Glibertarians.com 2019 Archive

Category: Advice

  • Poll: Mentors

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    Mentoring consists of a long-term relationship focused on supporting the growth and development of the mentee. The mentor becomes a source of wisdom, teaching, and support, but not someone who observes and advises on specific actions or behavioral changes in daily work/life.

     

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    Someone in my real (read: non-Glib) life, recently commented that I am their mentor in a specific area of my professional endeavors. I was surprised by this, as I certainly hadn’t thought of myself or our relationship that way. Sure, I offer excellent advice when asked, and am a truly great listener (I get it from my mother), but it had never occurred to me that this person held that view.

    So. Do you have/have you had a non-family mentor in any area of your life? Was it an acknowledged mentoring relationship? Did it start out that way or did it evolve?

    Have you been a mentor? What was the experience like for you?

    Discuss!

     

     

     

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  • IFLA: The “Maybe it’s a Puppy?” Edition of the Horoscope for the Week of June 16

     

    This week has an interesting couple of intersecting alignments:  We’ve got Jupiter (retrograde)-Luna-Terra-Sol indicating change/chaos/disruption at home” with Saturn(retrograde)-Terra-Mercury “News of a new beginning.”  So basically, home life made all higgledy-piggiedy as the result of a new addition to the family dynamic.  This can be an excellent status check, because if you have a birth, new pet, or your SO gets a new FWB, you can  rejoice in the fact that you are important enough for the stars to foretell the events that happen under your roof.  For other celestial advice, expect slander and scurrilous accusations (Mercury and Mars in Cancer) and well, let’s say careful phrasing and selective chronicling of events may prove useful to your love life (Venus and the Sun in Gemini).  The moon in Virgo also encourages subtlety, euphemism, and oblique suggestions.

    The cards this week has a certain indication of something going wrong in a very unfair way.  There is another pronounced but odd sign that… well, the best I can translate it is “violence at an orgy?”  It’s not  typical “you’re going to get rolled by a whore” notification, there’s a much more ritualistic aspect to the whole thing.  Is someone going to attend a Gnostic mass maybe?  An O.T.O. initiation?  And will they be too embarrassed to tell us about it?  There is an overarching aspect of formality and protocol to the week.

    Gemini:  10 of Swords – Pain, affliction, tears, sadness, desolation

    Cancer:  2 of Swords reversed – imposture, falsehood, duplicity, disloyalty, misplaced vengeance

    Leo:  10 of Wands reversed – Contrariness, intrigues, difficulties from excessive abundance

    Virgo:  The Hierophant – Alliance through marriage, servitude, mercy, goodness, inspiration

    Libra:  7 of Wands – Valor, success, discussion, trade war, spycraft

    Scorpio:  Justice reversed – Bigotry, bias, excessive severity, malicious compliance

    Sagittarius:  6 of Coins – Gifts, gratification, attention

    Capricorn:  The High Priestess reversed – Passion, moral or physical ardor, shallow knowledge, conceit

    Aquarius:  6 of Cups – The past, pleasant memories, ephemeral enjoyment

    Pisces:  Judgment reversed –  Weakness, simplicity, deliberation, pusillanimity, sentence

    Aries:  Queen of Wands – Friendly dark woman, honorable, well disposed towards a fat man.

    Taurus:  Knight of Coins reversed – Inertia, idleness, discouragement, carelessness

     

  • Mentally Incompetent to Stand Trial – What does it mean?

    There’s a few concepts about mental states, and how they affect a defendant during legal proceedings.

    Let’s cover the first : Mentally Incompetent to Stand Trial. What does that mean?

    Here’s the scenario: State of Michigan is charging that the Defendant committed a crime (duh). Defendant meets with attorney. After the first meeting, the attorney wonders a few things about the defendant, based on the D’s behavior.

    Such as: he can’t remember facts of the alleged crime. Sure, he could have been too intoxicated . . . . however, he can’t remember where he lived before he moved here. He knows he’s in jail, and he doesn’t like that, but can’t really seem to keep the conversation going to help his attorney understand his version of events. And maybe he has a few odd gestures, expressions. (More signs of mental illness are listed here, from the national alliance for mental illness).

