People often assume that whoever their god is, that it is standing with them specifically. In the US, they often separate this view along party lines.

Conservatives to some extent imagine Jesus standing with them on the border with a rifle protecting Christendom against anarchy. Even if many of those immigrants are ::checks notes:: also Christians. If a "woke" bishop calls for compassion on immigrants and is not a fan of the twice-divorced President who can't name his favorite bible chapter and forgot to put his hand on the bible when being sworn in, she's somehow the baddie rather than him, even among Christians.

Progressives to some extent imagine Jesus walking around in Gaza or Haiti or Sudan attending to the least advantaged among us. He shuns the empire and tends to them. And yet, while Jesus called for pacifism and was a rhetorical saint among chill speakers, many of them find a way to mentally turn extremists into heroes. Anything the underdog society does against the dominant society is justified. Even if it's violent toward civilians. In our media rebels are cool, but in reality they often like to kill the gays or the civilians, so it gets awkward pretty fast rather than being like the cool Star Wars rebels vs the Empire.

I find myself in a weird camp that almost nobody is onboard with.

I'm like, "Yes, we actually need to secure our borders. We need to be more scrutinizing for our society's sake. We need slower, higher-end immigration. And we actually need to enforce the rule of law for theft on the streets."

But also,

"No, I don't think Jesus of Nazareth as depicted in text would be onboard with this border view. He'd view us like Rome. Let's not re-imagine him as onboard with this. We're rooting for ourselves; he'd root for the underdogs."

I'm too woke for the conservatives and too based for the progressives.

The US was involved with multiple coups in Latin America. We ran the reserve currency and tried to bend them to our will with their dollar-denominated debt 40 years ago by spiking the value of that debt. Some of them went into retarded socialism and rekt themselves throughout that time period too; it's not all our fault. But it's some of our fault.

And then we militarily entered the Middle East. We made deals with them, funded them against the Soviets, and then turned against them. We've invaded them at like a 100:1 ratio vs them invading us with one major incidence (9/11). And as much as I am a fan of Jews as a people (as someone who grew up in Northeastern USA where Jews are relatively dense, I'd happily have them settle all around here), Israel is a state is colonial; our western powers displaced Gazans to make it and have been fighting that reality ever since.

We're Rome. And like Rome, we think we are justified. And along those lines, we're probably partially right, and probably partially wrong.

When you take a view, imagine every possible view opposing it.

And as the US dominates as neo-Rome, I think we will realize how distant we are from Jesus the hippie.

A problem with most pets is you outlive them. Dogs, cats, etc.

The problem with parrots is if you don’t plan right, they outlive you.

When I was little, like 9 years old, my main dream was to have parrots. I pushed my father to get them, and he did. And I took great care of them for a decade. I kept their cages open so they could go inside or outside as they pleased. I pet them, played with them, etc.

And then I went to college. My father got a new girlfriend, and they got a cat, which they named fucking Paris Hilton (girlfriend’s idea).

And it was a Bengal cat. An aggressive, energetic type. Paris was actually really cool on her own, but not with the parrots. You have to be careful with cats and parrots standing atop open cages. The parrots are happy to say hi and the cat is happy to play a predator. Can’t have that.

So my father started to lock the parrots in their cages. The macaw became noticeable unhappy first. The amazon was stoic for longer. But I was like “I’m in college, and then I’m going to live in a small apartment, and they can’t stay here or anywhere.”

So I did a ton of research and found them new homes that had the expertise to take care of them. Parrots are often snappy toward people they don’t know, and both of these parrots would bite people other than me. So they needed a lot of resocialization.

I loved them so much, but I would be so careful to advise parrots as pets unless one was *really* equipped to have them.

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ON THE GENEALOGY OF WOKENESS

Most people misunderstand the origins of contemporary "woke" ideology

It was not produced by academia, but by teenagers on Tumblr. The internet, and fragile, impressionable young people birthed something so viral it captured American politics

In the 2010s young people were both finally very online, and the platforms advanced enough to promote high speed interactions at scale. A far cry from Myspace and even Facebook that promote interactions with people you *know*.

