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Dearly Beloved (8-1-22)

Posted on August 1, 2022 by Luke Ford

00:30 We are gathered here in the sight of God, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=144407
05:00 Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression: The Nature and Origins of Conservaphobia 2, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=144294
24:00 Tucker Carlson on possible war with China over Taiwan
1:15:30 Robert Malone – A vaccine scientist’s discredited claims have bolstered a movement of misinformation, https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/01/24/robert-malone-vaccine-misinformation-rogan-mandates/
1:17:00 Bob Saget, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Saget
1:18:20 Publications on the right such as American Greatness are unreadable
1:24:50 David Remnick at the New Yorker
1:28:25 Laurene Powell Jobs
1:30:00 Norman Podhoretz and John Podhoretz and Commentary magazine
1:31:00 Why is the LA Times so boring?
1:35:00 Matt Yglesias, restaurants, productivity

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Why Did Beverly Hills High Decline?

Posted on July 31, 2022 by Luke Ford

On his January 28, 2022 edition of the Parrot Room, Mickey Kaus says: “There was a wave of Persian refugees who don’t care that much about education and they displaced the other Jews… There’s a show about them called The Shahs of Sunset. They tend to be right-wing. All the rabbis are horrified by how conservative their congregations have gotten. They’re religious. They’re not like the old Jews who saw education as the way to the top. Their family is the way to the top. When they get into Harvard, their mothers cry for weeks because it means that they have to leave home. There’s a weird sexual double standard. The mothers tell their daughter, ‘Honey, can’t you wear your skirts a little shorter’ to attract a man, but if they have sex, they’re dead. It’s a fine line. They’re doomed, like the Shakers, to die out. It’s untenable. A lot of them become Orthodox Jews. They say, f*** it, if I’m not going to have sex, I might as well become an Orthodox Jew.”

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Dearly Beloved

Posted on July 30, 2022 by Luke Ford

We are gathered here in the sight of God, and in the presence of these witnesses, to join together to create meaning and to reinforce our commitment to our shared hero system which is commended to be honorable among all men; and therefore is not to be entered into unadvisedly or lightly – but reverently, discreetly, advisedly and solemnly. It is truly a blessing from heaven for us to reinforce here and now that what we know is real and true and good and beautiful really is real, true, good and beautiful and not an artificial construction of the real, true, good and beautiful that we are imposing on reality to make ourselves feel better. We really do have the truth and we know that the others live in darkness. They are of their father the devil and the lusts of their father they will do.

We can’t sustain our understanding of what is real, true, good and beautiful on our own. We need each other to create meaning.

Everything that is precious to us dissolves without reinforcement from society. All hierarchies, all values, all hero-systems are socially constructed.

Returning to a state of nature robs us of everything sacred.

Verily, verily I say unto you, winter is coming. We must all hang together, or we shall all hang separately.

Are you with me?

Let us speak frankly. A different culture is always a menace to us because it is a living example that life can go on heroically within a value framework totally alien to our own. These other cultures threaten to reveal the fictional character of our culture. They undermine our hero-system, and thereby reduce us to the status of animals among animals.

So when I bring you into the virtual community you are about to possess and I drive before you many cultures, many vlogs, many channels, channels larger and stronger than you, and when I have delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy. Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, for they will turn your children away from following me to serve other hero-systems, and my anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you. This is what you are to do to them: Challenge their credibility, challenge their logic, raid their livestreams and burn down their idols. For you are a holy people. I have chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be my people, my precious.

I am grooming you for great things.

Blogging is the promise of hope between two people who love each other sincerely, who honor each other as individuals, and who wish to unite their lives and share the future together. In this ceremony, we dedicate ourselves to the happiness and well-being of each other, in a union of mutual caring and responsibility.

The critics who dispute the fairness or legitimacy of our virtual community will be conceptually liquidated through the counter-charge that their criticisms are just sour-grapes-style resentment in the face of their failure to gain entry into our thing. As Rony Guldmann teaches us: “What had been a threat to institutional legitimacy is thereby translated into an affirmation of institutional legitimacy, because the social meaning of their critique now resides in the ‘chip on their shoulder’ that highlights the desirability of the very thing being criticized.”

Taught by our own joys, by our own sorrows, even by our own failures, that in blogging and vlogging, as in all life, whosoever insists upon saving their lesser goods and their little self, shall miss what is greater, but whosoever forgets themselves in devotion to their beloved and in consecration to their common hero-system, is surest to find a full and happy life.

