Agreed. Euphemistic medical terminology is what I have called the permissible terms industry in healthcare. The individuals involved in this industry are nothing more than placeholders earning thirty pieces of silver on the backs of the taxpayers. The creation of “women’s studies” decades ago in academia has euphemistically morphed into “gender, sexuality, and feminist studies.” Graduates from such programs offer nothing of value other than grievance and moral grandstanding.

“I think pedophiles are sexually hardwired and thus need to be permanently removed from society, as they can’t be rehabilitated.”

I am a physician with 35 years of clinical practice. I have come to a better understanding of the human condition that one cannot free themselves from the spectacle of grift and deception. For example when one examines the works of prophet John Money and the rites of passage of Bruce and Brian Reimer, one can find that the profit of John Money is the growth of his ego and that Bruce and Brian Reimer signed off. This spectacle has been tucked away into the dust bin of history. The rise of gender affirming care is now a standard in the United States medical industrial complex. Many more prophets will emerge as many more younglings will face their rites of passage. I will leave this final quote from the author Edward Dutton who posted an article on this blog last year. “In just two decades, transsexuals have gone from being perceived as manifestly deluded and mentally ill, to being able to force members of many Western societies to participate in their delusions.”

Your statement points to a deeper understanding of humankind’s propensity towards complacency (even in the arts).

Something special occurs at around the 9 second mark in the video below. It is best understood as a reminder of what is lost as humankind travels towards complacency and apathy…

How much time is the PCP allowed to conduct coordination of care when they are employed through a large corporation or a hospital conglomerate? The answer is not enough. If you take a skeptical approach, is the PCP either unwilling or unable to conduct a thorough coordination of care with their chronically ill patients?

PCPs are trained by their corporate employers to upcode. Insurance reimbursement rates increase for office visits that involve “complex” cases.

Chronically ill patients are Major Revenue Drivers for primary care service. Doesn’t matter how much time the physician spends with the patient during the 6 month or yearly visit, it’s how the paperwork is filled out.

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/outpatient-visits-are-increasingly-billed-at-higher-levels-implications-for-health-costs/

Corporate health care providers have also figured out how to monetize emergency rooms. Remember when hospitals bitched about the unprofitable emergency rooms because of all the illegals and poor not paying/no insurance? Not anymore!! Now all hospital admittances are run through the ER for an extra $10,000. If a PCP or even a Specialist decides a patient needs admitted to the hospital due to a condition discovered during a scheduled visit, he will not admit the patient directly to the hospital, the patient will be required to go through the ER for admittance.

Absolutely. Here is a link to an article addressing these concerns and challenges…

“What do you think? This reads to me like the case opened the floodgates to the fraud by discouraging insurers from challenging Zamora. I wonder if the case could have discouraged others in the medical community from challenging Zamora’s practices.”

I would agree with your position on the way it was handled. Furthermore, the AMA tends to look away from these types of cases.

My opinion is that the chronically ill patient population are at greater risk of exposure to fraudulent treatments. A loss of hope, autonomy, and dignity can lead the patient to accepting unnecessary treatments…

Allopathic, osteopathic, naturopathic, “faith healing,” etc. One’s lived experiences tends to dictate which of these interventions a person chooses. However for the US, the choice tends to be the allopathic medical industrial complex.

The primary care provider (PCP) is given the responsibility of conducting coordination of care. Coordination of care is the best method of ensuring the patient’s treatments are safe and effective. It is the PCP’s responsibility to reconcile the patient’s medications, procedures, and specialists. If coordination of care is conducted properly, there is a higher likelihood that a fraudulent diagnosis or treatment can be found. How much time is the PCP allowed to conduct coordination of care when they are employed through a large corporation or a hospital conglomerate? The answer is not enough. If you take a skeptical approach, is the PCP either unwilling or unable to conduct a thorough coordination of care with their chronically ill patients?

Just my two cents.

Agreed. My suspicion is that the entire medical community has been conditioned to accept “ignorance is bliss.”

So here are the responses to the follow up question.

Again my question:

“I am a physician, and accountability is one of the pillars in medicine. It has come to my attention that the doctor Jorge Zamora-Quezada has a documented record of professional misconduct dating back to 2003. It appears that he has a persistent and pervasive pattern of misconduct in which the medical community as a whole failed to address until this recent legal action. Did the medical community fail to uphold one of the pillars of medicine, accountability? If the medical community failed to uphold this pillar, can one compare this failure to the content and findings that is found in the book, “Mistakes Were Made” by authors Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson? Can * provide an analysis?“

(*) Grok or Doximity GPT

As a physician myself, this story is quite troublesome for me. However, it points to a larger problem that your discussion and question are pointing towards, accountability. I started a discussion with Grok and Doximity GPT (specifically for healthcare professionals) to clarify some concerns.

Can * provide data as to how many discussions * has had in the last 72 hours about the doctor Jorge Zamora-Quezada?