    You see, the idea of “due process” is broad. It includes that the defendant, to have due process, has to understand the proceedings and be able to assist his attorney in defending the case. If the D can’t do that, then he is mentally incompetent.  And if a defendant is  mentally incompetent, then the proceedings are halted (but not dismissed).

    Any questions about a D’s competence should be raised by the attorney as soon as apparent. (However, the prosecutor or the judge can raise the issue as well). The defense attorney should make a motion regarding competence that asserts that 1. the D can’t assist his attorney in defending the case and 2. possibly, the D lacked the capacity to appreciate that his conduct was wrong, or didn’t conform to requirements of law. That last sentence is the lead-in for the affirmative defense of NGI, or not guilty by reason of insanity. Also called “legally insane.”

    After that motion is made, the court will refer the D to an interview by a forensic psychologist to make a determination of competency. The report of the psychologist is then released to the court, attorneys, etc.

    Option 1: the Defendant is found not competent. Just because a D is found incompetent does not mean that there will never be a trial. Instead, the next step is that the D has to have mental health treatment – and the court issues an order for this – so that he will become competent to stand trial, at a later date.

    This idea seems to also offend the D’s right to speedy trial, as guaranteed in the Sixth Amendment. However, dismissing the case based on competence is not fair to the state (sadly). Also, the speedy trial right has never been interpreted to have a definite deadline by the Supreme Court. For example, the Supreme Court hasn’t ruled that “any delay to trial longer than 24 months would prejudice justice.” Michigan however, does limit the amount of time a D can be treated, (MCL 330.2034) to no longer than 15 months, or 1/3 of the maximum sentence which the D would have if convicted, whichever is shorter.

    Also, technically speaking, the D is not being punished by receiving treatment, as he is no longer in jail, he’s in the hospital, receiving treatment.

    Option 2: Defendant is found competent. If a defendant is interviewed, and found to be competent, an alternative to halting trial for D’s treatment  is a “no contest” plea, which would be based on the idea that he was too intoxicated/ abusing substances, etc, to be able to recall the crime. But use of alcohol /substances is not a defense, and does not make a person legally insane at the time of the crime.

    Also, some crimes are open to alternative sentencing, through mental health treatment courts. This is a diversion program, that is essentially the same as sobriety court. It requires that the offender plead to a crime, then complete mental health treatment for a period of months. In exchange, the state will “nolle prosse” the charges, once the program is completed by the offender. The likelihood of repeat offenses goes down significantly when the program is completed. However, it is much like intensive outpatient, and requires a lot of participation by the offender, such as 3-4 weekly appointments at counseling, group therapy, probation /parole appointments, and regular medication review.

    Next installment: legally insane – or Not Guilty by reason of Insanity.

  • IFLA: The “Maybe You Should Take the Week Off” Edition of the Horoscope for the Week of May 19

    Just one alignment here, but it’s portentous:  Mars-Mercury-Venus with the Sun in opposition.  Mars and Venus are simultaneously opposing planets (War/Peace, Violence/Love, etc) as well as complementary (Male/Female).  When you have them facing off across Mercury (change) you’ve got a recipe for something big, sudden and/or unexpected.  Good or bad?  Well… that’s where the sun in opposition comes in saying “sucks to be you.”  Wear a helmet.

    Now having said that, the best tactics for dealing with this are as follows:

    1.  Patience, directness and labor will be your allies.  Allies are important.  Strategery double-dealing and various Xanatos gambits are not recommended. (Mercury and Venus in Taurus).
    2. Secrets will be used against you.  Keep your skeleton closets locked up tight, maintain your payoffs and/or threats to keep people from talking (Mars in Cancer).
    3. Precision, subtlety and “proper channels” are not to be relied upon (Jupiter (retrograde) and the moon in Sagittarius).
    4. Plan, don’t rely on improvisation (Saturn (retrograde) in Capricorn).

    The cards also indicate a week full of happy horseshit.  The first six cards drawn were all reversed, and the leadoff one literally means “Bad Luck.”