There are no ties on earth so sweet, none so tender as those you are about to assume. There are no vows so solemn as those you are about to make. There is no institution of earth so sacred as that of the union we will form, for the true home is not only the place in which we will live, but is also the dwelling place where each lives in the heart and mind of the other.

I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand:
Till we have built Jerusalem,
In England’s green & pleasant Land.

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Cocaine as the white man’s drug (7-29-22)

Posted on July 29, 2022 by Luke Ford

00:45 Tucker Carlson on the recession
12:30 Interview with Johnny Monoxide, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2ks9cLiIaA
15:00 Price of Online Fame, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=144369
17:00 The most hated man on the internet, https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/27/entertainment/the-most-hated-man-on-the-internet-review/index.html
20:00 How Streaming Stars Pay the Price of Online Fame, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/29/technology/twitch-stalking.html
27:25 How Can I Stop My Stalker? Please Help! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jPkrvl0rAE
47:00 The Curse of Productivity Ft. Amouranth

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NYT: How Streaming Stars Pay the Price of Online Fame

Posted on July 29, 2022 by Luke Ford

From the Times today: “Stars on Twitch, the video game streaming platform, invite viewers into their homes virtually. What happens when one shows up in person?”

What happens varies from the inconvenient to the deadly.

In other words, if you want the rewards of fame, you’ll have to pay the price of fame.

If you want the rewards of playing football, you’ll have to pay the price of playing football.

If you want the rewards of belonging to an Orthodox Jewish community, you’ll have to pay the price of belonging to an Orthodox Jewish community.

I grew up a Seventh-Day Adventist and after a few years as an atheist, I converted to Orthodox Judaism. It worked out well for me but it came with a huge price. Many of the people I grew up with were appalled by my choice. Friendships that I’ve wanted to continue they wanted to discontinue. I distanced myself from people close to me even though that was not what I wanted. Life in Orthodox community comes with many requirements if you want to stay in good standing. It’s particularly difficult moving from a non-ritualistic religion (Protestantism) to a ritualistic one.

I’m not the only character in my story. When I converted to Judaism, I brought my problems with me. I have not been an unadulterated joy for others.

The main character in this Times story is Twitch streamer Kaitlyn Siragusa aka Amouranth. Here is what comes up when I Google her:

The Times says:

The unwanted visitor rapped on Kaitlyn Siragusa’s front door and peered through the windows of her home on the outskirts of Houston. When she did not answer, he walked around to the back of her house and jiggled a doorknob there.
He had been sending Ms. Siragusa, 28, unsettling messages for months and said online that he had sold his home and possessions in Estonia to fly halfway around the world to find her.
“I’m sorry that it took me too long to get here. It was a hell of a challenge,” said the man, captured by Ms. Siragusa’s security cameras in June. Then, speaking to his phone, which he was using to livestream the visit, he added: “But I’m here now.”
The man was one of Ms. Siragusa’s five million followers on Twitch, where she goes by Amouranth. She called the police, who eventually came and detained him. The incident was terrifying, she said, but it wasn’t the first time she had dealt with what is increasingly going hand in hand with being a high-profile streamer on Twitch: harassment and stalking…
Famed for pushing the boundaries of the platform’s rules against sexually explicit content, Ms. Siragusa can be found donning the costumes of scantily clad video game characters or bantering with her audience while doing her exercise routine.
Though Twitch discourages streamers from wearing swimwear if they are not planning to take a dip, Ms. Siragusa is able to broadcast in a bikini: She installed an inflatable hot tub in her bedroom last year…
“In livestreams, they see into your home, into your bedroom, and it feels very personal with them,” Ms. Siragusa said. “I think that is what contributes to a lot of the stalking: They feel like they know you.”

One of the prices of having five million followers is unwanted attention. Also, the way you present yourself is going to influence how people respond to you. Amourantha makes her money by selling her sex appeal, which provokes sexual frustration among the 99.999% of men who look at her but don’t get to have sex with her. If Kaitlyn left her Amourantha persona behind and concentrated her streaming on modestly explaining Shakespeare, she’d have fewer unwanted approaches from strangers.

To whom much has sex appeal been given, much is demanded.

The live streamer sells his soul. The commercially viable content producer sells his soul. He sells his life and thinking for attention, affection and money. If you don’t like the price, don’t play the game.

Amourantha tells the Times: ““I don’t know what else to do at this point, besides build a moat with crocodiles.”

Well, she could change the way she presents herself. She could change how often and how intensely she presents herself to the public. She could get married and give up livestreaming. Traditionally, women marry young and they get protected by a husband, a community and a society in exchange for conducting herself modestly. Such women rarely get stalked.