The feed, and the ability to scroll were recently invented, and teenagers had no defense against it. This takes place right after the victory of Obama, and surging optimism to put the racial divide behind us

Tumblr surges to popularity specifically among young girls. It was a place for girls to participants in "Fandoms". A fandom is where fans of a particular type of media (Harry Potter, Twilight) gather to share their love of this content. It also became interested in social justice.

These interactions began to take over the lives of a segment of young women who were more active online than in real life

While they came to the website to fantasize about Edward and Jacob from Twilight, they became constantly bombarded with social justice messaging in the dawn of the endless scroll

Now where did these ideas come from? The concepts they were exploring came from early Marxist academics from the 60s and 70s who were part of the "long march through the institutions". I use Marxist literally, not rhetorically, they were literally Marxists

It's crucial to recognize that while Marxist philosophy influenced these ideas, the express form of wokeness we have dealt with is not academic or even marxist in origin.

It is fundamentally *teenage* in origin. It is a teenage philosophy, and even a female philosophy. I say this with care, not to provoke gendered resentment.

But one cannot understand wokeness without understanding teenage girls. This is not of the mind of a teenage boy.

To be a teenage girl is many things, and many more I cannot understand, but one thing is to be socially permeable. Teenage girls are not designed to sense social demands and pressures and *then reject them in place of their own well formed ideals*. They are fundamentally susceptible to social pressure in a profound way.

And so what you observe on Tumblr is a type of chain reaction. A Lord of the Flies Island where an ideological virus is allowed to incubate into its most viral form.

When this ideology finally spreads to American society, is when these Tumblr girls attend college. This is why people commonly associated wokeness with academia

But they have the direction of causality inverted. The teachers did not indoctrinate the students. The students infected and terrified the teachers. Now, some of those teachers were all too happy to go along with it, but still it was these young people who brought it to academia.

From this point the rate of spread rapidly increased, and it starts to influence the real world. Academics have influence and students graduate.

In 2013 this ideology was raging inside colleges, I was there!

By 2016 it was raging inside politics at a national stage.

The Democratic party became profoundly infected. And this has continued to this day, although it started weakening post COVID.

Cancellations became prominent in even corporations. Again, a cancellation is a fundamentally female method of social organization. Men do not cancel other men for saying an idea which is outside the norm.

They either argue, or fight.

Cancellation is yet another example of how, respectfully from my part, we are dealing with a feminine ethic from Tumblr. Girls cancel other girls. Look at any middle or high school. It isnt hard to see.

Why is it important to recognize the origins of wokeness?

Because the Left must fundamentally understand they have been led by teenagers. And they must turn to adults yet again if they seek a future in American politics

Fair point. I guess I’m saying it was cemented, rewarded, and affirmed by top Democratic leadership as THE standard post 2016, and if you even question it you are cast out of the party or fringe at best

Wokeness (to the level it’s risen to today) wasn’t brought into progressive politics until Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren post 2016. Oh, and btw, we’ve only seen recreation in many ways in pro-choice and lgbtqia+ rights, so great job from their “movements” and politics that have failed.

Prior to this it was the economy, fighting corrupt corporations and government, economic populism for working class, and anti-war. That was the progressive movement, and what I associate with as a progressive.

And yes I’m being very actively canceled by today’s progressives lol. Don’t care, gonna keep pushing for a move back to sanity (which behind the scenes is way more what people want than the minority of online fake progressives!) and forward with Bitcoin and a real progressive agenda that actually benefits everyday people and doesn’t pay lip service on your woke chart.

You better be glad that Steven Lubka doesn’t know how to use Nostr

I've been doing consistent long walks in the sun around my neighborhood while the weather's nice. Doing some business calls while walking, or listening to a podcast while walking.

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