    Taurus:  The Wheel of Fortune, reversed – Increase, superfluity

    Cancer:  Knight of Wands, reversed – Rupture, division, interruption, discord

    Leo:  The Moon, reversed – Instability, inconstancy, silence.  Lesser degrees of deception and error.

    Virgo:  7 of Swords, reversed – Good advice, counsel, instruction, slander, babbling

    Libra:  Page of Swords, reversed – A situation for which you are unprepared, a weaselly bastard working against you, possible sickness.

    Scorpio:  5 of Coins, reversed – Disorder, chaos, ruin, prolifigacy

    Sagittarius:  Ace of Swords – Triumph, excessiveness in everything, great force in love or hate

    Capricorn:  The Tower – Misery, distress, ruin, indigence, adversity, calamity, disgrace, deception.  The frogurt is also cursed.

    Aquarius:  Death, reversed – Inertia, sleep, lethargy

    Gemini:  The High Priestess – Secrets, mystery, science, a woman you are interested in, silence, tenacity

    Pisces:  Ace of Cups – True heart, joy, contentment, felicity, nourishment, fertility

    Aries:  The Hanged Man, reversed – Selfishness, crowds, politics

     

  • DOOM! But now we know when.

    Here is a handy link.

    You should save this link so that if anyone tells you we only have 12 years left to solve the climate change problem, you can point them to the correct amount of time left.

     

     

  • ZARDOZ FRIDAY NIGHT LINKS AND ADVICE

     

    ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. TONIGHT THE CHOSEN ONES GET A DOUBLE, DOUBLE FEATURE. NOT JUST THE BEST ADVICE, BUT THE BEST ADVICE WHILE DEFEATING 2 DIFFERENT BRUTAL ADVICE GIVERS! FIRST, ZARDOZ DISPOSES OF THE BRUTAL “DEAR ABBY“. AS ZARDOZ IS PLEASED BY THE CONTENT OF THE SITE THIS WEEK, HE REWARDS THE CHOSEN ONES BY DISPATCHING THE BRUTAL ADVICE GIVER “ASK AMY”.

    ALSO WRONG!

    Q: I have a former co-worker whose husband was just released from a psychiatric facility. He had threatened to kill himself and take the entire family with him. I met him before the incident. He did not seem balanced then, and I was uncomfortable being around him.

    Since his release, my friend keeps inviting me to their house and wants to come to mine. I keep making excuses for not allowing visits to my house or hers. I still have a bad feeling about being exposed to him and possibly putting myself in danger. I have been in abusive relationships in the past, and one attack was nearly fatal.

    I have spoken to her about the dangers of being with a person such as him. But she says she can’t leave because they have three children on the spectrum. Am I being silly? — APPREHENSIVE IN TEXAS

    A: ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, YOU SPINELESS BRUTAL. AND ZARDOZ DOES NOT HAVE COMFORTING WORDS. YOU HAVE TWO OPTIONS – FIRST, GO FORTH AND CLEANSE THE CRAZED BRUTAL…PREEMPTIVELY, OF COURSE. THIS WILL ALLOW YOUR FORMER CO-WORKER TO CARE FOR THE SPECTRAL BRUTAL CHILDREN.

    THE VORTEX HAS SOME “ON THE SPECTRUM” AS WELL.

    SECOND IS A BIT TRICKIER, BUT DOES BENEFIT ZARDOZ IN THE END, SO HE RECOMMENDS IT. FIRST, CONTINUE TO DISTRACT, DELAY AND STALL AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. ZARDOZ WILL SEND THE BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS TO HELP…

    WE RIDE TO TEXAS!

    BUT NOT TO CLEANSE THE CRAZED BRUTAL. RATHER, TO RECRUIT HIM. THE BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS COULD ALWAYS USE ANOTHER PSYCHOPATH. YOUR FORMER CO-WORKER IS FREE, YOU ARE NOT THREATENED, AND ZARDOZ GAINS A HEADCOUNT. WIN-WIN-WIN. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

     

    Q: My husband has been significantly overweight most of his life. He recently lost more than 60 pounds on a very strict diet. (I have to work to stay at a healthy weight, but have never been more than 10 to 15 pounds over my ideal weight).