I don’t get the sense from this article that any of these women are married or belong to traditional communities.

Life in community is challenging. You have to constantly subordinate what you want to do for the sake of the community’s health. If you pay the price of community, however, you get to reap the rewards, which include increased protection.

The less modest the woman (or man), the less safe she’s going to be. The more you flaunt it, the more you risk it.

The women in this story have a business model of attracting men. They want to profit from this (emotionally, financially, and in status) and not to pay any cost.

There’s always a cost.

An easy way to minimize unwanted male attention is to not act like a whore.

Decent man usually don’t want to marry whores. The more you whore yourself out online, the less likely it is that decent people will include in their life, which means your social circle will increasingly be composed of the dangerous and dysfunctional.

Men evolved to hunt down women who broadcast that they are sexually available. That’s why traditional societies want men and women to tone things down and to be comport themselves in a way that is not going to disrupt families.

Are you tired of attracting bad people? Get in touch with your emotions. Take the high road. Don’t be a whore. Don’t take naked photos of yourself. Don’t videotape yourself having sex. Don’t appeal to people’s worst instincts to get attention.

Stalking is not something that has bothered bloggers because blogging appeals to a different audience than livestreams. Few authors and academics have stalkers.

Another character in this story is Dizzy Kitten. A Google search reveals:

Another character in this story is BrookeAB. A Google search reveals:

Another character in this story is Sweet Anita. A Google search reveals:

These pretty women played a role in their own misery. A key part of their appeal has been the notion that they’re single and ready to mingle and that’s usually a lie (even if they are single, they rarely want to mingle with fans). Porn stars would also want to put forward the image of being single to fire up their fan base but when you fire up your fan base, that comes with some dangers.

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TRS Exposed (7-28-22)

Posted on July 28, 2022 by Luke Ford

00:15 How The News Differs From Reality, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=144347
02:45 News media redefine recession to protect Democrats
30:00 Washington DC calls out national guard to deal with illegal aliens
41:00 Interview with Johnny Monoxide, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2ks9cLiIaA
43:00 Californians and other Americans are flooding Mexico City. Some locals want them to go home, https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-07-27/americans-are-flooding-mexico-city-some-mexicans-want-them-to-go-home
56:20 ‘The Most Hated Man on the Internet’ tackles the fight against a ‘revenge porn’ site, https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/27/entertainment/the-most-hated-man-on-the-internet-review/index.html
1:08:00 Are strip clubs a good predictor of a recession?, https://abc7.com/are-we-in-a-recession-2022-stripper-economic-forecast-market-crash/11990763/
1:44:00 Stop Being Socially Awkward: 10 Behaviors That Make You Look Weird

Art Bell comments: RECESSION & STRIPPERS… Greg Mannarino & the WORRY TUBERS knew, so did ‘p33lers’ aka “EXOTIC DANCERS” in February 2022 VIA Adam Curry’s news site & watching tweets of str1ppers …with Care – AS G-D COMMANDS. June29 Report ABC7:

“SAN FRANCISCO — Strip club employees who talked to ABC7 News and dancers in the business say the expected post-pandemic recovery never materialized. Some strippers are predicting a recession, with many citing empty strip clubs and poor bookings as indicators of stormy economic times ahead.

“I can speak for our dancers who work for multiple agencies and in the strip clubs because they have to get enough work and they’re still not making enough money,” says Asshley, (her stage name was requested to be used to protect her family) a dancer for 10 years and co-owner of SinCal Party Entertainment, an agency that dispatches strippers to events such as bachelor and bachelorette parties.

Consumer spending makes up 70% of the U.S. economy…”It’s been bad,” says Brandon, co-owner of SinCal Party Entertainment and Asshley’s husband.

The couple has been in the adult entertainment business together for 10 years.

“Normally, as we come into spring and summer, it’s busy for bachelor and bachelorette parties,” he said. “Everybody wants to throw their parties. As the year progressed, it just hasn’t happened, it has only gotten worse. It has gotten slower, where we as business owners have had to look at other forms of revenue, trying to start other businesses just to keep ourselves afloat, let alone all of our strippers. It’s terrifying.”

Based in California, the couple manages an agency that dispatches more than 50 strippers across the state. Many of the dancers at their agency also worked at strip clubs and have reporte

“You have all these girls in the strip clubs who are used to heavy traffic, that have no traffic,” Asshley said. “So they’re reaching out to agencies hoping that our broader net and what we serve as our service area being broader that they’re going to be busier, have more work, and it is just not the case for the strip clubs and the agencies. Strippers really have taken a huge hit.”

