“The world sees you now: not as compassionate warriors, but as spoiled, entitled, reality-denying tyrants in yoga pants, wielding guilt and hysteria like switchblades.” —LHGrey on "X"
Sadly you are wrong. The plastic music created by many of the artists at these awards shows is equivalent to the fakeness of the award show. And most people listen to mainstream music.
It's like the news media. Products are pushed to push your thoughts in a certain direction.
The bullshit that qualifies for music today is nothing but mindless synthesized computer beats. The stuff is cheap, lacks all quality and creativity. They can produce it fast, easy and don't have to pay anyone for it and the idiots of the day gobble it up.
And the only way musicians can make money is touring, and C0VID killed the touring industry.
Live music-- and theater-- will start to suffer even more as the vaxx side effects kick in; most venues required staff to be vaxxed, and my guess is over 90% of the union that deals with those places are also vaxxed.
You’re describing mainstream music. There is still good music being made by lesser known artists (who probably aren’t making much money). Personally, I’m finding some nice modern jazz sounds (probably more aptly described as jazz-fusion) coming out of England specifically but also some other European countries. Yusef Dayes tops the list (an incredible drummer with a top notch band), but also check out Kokoroko, Jazzbois, and Alfa Mist, to name a few…
A couple of years ago, I happened upon a short interview with a Journalism major. While it wasn't the theme of the story, I was amused (and enlightened) by this: "I want to be a Journalist because I want to tell people what to think."
Pretty common in journalism. As is the litmus test of whether one went to "J-school." J-school grads are usually the products of well-off parents, and the degree when conferred by the likes of NYU, etc., is the golden ticket for becoming a full-time propagandist.
The only photos i saw were attendees wearing, literally plastic dresses and plastic black goo masks. They looked like they were wearing melted vinyl records on their bodies, a sign of the times.
There are numerous reasons for the decline of Hollywood and entertainment in general. I would describe one key effect is "coming to their senses" for fans who are figuring out that these (mostly) talentless celebrities are not some sort of Earth-bound gods deserving worship, but rather (mostly) insiders related to the movers and shakers (nod, nod, wink, wink). The celebrities "concern" is all directed for themselves, and they're nervous now as their career path darkens.
As the stresses of the Long Emergency continue to mount, escapism is a empty shell of what's necessary for most to deal with it, and new role models outside of the pathetic "cool" mentally ill of Hollyweird are gaining ground. America's value systems are being reset.
Hi Euro brother. I never told you this before but I'm a raving night-owl, BTW. But I'd like to metamorphose into a morning-bird, but so far no success, not that I've been trying too hard. I hear that the early-bird gets the worm, but then there're always arthropods. Anyway...
As I recently said elsewhere, 'music/art and industry' is a bit of an oxymoron.
Art's integrity gets a touch stripped/cheapened I think, when funnelled through a money-profit scheme/intent-- or any other dubious intent. I don't think one can do art as pure from within these sorts of intents/contexts.
Some so-called artists might beg to differ and maybe there are exceptions, but we may not really know what art we can do, until the whole shit comes down and we're back doing art/music out of a sense of 'because we want to' or 'out of a sense of beauty or expression' rather than 'because we want to make a living out of it'.
Interesting remark re AI. Nobody seems to be discussing WHO AI is for - “Qui (really) Bono”. I’m getting the feeling that it’s not for me or the general public, or for working people, artists, and most of the professional class; (nor is it good for the environment or climate change, the Amish, or social justice). Rather, it’s almost entirely for the benefit of governments, large corporations, and wealthy elites. Ten years ago there was lots of talk about how wealthy everyone would be in a generation or two - now that prediction is being repurposed to support AI? But the massive amount of money now being spent on AI could easily be construed as money that could be used instead to lower taxes, rebuild infrastructure, and improve “affordability” - now, not for the next generation.
I wonder what the AI doctors “think” about sexually transitioning pre-adolescents, or DEI?
Trump made brokering and providing Peter Thiel, Larry Ellison & Sam Altman with a half a TRILLION[!] dollars a tippy-top priority of his 47 admin. Now those three amigos are developing our Super-AI (the biblical Beast System, imho) to, among other things, custom build, in 48 hours, an mRNA jab to "cure" you of cancer(s) that you don't even have!
I shit you not and Lil Trumpsters cheer him on like sheep bleating en route to the slaughterhouse.
I think it is for dumb people, or at best lazy people. And people willing to accept being dumb. Many of those entities you list are populated by the dumb and/or lazy.
Actually businesses are using it for data purposes way beyond what used to be possible to adapt marketing, to find security breaches, for medical diagnostics that out perform human doctors. So I wouldn’t say dumb people are the ones using it. But I am worried we’re creating SkyNet!
I understand that. I should have clarified. It is dumb to blindly rely on it for research without 1) adequately phrasing your queries and 2) understanding its limitations. I think doctors let themselves be replaced by algorithms already so using machines instead is understandable.
Au contraire, mon ami. The grandkids and great grandkids of the Woodstock Boomers eat this garbage up. And when the time comes, they will go to the ballot box and vote for those true believers of the Socialist-Abortion (Democrat) Party who will use their numbers to implement their Communist agenda. Plan accordingly.
Yet you wish to foist your dysfunctional mess on 40M+ Canadians, John? Why? Are you sadistic?
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BTW, did you see this post from a couple of days ago?
Hey JAZ. I was just texting with a childhood friend who has lived in Edmonton since 1994. Given your complete misunderstanding on the Alberta situation, I now share this to enlighten you with some on-the-ground facts.
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Me: "What’s your feeling of the pulse of AB? Are the separatists there still just a minor fringe or do they have a real shot at getting and then winning their referendum?"
Alberta friend: "I’ve never met a single person who wants to separate. So every person who wants to separate show up for the meetings and pack community halls - and the other 3.9 million people who don’t want to separate stay home."
FYI - He was a long-time CTV reporter and is now a journalism professor at a highly respected college.
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That is, it appears that your YouTube Alberta intel is hogwash.
Better sever the communication between the leaders of the rebels in Alberta and DC. Latest CBC story from the governor reports 30% separatist sentiment in Alberta, right in line with the poll mentioned in You Tube at 36%.
You will never understand that much of the separatist momentum did not come from Trump, but from people in Alberta, sick of the Euro-style socialistic BS in Ottawa.
Of course you would support DC meddling in Canadian politics with, clearly, traitors. That is so American of you, John.
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Hmmm ... a couple of days ago, you called the CBC "a rag." Why the sudden change of heart, John?
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I just searched Google using 'alberta separation cbc 30%' but it did not yield your claimed CBC story. I know that sharing a link is beyond your capacity so how can I verify your seeming bull shit?
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FYI - Quebec twice had ~50% separatists and couldn't get it done.
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Finally, you bitch and moan about what has become of the USA constantly on CFN. Why then, pray tell, do you want to foist your dysfunctional mess on 40M+ Canadians? Are you sadistic?
Also, if Alberta (Canada's rightmost province (by far!)) is 70% for "Euro-style socialistic BS in Ottawa," why do you want 40M+ new citizens that are 90% WAY, WAY left of your Demonrats?
Your penultimate sentence said it all, which makes it typical misinformation from your journalist friend. No journalist on Canadian TV is above propagandizing for the Carney government. Therefore, that information is not worth repeating.
You clearly have no understanding of Canadian politics, ML. It's not PM Carney vs. Alberta separatists. It's Canadian confederacy vs. Alberta separatists.
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Right. So a guy living in Edmonton (Alberta's capital) from 1994 through the present does not know the lay of the land in Alberta as well as you and JohnAZ?
That is as pathetic a post as I've seen on CFN in quite some time - and that's saying something.
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Also, FYI:
Trump interfered in Canada's April 2025 federal election AGAINST the Conservative, Pierre Poilievre, and FOR the benefit of the Harvard, Oxford, Goldman Sachs, Governor of the Bank of Canada, Governor of the Bank of England, WEF-scumbag Mark Carney. Makes ya think ... 🤔
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Trump brags that he hurt MAGA ally Pierre Poilievre in Canada election — as Liberals grab win
Canada’s incumbent Liberal Party is staying in power thanks to a wave of anti-American feeling catalyzed by Donald Trump’s policies
That would be foisting degeneracy off on degenerates. Pussywhipped fools deranged enough to let females and mancubs hand Canada over to sandnigger barbarians.
That's an EXCELLENT question. I'm assuming it's because of their massive narcissism about themselves. When you dig a bit deeper, you find out most of these celebrities have an IQ of about 65 and the maturity of a 5 y.o. I grew up under the Hollywood sign in Hollywood hills, we had a few of these celebrities in our neighborhood.
They spend their lives pretending they are someone else. They have no clue who they themselves truly are. Self loathing is prevalent. They can't stay married for more than a year, are usually sodomites and perverts, are addicted to drugs and in and out of rehab and many of them die young from suicides or overdoses.
The dregs of society. The worst of the worst.
Humans are not designed to deal with being famous. It destroys their souls. Leaves them vaccuous and empty having no purpose in life other than to pad their own self serving egos.
Not only do their opinions matter, they are extremely influential as to shaping reality and culture. Their objectives are strategic - to destroy the cultural Christian ethos that undergirds the civilization these demonic wizards loath, all while making wild profits.