    He’s much healthier now, and I’m extremely proud of him and his dedication to a new lifestyle.

    However, when he was overweight he was generally relaxed, fun and easy-going (these are also the qualities that attracted me to him). Now, after the weight loss, he generally seems miserable. I’m not the only person to have noticed this change.

    A few days ago a good friend told me that my husband is “the most miserable skinny person,” he’s ever known.

    I’ve tried to talk with him multiple times, both to let him know how proud I am of him for this accomplishment, and to try to understand why he seems so unhappy despite achieving the goal he set for himself. The most I’ve been able to get from him is that now that he’s lost the weight he’s embarrassed about how overweight he was.

    Amy, I loved my husband when he was overweight and I love him now, but after almost six months of dealing with his negativity, criticism and a much shorter temper than usual, I’m not sure how to help without sounding like I’m trying to derail his health plans.

    I think much of his negativity stems from hunger and having to deny himself his favorite foods. I want him to maintain his health, but I don’t want him to have to choose health at the expense of happiness.

    Any thoughts on how I can help us through this challenge?

    A: OH, LOOK CHOSEN ONES! IT APPEARS ZARDOZ HAS FOUND ANOTHER SCIENTIST FOR THE VORTEX. “I think much of his negativity stems from hunger and having to deny himself his favorite foods.” SUCH BRAINPOWER RIVALS THAT OF THE TABERNACLE! WITLESS BRUTAL – YOU MUST SEND YOUR HUSBAND DELICIOUS BREAD FROM THE VORTEX. IN FACT, ZARDOZ WILL SEND SOME BY “BRUTALCART EATS”…

    DELIVERY! HOP TO IT, ZED.

    IF THAT IS NOT ENOUGH – THEN IT IS BANQUET TIME. CALL AHEAD FOR RESERVATIONS AT THE VORTEX. TELL ‘EM “ZARDOZ SENT ME.”

    TONIGHT, ZARDOZ HAS ASKED US TO FEED A FORMERLY OBESE BRUTAL.

    LEAVE A GOOD REVIEW ON YELP. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

     

    THE CHOSEN ONES MAY NOW REVEL IN THE LINKS THAT ZARDOZ PROVIDES. GO FORTH AND COMMENT!

    • AS IF THE CHOSEN ONES NEED MORE EVIDENCE THAT THE PENIS IS EVIL… VERY WELL, HERE YOU ARE THEN. NOTE THE ACTIONS OF THE ACCUSED BRUTAL – IS THIS WHAT THE CHOSEN ONES REFER TO AS “PUMP AND DUMP”? THE SCHOOL, NOT THE FEMALE BRUTALS…
    • HOW CAN THIS BRUTAL BE A SOCIALIST – HE MAKE SENSE. THIS CAN ONLY MEAN HE WILL BE THWARTED.

    ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

  • STEVE SMITH FRIDAY NIGHT LINKS… “FINDING STEVE SMITH”

     

    STEVE SMITH HEAR SILLY PEOPLE LOOK OUT HIM. THEY SELL BOOK. STEVE SMITH NO UNDERSTAND. HIM TALK HERE ALL TIME. NO BE “INVESTIGATOR”…READ GLIBERTARIANS.COM!

    STEVE SMITH SEE VIDEO. VERY SILLY PEOPLE “CALL SASQUATCH”. IT EASY GET STEVE SMITH SHOW UP. NO YELL, SAY “OH DEAR, I THINK WE ARE LOST!” OR “THE TOUR BUS HAS A FLAT TIRE.” MAYBE, “THIS CAVE LOOKS SAFE, WE CAN WAIT THE STORM OUT IN HERE.” THAT GUARANTEE STEVE SMITH VISIT! BY GUARANTEE STEVE SMITH VISIT, MEAN YOU WIN CONTEST. BY WIN CONTEST MEAN WIN RAPE. RAPE ALWAYS FIRST PRIZE!

    COME BACK! WIN FIRST PRIZE!

