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Liminal Windows
Aug. 11th, 2019 09:40 amMy dear friend included me in her wedding website, which made me feel very loved, and that is something I need to feel right now ‘cause the crazy keeps right on crazying.
Going to Tburg for two days ‘cause RTT needs a support system.
Bringing 20 pounds of tomatoes, three enormous beets, a large quantity of Swiss chard, three cucumbers, 20 jalapenos, and half a tomato pie.
It’s all unspeakably grim.
On top of that, there are practical issues—like how are they going to pay September’s rent?
RTT has what I would describe as a place-filler job. There is no way he can pay the rent on his own.
He seems bound and determined to do hospice care in that apartment, which I think is ill-advised for many, many reasons.
L pulled me aside for a heart-to-heart: “Do not, I repeat, not give them any money. Do not.”
She’s right, but it’s hard not to.
If only B had listened to me in June when I said, “Apply for short-term disability. Take your social security early.”
Short-term disability, which would have been relatively easy to get, is now off the table altogether.
RTT is having to grow up in a hurry.
This is not an altogether bad thing, of course.
Anyway, I will be driving him around to various social services appointments Monday. And helping him draw up a realistic budget. And if his Uncle Lew and the medical social worker can’t talk him out of bringing B back to that apartment, helping him draw up a nursing care plan.
Also cleaning, doing laundry and cooking.
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In other news, Boy Wonder hits the Epstein nail on the head:
Ok folks, looks like we have another little "liminal window" (9/11, 2008 crash, Brexit, Trump election). Maybe we can nudge it open a bit.
You might have noticed that for the first time in quite a while pretty much everyone agrees that the "mainstream narrative" around Epstein's 'suicide' is bullshit. This is collective a "moment of clarity". Let's use it.
I know. In a few days, we will all largely be back wasting our time being outraged at each other. Probably it will be mapping "who is really most to blame" in this whole thing. A simple divide between "Epstein is a Trump guy" vs. "Epstein is a Clinton guy". Yay.
This kind of nonsense doesn't matter. Guns don't matter. Immigration doesn't matter. AOC doesn't matter. White Supremacy doesn't matter. Socialism doesn't matter. Foreign wars don't matter.
Of course, *all* of these things matter . . . in due time.
But what really matters *right now* is that we are all more or less sure that some group of elites can run a global pedophile/blackmail ring implicating a whole not of powerful people, get caught, off someone held in police custody and lie about it (poorly) - and we *CANT DO ANYTHING AT ALL ABOUT IT*.
Think about that. We are so easy to manipulate. So easy to distract and put at each-others throats, that this whole story is going to fade in, what, 48 hours? And we will all be pulled under into another 'news cycle'.
Here is the thing: if we can't do anything about *this*, we aren't going to be able to do anything about anything else.
Good luck solving any or all of the above problems unless and until a critical mass of people can hold their shit together, not get dragged down into participating in the spectacle and begin the slow process of recohering something like a civil polity.
It isn't going to happen through outrage, shaming or arguing. It isn't going to happen through the 2020 election. And if it comes to a civil war, God help us all.
See you at the next liminal event.
Going to Tburg for two days ‘cause RTT needs a support system.
Bringing 20 pounds of tomatoes, three enormous beets, a large quantity of Swiss chard, three cucumbers, 20 jalapenos, and half a tomato pie.
It’s all unspeakably grim.
On top of that, there are practical issues—like how are they going to pay September’s rent?
RTT has what I would describe as a place-filler job. There is no way he can pay the rent on his own.
He seems bound and determined to do hospice care in that apartment, which I think is ill-advised for many, many reasons.
L pulled me aside for a heart-to-heart: “Do not, I repeat, not give them any money. Do not.”
She’s right, but it’s hard not to.
If only B had listened to me in June when I said, “Apply for short-term disability. Take your social security early.”
Short-term disability, which would have been relatively easy to get, is now off the table altogether.
RTT is having to grow up in a hurry.
This is not an altogether bad thing, of course.
Anyway, I will be driving him around to various social services appointments Monday. And helping him draw up a realistic budget. And if his Uncle Lew and the medical social worker can’t talk him out of bringing B back to that apartment, helping him draw up a nursing care plan.
Also cleaning, doing laundry and cooking.
###
In other news, Boy Wonder hits the Epstein nail on the head:
Ok folks, looks like we have another little "liminal window" (9/11, 2008 crash, Brexit, Trump election). Maybe we can nudge it open a bit.
You might have noticed that for the first time in quite a while pretty much everyone agrees that the "mainstream narrative" around Epstein's 'suicide' is bullshit. This is collective a "moment of clarity". Let's use it.
I know. In a few days, we will all largely be back wasting our time being outraged at each other. Probably it will be mapping "who is really most to blame" in this whole thing. A simple divide between "Epstein is a Trump guy" vs. "Epstein is a Clinton guy". Yay.
This kind of nonsense doesn't matter. Guns don't matter. Immigration doesn't matter. AOC doesn't matter. White Supremacy doesn't matter. Socialism doesn't matter. Foreign wars don't matter.
Of course, *all* of these things matter . . . in due time.
But what really matters *right now* is that we are all more or less sure that some group of elites can run a global pedophile/blackmail ring implicating a whole not of powerful people, get caught, off someone held in police custody and lie about it (poorly) - and we *CANT DO ANYTHING AT ALL ABOUT IT*.
Think about that. We are so easy to manipulate. So easy to distract and put at each-others throats, that this whole story is going to fade in, what, 48 hours? And we will all be pulled under into another 'news cycle'.
Here is the thing: if we can't do anything about *this*, we aren't going to be able to do anything about anything else.
Good luck solving any or all of the above problems unless and until a critical mass of people can hold their shit together, not get dragged down into participating in the spectacle and begin the slow process of recohering something like a civil polity.
It isn't going to happen through outrage, shaming or arguing. It isn't going to happen through the 2020 election. And if it comes to a civil war, God help us all.
See you at the next liminal event.