Voltaire challenged superstition and oppression. Argued for reason over fear, and more insight into critical thinking.
He questioned how a loving deity could demand the slaughter of whole populations, and the difference between what region preached and what religion practised.
It has oft been said, To survive in Hollywood you have to know who runs it but never let on that you know. Walt Disney tried to warn us, but we didn't listen.
Is Hollywood like Minneapolis or Palm Springs? People of like ilk congregate together. Hollywood is like a magnet for LBTGQ and other forms of freaks. Minneapolis for Muslims, Palm Springs, another LBTGQ magnet.
The problem is that young America, especially, think these freaks are real and cool.
Lugh, this old man was a movie freak back in the day.
"Little Big Man" ~ A revisionist western that satirized and subverted the mythology of the genre – and of America itself.
"Out of Africa" ~ love, loss, and the complexities of colonial life in Africa.
"Awakenings" ~ of a fictional neurologist played by Robin Williams, whose character is based on Dr Oliver Sacks. In 1969, Oliver Sacks discovers the drug L-DOPA and administers the drug to catatonic patients of the epidemic encephalitis lethargica. The patients, among them the main character Leonard, played brilliantly by De Niro at his best, are awakened after decades and must try to acclimate to an unfamiliar and terrifying new life. An incredible film exploring the complex nature of the human mind.
If this movie does not make you cry..........
Where are these types of films of today? Ford vs Ferrari" pfffft.... Total crap.
And I did not realize Hollywood was dominated by Jewish control? True???
For the same reason that anyone cares what guys who can hit major league pitching think about shaving kit or coffee. Whatever that is... reason? Don't need no steeenking reason!
Because their opinions DO MATTER to a lot of mush brained Americans. They have millions of folllowers on their social media accounts. People follow them around and take their pictures. The media like "Breitbart" publish their opinions prominently on their website. I would estimate 50% of Breitbart headlines are quotes from celebrities railing against Trump, ICE and Americans in general.
I don't even know who that is and the fact that this person has millions of followers is a clear indication of the sorry pathetic state of the general American.
I don't "follow" anybody. I have no social media accounts. I have a few authors I like to read such as JHK but don't "follow" any of them.
People that "follow" others are just that. Followers. Useless. Cannot think for themselves. Pathetic.
Kind of like grown men who wear a football jersey with another man's name on their back. Seriously. Do they hate themselves so much so that they wear another mans name on their own body?
Preach. Sports are one of the reasons that we lost this nation. We gave our all to them but another race was better at them than we were. We gave our all to making money, but another people were better at it than were. What we are best at, creating wonderful nations with high culture and pure scientific research, that we don't care very much about anymore.
As it turns out, blacks are not better at sports than whites, it's a huge DEI scam and it starts at the high school level. Massive racism, but what else is new? Christian McCaffrey has talked about it and a book by Donald Jefferies is in the works on this topic.
You'd like the NHL. While blacks are vastly superior at playing basketball and most positions in football, whites are the best at hockey. Not even close.
I'm waiting for Billie Eilish and the rest to hand over their mansion keys to a 20 times great grandson of Pocahontas. Her son was only the governor of the Virginia colony so we can easily see how right from the beginning natives were marginalized./sarc
"Pocahontas' son was the governor of the Virginia colony ... therefore American natives were not marginalized." 🙄
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"Anecdotal evidence is information based on personal experiences, individual stories, or isolated observations rather than systematic, scientific research. Often referred to as "anecdata," it is considered the lowest level of evidence because it is subjective, rarely verified, and cannot be used to prove broad claims." - Google AI Overview
I have always been perplexed by the fascination with celebrity exhibited by a large percentage of the population. My father took me to a pro football game when I was about ten years old. After the game, a sizable crowd went onto the field in order to get an autograph from the local team's quarterback. My father asked "wouldn't you like to go get an autograph?" My response was "Why would I want to do that?"
Because having a few bucks in their pockets makes them think they're superior to us. It's amazing how misled they are. Totally irrelevant to us yet full of self importance amongst their own 🤦♂️
Wow, that certainly creates quite a picture. I'm an old lady and used to have horrid PMS, I can't imagine adding LSD to that. Yikes! As if men don't have it bad enough when they have to endure us women with PMS.
I'm female. Most women should not be put in charge of anything outside of a schoolroom. Most women are emotion based, and a great with empathy in the classroom, in a hospital, in a nursing home. Elsewhere, where cold logic is required? Not so much.
And that's not even factoring in PMS.
It's just how the sexes are wired. Most men= logic. Most women= feelings
Yes, studies show they feel much compassion for criminals being punished, but little for their victims. And often none at all for their husbands whom they routinely victimize.
Glad you used the qualifier “most”. I always preferred being in the company of intelligent men, as I couldn’t stand the usual small, petty talk of females. Not all men are intelligent though!
And now the "school marms" called "teachers" are weaponizing the classrooms and sending 5-year olds up to middle-schoolers out with signs to protest ICE.
100,000 LIKES for you!! What immediately comes to my mind is Karen Bass, mayor of L.A. - enough said. Also, the head Fire Commissioner of L.A., can't remember her name, who completely muddled up the Palos Verdes fire in L.A. last year. Both are butch lesbians, I can't even imagine having to deal with them on PMS, the poor men who had to work under those 2 lovelies direction. I've also come across a number of women who are mayors, govs etc. who are just as horrifying as Fire Commissioner & Karen Bass. btw, both of those last 2 are communist.
In summary, Karen Bass and L.A. County Fire commissioner are communists, butch lesbians with MASSIVE numerous axes to grind (mostly against men) who are deranged lunatics, on PMS and quite possibly have several other diagnoses - when you think about it, what could possibly go wrong??
I think you're on to something, I don't know ,if they've done a clinical trial yet ,but I think this needs to be examined, if for nothing else, just the entertainment value.
Here's the thing: we look at their antics from the outside at theater. But it's NOT theater. I suspect most really believe this stuff; it's their mind keeping them safe from... whatever.
Sort of like Stockholm Syndrome. Their central nervous system and their mind says "we've got to this to survive," and they don't even realize their dysfunction.
Why thank you! :) If you really want to do a deep dive, look into Myers-Briggs Personality Theory. It's fallen out of favor, but does explain why *most* women are not good in executive positions. Most, but not all.
These award shows are nothing more than circle jerks for virtue-signaling degenerates. They truly have some gall. Last Bad Bunny was lecturing us about what it means to be an American, but can barely speak English. What a joke.
Americans are tired of being lectured about morals by coke-addicts and pedophiles.
When was he great? A couple good songs and a lot of pontificating about things he knows nothing about. He's been a moron from the beginning. Ditto Springsteen, the fake everyman.
Amen, bruddah. I haven't watched one of these awards shows since Dances With Wolves won an Oscar for Best Picture. Don't miss it in the slightest degree.
Blacks are our entertainers now. Rock was too White and Wild for them to keep on. The White Dionysian was used to destroy the higher Apollonian culture of the West. Now that it has served it's purpose, it's being quietly disposed of.
Not only that, they were a Tavistock operation, like the Beatles.
From a source in your own country, but there are plenty of sources. You might try Dave McGowan's 'Weird Scenes inside the Canyon'. The whole 60s counterculture was a deep state op. It had the effect it was meant to have on society, which Mr K decries regularly. All planned.
Go on, Dennis, come back with the accusation that was literally invented and weaponised by the CIA itself - conspiracy theorist! Make my day, and theirs.
Sheila, my dear, if you would take off your glasses of hatred, and read all my posts in context, then there would be no reason to attribute things to me the way you do.
One can have different opinions on fundamental matters. I have no problem with that. But I sense pure hatred in you.
You misinterpret things into my comments, putting words into my mouth that are in no way stated in my posts.
You latest accusation: suggesting my doctor daughters are guilty of medical malpractice.
Bringing Bad Bunny to play the Superbowl halftime is a big middle finger to most of America. Meanwhile Budweiser is doing all American schmalz with an eagle and a Clydesdale to encourage us forget the Bud Light middle finger.
Funny bit of info: A company by the name of Tribe, Inc. does the production design for the Super Bowl halftime. Their CEO is the one who designed the Obama set for his speech in Grant Park. HUGE Dem. Works for the DNC. Also a Khazarian.
I still have my quaint home stereo, components made in the '70s and '80s - and it sounds WAY better than any bluetooth speaker.
Also can still make music with my Fender Bandmaster Reverb vacuum tube guitar amplifier, made in Fullerton, California in 1978 - and all it has needed is its electrolytic capacitors replaced (they are wear items, so Leo Fender designed his amplifiers to have the capacitors easy to replace - I did it myself). Try replacing components in your bluetooth speaker.
I have a Rickenbacker tube amp. I've had several people offer me hundreds for it, but I continue to hang on to it. I bought it for $75 in the mid-90's.
I've played with lots of guys over here who have never even heard a real tube amp. They are used to cheapo solid-state amps or the hybrids with a 12AX7 in the preamp.
They are floored when the JCM-800 warms up and the first sounds leave the 1960ax cab with Greenbacks. :D
I bought an old Marshall from a pawnshop back in the '70s because I wanted to sound like Hendrix. Discovered I hate, hate, hated the Marshall sound. Chacun a son gout.