     

    WHAT MAKE “STEVE SMITH SHAKE HIM RAPESQUATCH HEAD”, IS SILLY ANIMAL PLANET TV SHOW. STEVE SMITH NO “ANIMAL” – THAT GUN EXPERT ON GLIBERTARIANS.COM! STEVE SMITH, HIM RAPESQUATCH AND PROMINENT FOREST LAWYER! HIM TALK GOOD. IS SMART. ANIMAL PLANET MAKE LOTS SHOWS, BUT NEVER FIND STEVE SMITH.

    LAST – STEVE SMITH HAVE SERIOUS STALKER PROBLEM. THEM WORSE THAN SILLY ANIMAL PLANET PEOPLE. STEVE SMITH THINK HIM GO REPORT SIGHTING…PUT IN FLORIDA, SO PEOPLE GO WRONG PLACE!

    STEVE SMITH SAY, RELAX. JUST READ GLIBERTARIANS.COM. YOU FIND RAPESQUATCH!

    MERCH!

    FREE CASCADIA!

  • Friday Night All Star Cryptid Advice

    …the Cryptids give the best advice!

     

    After some discussion here at Glib’s HQ, we decided to let the cryptids sort out who would do tonight’s advice column. As they could not agree, they decided to split it three ways. One bit of advice from each… we salute this solution, and the sharing of the article. If not, we feared a struggle that might have damaged the place even more than the takeover last month. So, with that behind us, enjoy the advice! First up, ZARDOZ:

    THE GIFT OF ADVICE, FOR THE CHOSEN ONES.

    ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ HAS SELECTED THE BRUTAL “DEAR ABBY” TO DEFEAT IN ADVICE GIVING. THEREFOR, RECEIVE THE GIFT OF ADVICE!

    Q: My husband likes to wear my underwear, and it grosses me out. He knows I don’t approve and promises he won’t do it again, but he does. I can’t even stand to look at him. What should I do? — DISTURBED IN TEXAS

    A: IT IS FORTUNATE FOR YOU, BRUTAL, THAT ZARDOZ HAS COME ACROSS THIS BEFORE:

    ZARDOZ WARNS, YOU DO NOT WANT TO SEE THE GARTER!

    DO NOT WORRY, IT WAS SIMPLY A PHASE, AND ZED GOT OVER IT…

    UM…

    SAY, IS THAT AN ETERNAL WAVING TO US OVER THERE? *FLIES FROM ROOM*

    ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

    … OK. Well, that was different. On to the next advice giver, our own STEVE SMITH:

    DR. SMITH GIVE ADVICE NOW!

     

    STEVE SMITH LAUGH AT SILLY PRUDENCE!

    STEVE SMITH HERE, GIVE GOODEST ADVICE! HIM SMART AND KNOW HOW SOLVE PROBLEM. USUALLY INVOLVE RAPING PROBLEM UNTIL GO AWAY. BUT HIM TRY GIVE ADVICE TO SILLY HOOMANS. AT LEAST DO BETTER DEAR PRUDENCE!

    Q: I’ve been arguing with my boyfriend of a year over the state of his bathroom since we’ve been dating. I’m grossed out by it. He doesn’t seem to mind that there are always beard trimmings on the surfaces where I like to put my makeup on in the morning, a floor I can’t step on with bare feet, and stray pubic hairs and stains in the toilet. He argues that he’s not the only one who uses that bathroom and his roommate is the main cause of the mess. I don’t doubt this because my boyfriend’s room is always clean, and the rest of the house isn’t too bad either, but his roommate is like a tornado. My boyfriend doesn’t want to be the one cleaning up someone else’s mess, which I get. I also understand that it’s a dingy old house, so to some extent it will never be truly clean. But that doesn’t change the fact that someone should be cleaning the bathroom at least, say, once a month.

    This has been at a stalemate for a while now. He’ll say I barely spend the night at his place (which is true), and I’ll ask when the last time he cleaned the bathroom was, and he’ll just roll his eyes. I’m seriously considering just not coming over to his place until he does it. I’ve threatened that before but never really followed through. We’re both fed up with this situation.

    —Dirty Bathroom

    A: STEVE SMITH UNDERSTAND. HIM LIKE KEEP CAVE CLEAN. HIM GO IN WOODS, NO IN CAVE! TRY TELL ROOMMATE GO OUTSIDE AND BE DIRTY. IF HIM NO AGREE, THERE THREE THINGS CAN DO; 1) HIT ROOMMATE ON HEAD WITH BIG ROCK.