(*) Denotes the respective AI, Grok or DoximityGPT.

Answers below…

Good topic. It is unlikely that humankind seeks to become free from freedom, but seeks to be free from responsibility.

Never underestimate the human condition’s capacity for grift and deception…

“Years ago a study found that for every woman admitted to medical school in America, nineteen more qualified white males were passed over.”

It is by design…

Thanks for posting this topic. An underlying theme presented here is that of nostalgia. Nostalgia is a natural aspect of the human condition. As one ages, one tends to review personal elements and experiences from the past. Topics on nostalgia are sometimes broken down into two categories, reflective and restorative. For the individual who is “longing for the past,” this desire is a form of restorative nostalgia. For the individual who embraces the unique opportunities that they experienced in passing through life, this perception is a form of reflective nostalgia. For Mr. Sailer, it appears that he values the nostalgia that he experienced with going to the local bookstore to peruse and purchase hard copy magazines (Vanity Fair in this article). I can appreciate his memories and experiences. I used to frequent Waldenbooks, B Dalton, and later Borders, Barnes & Noble in my early years. In the present, I like to escape into local used book stores and explore what is available at the moment that I am in the store. Thanks

A special thanks to Mr. Unz for providing this opportunity. Even though I do not post frequently, I enjoy and value the information shared by the various authors and the various individuals who post/comment.

I wish Steve well with his journey moving forward.

“Thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star,” Francis Thompson. A poet who had come from an upbringing of opportunity, but later in life experienced the challenges, burdens, hurdles of being unhoused, addiction, and suicidal thinking. Eventually, an unknown female sex worker provided Thompson a safe keep in which he would change course to return to writing and poetry. His life was finally claimed by the opportunistic bacterium known as Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB). In the continuum of the known universe, emergence cannot be explained. His lived experiences and writings are an example of this phenomenon emergence.

Charles Manson being escorted to a court hearing on December 3rd, 1969.

If I read this story correctly, Trump isn’t stopping anyone from getting trannied, he’s simply stopping federal funds from being spent on the procedures.

The pro-tranny crowd, however, believes it has a right to taxpayer money, aka your money, to get the job done.

The sense of entitlement is astounding.

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. So many people believe they have the right to shove their thieving hands into our pockets.

“Daddy what is a womb?”

“You mustn’t speak of this heresy because nature got it wrong. Never speak of this again.”

The greatest potential threat to one’s physical and mental wellbeing is the family. Decades ago the toy company Fisher Price produced “little people.” “Little people” are miniatures that represent a “play family” for young children to role play. In 1994, Sunny Day Real Estate released the album Diary in which the album artwork featured “little people.” The album cover had a white family of four in the kitchen with a message that can be interpreted as a statement of obliviousness. The father, mother, and two children are all smiling just standing around while the toaster on the counter top is on fire. If Diary 2 was released in the 2020’s, the artwork would show the same family of four smiling, but with the entire house burned to the ground. There is an emerging sickness of being oblivious to the events of the times. Where this obliviousness takes modern mankind is yet to be revealed. However at the moment, it appears to be quite detrimental…

“The predominant post-modern body conception owes much more to the pleasure of dissecting than to the search for unity and completeness. Furthermore, the development of bodily prostheses was possible only on the basis of the previous historical experience of anatomical dismemberment initially celebrated in the baroque spectacle of the theatrum anatomicum (Böhme). More than substitutes for lost or injured limbs, prostheses have turned out to be revolutionary means of expanding and increasing the range of body-activity. The cyborg, integrating organic and prosthetic components, is the last stage so far in a long evolution that was only possible because of the all pervading paradigm of fragmentation.” Rainer Guldin

Not all Jewish weapons in the war against white America look like armaments. The Tish is technically speaking a weapon as effective as a bomb in blowing up our institutions and should for that reason be included in Jane’s Defense Weekly as a biological weapon of mass destruction, not to mention fouling the air.

Although the “Tish” is cut from the same afrocentric cloth as the “squeegee merchants” of NYC in that they are just street hustlers, the “Tish” has the additional attribute of being a BBW (bitter black woman). A BBW is a special type of narcissist who abuses the power of their socially engineered position in society to promote further chaos in a system that is already in decline. In a healthy functioning society, the “Tish” would be featured in the advertisement ad for the patient checking in the receptionist’s desk at the local physician’s weight loss center.

“I’m a Libra, and I get crazy or motivated to do something because the scales of justice and my sign are off. Whenever I see something wrong, I’ve got to step in and do something or say something. A clergy member says that there’s a minister in me struggling to come out. It’s just trying to correct the universe and have it more balanced, to make sure the voices of the dispossessed and disenfranchised and disinherited are heard,” the “Tish.”

Great one. That is funny. Thank God we are living with white man we’s getts to steel a trane.

“6 teens wanted for commandeering R train for Queens joyride.”

“Daddy what are we going to watch on BET tv tonight to celebrate black history month?”