This is what happens when the raving mad, man-hating bull dyke, Randy Weingarten and her Bolshevik-Marxist-Demo-Commie Teachers Union takes over the "education" of our children.
I blame 99% of the problems this country faces today with the fact that the kids don't know how to read. We pay more in taxes per pupil than any country on earth, yet our kids come out of 8th grade not knowing how to sound out letters and words (phonics) or basic math that I can do in my head.
You see those little freaks like Billie Eilish and some of the others? These are young people who grew up in homes with no books, just screens. They will never know the joy of a boring summer day, sitting outside with a good book and nothing to do but read. Or, as we are now in this part of the world, being snowed in and enjoying the time spent reading all sorts of novels.
Just look at that Freak Show last night- how pathetic those young people are - they are lost souls who have a lot of money that they don't even know how to use. What are they going to do- get more tattoos or badly fitting, ugly, expensive clothes that aren't nearly as nice as what the average office workers used to wear at the beginning of this century.
But back to the Teachers Union devils. They have destroyed our public schools to the point that they are dangerous for children and young people. The teachers are there to promote their Satanic agenda of body mutilation, baby killing and hate. Most of them belong in prison instead of making their 6-figure salaries and benefits we tax - slaves can only dream of. I am glad that most of my grand kids were home schooled to some degree.
The ceremony last night should have been dedicated to Moloch right from the get go to clear up any doubts that people might have as to what it was all about.
When is the last time you talked to several other people about a movie you all saw? It seems like a foreign concept today. Hollywood has run themselves into the irrelevancy. As for the Grammy's, agree this political messaging is a test to see if you get to stay in the club. The music itself is not good. How much of it has any staying power at all? Will anyone listen to any of this 5 or 10 years from now? Maybe 5%.
My friends/acquaintances and I seem to watch movies from years past that we never got around to seeing or we are rewatching—usually on Netflix or similar. I don’t even know what movies are currently showing. I can’t remember the last time I was in a theater.
Same here, can't remember last time I was in a theatre and husband and I watch old movies, things we've seen before. We're old folks so have forgotten a lot of what we've seen before so watching again is like a new experience! LOL.
Since my husband and I need to steer clear of politics and he surely would not want to watch the Melania documentary with me, we are resigned to watching neutral material together: last night it was Ratatouille, the animation movie with the rat chef, which only had a brief foreshadowing of the woke Disney future with the ominous female knife-wielding chef with a chip on her shoulder...
Melania is an actress who pretended to be a traditional Catholic before coming out as a pro-abort. She may have been an Epstein girl. Trump was massively involved as many of us feared.
Predicted 20 years ago that high tech would destroy Hollywood due to the decline of creativity. It has destroyed song writing and CGI has destroyed cinematography. AI, watch You Tube is going to destroy what is left.
Hum perfect faces and boobs? Not sure about that, it's more like how ugly and uninventing can I make myself look: Billy...ish and Cyrus the Miley!!! Then the Bieb in underwear. What is attractive and genuine about this set? YUK!
Not only are they as ugly and disgusting as they can be but they make themselves even uglier.
Jelly Roll. Ever heard of this guy? I could shave my dog's ass and make him walk backwards and he'd look better than this putz. The guy can't sing. He weighs 450 pounds. Looks like a walking human hamper. Facial tats abound.
Post Malone. Ugly as ugly can be. Facial tats. Fake grills. Talentless voice. No ability.
Lizzo. Disgusting creature. Cellulose jiggling and twerking are her claims to fame.
Gone are the days when the famous people made efforts to be pretty people. The glitterati are gone. Ugliness, obesity and filth are all they have left. They are still followed by millions and millions of adoring fans. The WWE is obsessed with Jelly Roll and even put him in sports on Wrestlemania, their Super Bowl of wrestling.
The prediction was easy to make, as autotuning and recording software had already made recorded music artificially perfect. AI is just the next escalation: software stealing lyrics and music played by humans to create something that appears "original."
I can assure you however, that when one plays a live show, people still react to hearing a group of musicians play--flaws and all. On the last record I played on, we purposefully did all the takes live and didn't polish anything with software.
100%. My band of old old geezers still pulls good crowds. Live music is better bumper stickers should be issued. And no, southern man don’t need him around anyhow, still. 😎
One pet peeve are the music geezers who pretend they're still 30-something. There's nothing wrong with sitting in a rocking-chair (rock and roll?) or recliner or even bench on-stage while singing and/or playing. And why not? It would make for a different, arguably better, look. Certainly pianists and symphonists do. Wear a cardigan and some slippers. Cut your long hair short. Have little tables beside each member with some tea and biscuits and a little lamp on them.
A couple of months ago, somewhat by accident and a bit of deliberate research, I discovered a band that used an apparent vocal-modeling software by Yamaha, called Vocaloid. Maybe you've heard of it.
I had never heard of it, but liked some of the band's songs, even though the vocals might be totally synthetic.
But part of my thinking was along the lines of how the vocals could be redone with a real person, maybe with a similar voice to the synthetic one, but even trying to match the synthetic vocals as accurately as possible, if with that nice 'imperfect' human component.
So Vocaloid music, then, and even AI music in general, could be viewed as rough-drafts, inspirations and/or ways to sometimes break creative blocks or to even reverse-steal from and then adapt/modify. Given that AI has been trained on 'stolen' human material, it would seem fair to return the favor.
So it can be more of a creative yin-yang, back-and-forth, even ultimately a human-music/art-enriching process, rather than something necessarily dead-ended, depending on the approaches.
I've been to, and passed by, places with live human bar/pub/cafe music, for example, and much of it was horrible, often with reheated, poorly-executed covers that have been played to death over the years, rather than new, original, creative material. That's the other extreme to mindless, watery AI music.
When my wife and I get together with friends the topic of “what movies have you seen, or what movies are you looking forward to” used to be discussed every time. I literally can’t remember the last time our group had that discussion. Now we just lament the fact that there’s very little on streaming that is worth watching
There is no staying power. One hit wonders abound. Talentless hacks who can't play an instrument or hold a tune without the assistance of autotune software.
My understanding (anecdotal, from friends with GenX children and GenZ grandchildren), is that albums + stereos + speakers are back. It's a thing. Even (13? 15?) years ago, when living in DC, I went to album/CD swapmeets (at the Black Cat club for anyone interested) where albums were selling like hot cakes, which surprised me because I had divested in the 90s, having gotten tired of shlepping it all every move. But I find this change very encouraging. Pompous asses like B. Springstein and N. Young may actually be driving this rebellion.
Both my adults (millenials) children have gone to turntables and albums. They are also collecting VHS tapes films and ask that we donate them any vinyls and tapes we still have. The old is new again and of such better quality. We of course had not discarded any of these components for their simple quality. So your comment might not be so anecdotal in the end.
I worked in a thrift store in 2015. I was shocked at how many people came in specifically for albums and old VCR tapes. This retro move has been happening under the radar for a while.
Socialists always enlist the "arts" to glorify their dictatorial wishes. Art and music cease being about freedom, but are simply a tool of propaganda. It is important to remember that Hitler was a failed artist. The hard fact is that most artists and musicians, like most football and baseball players, never make it to the "big leagues," but plod along in relative poverty. The wealth excess of the few who do manage to make it to the "top", usually because they are "groomed" by those leftist corporatist record labels and movie companies, get obscenely wealthy--these days not from having actual talent, but by being continually promoted by clever marketing. No surprise, then, that so many "artists" are leftist hacks--the only ones "grooming" them are other leftist hacks.
The independent music scene is allowing thousands of actually talented artists and musicians, to get a sliver of the wealth pie--using outlets like YouTube, Rumble, etc.--by self-recording and self-producing their product. And a lot of those have other career "gigs" to help pay the bills. And, in the case of music, their talent completely eclipses the manufactured "talent" of those clowns getting clown awards on the Grammy stage. Nowhere has the leftist degradation of music as an art been so dramatic as in the black music scene. In the 70+ years of the leftist welfare state, the U.S. has gone from producing some of the best black musicians in history--Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Oscar Peterson, etc., etc.--to producing little more than talentless reciters of barely musical grunts of thumping bass and elementary school poetry perverted by using adult expletives. Those earlier black artists--still in the day of actual racial discrimination--proved that they had true artistic talent as good or better than white musicians. 70+ years of the leftist welfare state destroying the nuclear black family has destroyed all of that. Oh, and to the comment that many of those earlier black musicians suffered from drug addiction--often to heroin--they did, usually directly marketed to them by white Mafiosi, who just happened to also be racist Democrats. Just another way for white Democrats to keep blacks poor and dependent. Fancy that.
IMO rap was part of a deliberate plan to destroy and control the black culture which was assimilating too well w white culture. Not enough division going on there. Some of the best black musicians were produced and many incredible black vocalists including those from the Doo Wop years. These talentless morons today actually think that 'sampling' music lifted from a better time will somehow give them credibility as an artist. No, the only credit you get for that is called stealing.