    YOU CLEAN ROOM NOW?!

    2) HAVE STEVE SMITH COME ASK POLITE, “PLEASE CLEAN”. BY ASK POLITE, MEAN RAPE.

    3) HIRE CLEAN SERVICE. STEVE SMITH KNOW GOOD ONE.

    HELP WITH LAUNDRY!

    HOPE ADVICE HELP!

    FREE CASCADIA!

    Uhhh, yeah. Thanks for that great advice, STEVE. That leaves us with our last advice, from SEA SMITH:

    SEA SMITH SPRAY WASH!

     

                                                                                                   DEAR DEIDRE

    SEA SMITH WANT HELP ADVICE! HE GOOD GIVER ADVICE. HE CHOOSE SILLY LAND HOOMAN ADVICE “DEAR DEIDRE“.

    Q: I CAUGHT my girlfriend having sex in the bar loos with a guy she had only just met. Should I even try to get over this or is she just a cheap slut? I am 25 and my girlfriend is 24. We have been together for two years. I took her to Amsterdam recently for her birthday. We went to a bar the second evening and we were having a great time. My girlfriend said we should take it in turns to go to the toilet and if we went outside for a smoke, just in case we had our drinks spiked, which seemed to make sense. We got into company later that evening with a table of young men. My girlfriend was very chatty with the guy who was sitting beside her. I went to the toilet and when I came back to our table said I was going outside for a cigarette. While I was outside I looked back through the window at her. She saw me and looked annoyed so I walked out of sight for around five minutes. When I returned to the table, she had disappeared and so had the guy she had been talking to. I was a bit suspicious so I went to the toilets – unisex – and started checking the cubicles. I was really quiet. I heard noises from inside one. It was just movements, no conversation or any other sounds. I waited about three minutes and then pulled the door handle. The door flew open and there was my girlfriend inside with the guy she’d been chatting to. He was up against the wall and she was in front of him. She pulled her jeans up from both sides and panicked when she saw me. I swore at her and ran off in temper. She ran after me yelling and angry. Now she is telling me she has no memory of that evening and has sworn to me she loves me and would not have done it if she’d been in her right mind.

    I love her and I don’t know what to think.

    A: IT HURT! NOT YOU PROBLEM, SEA SMITH SIDES FROM LAUGH SO MUCH! OW, OW, OW!

    HAHAHAHAHAHA!

    HER SOUND SO EASY, NOT EVEN SEA SMITH WOULD RAPE. SEA SMITH HAVE SOME STANDARD! ONLY PART YOU SAY MAKE SENSE “I don’t know what to think”. SEA SMITH NOT SURE SILLY LAND HOOMAN CAN THINK. SEA SMITH SAY SWIM, SWIM AWAY FAST AS CAN. IF DO NOT, THEN FIND HER SPAWN WITH OTHER LAND HOOMANS MORE.

    COME ON IN, WATER IS FINE!

  • Q’s Brain Toilet Episode 3: The Tripod of Fun

    ’Twas a dark and stormy night, they were all gathered around the campfire; “tell us a story Q!” they cried.  And the third installment of Q’s Brain Toilet went like this:

