Magical Thinking

14 Replies to “Magical Thinking”

1. White guy, you live in a world that any false allegations, your toast.
   Staying away from society is the ONLY option that there is.
   Funny thing is, they used to be that hardest workers with some of the greatest ideas.

   I noticed this a few decades ago and chose not to foster kids and got away from that as I was fully trained to treat some of the most aggressive but a single allegation, even in the future wasn’t worth the problem it could potentially cause me in the future.

2. so basically proof of entropy.
   but, BUT say that word in front of a narcissist millennial and 1 of 2 responses result:
   -the textbook ‘dumb look on their face’ because theyve never heard the term in 12 yrs of publick edgucaaaySHUN, or
   -they will dispute said claim because they sense it impinges on the default position of blaming someone/thing else for THEIR negligence and failure to observe sufficient diligence in the face of a phenomenon that affects the very core nature of the REAL universe, not that ‘Twilight Zone’ they are crafting.

3. The Sons of Mary seldom bother, for they have inherited that good part;
   But the Sons of Martha favour their Mother of the careful soul and the troubled heart.
   And because she lost her temper once, and because she was rude to the Lord her Guest,
   Her Sons must wait upon Mary’s Sons, world without end, reprieve, or rest.

   It is their care in all the ages to take the buffet and cushion the shock.
   It is their care that the gear engages; it is their care that the switches lock.
   It is their care that the wheels run truly; it is their care to embark and entrain,
   Tally, transport, and deliver duly the Sons of Mary by land and main.
   https://www.poetry.com/poem/33576/the-sons-of-martha

4. I noticed that while I was at Armpit College.

   A few years before I quit, the teaching of drafting was being overhauled. The logic was since everybody and his dog was using CAD, why bother with making drawings with vellum and pencil? I pushed for retaining the conventional approach as the students would understand the various techniques used to produce the various views and details that are needed. Sometimes it helps a designer to simply make a rough layout on a scrap sheet because one could do it at full size.

   More important is that sometimes older drawings need to be revised and they’re not on a computer. Even worse is that many CAD programs weren’t designed by draftsmen, so it was hard to make drawings the same way someone with a conventional drafting background would.

   As usual for AC, my arguments were rational and logical, based on personal experience, so they had to be disparaged and rejected.

   1. I agree – I was taught conventional drafting in first year design (1971) and when CAD was introduced, it became a more efficient “tool” for me to use (primarily I could send drawings to other disciplines such as engineers for them to do their work). But I quite often still find it is easier to quickly do a drawing (to scale “of course” on grid paper) to work out a design idea.

      1. Unfortunately, the way design is being taught is mostly wrong.

         I encouraged my students to start a junk box of odds and ends, things such as Lego, pipe cleaners, and plasticene. They could use those items to approximate what they’re working on, hold it, and look around it, thereby getting an idea of what it not only looks like but use it to prepare the drawings.

         The best designers I knew had something like that. Do you think my students heeded my advice? Nah. That sort of thing is anachronistic. After all, everything’s done on computers now, aren’t they?

5. “Margaret Atwood is at leisure to write about her Republic of Gilead, a feminist dystopia in which women must submit their sexuality to their male masters, only because men carved Canada from the wild for her to write it in. “

   Heh…take that Madge!!
   Great read.

   1. Madge also supposedly wrote that after a visit to a Muslim country, but was too chicken to use the proper background. Easier to malign Christians who, generally, don’t treat their women as property than expose her source.

6. Yeah …. like the magical budged will balance on its own.
   They must be teaching this stuff in the ‘socialist studies’.
   The communists run the countries with the same kind of magic.
   Looks like something the late 1900 hundreds and early 2000’s generations find mind blowing.
   As it is then, today, take a few grams soma and relax, the world is not going nowhere without you.

7. and God will plow that field if you pray hard enough!
   Magical thinking indeed!

   1. “Accused by fellow workers of shirking his duties by attending Mass each day, taking time out for prayers, etc. Isidore claimed he had no choice but to follow the highest Master. One tale says that when his master came in the morning to chastise him for skipping work for church, he found angels plowing the fields in place of Isidore.”

      https://catholicsaints.info/saint-isidore-the-farmer/

8. A good read.
   As someone who wondered the “desert” for almost 20 years I can relate to the article.

   The attack on boys and men has been allowed because weak men have attained power.
   Women wanted to “civilize” men and make them not men.
   They still do today while wanting to rid the world of white men all together.

   My grandfather, in his 80’s, would shovel the neighbors driveway because her husband was a lazy sack o’ shit.
   Unfortunately my grandfather’s son wouldn’t have given me an arrow if his life depended on it.

   I think a good father (and mother!) should show their son as many arrows as possible.
   Western society’s collapse is inevitable unless things change.

   1. I was raised by old country German parents. I was expected to pull my weight and I eventually had to do my part for the household. If I didn’t…… I think you can figure out the rest of the story.

9. Meh.
   As the debt-based economy collapses, a parallel economy emerges.