Well said. A fine assessment of the music biz. I spent 30 years in radio as a disc jockey, AM/FM all formats. There is no longer talent like Oscar Peterson or Duke Ellington. The Grammy show's hour-long tribute to Rap music was like finger nails on a chalk board. Then I realized music albums are no longer available on CDs or Cassette tapes. The public pays for an album and is forced to load it to a hard drive or listen on their phone. Bye Bye American Pie....the Day that Music Died.
"You might see how that would entice an awful lot of people to check-out of reality altogether"
That is what Harari told us the plan is. Drugs and video games will be used to pacify the useless eaters, who, of course, will then be offed by a mandatory vaccine at some point.
I have an 11-year-old son and see how effective the digital assault is. We try to balance what he can and cannot do/have in this regard, but nearly all of his friends spend half their day in front of a screen.
What I also notice is that when you get them excited about real things (in our case, playing rock music together), you see how quickly they can snap out of it. Nothing can replace the person-to-person connection, and the act of doing something in the real world.
That said, lots of kids are having their brains molded and experiences controlled so that they never really know what that feels like.
Do you see any possible solution? I guess removing your kids from the public education system would help somewhat, but I don’t think that’s a complete solution to the problem.
"Someone has written a book about the children and their need for their, just simply, emotional and mental development to have contact with the mountains, with the air, the sea, with the dawn, the sunset, the trees, the birds, the song of the birds. Children that don't have these experiences have no real idea of the world they live in. They live in a house, in a school, in a city that's all manufactured. And they begin to be progressively isolated from the basic dynamics of what human life is all about." ~ Thomas Berry
Why are modern teenagers more anxious than ever before?
This video analyzes the unique psychological environment of the 1970s to understand what we have lost in the digital age.
From the "Default Mode Network" of the brain to the anti-fragility of 70's kids, it explores how boredom, friction, and privacy created a 70's generation with an unshakable sense of their own self-worth.
Phycologists and anthropologists proffer we've traded risks of the "Real World" for the psychological risks of a "Digital World".
It’s crucial to spend time every day detached from the internet and social media.
Youngish women are mostly angry and dissatisfied with their choices and their lives; they wanted their degrees, their big jobs, their command like generals, and their print on everything, and they got it except that it's not fulfilling. To feel better, they seek to destroy all that is conventional around them. Motherhood is now bestowed on dogs and cats, and any sexual status is encouraged. Fantasies that will be costly while they throw away their lives.
1. Biology. Every month their bodies tell them in a not so subtle manner that their purpose is to produce babies and then care for those babies. The clock is ever ticking for a young woman.
2. Feminism. Feminism has told them that they are to reject that monthly biological reminder in favor of being a para-legal or a secretary or an "educator."
Biology wins out because they can't stop it. Sure, they can have a hysterectomy and carry their uteri around in a cute little bottle, but they can't deny the little parts, the DNA, that makes them women. Women serve one purpose. Have an nurture children. That is what nature has determined and it cannot be denied.
So, it is a constant battle for her. She's pissed. Angry. Resentful. Full of hate. Full of shame. Full of regret. Trying to find fulfillment in the feminists way as they grow old and become barren and die lonely old hags with no posterity to care for them.
Boy, I can assure you, as good as the nose on our face, you are going to get a good old fashioned "Ass Whoopin" having dinner with my two doctor daughters, CP.
Ass Whoopin is a slang term used to describe the act of beating someone up. It can be used in a variety of contexts, ranging from playful banter to serious violence and aggression.
LOL, my daughters are not physically aggressive, nor violent.
But you are still going to crawl away with your tail between legs.
I don't anticipate any scenario in which I would subject myself to dinner with either of your two daughters. Too scary! I've met some women in my time and you daughters sound as if they would rival the most manliest of ladies one could conjure up. The three of you can read my comment and bad mouth me until your blue in the faces. Free of charge!
They were sold a lie. Their mothers probably had to work, be a wife and a mother. They were sold a lie as well.
Sometimes it takes a while to realize that you'vebeen sold a lie and to reject it. I feel sorry for them, and for the decent young guys out there who have no potential mates.
👍👍 In short, award shows such as the Grammys have turned into boring freak shows. Normal people have no interest in watching these nitwits. 🤷♂️🤷♂️
I'd wager that the majority of Grammy attendees are taking mood "stabilizing" medications.
Sadly you are wrong. The plastic music created by many of the artists at these awards shows is equivalent to the fakeness of the award show. And most people listen to mainstream music.
It's like the news media. Products are pushed to push your thoughts in a certain direction.
The bullshit that qualifies for music today is nothing but mindless synthesized computer beats. The stuff is cheap, lacks all quality and creativity. They can produce it fast, easy and don't have to pay anyone for it and the idiots of the day gobble it up.
I couldn’t name one artist or song up for an award. The whole Grammy thing is irrelevant.
And old Mick Jagger was seen in a photo sitting next to Bill Gates and Slick Willy having dinner at Epstein Island!
Oh dear!
And, increasingly, its just being created with AI.
And the only way musicians can make money is touring, and C0VID killed the touring industry.
Live music-- and theater-- will start to suffer even more as the vaxx side effects kick in; most venues required staff to be vaxxed, and my guess is over 90% of the union that deals with those places are also vaxxed.
It's the sound of sun dried dog droppings crunching beneath one's Florsheim shoe.
You’re describing mainstream music. There is still good music being made by lesser known artists (who probably aren’t making much money). Personally, I’m finding some nice modern jazz sounds (probably more aptly described as jazz-fusion) coming out of England specifically but also some other European countries. Yusef Dayes tops the list (an incredible drummer with a top notch band), but also check out Kokoroko, Jazzbois, and Alfa Mist, to name a few…
A couple of years ago, I happened upon a short interview with a Journalism major. While it wasn't the theme of the story, I was amused (and enlightened) by this: "I want to be a Journalist because I want to tell people what to think."
Pretty common in journalism. As is the litmus test of whether one went to "J-school." J-school grads are usually the products of well-off parents, and the degree when conferred by the likes of NYU, etc., is the golden ticket for becoming a full-time propagandist.
If only they would go back to just reporting with no spin.
The only photos i saw were attendees wearing, literally plastic dresses and plastic black goo masks. They looked like they were wearing melted vinyl records on their bodies, a sign of the times.
Plus the one clapping like a seal dressed in white chicken feathers. Was she sponsored by KFC?
There are numerous reasons for the decline of Hollywood and entertainment in general. I would describe one key effect is "coming to their senses" for fans who are figuring out that these (mostly) talentless celebrities are not some sort of Earth-bound gods deserving worship, but rather (mostly) insiders related to the movers and shakers (nod, nod, wink, wink). The celebrities "concern" is all directed for themselves, and they're nervous now as their career path darkens.
As the stresses of the Long Emergency continue to mount, escapism is a empty shell of what's necessary for most to deal with it, and new role models outside of the pathetic "cool" mentally ill of Hollyweird are gaining ground. America's value systems are being reset.
Hi Euro brother. I never told you this before but I'm a raving night-owl, BTW. But I'd like to metamorphose into a morning-bird, but so far no success, not that I've been trying too hard. I hear that the early-bird gets the worm, but then there're always arthropods. Anyway...
As I recently said elsewhere, 'music/art and industry' is a bit of an oxymoron.
Art's integrity gets a touch stripped/cheapened I think, when funnelled through a money-profit scheme/intent-- or any other dubious intent. I don't think one can do art as pure from within these sorts of intents/contexts.
Some so-called artists might beg to differ and maybe there are exceptions, but we may not really know what art we can do, until the whole shit comes down and we're back doing art/music out of a sense of 'because we want to' or 'out of a sense of beauty or expression' rather than 'because we want to make a living out of it'.
FYI the early worm gets eaten, tread with caution!
Thanks, Todd!
Interesting remark re AI. Nobody seems to be discussing WHO AI is for - “Qui (really) Bono”. I’m getting the feeling that it’s not for me or the general public, or for working people, artists, and most of the professional class; (nor is it good for the environment or climate change, the Amish, or social justice). Rather, it’s almost entirely for the benefit of governments, large corporations, and wealthy elites. Ten years ago there was lots of talk about how wealthy everyone would be in a generation or two - now that prediction is being repurposed to support AI? But the massive amount of money now being spent on AI could easily be construed as money that could be used instead to lower taxes, rebuild infrastructure, and improve “affordability” - now, not for the next generation.
I wonder what the AI doctors “think” about sexually transitioning pre-adolescents, or DEI?
Of course the main purpose of AI isn’t meant for us, it’s for mass surveillance and creation of a technocratic totalitarian system.
Exactly. It's funny asking people why they "invest" in building their own prison. Try it sometime, just to get that dumbass, blank look.
Trump made brokering and providing Peter Thiel, Larry Ellison & Sam Altman with a half a TRILLION[!] dollars a tippy-top priority of his 47 admin. Now those three amigos are developing our Super-AI (the biblical Beast System, imho) to, among other things, custom build, in 48 hours, an mRNA jab to "cure" you of cancer(s) that you don't even have!
I shit you not and Lil Trumpsters cheer him on like sheep bleating en route to the slaughterhouse.
My boss has a relationship with his ChatGPT account. He's named his AI friend and asks it "how things are going," says "please" and "thank you."
It is truly bizarre.
I think it is for dumb people, or at best lazy people. And people willing to accept being dumb. Many of those entities you list are populated by the dumb and/or lazy.
