that they were honestly telling the public the truth. Or even the truth as they saw it. And, more importantly, people started to not give a damn about what the media said about them. If Romney was a government-smashing Nazi, then no matter what you did to play nice, the media would still put you in the Nazi camp. That’s what made the way for Donald Trump. Trump was the guy who came along and didn’t give a damn if they didn’t like him or called him a Nazi. And all they’ve been able to summon in response, at least so far, is feckless whining.
Honestly, that’s what I don’t get about Romney. They were happy to say the exact same things about him as they say about Donald Trump. Yet, he still feels this pathetic need to stay on their good side.
Good concession speech giver, that Romney, the best. Guy can roll over with such class and dignity befitting a second placer.
LOSER.
@RealDonaldTrump
Romney’s an upper-class creature of government. He couldn’t imagine or tolerate being unwelcome among his peers like Trump. So he’ll roll over and take it like a good boy, every time.
It’s funny you used that turn of phrase. I thought, as a matter of humor, that I could easily enough imagine him having a fetish to show up at Rachel Maddow’s studio in a Buster Brown outfit saying “Willard isn’t like Donald. Willard’s a good boy, ain’t he mama?”.
And another thing, how the hell can anyone who considers political hacks, hangers-on, and brain-dead scribblers their peers ever qualify as “upper-class”?
He’s the ultimate country club Republican, equally capable of compromising with the left on gun control and of giving a fine concession speech after a defeat, all while having perfectly coiffed hair.
https://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/1008/John_Lewis_invoking_George_Wallace_says_McCain_and_Palin_playing_with_fire.html#
“What I am seeing reminds me too much of another destructive period in American history,” Lewis said in a statement issued today for Politico’s Arena forum. “Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse.”
They’ve been using this tactic since forever.
They’ve been using this tactic since forever.
Of course they have. And Trump seems like the only guy this doesn’t work on because he’s totally shameless. The tactic only works if you back down trying to win their approval.
I have no love for Trump whatsoever but I do like the fact that at times he punches back. If the GOP had any spine or principles, they would do the same but like someone said above, they live to give concession speeches.
Yup
Lewis has been riding on his civil rights activism in the 60’s ever since then.
In reality, he’s a DNC party hack that is free to lie at will because he absolutely cannot lose in his district.
I don’t have an idea of what his legislative accomplishments are, but I’ll be they’re slim.
This goes back *at least* as far as Goldwater. I don’t know off the top of my head, but I think FDR may have called one of his opponents a Nazi.
OT: Is Cosmo going to do a follow-up to this piece in a few years when she’s put on a few pounds and the laugh lines aren’t receding so quickly? My guess is that it will be something to the effect of how unfair men are because they’re only interested in relationships with younger women and see women her age as good only for an easy lay.
“Before you hate me for what comes next, you should know something: I hadn’t felt my body heat up like that in months. ”
So it was like totally morally justified.
Even ignoring the morality, it’s just stupid.
Unless a woman has a just absolutely brilliant career, there’s an unfortunate reality she has to face. After 35, on the open dating market, she’s more likely than not a depreciating asset. As women tend to value status in men, men tend to value youth and beauty in women. The younger guys aren’t going to be all that interested in her, and the guys her age increasingly have either paired off, are starting to accumulate status (and become out of your league with every passing day), or are going to remain bad catches. A girl spending her youth cheating on guys is mostly giving up her better options. And the reputational damage of her decisions follows her.
“And the reputational damage of her decisions follows her.”
This it proof-positive that the Patriarchy still enslaves women!!!
/Feminist
“Ban the box”
It’s an evolutionary tradeoff. Women’s sexual capital is all front-end loaded. A guy could easily wait out his early 20’s when he has a relatively low value on the sexual marketplace then starts using and discarding women once he gets older and has wealth and status.
A couple of approx. the same age who marry young; the female foregoes easy mating opportunities in her most fertile years and in exchange the male foregoes easy mating opportunities once he establishes his “alpha” place in society.
Said another way, a relationship will work when both parties make equally irrational, conscious evolutionary decisions.
Married at 19.
What did I win?