The company saw bookings drop to 50% of pre-pandemic levels since the start of 2022.

“As an agency, we really do care about every one of our strippers, we want to see them succeed,” Brandon said. “But we also want to see them be able to provide for whatever their home life looks like. So for us to have no bookings, it’s really hard for us because we see the direct effect that it has on our strippers.”

[AMAZING ADMISSION AS TO WHAT THEY ARE !]

His wife added, “When the pandemic hit, we were still one of the only things that were open. So we were making a lot of money. But then as the economy opened up more, we just saw our business hit the ground, pretty much. We had a ton of people that needed the work, but the work was not coming in.”

[RUTHLESS BICKERING AND FIGHTING FOR SHIFTS ?]

For now, SinCal Party Entertainment is keeping its heads above water by re-inventing its business model and creating fresh revenue streams such as offering virtual parties in the metaverse.

[ODD ANSWER TO ALL PROBLEMS IN ‘GOING ONLINE BRO’ & ‘NFT’S BRO !’)

[IS THIS PART A PREDICTION OF FUTURE EMPLOYMENT ?] “We’re a family-owned business – we have a 7-year-old, a 5-year-old and a 1-year-old,” Brandon said. “And part of why we run a business is to be able to be home and to be involved with them. And the struggle of this post-pandemic, decrease in people’s spending has really affected not just us and not just other agencies but their families. You know, a lot of the competitors that we have, are similar to us and they are also family-owned businesses and they’re trying to provide for their family. And it’s just not happening.”
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OOF. Selling US oil to a Chinese company that hired his son was a bad look. Ukraine aid will find it’s way to US officials. Biden printing cash to stop his party doing badly in November. At least it’s all coming together.

I expect Luke might DUST OFF his clasic segments on how people define deviance (to make themselves look A+) – the un-dressor says SOME of them are doing more than that, while she is ABOUT THE ART & EROS. Which is all dross. A fight for shifts & shafts, perish the cile thought folks. + Keep it clean, this is Luke Ford’s temple and he keeps it clean. Thank you Luke for so many TOP TIER shows, even at 2 hours.

+ A listener supplied SIDE SHOW after the 2 hour break would be cherry. USER SUBMITTED CLIPZ segment even if 30 minutes. BEST OF. Apprciate the link to the news piece, too

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How The News Differs From Reality

Posted on July 28, 2022 by Luke Ford

What is reality? That which exists no matter how intensely people wish it didn’t.

In 1984, Communications professor Sandra Braman wrote that news is “the passage of bureaucratically recognized events through administrative procedures.”

At the top of WSJ.com right now is the headline, “Recession Fears Loom as U.S. Economy Contracts Again.” According to the Commerce Department, the GNP fell .9% in the second quarter. That’s the second straight quarter of GNP decline, which is the traditional and technical measure of a recession.

I wonder if we had a Republican president now, would the media have an easier time declaring that we are in a recession?

So the Commerce Department has made a statement and that dominate the news today. Were there reasons to believe months ago that we were in a recession? Well, yes. Strippers (in Manhattan particularly) were noticing in February that we were in a recession because their clientele had stopped tipping.

The verdict of a jury is a bureaucratically recognized event through administrative procedures but it is no more likely to be true than the judgment of an individual. A jury found O.J. Simpson not-guilty of murder when the evidence was overwhelming that he was guilty.

The phrase “innocent till proven guilty” is a bureaucratic procedure that is not useful for people to implement in their daily life where reality forces them to make decisions about others.

The news reminds us that tough times fall disproportionately upon the less intelligent but polite discourse does not allow one to comment publicly that stupid people usually have a more difficult time with reality. Reality shows us that different peoples have different gifts, but you can’t say this on the news.

News is a consumer product like orange juice. You make money in the news business by providing a product that meets people’s needs. Telling the truth is incidental to making money in news or in succeeding in a bureaucracy. Bureaucratic procedures are no more likely to arrive at the truth than individual insights but they will get more play in the news. For one thing, when a bureaucracy declares something, news merchants aren’t going to get sued for reporting it straight. On the other hand, they might get sued if they rely upon the insights of individuals.

A major reason the news is boring compared to what a great writer or talk show host can produce is that the news depends upon “the passage of bureaucratically recognized events through administrative procedures.”

The news is dominated by official sources. Reality is frequently unofficial but always more true than the pronouncements of bureaucracies.