Actually businesses are using it for data purposes way beyond what used to be possible to adapt marketing, to find security breaches, for medical diagnostics that out perform human doctors. So I wouldn’t say dumb people are the ones using it. But I am worried we’re creating SkyNet!
I understand that. I should have clarified. It is dumb to blindly rely on it for research without 1) adequately phrasing your queries and 2) understanding its limitations. I think doctors let themselves be replaced by algorithms already so using machines instead is understandable.
Au contraire, mon ami. The grandkids and great grandkids of the Woodstock Boomers eat this garbage up. And when the time comes, they will go to the ballot box and vote for those true believers of the Socialist-Abortion (Democrat) Party who will use their numbers to implement their Communist agenda. Plan accordingly.
Never have watched. An early un-adopter...
What I have never understood...to this very day...Is why members of Hollywood think that their opinions matter???
Because the denizens of ship USA are celebrity nuts. Most of these celebs make Joe Average look like Einstein.
Yet you wish to foist your dysfunctional mess on 40M+ Canadians, John? Why? Are you sadistic?
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BTW, did you see this post from a couple of days ago?
Hey JAZ. I was just texting with a childhood friend who has lived in Edmonton since 1994. Given your complete misunderstanding on the Alberta situation, I now share this to enlighten you with some on-the-ground facts.
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Me: "What’s your feeling of the pulse of AB? Are the separatists there still just a minor fringe or do they have a real shot at getting and then winning their referendum?"
Alberta friend: "I’ve never met a single person who wants to separate. So every person who wants to separate show up for the meetings and pack community halls - and the other 3.9 million people who don’t want to separate stay home."
FYI - He was a long-time CTV reporter and is now a journalism professor at a highly respected college.
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That is, it appears that your YouTube Alberta intel is hogwash.
Better sever the communication between the leaders of the rebels in Alberta and DC. Latest CBC story from the governor reports 30% separatist sentiment in Alberta, right in line with the poll mentioned in You Tube at 36%.
You will never understand that much of the separatist momentum did not come from Trump, but from people in Alberta, sick of the Euro-style socialistic BS in Ottawa.
Huh? What "governor"? What are you talking about?
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Of course you would support DC meddling in Canadian politics with, clearly, traitors. That is so American of you, John.
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Hmmm ... a couple of days ago, you called the CBC "a rag." Why the sudden change of heart, John?
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I just searched Google using 'alberta separation cbc 30%' but it did not yield your claimed CBC story. I know that sharing a link is beyond your capacity so how can I verify your seeming bull shit?
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FYI - Quebec twice had ~50% separatists and couldn't get it done.
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Finally, you bitch and moan about what has become of the USA constantly on CFN. Why then, pray tell, do you want to foist your dysfunctional mess on 40M+ Canadians? Are you sadistic?
Also, if Alberta (Canada's rightmost province (by far!)) is 70% for "Euro-style socialistic BS in Ottawa," why do you want 40M+ new citizens that are 90% WAY, WAY left of your Demonrats?
Your penultimate sentence said it all, which makes it typical misinformation from your journalist friend. No journalist on Canadian TV is above propagandizing for the Carney government. Therefore, that information is not worth repeating.
You clearly have no understanding of Canadian politics, ML. It's not PM Carney vs. Alberta separatists. It's Canadian confederacy vs. Alberta separatists.
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Right. So a guy living in Edmonton (Alberta's capital) from 1994 through the present does not know the lay of the land in Alberta as well as you and JohnAZ?
That is as pathetic a post as I've seen on CFN in quite some time - and that's saying something.
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Also, FYI:
Trump interfered in Canada's April 2025 federal election AGAINST the Conservative, Pierre Poilievre, and FOR the benefit of the Harvard, Oxford, Goldman Sachs, Governor of the Bank of Canada, Governor of the Bank of England, WEF-scumbag Mark Carney. Makes ya think ... 🤔
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Trump brags that he hurt MAGA ally Pierre Poilievre in Canada election — as Liberals grab win
Canada’s incumbent Liberal Party is staying in power thanks to a wave of anti-American feeling catalyzed by Donald Trump’s policies
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-pierre-poilievre-canada-eletions-b2741230.html
That would be foisting degeneracy off on degenerates. Pussywhipped fools deranged enough to let females and mancubs hand Canada over to sandnigger barbarians.
Exactly! Canada has enough problems already without being annexed by a bully pedo.
That's an EXCELLENT question. I'm assuming it's because of their massive narcissism about themselves. When you dig a bit deeper, you find out most of these celebrities have an IQ of about 65 and the maturity of a 5 y.o. I grew up under the Hollywood sign in Hollywood hills, we had a few of these celebrities in our neighborhood.
They are also mostly deeply troubled people, many of whom were abused as children.
They spend their lives pretending they are someone else. They have no clue who they themselves truly are. Self loathing is prevalent. They can't stay married for more than a year, are usually sodomites and perverts, are addicted to drugs and in and out of rehab and many of them die young from suicides or overdoses.
The dregs of society. The worst of the worst.
Humans are not designed to deal with being famous. It destroys their souls. Leaves them vaccuous and empty having no purpose in life other than to pad their own self serving egos.
Politicians are the worst of the worst, but the entertainment industry is a close second worst of the worst?
Actually, these days the politicians are just bad actors, so they could both be the worst of the worst of the same group.
Politicians are certainly more criminal.
I think you meant to say that humans *aren't* designed to deal with being famous.
My friends say, "Den, you should try listening to music, it's good for your soul"
My answer: "Like all those many musicians who are drug addicts, all fucked up, and die young! Give me a fuckin break!"
Ritual abuse. You don't make it in Hollyweird unless you're a member of their cult.
If billi eyelash was around me I would leave bruses on it.
Not only do their opinions matter, they are extremely influential as to shaping reality and culture. Their objectives are strategic - to destroy the cultural Christian ethos that undergirds the civilization these demonic wizards loath, all while making wild profits.
Taylor Swifts approves your message.
Her songs are mostly poppy crap, but at least she writes them.
Doubtful. And all kinds of stuff goes on in the studio.
"The cultural Christian ethos that undergirds the civilization"
Thanks for bringing that up, Paving!
How Religion Controls, Oppresses, and Deceives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXFRmc3zYnc
Voltaire challenged superstition and oppression. Argued for reason over fear, and more insight into critical thinking.
He questioned how a loving deity could demand the slaughter of whole populations, and the difference between what region preached and what religion practised.
It has oft been said, To survive in Hollywood you have to know who runs it but never let on that you know. Walt Disney tried to warn us, but we didn't listen.
Is Hollywood like Minneapolis or Palm Springs? People of like ilk congregate together. Hollywood is like a magnet for LBTGQ and other forms of freaks. Minneapolis for Muslims, Palm Springs, another LBTGQ magnet.
The problem is that young America, especially, think these freaks are real and cool.
They are not.
Lugh, this old man was a movie freak back in the day.
"Little Big Man" ~ A revisionist western that satirized and subverted the mythology of the genre – and of America itself.
"Out of Africa" ~ love, loss, and the complexities of colonial life in Africa.
"Awakenings" ~ of a fictional neurologist played by Robin Williams, whose character is based on Dr Oliver Sacks. In 1969, Oliver Sacks discovers the drug L-DOPA and administers the drug to catatonic patients of the epidemic encephalitis lethargica. The patients, among them the main character Leonard, played brilliantly by De Niro at his best, are awakened after decades and must try to acclimate to an unfamiliar and terrifying new life. An incredible film exploring the complex nature of the human mind.
If this movie does not make you cry..........
Where are these types of films of today? Ford vs Ferrari" pfffft.... Total crap.
And I did not realize Hollywood was dominated by Jewish control? True???
Nicodemus: How can a man go back into his mother and be born again?
Christ: You are high priest of Israel and you know not these things?
For the same reason that anyone cares what guys who can hit major league pitching think about shaving kit or coffee. Whatever that is... reason? Don't need no steeenking reason!
Because their opinions DO MATTER to a lot of mush brained Americans. They have millions of folllowers on their social media accounts. People follow them around and take their pictures. The media like "Breitbart" publish their opinions prominently on their website. I would estimate 50% of Breitbart headlines are quotes from celebrities railing against Trump, ICE and Americans in general.
Because they're narcissists surrounded by sycophants?
Ten million dimwits will hang on Billie Eilish's every word and vote accordingly.
I don't even know who that is and the fact that this person has millions of followers is a clear indication of the sorry pathetic state of the general American.
I don't "follow" anybody. I have no social media accounts. I have a few authors I like to read such as JHK but don't "follow" any of them.
People that "follow" others are just that. Followers. Useless. Cannot think for themselves. Pathetic.
Kind of like grown men who wear a football jersey with another man's name on their back. Seriously. Do they hate themselves so much so that they wear another mans name on their own body?
Preach. Sports are one of the reasons that we lost this nation. We gave our all to them but another race was better at them than we were. We gave our all to making money, but another people were better at it than were. What we are best at, creating wonderful nations with high culture and pure scientific research, that we don't care very much about anymore.