You avoided a game of brinksmanship leading to mutually assured destruction.
Said another way: your wife chose fidelity when the balance of power was in her favor and you rewarded her by doing the same when the balance of power was in your favor.
I watched the Jordan Peterson / Camalia Paglia interview. Peterson was saying that young parents are better for kids than old parents.
Since we didn’t kill our kids early on, I guess my wife and I did two things right.
Pretty much this. I’d say a virtuous woman has a little flexibility on the matter, as her virtue adds to her sexual capital. But, a girl who skanks her 20s away? Sorry, unless her career is otherwise awesome, she’s in for a world of misery.
I’ve mentioned this before but I knew this punk rock gal back in the day. She had a new boyfriend every other week, multiple one-night stands with guys she met at the bar, and would cheat on her boyfriends too. On the good side: she was fun to party with.
One night we were hanging out at the bar and she started whining that “There are no good guys left. I’m stuck with Jim (her current boyfriend, who was a bit of a dunce) because everyone else knows what a slut I am.”
Is she hot?
She waaaas. Now not so much.
We used to have a rather flirty but platonic relationship. She was also EF’s best friend for a few years.
“She was also EF’s best friend for a few years.”
Two words: Three. Way.
She actually mentioned it but apparently in some weird way that wasn’t quite understood. I guess she was dancing around the idea without blatantly saying it to us.
A year or so later she said something like: “Well it’s too bad we never had that three way. You guys turned the idea down.”
Me: … uh … what?
I’ve Cheated on Every Boyfriend I’ve Ever Had, and I Don’t Regret It
If you’re in your early 20s, you shouldn’t either.
Well….other than those pesky STD’s you could be passing around, or maybe an unplanned pregnancy or two.
And the whole sociopathically seeing fellow humans only for their instrumental value.
3rd/4th Wave feminism is basically just license for women to be terrible people and absolve themselves of any moral responsibility for the consequences o their actions.
But being dishonest and treating people like shit is so empowering!
That is probably how they imagine all men to be. So it’s only fair.
Hedonists gonna hedonize.
*shrugs*
True. But, the Gods of the Copybook Headings are a bitch.
RE: Canuckistani tranny waxer.
I decided that I didn’t feel like eating lunch anyway so I read through the guy’s twatter. He is a fucking sicko. Inquiring about how he can ask 10 year-olds to help put in tampons? He’s not offering a whole lot of evidence that people like him aren’t mentally ill.
If he wasn’t a racial bigot, I would believe Yaniv was created in some lab to serve as the ultimate nemesis to the reactionary culture warriors. He is all of their conspiracies and fears made manifest in flesh in one man.
Basically this.^^
I’m also not convinced that it isn’t a cynical ploy on his part to get some shakedown cash.
I am 100 percent convinced that is so.
My feelings too. Which is why it bothers me even more. And you have the earnest idiots who think that you totally chose to be subjected to that kinda harassment by choosing that profession.
I decided to hit the taco truck. I am much happier for doing so.
What did the taco truck ever do to you? /channeling UCS
I hope your insurance was up to date
guy at the end with the bucket at point-blank?? how is he not ambient temp?
https://twitter.com/NYScanner/status/1153357145389326336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1153392652236312576&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fgregp-3534%2F2019%2F07%2F23%2Fvideo-of-nypd-officers-getting-humiliated-during-arrest-goes-viral%2F
The temperature is Too Damn High!
ha good point.
“NYPD would probably have a more positive relationship with the citizenry if they didn’t murder a man on the street for no reason and then do everything possible to successfully protect that officer from any meaningful repercussions
if you protect bad cops why trust any of them?”
BOOM
That’s a shitty way to treat anyone, whether cop or not.
I enjoyed the article immensely, Leon. As someone who has exercised his white privilege for many, many years I hardly would not know how to leave it behind. It is my persona, what everyone expects and would not recognize me if I forgo using it. Little Missy could skip Maslow and his theories and I’d be happy to explain “The Hierarchy of Needs” in real time.
I’m waiting for your next installment to see if I’m actually understanding if I’m woke enough or have to go back to the kids’ table, Again