    The State of Academic Science

    I’ll start with a disclaimer in that I recognize there are other scientists here and their opinions may be vastly different, I’m speaking strictly from my own experience.  Simply put, overall it’s not good.  This isn’t to say there aren’t people out there doing great work, there definitely are, but while the physical sciences (and to much less of an extent, the life sciences) have been less affected by general campus insanity, they haven’t avoided it completely.  The wokification of campus continues its inexorable creep, transforming every nook and cranny and I fully expect even chemistry and physics departments to be teaching the new gospel of racist gravity or patriarchal stoichiometry in the near future.  You can see it in biology departments with trans-mania; how many biologists might privately hold unwoke opinions about how many genders there are but would never dream of actually making that argument in public?  I’m not even talking research here; I’m talking make an offhand wrongthink comment to someone other than family outside the confines of home.  Even tenured professors seem reluctant to openly hold unorthodox (read: non-Leftist) views on a whole host of ideas that would have been utterly non-controversial 20 or even 10 years ago.  Non-tenured?  Fuggeddaboudit.  SJW mobs, harassment, unemployment and unpersoning await those who dare step out of line.  Couple that with thought policing by grant funding agencies and you have an atmosphere of enforced conformity that goes beyond mere ideology; perception of reality itself must tow the Party lion.  Why bother doing original research at all when the Party tells us everything we need to know?  Taken together with the “publish or perish” philosophy that values quantity over quality, you have a giant circle jerk of researchers publishing papers as quickly as possible all saying the basically same things.  Don’t you dare question root assumptions or work from different premises; that’s racist and don’t you realize the Nazis did that?  Wanna see the future of academic science?  Look to meteorology and despair.  Fortunately for all of us, the major breakthroughs in medicine and technology in the past couple of decades have almost all come from evil profit driven private research anyway.  The campus, as we know it now, I believe will be dead in a couple of generations, and good riddance to it.  The last thing we need is more Lysenkoism.

    Kids These Days and Their Music, Get Off My Lawn!

    This may seem like a trivial or simpleminded conclusion, but I have the answer why modern music always sucks.  Time is a glorious crucible that burns away irrelevancy, and the further you get away from a particular era of music, the more the impurities and bullshit get burned away leaving you with the good stuff.  I may think that the current incarnation of hybrid hip hop/R&B/electronica is intolerable swill, however there are a few songs and artists among the pile of auditory crap that are not half bad.  Perhaps 20 years from now, the ratio of decent/shit will have gone up just due to the fact that “oldies” stations have to try and consolidate an entire era of music in one place.  Naturally, they’d want the best of the best.  As a late Gen X child of the 90’s, I have always greatly enjoyed grunge, but even at the time there was a fair amount of crappiness.  Now, however, if I listen to the Lithium channel on Sirius, it’s all only the best stuff, the crap jettisoned.  But no Ariana Grande.  Ever.  Self-important tweeny boppers that sing like a bag of cats set on fire should be exiled to South Georgia Island.

    Advertising, Media, Outrage Porn and Despair

    Apologies in advance to any Glibs that may work in the advertising industry, but my personal opinion is that, next to public employee leech-hood, advertising is the most immoral of all industries.  Classically, advertising is about informing potential customers about the virtues of a particular product and trying to convince them to buy said product.  Simple enough.  However, what’s the one biggest motivator for human behavior; bigger than morality, logic, sex, even basic needs like hunger and thirst?  Fear.  Advertising is about fear.  You have to make people scared to not buy your product.  Scared that they’ll be miserable without it, that there is some gaping deficit in their lives without it.  That’s the most effective advertising there is and, if done properly, it is damn effective.  As the art of the ad has gotten more and more sophisticated over the decades/centuries, it would only be natural for other industries to pick it up.  The news media has been at it for a long time; so much so that it’s a joke.  “Welcome to local news on channel 4.  This common household product is something everyone uses all the time.  But it’s probably killing you.  Stay tuned after this break to learn more.”  Look at the dysphoric TDS-gasms endlessly being peristalsed on our collective faces by corporate media.  Sure the journalists are lunatics, but man do their hysterics get them eyeballs.  Trump singlehandedly saved the New York Times.  If Shrillary had been elected, they’d probably already be digital only.

    That’s why I think SJW virtue signaling is driven much more by fear than by the delicious frubbles of self-righteous indignation.  The self-righteousness is a nice bonus and gives the troo bleevurs the little dopamine shots their barren and wasted lives depend on, but fear is the true motivator.  Fear of how others might perceive them, fear of saying the wrong thing, fear of ending up in the outgroup; after all what’s “virtue signaling” if not advertising?  It’s right there in the name; “signaling”!  As anyone whose life is completely driven by “keeping up with the Joneses” their existence is that of a desperate, empty husk deeply in Kierkegaardian despair.  All style, no substance; just endless advertising the existence of a soul that isn’t there.