As it turns out, blacks are not better at sports than whites, it's a huge DEI scam and it starts at the high school level. Massive racism, but what else is new? Christian McCaffrey has talked about it and a book by Donald Jefferies is in the works on this topic.
You'd like the NHL. While blacks are vastly superior at playing basketball and most positions in football, whites are the best at hockey. Not even close.
I saw a comedian talking about that once. He compared these fans to high school girlfriends wearing their boyfriends' jackets.
He said, "If you wear another man's name and number, he gets to fuck you."
I'm waiting for Billie Eilish and the rest to hand over their mansion keys to a 20 times great grandson of Pocahontas. Her son was only the governor of the Virginia colony so we can easily see how right from the beginning natives were marginalized./sarc
"Pocahontas' son was the governor of the Virginia colony ... therefore American natives were not marginalized." 🙄
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"Anecdotal evidence is information based on personal experiences, individual stories, or isolated observations rather than systematic, scientific research. Often referred to as "anecdata," it is considered the lowest level of evidence because it is subjective, rarely verified, and cannot be used to prove broad claims." - Google AI Overview
Malignant narcissism is the reason why they think their opinions matter.
I have family and friends (former) that fit the bill to a T.
I have always been perplexed by the fascination with celebrity exhibited by a large percentage of the population. My father took me to a pro football game when I was about ten years old. After the game, a sizable crowd went onto the field in order to get an autograph from the local team's quarterback. My father asked "wouldn't you like to go get an autograph?" My response was "Why would I want to do that?"
Because having a few bucks in their pockets makes them think they're superior to us. It's amazing how misled they are. Totally irrelevant to us yet full of self importance amongst their own 🤦♂️
"...has been taken over by women (and womanish men) acting out Cluster-B psychodrama fantasies..."
It's like treating PMS with LSD.
Wow, that certainly creates quite a picture. I'm an old lady and used to have horrid PMS, I can't imagine adding LSD to that. Yikes! As if men don't have it bad enough when they have to endure us women with PMS.
100%
I'm female. Most women should not be put in charge of anything outside of a schoolroom. Most women are emotion based, and a great with empathy in the classroom, in a hospital, in a nursing home. Elsewhere, where cold logic is required? Not so much.
And that's not even factoring in PMS.
It's just how the sexes are wired. Most men= logic. Most women= feelings
Yes, studies show they feel much compassion for criminals being punished, but little for their victims. And often none at all for their husbands whom they routinely victimize.
Glad you used the qualifier “most”. I always preferred being in the company of intelligent men, as I couldn’t stand the usual small, petty talk of females. Not all men are intelligent though!
And now the "school marms" called "teachers" are weaponizing the classrooms and sending 5-year olds up to middle-schoolers out with signs to protest ICE.
(smh)
100,000 LIKES for you!! What immediately comes to my mind is Karen Bass, mayor of L.A. - enough said. Also, the head Fire Commissioner of L.A., can't remember her name, who completely muddled up the Palos Verdes fire in L.A. last year. Both are butch lesbians, I can't even imagine having to deal with them on PMS, the poor men who had to work under those 2 lovelies direction. I've also come across a number of women who are mayors, govs etc. who are just as horrifying as Fire Commissioner & Karen Bass. btw, both of those last 2 are communist.
In summary, Karen Bass and L.A. County Fire commissioner are communists, butch lesbians with MASSIVE numerous axes to grind (mostly against men) who are deranged lunatics, on PMS and quite possibly have several other diagnoses - when you think about it, what could possibly go wrong??
I say all of this as a woman myself.
I think you're on to something, I don't know ,if they've done a clinical trial yet ,but I think this needs to be examined, if for nothing else, just the entertainment value.
Here's the thing: we look at their antics from the outside at theater. But it's NOT theater. I suspect most really believe this stuff; it's their mind keeping them safe from... whatever.
Sort of like Stockholm Syndrome. Their central nervous system and their mind says "we've got to this to survive," and they don't even realize their dysfunction.
shibumi, I’m finding I’m liking most of what you post here today. Great minds!
Why thank you! :) If you really want to do a deep dive, look into Myers-Briggs Personality Theory. It's fallen out of favor, but does explain why *most* women are not good in executive positions. Most, but not all.
Permanent Menstrual Syndrome? Actually, if we could get some good quality acid, it might be the perfect treatment if we could control the messaging.
Catchy analogy.
Hmmm ... who really owns and runs Hollywood?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_mePjkQW_c
I can think of a more apt or better description! You nailed it.
My wife called it...."Natures little Gift"
lol!
And David “JC Penny
These award shows are nothing more than circle jerks for virtue-signaling degenerates. They truly have some gall. Last Bad Bunny was lecturing us about what it means to be an American, but can barely speak English. What a joke.
Americans are tired of being lectured about morals by coke-addicts and pedophiles.
And virtue signaling old narcissists whose shelf life long expired.
Was that a reference to Bobby DiNiro?
Add Springsteen to that list. And Neil Young, etc.
Kneel Young.
It makes sense that DeNiro is pedobear type!
Take your pick!
DeNiro is a caricature of himself anymore; he shows up & does the Deniro schtick & that’s all he can do.
“You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? There’s only the two of us here.”
Like the once great Neil Young.
When was he great? A couple good songs and a lot of pontificating about things he knows nothing about. He's been a moron from the beginning. Ditto Springsteen, the fake everyman.
This is a fun article on Neil Young if you haven't read it yet:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/neil-young-encounters-most-boomer-leftist-problem-imaginable
You said it! Their fans probably also think of Kamala as a brilliant speaker.
Phil calls him Neeler.
Amen, bruddah. I haven't watched one of these awards shows since Dances With Wolves won an Oscar for Best Picture. Don't miss it in the slightest degree.
At least CP, Mick and Keith never lectured us on politics.
Just couldn't get no satisfaction.
There will never be a group like the Stones' again, eh!
And they were Limey's. LOL
Blacks are our entertainers now. Rock was too White and Wild for them to keep on. The White Dionysian was used to destroy the higher Apollonian culture of the West. Now that it has served it's purpose, it's being quietly disposed of.
All blacks can do is mumble strange garbled poetry into a microphone synched up with a mind numbing computer generated bass beat.
Ever see a black person play a flute, french horn or cello? I'm sure they exist but they are a rare breed. Personally, I can't recall ever seeing one.
Not only that, they were a Tavistock operation, like the Beatles.
From a source in your own country, but there are plenty of sources. You might try Dave McGowan's 'Weird Scenes inside the Canyon'. The whole 60s counterculture was a deep state op. It had the effect it was meant to have on society, which Mr K decries regularly. All planned.
https://www.frot.co.nz/design/conspiracies/how-the-tavistock-institute-invented-rock-roll/
https://ia601604.us.archive.org/26/items/InsideTheLCDavidMcGowan2014/Inside%20The%20LC%2C%20David%20McGowan%20%282014%29.pdf
Go on, Dennis, come back with the accusation that was literally invented and weaponised by the CIA itself - conspiracy theorist! Make my day, and theirs.
Sheila, my dear, if you would take off your glasses of hatred, and read all my posts in context, then there would be no reason to attribute things to me the way you do.
One can have different opinions on fundamental matters. I have no problem with that. But I sense pure hatred in you.
You misinterpret things into my comments, putting words into my mouth that are in no way stated in my posts.
You latest accusation: suggesting my doctor daughters are guilty of medical malpractice.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Go fuck yourself and the horse you rode in on!
Bringing Bad Bunny to play the Superbowl halftime is a big middle finger to most of America. Meanwhile Budweiser is doing all American schmalz with an eagle and a Clydesdale to encourage us forget the Bud Light middle finger.
Why I won't watch Superbowl.
Me either. Dumped the NFL years ago thanks to the injection of politics into football. Goodell is a complete & total douche.
Same here.
I don't follow any "sport" that has a pre-defined/determined political bent.
Who's playing this year, anyway?
Didn't he just say that some freak named Bad Bunny was playing there.
Haven't a clue.
Pats vs Stealers. Which side are you on, tom?
I'll go w/the Seahawks by a field goal, Jarek.
not KC
The very fact that a sodomite fudge packing moron named "Bad Bunny" is famous says a lot about the depravity of our society.
Funny bit of info: A company by the name of Tribe, Inc. does the production design for the Super Bowl halftime. Their CEO is the one who designed the Obama set for his speech in Grant Park. HUGE Dem. Works for the DNC. Also a Khazarian.
Interesting!
I still have my quaint home stereo, components made in the '70s and '80s - and it sounds WAY better than any bluetooth speaker.
Also can still make music with my Fender Bandmaster Reverb vacuum tube guitar amplifier, made in Fullerton, California in 1978 - and all it has needed is its electrolytic capacitors replaced (they are wear items, so Leo Fender designed his amplifiers to have the capacitors easy to replace - I did it myself). Try replacing components in your bluetooth speaker.
I have a Rickenbacker tube amp. I've had several people offer me hundreds for it, but I continue to hang on to it. I bought it for $75 in the mid-90's.
A good tube amp goes for thousands today, not hundreds.
I have a basement full of them and they are going to be like Rolexes at some point.
Or cat boxes when the grid goes down. I'm so stupid I threw away a working Kalamazoo tube amp when I got my first solid state back in the late '70s.