“We are going to watch the Stole Train with tonight’s featured performers, the Commandeers.”

A man who understands the gravity of the times…

Agreed. Where are they now…

“However, what we can hope is that the works were not actually lost, and Hunter is instead being clever and committing insurance fraud.”

Hunter represents the essence of the current state of the US. May he live a thousand years. When he passes, a commemorative rolled C-note with residual cocaine framed in a display case with a background photo of him and his hookah will be available for your purchase. Preorder now!

Human exceptionalism at its finest.

“All you have to do is follow three simple rules. One, never underestimate your opponent. Two, take it outside. And three, be nice,” James Dalton.

Perhaps it will be the second coming.

Agreed. It appears to be another example of existence in the postmodern era.

A hyper-domesticated society of passive consumers.

..under socialist central planning?

suboxone clinics popped up like wildflowers…

As my good friend the sociologist states, “When criminalization is no longer profitable for the global industrial complex, they will legalize it, tax it, incorporate it, and market it so that it is now deemed beneficial for humanity.”

It’s been a messy trial & error process as the oligarchs seek their perfect soma.

[Soma has] “All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.”

“..there is always soma, delicious soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon…”

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World

But I guess they’ve pretty much settled on THC, sports, porn, and social media as a workable soma for now.

I have posted in the past that I am a physician in the US, but I will add in this post my thoughts on this subject.

In the 90’s to early 2000’s – pain clinics popped up like wildflowers. Pain management emerged out of the marketing that “pain was the fifth vital sign.”

2010’s to present – suboxone clinics popped up like wildflowers.

2025 and beyond – psychedelic clinics will be the next clinics to pop up like wildflowers.

As my good friend the sociologist states, “When criminalization is no longer profitable for the global industrial complex, they will legalize it, tax it, incorporate it, and market it so that it is now deemed beneficial for humanity.”

“However, the WEF is the organization that best represents the concept of a unified world system as a borderless global marketplace which allows corporations to dominate everything.”

“Daddy, tell me the story about all the boys and girls and the deep blue sea.”

“Well there’s this magical place called fat’merika. It’s a large shopping mall, and it has this beautiful sea that can be used to throw away all the unused trash that you received from your shopping. The boys sit in their momma’s basement fiddling with their 2 joysticks all day long. One joystick is to run over hookahs in the latest episode of f’ you up video game mojo. The other joystick is in their pants when they take a movie break to watch the big girls expose their 3 holes. Now the girls in fat’merika are really special. They like to take selfies with their friends and send their selfies to all their imaginary friends on social media. They just want to be like big girl Taylor or big girl Beyonce. When they grow up to be big boys and girls, they won’t be able to work in the fat’merikan mall because they just don’t have it in them.”

“So daddy who’s gonna work in mall for me when I wanna shop?”

“Well Veruca there’s this other magical place on the other side of the deep blue sea called Asia. It’s from there that big boys and girls will come to fat’merika and work at the mall.”

“If women in all stages of life don’t get involved and fight for what we want, plans will be made that we may not like, and it’ll be our own damned fault. I think about this everyday. It’s true at every level, from the Capitol to your city’s town hall to your neighborhood school. We need to participate, and we need to be heard. Our lives, our communities, and our world will be better for it,” Kristen Gillibrand.

According to researchers at the NIH, preteen suicide rates have increased by 8% since 2008. Female preteen rates were higher than males. Correlation does not imply causation; however, the question of “where’s mommy” might be raised.

Certain aspects of the human condition have emerged as a real $hit show. Ms. Phillips appears to be a “blessed” entertainer in the present show.

It has been over 40 years since song writer Howard Jones asked, “does anybody love anybody anyway?”

“No one believes this system is working or that anyone has any ability at all to petition grievances with the power structure, so it was always inevitable that things would turn violent.

It doesn’t really matter how anyone feels about that, it’s just an obvious reality.”

Humankind cannot escape the Karpman drama triangle. There will always be victim, perpetrator, and rescuer. Where fat’merika excels is that it has capitalized upon the drama triangle as a permanent business model. This business model is the fat’merika way.

Doctor Fau$hi is a business.

“Daddy, what is $anta bringing me this year?”

“He is bringing you the Doctor Fau$hi action figure and play set where he has his boot on the fat’merika healthcare system. Masks included.”

The 7-11 in Sacramento had a special last month. “Free cock ring with the purchase of two organic burritos.” The packaging on the ring had the following label…

“Hunter Biden is the realest American since Hulk Hogan, and he deserves to be free. He should never have been subjected to a gun form in the first place.”

In the year 2030, fat’merika will undergo a monumental transformation. The faces of Rushmore will no longer feature the faces of the past, but the faces of human exceptionalism:

Hunter Biden, Hulk Hogan, Saint Floyd (the daddy who changed the world), and Duke Nukem.

“Daddy, why is Duke there with the others?”