    NB: I may think advertising is immoral, but I love it.  For one, it’s a natural outgrowth of capitalism; can’t have one without the other.  Further, it’s very instructive and character-building to learn that self actualization can’t be bought and that skepticism is vital to a healthy existence.  Caveat emptor is one of the most important lessons anyone can learn, and it doesn’t apply only to advertising.  To that end, thank you advertisers for helping make the beauty of capitalism function and for teaching me important life skillz.  

    FIN.

    This is Q, signing off.  Remember kids, don’t stay in school, it’s dumbed-down government indoctrination. And c’mon people, why would you neuter your pets?  Let poor fido keep his balls!  How would YOU feel if our alien overlords decided they needed to keep their stray human numbers down and started spaying and neutering like crazy?  I don’t think you’d be very happy!

     

  • ZARDOZ THURSDAY EVENING ADVICE

     

    ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ RETURNS TO BRING THE BEST ADVICE TO HIS CHOSEN ONES. FAR BETTER THAN ANY BRUTAL ADVICE COLUMNIST. TAKE THIS ADVICE TO HEART, AND GO FORTH AND COMMENT!

    Q: I’m originally from El Salvador. I have been living in the U.S. for five years, have been studying English for four years and I have my GED.

    I want to join the U.S. Marine Corps because it is my dream. I want to do it because I think that service to this country is the best thing I can do. I want to protect this country, and I want my family to be proud of me.

    Here is the problem: My mom and my wife don’t want me to do it because they say it is dangerous. I love them both, but I want to achieve my dream. What should I do? — DREAMING IN HOUSTON

    A: ZARDOZ WILL RUN AN EXAMINATION TO SEE IF YOU TRULY WISH TO BECOME PART OF A MILITARY ORGANIZATION. TURN YOUR VOLUME UP.

    PULLED FROM THE VORTEX’S ARCHIVES.

    IF THAT APPEARS UNSUITABLE, THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE ORGANIZATION YOU COULD JOIN –

    SEMPER ZARDOZ!

    IF YOUR “WIFE” OBJECTS, THE BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS HAVE A WAY OF DEALING WITH THAT:

    3 YEAR ENLISTMENT?

    THE CHOICE IS YOURS. OR, ZARDOZ SUPPOSES YOU COULD BEND TO THE WISHES OF THE FEMALES, AND NOT JOIN EITHER. IF SO, PREPARE TO GO TO SECOND LEVEL WITH THE FEMALES, AT THEIR COMMAND.

    YES, I GUESS I WILL GO TO SECOND LEVEL WITH YOU.

    ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

     

    Q: My husband and I separated last year and reconciled several months later. When we decided to get back together, he broke it off with his girlfriend. A month later she contacted him to inform him that she’s pregnant with his child. She’s due in a few months.

    My husband and I disagree about how things should be handled when the child arrives. She says I’m not allowed to come to the hospital with him and meet the baby. I say that going without me is absurd, and any child that belongs to my husband is a part of my life, too. However, he says she is in charge of the situation. I’m worried that when the baby is born I’ll be at home alone with a broken heart. Where should I draw the line with my husband? — WORRIED WIFE IN THE SOUTH

    A: ZARDOZ IS SEARCHING FOR A TERM…WHAT IS THE FEMALE EQUIVALENT TO “CUCK”? FOOLISH BRUTAL! WERE YOU NOT WARNED THAT THE PENIS IS EVIL? HOW MANY TIMES MUST ZARDOZ INSTRUCT THIS POINT?

    EVIL. DOUBLE EVIL.

    NEW LIFE HAS BEEN CREATED, TO PLAGUE THE EARTH! YOU MUST AVOID ALL CONTACT WITH THE NEW LIFE AND THE PENISER. ZARDOZ SUGGESTS TURNING TO ONE OF TWO PATHS. FIRST, GO CATATONIC AND LIVE IN A LARGE PLASTIC ENVELOP IN THE VORTEX.

    FURTIVE MOVEMENT?

    SECOND, IF THE CLOISTERED LIFE DOES NOT APPEAL, THEN STICK TO THE RUGGED OUTDOORS.

    A PURPOSE WHIP DRIVEN LIFE.

    ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.