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I remember your mentioning your grandmom was a schoolteacher who wanted to be an environmentalist.


I am engaged in a battle with machines and stupid humans and have been a “slow learner” because of the insidiousness with which machines fuck you over.

It would be one thing if it was vanity, greed..all the shittiest human behavior. Or even loneliness/

I am a solitary woman who is not very happy except when alone for long durations. You know.

But they also exploit things that: a) are not crass like political engagement, a wish to support journalists or writers or activists you support and b) self-interested political engagement, but not gross self-interest like I want this or that. But I want and need a functioning society not being a crazy person. That is the activism that made the parts of society that I use work:


But without any actual issues, I have been very distrait for years trying to make sense of stuff that makes no sense. You cannot stop brain from trying to solve stuff on autopilot.

But finally today it has clicked for me the way it used to work on autopilot. And if I memorize it now I won’t forget.
One real left-right asymmetry is the left has fewer naifs or grifters. And all the people I follow- EarlG/DU/people like you and the rest lf MIRT, Ed Zitron, Yasha Levine who has driven it home as much as he can and Christopher Ketcham who is awesome is that they get how that works for the left-support or conflict (because ai or the most grotesque attention seekers I see locally, there is no way around conflict) or even pretty much the only famous people I don’t find scary, Stewart and Colbert (and I like Bill Maher and Ricky Gervais, neither of whom are in the Epstein Files, unlike Noam Chomsky), while non of the people I support or back are rich or famous, they have this like anti-grift, degrow junk quality that registers if you are a glum introvert who wants to get to your priorities while preserving your place as a complainant.
When I was pretty zombified I handed over so much money to Substack and while I liked the writers I supported (especially Yasha Levine), I can see in disgust now that, that was some perverted “marketplace mediated democracy”. Such bullshit.
I am not gullible or out of it. But I give up around large crowds. Oh yeah Lucien Greaves and the Freedom From Religion Foundation are also awesome and many others.

But I think I have achieved tbe metaphorical equivalent of an animal chewing a limb off to escape a trap.
My brain has slowly been coming alive thankfully.
Off go I.

I will be back some day. I didn’t want to disappear without a word. You guys are so sweet. Lots of people are nice, but human nature..
It is not horrible people often. It is worth understanding i suppose that people aren’t invisible in communities out of callousness and so on.
It is the limits of free will. Some people cannot be truly social and they participate in society in other ways still.
It is not true that very asocial people are obviously asocial or hate people. They can even like people. But it is that it drains asocial people to lose the normal non awkward asocial person’s mask. It is not depression. It is introversion.
Oh well.. Off go I!
See you guys later. Thank you.