“Because he was the first simulacrum that could pay a stripper to show off her breasties and then blow her away with his boom stick. His most notable statements for the betterment of humanity was (shake it baby) and (you’re an inspiration for birth control).”

“Hunter Biden is an American hero.”

A man of unbending principle.

Cue- Sergeant Politeness by Failure

“They won’t ever find out just where I hid them.
One-hundred stones that sparkle in darkness.
They caught me downtown changing the bus lines.
An easy target midday disguise…”

Is this version of manufactured entertainment “green with envy”?

Envy driven deception appears to be the premise behind this DEI version of “where the dogs of society howl.”

“Daddy the legs aren’t included in my GI Joezeta. I want a refund.”

America’s movable action girl…

“… every Joe was, in essence, the same. Since he was a toy of the Great Society with its dreams of inclusion, it only took a year for his manufacturer, Hasbro, to produce a “Negro Joe,” and two more to add a she-Joe (a nurse, naturally). Joe initially came with no story, no instructions, and no enemy, because it had not yet occurred to adults (or toy makers) not to trust the child to choose the right enemy to pit against Joe,” Tom Engelhardt.

“Now you know and knowing is half the battle.”®

“Everything is salvageable…”

Indeed…
“Rescue workers tried to remove her from her couch, but it was too painful for her, and they gave up. Using hammers and saws, they removed her living body [still attached to the couch] from her apartment but could not fit her into the ambulance. Instead, they used a trailer. She died later, still fused to the couch.”

I have posted before that the US is essentially a large shopping mall. I will add that “obesity” is an item on the shelf down aisle three.

In exploring the human condition, the question “who am I” has been replaced with “how did I get here.” The response has only one correct answer, the global industrial complex. Each constituent of the global industrial complex is bought and sold as commodity and has no say in the outcome.

“Daddy, what can I accomplish with my life?”

“Become a member of survivors for Kamala. There is no greater achievement than this.”

“I lie awake, staring out at the bleakness of the Megadon. City and sky become one, merging into a single plane, a vast sea of unbroken grey. The Twin Moons, just two pale orbs as they trace their way across the steely sky. I used to think I had a good life here, just plugging in into my machine for the day, then watching Templevision or reading a Temple Paper in the evening.”

Both individuals represent the same level of support for lawlessness that is most likely a facade. If these “peaceful protests” took place outside their households, they would activate the necessary law enforcement agencies to protect them from any property and/or bodily harm. If the legacy media refused to report this encounter or spin the story as “far right” infiltrators, this outcome by the legacy media would not surprise me.

Social Justice = Lawlessness
and
Law and Order = White Supremacy/Systemic Racism

Clarence Kennedy is a YouTuber and does Olympic weightlifting as a hobby, the kid could not only qualify but possibly medal in the Olympics.

Man vs. Animal? Put any fighter regardless of style or weight against a 100-130lb male chimpanzee in a real no holds barred fight and chimp kills or seriously maims any “ world champion” out there. The bear, gorilla, lion, elephant are ridiculous.

Some individuals simply lack intellectual humility.

“I’d rather rely on my own knowledge about most topics than turn to others for expertise.”

Strongly Agree
Disagree
Neither Agree Nor Disagree
Agree
Agree Strongly

An example from the Comprehensive Intellectual Scale…

I have posted before that the US is essentially a large shopping mall. “Voting” is just a business in the mall.

“Where does the answer lie?
Living from day to day
If it’s something we can’t buy
There must be another way” (Police)

I have yet to find that path other than enjoying the theater of the absurd. Here is an example:

“Team” Kamala is the packaged “peanut butt’a barbie” in a dark pant suit with “professional accessories” that has been moved to bargain bin shelves because it just can’t sell. She isn’t black enough for black enough for “mammy,” gangsta enough for “sapphire,” or slutty enough for “jezebel.” Furthermore, she is not white enough for yt. In order to move the product, the price is reduced and an additional accessory package from one of the other popular barbie models is provided “free” in which the customer can choose.

The business model initially is moving the product, but the model ultimately is no longer profitable. The “free” accessories cost the store more than the total sales. None of the customers were interested in purchasing any other products. Peanut butt’a barbie remains in its packaging at each customer’s home, but the “free” accessories are out of the packaging before the customer gets to their home.

Years from now a team of sociologists who study waste management will find that the local city dumps are filled with these unopened peanut butt’a barbies.

“In mediocrity we trust”

At least this new placeholder can add a new face for the advertisers who are “getting out the message” while passing the offering plates for the corporate donors.

Cue The Big Money, “… big money weave a mighty web, big money draw the flies …”

““I am Kamala Harris. My pronouns are “she” and “her.” I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit. And I’m very thankful to the leaders who are here today for joining us for this very important conversation that is on the topic, as much as anything, of justice and equality and freedom.” ”

And don’t forget:

“Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine, so, basically, that’s wrong.”