I've played with lots of guys over here who have never even heard a real tube amp. They are used to cheapo solid-state amps or the hybrids with a 12AX7 in the preamp.
They are floored when the JCM-800 warms up and the first sounds leave the 1960ax cab with Greenbacks. :D
Have my Rickenbacker 325c64 plugged into a Vox British-made AC30; yeah - I know: Beatles freak! ;<)
I have the wall of sound, but it's not "quaint." Occasionally registers as epicenter on the Richter....
I have a 1974 Pioneer 1010 hundred watt receiver--the first. Sounds great. Sucks a lot of energy though, and I can't lift it (50 pounds) anymore.
I’m stuck on SiriusXM Radio listening to the 70’s Channel and Smokey’s Soul Town.
Get those fruity clean tones out of here and get yourself a JMP or JCM-800 :D
Wait. If there’s a better guitar sound than a ‘60’s Deluxe Reverb I want to know about it. Wait: there isn’t.
If you like clean tones, I would say an old AC-30 is just as good. Lots of Hi-Watts, too. Not sure anything has more headroom than a big Hi-Watt.
The guitar/pickups you use will also have a major effect.
I've played a couple of AC30's that were sublime! My Deluxe only starts to sound right above 4, then it's glory hallelujah ;-)
I bought an old Marshall from a pawnshop back in the '70s because I wanted to sound like Hendrix. Discovered I hate, hate, hated the Marshall sound. Chacun a son gout.
No self-respecting guitarist would ever utter these words.
Well, I'm sort of a self-loathing guitarist, since I got into punk in '78 and really never left.
Me, too. I listen to an old Kenwood receiver hooked up to a pair of Boston Acoustics.
My husband-- who is about to retire-- has the 4' speakers.
As it turned out, after Littlefeather died, her family came out and said she wasn’t actually Native American at all. So it was fake all the way down!
Yep, "Littlefeather" turned out to be another member of the Pretendian tribe.
I wonder if she was in the same tribe as Elizabeth Warren?
The Idonknow tribe. Or the Imanidiot tribe?
Or that fake Indian that got into it with the high school kid in DC.
Really? He looked like the real thing. A fake war hero, yes.
Like The Democrat and the UniParty Fake Tribes we have now.
What a surprise—not.
Fake, just like everything else in Hollywood.
This is what happens when the raving mad, man-hating bull dyke, Randy Weingarten and her Bolshevik-Marxist-Demo-Commie Teachers Union takes over the "education" of our children.
I blame 99% of the problems this country faces today with the fact that the kids don't know how to read. We pay more in taxes per pupil than any country on earth, yet our kids come out of 8th grade not knowing how to sound out letters and words (phonics) or basic math that I can do in my head.
You see those little freaks like Billie Eilish and some of the others? These are young people who grew up in homes with no books, just screens. They will never know the joy of a boring summer day, sitting outside with a good book and nothing to do but read. Or, as we are now in this part of the world, being snowed in and enjoying the time spent reading all sorts of novels.
Just look at that Freak Show last night- how pathetic those young people are - they are lost souls who have a lot of money that they don't even know how to use. What are they going to do- get more tattoos or badly fitting, ugly, expensive clothes that aren't nearly as nice as what the average office workers used to wear at the beginning of this century.
But back to the Teachers Union devils. They have destroyed our public schools to the point that they are dangerous for children and young people. The teachers are there to promote their Satanic agenda of body mutilation, baby killing and hate. Most of them belong in prison instead of making their 6-figure salaries and benefits we tax - slaves can only dream of. I am glad that most of my grand kids were home schooled to some degree.
The ceremony last night should have been dedicated to Moloch right from the get go to clear up any doubts that people might have as to what it was all about.
This whole country needs an exorcism.
Or an enema. Plus 100 on Weingarten and our "educational" system.
When is the last time you talked to several other people about a movie you all saw? It seems like a foreign concept today. Hollywood has run themselves into the irrelevancy. As for the Grammy's, agree this political messaging is a test to see if you get to stay in the club. The music itself is not good. How much of it has any staying power at all? Will anyone listen to any of this 5 or 10 years from now? Maybe 5%.
My friends/acquaintances and I seem to watch movies from years past that we never got around to seeing or we are rewatching—usually on Netflix or similar. I don’t even know what movies are currently showing. I can’t remember the last time I was in a theater.
Same here, can't remember last time I was in a theatre and husband and I watch old movies, things we've seen before. We're old folks so have forgotten a lot of what we've seen before so watching again is like a new experience! LOL.
Good to know I'm not the only one who's forgotten everything!
I go to a movie when I have to be away from home for X hours for Y reason. Saw Anaconda recently. It was... silly.
Netflix LOL. Puhleez
Since my husband and I need to steer clear of politics and he surely would not want to watch the Melania documentary with me, we are resigned to watching neutral material together: last night it was Ratatouille, the animation movie with the rat chef, which only had a brief foreshadowing of the woke Disney future with the ominous female knife-wielding chef with a chip on her shoulder...
Melania is an actress who pretended to be a traditional Catholic before coming out as a pro-abort. She may have been an Epstein girl. Trump was massively involved as many of us feared.
So massively involved he got Epstein arrested and banned the man from his golf club and estate.
With the latest trove of pictures showing clearly labeled CIA labeled all over them one has to wonder is it real or staged?
In this age of nothing is real and everything is a deep fake.
The latest dump also implicates Democrats and many of their supporters, so it appears to be back firing on the get Orangeman bad world stage.
I hear the Melania movie is pretty good and shows some of the inner working of the Trump Administration.
Video killed the radio star. Covid killed the movie star.
Mel Gibson may be running for governor.
Young Mel Gibson was fuggin brilliant in the original "Mad Max".
Shot on a next to nothing budget and made zillions.
Then Hollywood jumped in with their sequels.
Which were just crap!
I thought the Road Warrior was pretty good.
Thunderdome was a bit corny.
Predicted 20 years ago that high tech would destroy Hollywood due to the decline of creativity. It has destroyed song writing and CGI has destroyed cinematography. AI, watch You Tube is going to destroy what is left.
Perfect faces and big boobs, ya hoo.
"high tech would destroy Hollywood due to the decline of creativity."
The intentional destruction of white culture destroyed creativity.
Some of the greatest rock music ever created came about because of some guitar playing by some illiterate black dudes in the 20s and 30s.
Partially true, but not the whole story.
Hum perfect faces and boobs? Not sure about that, it's more like how ugly and uninventing can I make myself look: Billy...ish and Cyrus the Miley!!! Then the Bieb in underwear. What is attractive and genuine about this set? YUK!
Not only are they as ugly and disgusting as they can be but they make themselves even uglier.
Jelly Roll. Ever heard of this guy? I could shave my dog's ass and make him walk backwards and he'd look better than this putz. The guy can't sing. He weighs 450 pounds. Looks like a walking human hamper. Facial tats abound.
Post Malone. Ugly as ugly can be. Facial tats. Fake grills. Talentless voice. No ability.
Lizzo. Disgusting creature. Cellulose jiggling and twerking are her claims to fame.
Gone are the days when the famous people made efforts to be pretty people. The glitterati are gone. Ugliness, obesity and filth are all they have left. They are still followed by millions and millions of adoring fans. The WWE is obsessed with Jelly Roll and even put him in sports on Wrestlemania, their Super Bowl of wrestling.
My parents thought the same about the Rolling Stones, CP
That Mick Jaggers dancing was that of a pervert!
And don't start them on poor old Kief Richards!
Fuggin drug addict! He will never last to 50! LOL
The prediction was easy to make, as autotuning and recording software had already made recorded music artificially perfect. AI is just the next escalation: software stealing lyrics and music played by humans to create something that appears "original."
I can assure you however, that when one plays a live show, people still react to hearing a group of musicians play--flaws and all. On the last record I played on, we purposefully did all the takes live and didn't polish anything with software.
100%. My band of old old geezers still pulls good crowds. Live music is better bumper stickers should be issued. And no, southern man don’t need him around anyhow, still. 😎
Nice.
One pet peeve are the music geezers who pretend they're still 30-something. There's nothing wrong with sitting in a rocking-chair (rock and roll?) or recliner or even bench on-stage while singing and/or playing. And why not? It would make for a different, arguably better, look. Certainly pianists and symphonists do. Wear a cardigan and some slippers. Cut your long hair short. Have little tables beside each member with some tea and biscuits and a little lamp on them.
A couple of months ago, somewhat by accident and a bit of deliberate research, I discovered a band that used an apparent vocal-modeling software by Yamaha, called Vocaloid. Maybe you've heard of it.
I had never heard of it, but liked some of the band's songs, even though the vocals might be totally synthetic.
But part of my thinking was along the lines of how the vocals could be redone with a real person, maybe with a similar voice to the synthetic one, but even trying to match the synthetic vocals as accurately as possible, if with that nice 'imperfect' human component.
So Vocaloid music, then, and even AI music in general, could be viewed as rough-drafts, inspirations and/or ways to sometimes break creative blocks or to even reverse-steal from and then adapt/modify. Given that AI has been trained on 'stolen' human material, it would seem fair to return the favor.
So it can be more of a creative yin-yang, back-and-forth, even ultimately a human-music/art-enriching process, rather than something necessarily dead-ended, depending on the approaches.
