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As the tragicomedy of Kevin McCarthy continues to unfold in the Emerald City of Oz, I was tasked with filling out and presenting my documents to Cthulhu\u2019s minions inside the precincts of the nightmare corpse-city of R’lyeh.\u00a0 Well maybe it was the Dunwich town hall.\u00a0 But there was definitely a lot of eldritch horror somewhere close by I can assure you.<\/p>\n

My hand was a virtual claw from having to sign my illegible signature hundreds of times to the various documents.\u00a0 I was made aware of the 11 billion separate types of discrimination that Dunwich recognizes and prosecutes along with the blessings of diversity, equity and inclusion that seem to seep out of every document that I was forced to read.\u00a0 It was inspiring.<\/p>\n

It was a particularly dreary day weatherwise, drizzling and forty degrees, but I was kind of happy to foray out into the world just to convince myself it was actually still out there.\u00a0 Apparently not having a Speaker of the House hasn\u2019t managed to disrupt the space-time continuum.\u00a0 And the zombies wandering around town looked neither more nor less mindless and homicidal than usual.\u00a0 So, all\u2019s right with the world.<\/p>\n

Maybe I\u2019m becoming acclimated to the present levels of dysfunction and unreality in the world around me.\u00a0 I noticed it didn\u2019t rankle me as much as it used to.\u00a0 Of course, that could mean I\u2019m becoming zombified myself.\u00a0 But whatever the cause it eased the pain while moving around town.<\/p>\n

I read a post<\/a> by Curtis Yarvin on his Substack that referenced Heinlein\u2019s story Waldo<\/a>.\u00a0 Now Yarvin is a neo-monarchist who is mostly interested in the political situation we find ourselves in.\u00a0 But he\u2019s also a technologist and here he hypothesizes that one of the more promising areas of technological progress could be in providing human\/machine interfaces that allow humans to utilize their manual dexterity at different scales and remotely.\u00a0 So, he sees a sort of virtual reality setup where a surgeon could utilize microscopic equipment as if he were the size of the miniaturized characters in \u201cFantastic Voyage.\u201d\u00a0 Or a gigantic machine hundreds of feet long could be controlled by a human with the point of view of a giant.\u00a0 His premise is that human intelligence and dexterity after proper training is much more responsible and skilled than an AI.\u00a0 After reading about some of the failures of self-driving cars he may be correct.\u00a0 I never thought Robert Heinlein and Curtis Yarvin would intersect in this version of the multiverse.\u00a0 But there it is.<\/p>\n

Will Cain did an interview of Tucker Carlson<\/a>.\u00a0 What I found interesting was Carlson\u2019s answer to what had red-pilled him.\u00a0 He described his mindset as we went through the Iraq War (from 1:36 to 3:19 in the video) and I found myself remembering a very similar evolution.\u00a0 I went from believing that we were there to make America safer to eventual disillusionment and a sense of absolute betrayal by the Republican establishment.\u00a0 And Carlson echoed that.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t watch the whole thing yet because it\u2019s too long but that little snippet stuck in my mind.\u00a0 Millions of people in this country feel totally betrayed by the Republican party and will never forget that.\u00a0 And that is the reality that gives me hope.\u00a0 If people as different from each other as Tucker Carlson is from me can both come to essentially the same point of view about our political system then it must be the truth.\u00a0 And if it is the truth then I\u2019m finally working from correct assumptions.\u00a0 And that is what I\u2019ve been trying to achieve all these years.\u00a0 It\u2019s not that the truth guarantees that things will work out.\u00a0 It\u2019s that basing your actions on false assumptions guarantees failure.<\/p>\n

As this was finishing up I se that McCarthy is still furiously negotiating to buy off his enemies with committee seats and promises of accountability.\u00a0 Ah, what a circus.\u00a0 We really should require all of Congress to wear the red nose, baggy pants and size 20 shoes.\u00a0 And the Speaker should always arrive at the podium in a tiny car.\u00a0 As I said in a comment on the last post, we must be terrible people to be sentenced to leaders this atrocious.\u00a0 Robespierre and Caligula were paragons of sanity compared to the bozos we\u2019ve got working for us today.<\/p>\n

Well, that\u2019s enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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