The US is one large shopping mall, and Kamala is just the latest hollow mannequin on display. The previous mannequin, aneurysm jo was no longer generating revenue for the store owners.

“The shop-front dummy offers a vision of a humanity devoid of knowledge, a pure statue embodying the absence of thought.” Nina Power

If this midwit loses the election, she should become the spokesperson for a Nuedexta pharmaceutical infomercial. “If you experience sudden, frequent, uncontrollable episodes of laughter, you may have a neurological condition called pseudobulbar affect and please seek medical attention immediately.” The infomercial can then cut to a scene with “klooney the clown” in full costume from his days on the tv show, ER. His statement would be, “Hello. I’m doctor Doug Ross, and I support this message.” When the midwit is not out performing infomercials, she can hand out business cards while in public areas stating, “Forgive my laughter: I have a condition. It’s a medical condition causing sudden frequent and uncontrollable laughter that doesn’t match how I feel. It can happen in people with a brain injury or certain neurological conditions. Thank you!”

“They want people voting and going to war with evil Iranian globalists who are opening our borders and flooding us with criminals.”

This CrowdStrike demonstration brings to mind the quote by Zappa, “The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”

It appears that some of the personality research points to those individuals who are invested into conspiracies exhibited a positive association with openness to novel experiences and a negative association with agreeableness. My suspicion is that the more rigid and inflexible the individual is in their daily life, the more likely they are not well accepted in their local relationships (family, neighbors, etc). Technology (social media, blogs, etc) has provided a social outlet for them to express their views and have some semblance of connection. Interesting times that humanity has undergone.

Their political brand cannot step outside of the cognitive dissonance that they have created with their manufactured industry of “intersectionality.” Despite the vp’s poor performance and ratings in the polls, Kamala is their best candidate that would be acceptable in meeting the intersectional prerequisites.

As stated by the Anti-Gnostic, a conduit such as a condom was used to smuggle drugs that would rupture. Once the drugs were released, the scenario became critical. After they were resuscitated, they were transferred to the ICU for observation.

A family member who interned at Johns Hopkins said the same thing about the hospital’s ER.

I cannot predict who will win, but unfortunately it appears that the US has lost. This debate “feels” more like an old televised wrestling show where the old timers have been brought back 40 years later for a rematch.

Cue: Dude Looks Like A Lady by Aerosmith

I used to moonlight on the weekends at one of the major inpatient treatment programs in my state right before the pandemic. I would conduct the admission physical examinations including examination of every orifice to evaluate whether someone was a “body stuffer.” Many were court ordered and just there to continue to get intoxicated. It was not uncommon to have someone present with acute intoxication from overdose due to leakage. Carfentanil (much more potent than Fentanyl) was making its presence into the area. The patients presented with more wounds, abscesses, and scarring than many of the 3rd worlders I had encountered while I was in the inner city of DC for my medical school training. Most of these patients were fully subsidized by.guv (Tenncare) for their treatment. Examination of the teeth would lead one to think silently, “What teeth?” The reason that I eventually stopped was the return/recurrence rate of the patients/“alumni.” If one reads the directions on the label for shampoo, “Wet, lather, rinse, repeat” would also apply to the current predicament in US substance abuse programs. Dog meet pony.

Do not forget about the Berklee College of Music and the identity based programs such as the black scholars program. The director Ty-Juana Flores is now available for appointments. Enjoy the music. Sign up for the next melanated mixer and meet the black organizers.

Good questions. These individuals are essentially nothing more than injustice collectors in which their revenge fantasies have become their only perceived reality.

“Not all injustice collectors are created equal. Individuals who nurse resentment of real or perceived injustices over time; who never forget, forgive, or let go; and most importantly, who have a history of disproportionate and aggressive responses to real or perceived slights could be at higher risk for acting out violently, and this behavior should be considered in a threat assessment.” Mary Ellen O’Toole

Agreed.

Happy Father’s Day

“We only need one man to feed the dog.”

Xolani. According to his personal file on wiki the term is a Xhosa/Zulu word for “peace.”

This will not happen in my lifetime, but the system is on life support.

You don’t expect to live another 10 years?

By 2034, the gross federal debt of the United States is projected to be about 54.39 trillion U.S. dollars, 116% of our GDP. This would be an increase of around 21 trillion U.S. dollars from 2023, when the federal debt was around 33 trillion U.S. dollars, 98% of GDP.

The projection is probably optimistic.

the grievance industries offer a “product” that has been quite profitable

Indeed in the article Kendi used that same term, product.

This will not happen in my lifetime

Don’t be so sure. There’s a rumor that Saudi Arabia will not renew the petrodollar agreement this week. We’ll soon see.

Call it the “Center for Well-Dressed, Verbally Adroit Black People To Cogitate On Theyselves” and see if that gets the donations flowing. Also I’d love to read that audit.

The whole “non-profit” think-tank sector seems to be a giant grift populated by sociopathic individuals.