I've been to, and passed by, places with live human bar/pub/cafe music, for example, and much of it was horrible, often with reheated, poorly-executed covers that have been played to death over the years, rather than new, original, creative material. That's the other extreme to mindless, watery AI music.
Has anybody else noticed YouTube is using more half naked gals in their thumbnails?
And the word "fuck" has become old hat in their videos now!
And the latest's Sports Illustrated young lady on the cover.
Pulling her bikini bottoms down to where I swear you can almost see her vagina!
Even Playboy never went that far back in the day!
Ok boomer! LOL
Look closely at You Tube, it is becoming 50% AI generated.
Did you watch the Grammys, terrible group of fruitcakes.
And now AI is getting rid of writing.
Cursive is making a comeback. Democrats hate cursive because it focuses individuality. Socialism cannot handle individual thinking.
Come on man!
Did you just pull that amazing claim outa yuh butt?
LOL
But shibari will remain.
When my wife and I get together with friends the topic of “what movies have you seen, or what movies are you looking forward to” used to be discussed every time. I literally can’t remember the last time our group had that discussion. Now we just lament the fact that there’s very little on streaming that is worth watching
There is no staying power. One hit wonders abound. Talentless hacks who can't play an instrument or hold a tune without the assistance of autotune software.
I’ve yet to watch a Grammy. Stopped watching the Oscars a few decades ago.
yeah, I do not think I have ever watched an awards show, ever.
Their ship is sinking like a stone and they just keep drilling holes.
Works for me!
My understanding (anecdotal, from friends with GenX children and GenZ grandchildren), is that albums + stereos + speakers are back. It's a thing. Even (13? 15?) years ago, when living in DC, I went to album/CD swapmeets (at the Black Cat club for anyone interested) where albums were selling like hot cakes, which surprised me because I had divested in the 90s, having gotten tired of shlepping it all every move. But I find this change very encouraging. Pompous asses like B. Springstein and N. Young may actually be driving this rebellion.
Both my adults (millenials) children have gone to turntables and albums. They are also collecting VHS tapes films and ask that we donate them any vinyls and tapes we still have. The old is new again and of such better quality. We of course had not discarded any of these components for their simple quality. So your comment might not be so anecdotal in the end.
I worked in a thrift store in 2015. I was shocked at how many people came in specifically for albums and old VCR tapes. This retro move has been happening under the radar for a while.
Socialists always enlist the "arts" to glorify their dictatorial wishes. Art and music cease being about freedom, but are simply a tool of propaganda. It is important to remember that Hitler was a failed artist. The hard fact is that most artists and musicians, like most football and baseball players, never make it to the "big leagues," but plod along in relative poverty. The wealth excess of the few who do manage to make it to the "top", usually because they are "groomed" by those leftist corporatist record labels and movie companies, get obscenely wealthy--these days not from having actual talent, but by being continually promoted by clever marketing. No surprise, then, that so many "artists" are leftist hacks--the only ones "grooming" them are other leftist hacks.
The independent music scene is allowing thousands of actually talented artists and musicians, to get a sliver of the wealth pie--using outlets like YouTube, Rumble, etc.--by self-recording and self-producing their product. And a lot of those have other career "gigs" to help pay the bills. And, in the case of music, their talent completely eclipses the manufactured "talent" of those clowns getting clown awards on the Grammy stage. Nowhere has the leftist degradation of music as an art been so dramatic as in the black music scene. In the 70+ years of the leftist welfare state, the U.S. has gone from producing some of the best black musicians in history--Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Oscar Peterson, etc., etc.--to producing little more than talentless reciters of barely musical grunts of thumping bass and elementary school poetry perverted by using adult expletives. Those earlier black artists--still in the day of actual racial discrimination--proved that they had true artistic talent as good or better than white musicians. 70+ years of the leftist welfare state destroying the nuclear black family has destroyed all of that. Oh, and to the comment that many of those earlier black musicians suffered from drug addiction--often to heroin--they did, usually directly marketed to them by white Mafiosi, who just happened to also be racist Democrats. Just another way for white Democrats to keep blacks poor and dependent. Fancy that.
IMO rap was part of a deliberate plan to destroy and control the black culture which was assimilating too well w white culture. Not enough division going on there. Some of the best black musicians were produced and many incredible black vocalists including those from the Doo Wop years. These talentless morons today actually think that 'sampling' music lifted from a better time will somehow give them credibility as an artist. No, the only credit you get for that is called stealing.
Well said. A fine assessment of the music biz. I spent 30 years in radio as a disc jockey, AM/FM all formats. There is no longer talent like Oscar Peterson or Duke Ellington. The Grammy show's hour-long tribute to Rap music was like finger nails on a chalk board. Then I realized music albums are no longer available on CDs or Cassette tapes. The public pays for an album and is forced to load it to a hard drive or listen on their phone. Bye Bye American Pie....the Day that Music Died.
"You might see how that would entice an awful lot of people to check-out of reality altogether"
That is what Harari told us the plan is. Drugs and video games will be used to pacify the useless eaters, who, of course, will then be offed by a mandatory vaccine at some point.
I have an 11-year-old son and see how effective the digital assault is. We try to balance what he can and cannot do/have in this regard, but nearly all of his friends spend half their day in front of a screen.
What I also notice is that when you get them excited about real things (in our case, playing rock music together), you see how quickly they can snap out of it. Nothing can replace the person-to-person connection, and the act of doing something in the real world.
That said, lots of kids are having their brains molded and experiences controlled so that they never really know what that feels like.
Do you see any possible solution? I guess removing your kids from the public education system would help somewhat, but I don’t think that’s a complete solution to the problem.
I’d start with demonstrating The Circle of Life (eating what you hunt and fish and grow yourself). Kids love nature. It’s natural 😎 to them.
"Someone has written a book about the children and their need for their, just simply, emotional and mental development to have contact with the mountains, with the air, the sea, with the dawn, the sunset, the trees, the birds, the song of the birds. Children that don't have these experiences have no real idea of the world they live in. They live in a house, in a school, in a city that's all manufactured. And they begin to be progressively isolated from the basic dynamics of what human life is all about." ~ Thomas Berry
You can't do that here in Germany.
I spend a lot of time talking to him about learning to think for himself, and that a lot of what he is going to learn is not necessarily true.
Some things were actually much better here than in the States when I moved nearly 20 years ago.
Europe is going downhill fast, however.
Why The 1970s Produced The Last "Free" Human Minds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7Yg_1tch5c
Why are modern teenagers more anxious than ever before?
This video analyzes the unique psychological environment of the 1970s to understand what we have lost in the digital age.
From the "Default Mode Network" of the brain to the anti-fragility of 70's kids, it explores how boredom, friction, and privacy created a 70's generation with an unshakable sense of their own self-worth.
Phycologists and anthropologists proffer we've traded risks of the "Real World" for the psychological risks of a "Digital World".
It’s crucial to spend time every day detached from the internet and social media.
Just alone with your OWN thoughts.
Easier said than done, eh?
Youngish women are mostly angry and dissatisfied with their choices and their lives; they wanted their degrees, their big jobs, their command like generals, and their print on everything, and they got it except that it's not fulfilling. To feel better, they seek to destroy all that is conventional around them. Motherhood is now bestowed on dogs and cats, and any sexual status is encouraged. Fantasies that will be costly while they throw away their lives.
Young women are pissed because of the following:
1. Biology. Every month their bodies tell them in a not so subtle manner that their purpose is to produce babies and then care for those babies. The clock is ever ticking for a young woman.
2. Feminism. Feminism has told them that they are to reject that monthly biological reminder in favor of being a para-legal or a secretary or an "educator."
Biology wins out because they can't stop it. Sure, they can have a hysterectomy and carry their uteri around in a cute little bottle, but they can't deny the little parts, the DNA, that makes them women. Women serve one purpose. Have an nurture children. That is what nature has determined and it cannot be denied.
So, it is a constant battle for her. She's pissed. Angry. Resentful. Full of hate. Full of shame. Full of regret. Trying to find fulfillment in the feminists way as they grow old and become barren and die lonely old hags with no posterity to care for them.
Way to go ladies! Keep up the good work!
Boy, I can assure you, as good as the nose on our face, you are going to get a good old fashioned "Ass Whoopin" having dinner with my two doctor daughters, CP.
Ass Whoopin is a slang term used to describe the act of beating someone up. It can be used in a variety of contexts, ranging from playful banter to serious violence and aggression.
LOL, my daughters are not physically aggressive, nor violent.
But you are still going to crawl away with your tail between legs.
I guarantee it! Take care my friend.
I don't anticipate any scenario in which I would subject myself to dinner with either of your two daughters. Too scary! I've met some women in my time and you daughters sound as if they would rival the most manliest of ladies one could conjure up. The three of you can read my comment and bad mouth me until your blue in the faces. Free of charge!
Best,
CP
They were sold a lie. Their mothers probably had to work, be a wife and a mother. They were sold a lie as well.
Sometimes it takes a while to realize that you'vebeen sold a lie and to reject it. I feel sorry for them, and for the decent young guys out there who have no potential mates.
Circular back slapping while wearing better than thou self-made halos.
And sometimes only little more than that
True that.