What helps you better navigate a new job? The official employee handbook or the gossip you get from other people? The unofficial news often beats the official news.

Now, understanding that the news is different from reality doesn’t mean that at times the news can’t be a tool to get more clarity on reality. For example, when the news tells you the price of gold or the price of gas or who won the Cowboys game, the news tends to be accurate. Understood properly, reading the news enhances your understanding of reality. Consumed without thinking critically, however, taking in news (or any source of information) diminishes your understanding of reality.

Every individual and every institution and every piece of writing needs to be understood in its context. For example, when you read a blog post, ask who wrote this? For whom was it written? What’s the ideology of the writer? What’s his agenda? What are the incentives he faces? What is his life experience? How does he make a living? What is his social circle? From whom does he most want love and respect?

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Pulling a train along the Black queer underground railroad of assistance (7-27-22)

Posted on July 27, 2022 by Luke Ford

00:15 Regular Americans during Covid were berated to stop the spread, but protected groups aren’t berated to stop the spread, https://www.takimag.com/article/monkeypox-the-new-aids/
03:00 Nancy Pelosi’s rioters disrupting American democracy
20:40 Struggle to protect gay, bisexual men from monkeypox exposes inequities, https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/07/27/monkeypox-gay-men-vaccine-treatment/
24:00 Ukraine’s leader poses for Vogue magazine
39:00 Tucker Carlson on green energy
52:00 Left-wing indoctrination in public schools
58:00 Fracking Was an Extraordinary Boondoggle, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/27/opinion/environment/energy-crisis-oil-gas-fracking.html
1:00:00 Recoding Jordan Peterson: Think again, Sunshine!, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/recoding-jordan-peterson-think-again-sunshine
1:02:00 What Happened to Jordan Peterson? https://rebelwisdom.substack.com/p/what-happened-to-jordan-peterson
1:20:00 Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression: The Nature and Origins of Conservaphobia: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=144168
1:30:00 Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=144300

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Why is the world so unhappy? Q as a cry for help (7-26-22)

Posted on July 26, 2022 by Luke Ford

00:30 Tucker Carlson on collapsing NYC, Washington DC
05:00 Illegal immigration
17:00 Victor Davis Hanson on our elite
19:30 Rebels still trust the government to regulate food and drink and banks
22:30 WEHT to herd immunity?
25:00 $50 billion subsidizing semiconductors
30:00 Dudes wandering around in a woman’s locker room
32:00 Amazing day on Twitter
37:00 Mayor Pete is revolutionizing public transport
38:00 New York’s crumbling public transport
42:00 Heather Mac Donald on the war on cops
53:30 Why is the world so unhappy?
1:04:00 Q Anon as a cry for help
1:15:40 Why wokeness is here to stay, https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/no-the-revolution-isnt-over
1:23:30 Why does college demonize white men? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrrjNTVH42M
1:26:45 Why do neo-cons hate Tucker Carlson?
1:30:45 Richard Spencer wants a totalitarian national-security state

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Tucker Carlson Interview (7-25-22)

Posted on July 25, 2022 by Luke Ford

00:30 Tucker Carlson vs Big Pharma
06:00 Why do we have an epidemic of mental illness? https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2011/06/23/epidemic-mental-illness-why/
15:00 Global impact of the first year of COVID-19 vaccination: a mathematical modelling study, https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(22)00320-6/fulltext
18:00 Elsevier pandemic profiteering, again, https://forbetterscience.com/2022/04/20/elsevier-pandemic-profiteering-again/
20:00 Johann Hari on building bonds to ward off depression
24:00 The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=141827
28:20 America heading into recession
36:40 Tucker on Ukraine
40:00 Constitutional Dictatorship: Its Dangers and Its Design, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=130386
48:00 Homeless defecating on your front lawn
54:40 Why are millennials snowflakes?
57:30 Criminal injustice during America’s crime wave
1:04:00 Will we ever find out who Jeffrey Epstein compromised?
1:05:30 Mickey Kaus’s most offensive idea of the week
1:07:00 A radical plan for Trump’s second term, https://www.axios.com/2022/07/22/trump-2025-radical-plan-second-term
1:08:00 Tucker’s keynote address at The FAMiLY Leadership Summit, https://tuckercarlson.com/tuckers-keynote-address-at-the-family-leadership-summit/
1:24:00 Matt Taibbi: The NY Times as the American Pravda, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar448_fTd8w
1:34:30 18-Year-Old College Student Interviews Tucker Carlson, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrrjNTVH42M

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