My suspicion for this change in the US is twofold. The first part being that the US is no longer a production based economy, but is a service based economy. The second part is the population migration since the 60’s which features a significant rise in the minoritarianism that you yourself have mentioned. Academia started offering black studies, women’s studies, and MENA studies (earlier forms of the grievance industries) that could not stand on its own two legs in a manufacturing/production based economy. In a service economy with a collection of carnivalesque caricatures (minoritarianism and its resulting offspring), the grievance industries offer a “product” that has been quite profitable. This “product” is nothing more than a side show or entertainment as no real meaningful or productive changes have taken place. This is all propagated by fiat currency in a faux capitalist system where these “services” are subsidized by .guv. Once the fiat currency becomes worthless and is no longer profitable, the side shows will be boarded up and closed. This will not happen in my lifetime, but the system is on life support. In the meantime, watch the current level of inflation that has developed in part from this faux capitalist system and choose from the following:

1. Fear the chaos.
2. Enjoy the spectacle.
3. Observe the absurd.

“For those wondering how Rogers morphed into Kendi, he and his wife took a new name upon marriage.”

This transformation is part of the “grift” not unlike others in the grievance industries (Marlene Headley who morphed into Ngozi Fulani). There is an entire production line of “fess’rs” (professors) and “rev’runs” (reverends) who are all part of the larger class of race grifters that have flourished over the last 50 years.

Never underestimate the human condition’s capacity for grift and deception.

Well Saint Floyd is 4 years sober today. “Ain’t that special.”

I can attest that the healthcare system in the US is on life support.

This would include the completely distorted system of medical insurance, and the secondary gain issues from the tort system and liability insurance, worker’s comp system and employer’s liability insurance, and SSDI. The money is too good, and now even conservative orthopedic practices will hire a Nigerian doctor and route the tort and comp claimants through him and sign agreements with medical/litigation finance companies. The corruption, instead of being outlawed, is just institutionalized and becomes part of doing business like bribery in the Third World.

We are all paying a huge “tax on life,” as an acquaintance says. It would be nice to regularize these systems, and lower the costs of what we’re paying for anyway, but the US is constitutionally (and Constitutionally) incapable of reform.

Agreed. Healthcare is just a business and part of the larger managerial technocracy that has become the US.

Thanks for your comment. Unfortunately, the standards of the “three A’s” (Ability, Affability, Availability) in medical training have been replaced with equity and wellness. When the third year medical students arrive for their first day of their clinical rotation, the attending physician is no longer allowed to ask, “How are you doing today?” The attending physician is required to ask, “Would you like a bon-bon today?”

Consider the following article from AAMC news: “Almost 30% of medical students and residents suffer from depression and 10% report having suicidal thoughts. Now, a growing number of medical schools and teaching hospitals are developing programs to identify and help at-risk trainees.” The full article link is posted below..

As a physician, I can attest that the healthcare system in the US is on life support. Quality of care has been sacrificed for quantity and for profit. As the demographic shift brings in more of the boomer generation to consume healthcare resources, this problem will only continue to intensify. When this facade is no longer profitable, the system will be forced to either change or collapse. In the meantime, one can expect to see more low quality diversity students, advanced practitioners, and foreign medical graduates.

Diversity is usually presented under the veneer of considering the students and their “lived experiences.” To deny this concept in favor of traditional metrics such as MCAT scores and academic performance is simply unacceptable in the current religion of the dei gospel. It is the equivalent of the peanuts cartoon character, Pigpen representing the motto, “Be you, the world must adapt.”

“Is David Sanborn the most famous saxophonist there is?”

Monetarily, the adult contemporary saxophonist Kenny G is probably the most successful in selling his brand. Your question brings an interesting topic of discussion. As an audio enthusiast, Sanborn is one of the performers from the smooth jazz genre that I never took the opportunity to see live. Whether it’s the delicacy found in the tune JoAnn’s Song from the movie Tequila Sunrise soundtrack, or the airiness found in the tune Little Flower from Bobby Hutcherson’s last recorded album Enjoy The View, I have always had a special interest in David Sanborn.

There’s “no problem” to the hypothetical ethical dilemma presented in the “Trolley Problem” when examined under the lens of tribalism. The hypothetical lever will always be pulled to drop the unprotected class individual(s) from the bridge to their death in front of the trolley to stop it in order to rescue the life of the protected class. Quite simply stated, “It would be unethical to let just one of the protected class suffer their death at the expense of the unprotected class. Furthermore, it would bring gleeful pleasure to save just one while ridding humankind from two or more of the unprotected class.”

Your statement is an excellent example of the fallacy of the so-called “social contract.” If one breaks down the Karpman drama triangle (victim, rescuer, and perpetrator) down to its core roots in nature, it becomes apparent that the perpetrator is none other than natural selection or simply the rolling of “snake eyes” in the game of craps. In examining this concept in the light of the spectacle known as the Beyonce, the media places the Beyonce upon some sort of special pillar of social importance. However, the Beyonce is nothing more than a “business” to collect the little bit of wealth (and time) from the working class masses that are enchanted under the Beyonce’s spell. How much time and money does each individual (who is beguiled by this spell) spend on the Beyonce? Will the Beyonce come to one’s aid when they are are pistol whipped in the dark alley as they are headed to their car after the concert they attended? Absolutely not, but the Beyonce and its business will ensure that the “traumatic event” is posted on every social media platform so that the Beyonce gets “likes” and the sacred “social contract” is restored. In the end, the business of the Beyonce is all about the collection of wealth regardless of the quality of the product being sold. Today it’s hair, tomorrow it’s a tattoo. Behold the spectacle. If one asks in what manner does this apply to natural selection, the potential answer is that the business of the Beyonce is a type of species that has evolved a method in maximizing resource collection and consumption in order to better achieve its survival. BTW, the same applies to the spectacle known as Taylor Swift.

“Freedom of unrestricted consumption”.
I would also say “Freedom of unrestricted theft and cultural vandalism”.

“The ephemeral prestige of empire is imperilled by a state of near constant warfare.”

This quote reminds me of the opening lyrics from the Police tune, Spirits in the Material World:

“There is no political solution to our troubled evolution.”

The military industrial complex (MIC) has infected the minds of every nation state for centuries. However in the last century, the mass media propaganda has grown to the point in which the individual mind (for most) is unable to comprehend reality from the spectacle.

My favorite “hit” from the propaganda machine is the show from the 70’s called The Six Million Dollar Man. The premise of this show is that .guv spent $6 million in its printing of funny money to put back together an officer of .guv’s air force after he was severely injured doing .guv’s bidding. Of course after he was put back together as a cyborg, he had to repay .guv by carrying out covert operations as an agent in the OSI.

The spectacle that is personal for me is the following:

Other than a “bus ticket to the VA” (veterans affairs), how many believe that .guv would spend $6 dollars let alone $6 million dollars on its expendables (the various DOD personnel in their manufactured costumes)?

“Why does she even want to live in America if that’s bad?”

My impression is that people such as this “professor” and “our global partners” who are traversing across the southern border that this “professor” claims* to support are in the US not for the “freedom,” but for the “freedom of unrestricted consumption.” Naturally, this consumption is passed on to the hard working middle class to foot the bill while the value of the currency declines.

* This clown would never take a bullet for “our global partners” let alone open her door to her household. She only offers hot air and an empty suit in the form of moral grandstanding for more programs and interventionism.

Very good points. I would add 5 and 7 are tied up with the other 5; the stronger your bargaining position, the bigger a jerk you can get away with being.

Here you go (I don’t drink “Pepsi Max”, and neither should you):

Absolutely. The progression in the current cultural landscape.

Interesting tidbit.

Marcia Clark went to law school on gangster money.

Her first husband, Gaby Horowitz was an Israeli gangster. In those days backgammon was a popular way for the rich and famous in LA to lose their money. Horowitz used an electronic board and magnetic dice to rig high stakes games. I’ve seen photos in magazines.

I used to know a couple of guys who were pretty big in the LA backgammon scene in the 70s. They said the gang Horowitz was part of ran guns and dealt drugs among other things. They also said Marcia was brilliant and very nice.

Gaby and Marcia joined the Scientologists. They got divorced and Marcia married another Scientologist named Clark. The Scientology minister who performed their marriage later shot Gaby Horowitz in the head by accident when Gaby was showing off his gun collection.

My mother is a staunch feminist. In those days all feminists had to be huge fans of Marcia Clark. When I told my mother what friends of mine had said she started screaming that I was buying the OJ Simpson defense team propaganda.

My opinion? OJ was guilty as hell and the prosecution blew the case. For one thing, they ignored the facts that their timelines didn’t work out. In his book “If I Did It” OK explains how the murder really happened. An unnamed friend drove OJ to and from the murder site and helped clean the car while OJ got ready for his airplane flight.

Jury selection of the jealous. angry, and vengeful black female is a gross miscalculation. This posting from Quora highlights some items that others have mentioned in the previous thread:

Why might a black woman feel offended when a white woman dates a black man? Why do white women sometimes get dirty looks from some black women when seen with her black boyfriend?
One of the dirty secrets in the Black dating world is the shortage of quality Black men. If a Black woman wants a decent Black man as her partner, she can expect competition. By decent let me throw in some qualifiers of what I mean by decent.

1. He has a good job.

2. He hasn’t been convicted of a serious crime.

3. He isn’t on the financial hook for 4 children by 3 different woman.

4. He doesn’t have a chip on his shoulder blaming others for his lot in life.

5. He isn’t a “player” with multiple girlfriends at the same time.

6. He can think long term and doesn’t blow every cent of every paycheck on frivolous stuff.

7. He treats you well, and it isn’t an act to get in your pants.

IMHO, “Crime®” is a business. Whether it presents on a continuum from the low level side hustlers (ie- squeegee men) to the political/corporate sponsorship of “war on Crime®” (ie- “I can’t breathe”), there is money to be made for the legacy media. The brand of media that is covering the event just simply knows its audience. The coverage will direct a narrative that supports the confirmation bias of its audience. The WaPo and NYT have a specific audience, and Fox News has a specific audience. If one steps outside of this process and refuses to participate with the audience, one can appreciate the value of what Guy Debord described in The Society of the Spectacle. Furthermore upon examining the relational aspects of the narrative being presented to the specific audience, one can appreciate the manufacturing of a specific Karpman drama triangle in which the audience will find a victim, perpetrator, and rescuer.

For myself, the greatest “Crime®” that has taken place is the massive wealth redistribution that has taken place since the anthropause of 2020, and now the US is printing around one trillion dollars in funny money about every 100 days. Perhaps that is my own confirmation bias, but I feel it everyday that I get out of bed.

Just my 2 cents.

Agreed. I do not see any potential for change or progress. I spent 4 years in St. Louis followed by 4 years in DC. Same problems.

However, I have come to realize that healthcare is another con focused on keeping the patient sick and slowly soaking up any remaining wealth that the patient has left until their final breath.

Exactly! I went to a medical clinic here in America recently for the first time in about 15 years. The first thing I noticed was that it was all women running everything. I talked to a nurse that I was assured had the authority to prescribe medicine. The first question she asked me was whether or not I had taken the covid-19 shot or any flu shot. I told her I had not. I was there to get a script that I last had filled in 09. She told me I would have to get bloodwork before I could get any script. The script was not any kind of pain medication. I objected and told her I have never had a doctor suggest I needed blood work just for a prescription. She insisted I get the bloodwork. After waiting at the lab and finally being admitted to a room another female nurse entered with a tiny kit consisting of a syringe and a small vial containing a clear fluid. When I saw the vial I immediately got a red alert. Why the hell would they need anything but a syringe and needle to take my blood? I immediately asked her where the bathroom was. The nurse said this would only take a minute so I told her I was old and had to pee now. She directed me to the bathroom and as soon as I got out the door and out of her sight I immediately headed for the exit with all due speed. A few weeks later they called me up and said I was scheduled for blood work and asked me to make an appointment. I told them to go to hell.

I will never know the true answer but my gut feeling was they were going to administer the covid 19 vax to me without getting my consent. I suspect I saved my own life by leaving. I had to pay a $30 dollar co-pay and my insurance got hit for just under $300 and I got nothing from the bastards! But I do suspect I dodged a bullet.

Sulu

Not only is it ok, but it’s alright given the level of absurdity that is considered acceptable in today’s society. Just my two cents.

The metaphor of the “library” is priceless. I was born and raised in KCMO*, and I went regularly to my local library. During my teens, I became interested in utopian ideas. Somewhere along the path I dropped the ideas of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Timothy Leary, the human potential movement, and a dozen other cons that I aspired to understand during my teens. Even though I abandoned these cons, I still believed that I could offer something more than the consumption of oxygen and a heartbeat to the human condition and went into medicine. However, I have come to realize that healthcare is another con focused on keeping the patient sick and slowly soaking up any remaining wealth that the patient has left until their final breath. For the US, it appears that the “cultural creatives,” domed cities, and, flying cars will never arrive. Only the used future.

“They included MGIPOC (Marginalized Genders and Intersex People of Color mentorship program); Mi Gente (Latinx employees at NPR); NPR Noir (black employees at NPR); Southwest Asians and North Africans at NPR; Ummah (for Muslim-identifying employees); Women, Gender-Expansive, and Transgender People in Technology Throughout Public Media; Khevre (Jewish heritage and culture at NPR); and NPR Pride (LGBTQIA employees at NPR).”

Team building on Tuesdays must be something like herding cats at the local humane society’s abused and exploited animal shelter.

Emotional fragility was once considered an unhealthy personality characteristic. In the current US cultural climate, emotional fragility is simply a standard of existence to embrace and foster.

As a physician and the apparent recent “outbreak” of attention deficit syndromes that is afflicting the US population, this topic is fascinating to me. One of the many resulting consequences of this “outbreak” is the lack of adequate supply for many of the available psychoactive stimulants including Adderall. For acute misuse and the resulting behavioral manifestations, one might observe a spectrum of agitation, paranoia, and/or confusion. Dilated pupils, perspiration, and elevated heart rate/blood pressure are associated physiological factors observed in examining acute misuse.

As for authors, many have struggled with addiction as a component of their lifestyle. However specifically for stimulants, I believe that Ayn Rand had challenges with amphetamine use.

In recent popular culture, one can turn to the legacy media and read about SBF and his prescription of choice, Adderall. His erratic behavior and lack of a normal 24 hour wake/sleep lifestyle can be best explained by his prescription usage.