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Sometimes I give up and go with the chaos and sit around pondering Prof Hennessy. Why he is grimly determined to drive me personally and people specifically like me broadly to extinction… Prof Hennessy shockingly has mixed feelings about the Idiocracy seeing as all his scammier friends who did not design processors but instead shadily went around claiming to connect people now need to outrun the pipers..👹

I am not unemployed. I was on at all hours during the day because I am a complainant, an unscripted and unpleasant role, especially when you don’t plan to get any mileage out of it except for your original staid purpose ..

I am lucky to have found Yasha Levine and Christopher Ketcham. They made it actually serious the way it needs to be, non-performatively. That is what is cool about Yasha Levine, Chris Ketcham or Ed Zitron..they are actual proper adults..they just happen to work in fields where things are more confusing than in science. I don’t think it is very pleasant to work outside science in societies this broken..at least there is a minimum beyond which you cannot dilute out the reality to fit your daft daftness.
You are a horrible adminstrator. And now look where we are. You are lucky EarlG is sane and decent. You or anyway people way more like you in every way than like me are building a reality where a subset of these idiots now apparently cannot distinguish between reality and theatre.

That is your fault. You wanted Marvel and billion dollar franchises that erode thinking from one side, while your repellant and parasitic edtech shills and other predatory suburban mediocre parent types shilled a fraudulent vision of success, adulthood and reality. You have built a society of kakistocrats who are successful, because this one metric “economic growth” completely disregarded the quality, user or sustainability of said growth (why do we need more communication when we are too connected and you sabotage organic communication to force a use case)?

But well..I will have to work with you. You are the worst! You impose barriers to organic friendship so you are included! You are a hostage taker without any friends.
I have lots of friends in the abstract.

Do you know why? In spite of your torture porn as education/open science/healthcare and art, I am not entirely a misanthrope thanks to people like Yasha Levine, my oncologist, my main mentor or my best friend or my ex.

You are something else. My brain had to undergo a transformation to go straight back fo its old priorities and its original processing, but more explicitly.

I knew who I was when your horribly Google took me hostage. I just didn’t have a mathematical understanding of what that means.
You cannot scale up stuff like that as POC (god..that is a darkly symbolic acronym).


This is your view of Indian women that I was enacting and there are women, Indians, Indian women like that. It just isn’t who I am.
I would try to avoid your schemes usually Prof Hennessy.

It is not you per se. I even kinda like you. In your field, one could find worse. While it is unambiguously Stockholm Syndrome, an effect I find modern technology tends to have, one could do worse than you.

I have thought about you a lot Professor Hennessy. You are so fascinatingly what is wrong with reality. Fascinating because you are the muscle on that side and a clearly intelligent and non-malicious man, unlike your fellow travellers.
Is it just the propaganda outlet that is The Economist? Is it the additional confusion of the type of brainlessly visible and voluble online element that usually grabs the mantle of the left? Surely a man with enough acquaintance with physics, biology, biophysics etc cannot become so lopsided that he is impervious to all comprehension of a reality that is not The Atlantic, The Economist, the especially loathesome Jacobin (probably the most sinister future direction wrt continued doubling down on human overpopulation, the extractive use of earth as China, the ME and creeps the world over would love and consider “transactional and harmonious”..

In this polluted landscape with the entirely unsolicited advantage you gave me, I should try to use it well.
And highlight the specific errors I tend to notice, where other people on the left already cover other areas copiously.


I feel relatively oddly optimistic having seen your world and how very alien it is to the actual Green. Paul Ehrlich any day not Julian Simon. You are a liar Prof Hennessy. You lie to yourself. Cornucopianism is not sustainable. And ridiculous austerity is the opposite of a fix. And formulaic and mechanical thought, mangling the use of statistics or “storytelling”.

The thing is, this is a very lopsided society. But while there are areas (THE ENVIRONMENT and even a basic non-sociopathic understanding of ANIMAL RIGHTS) ignored way more than any that would affecting this one prolifically breeding and consuming and talking species -humans - the point is less that it is a specific concept so much as the certainty that whatever it is, it will be mangled and botched so spectacularly in implementation as to ensure that these kakistocrats, other useful idiots etc who already had their chance and got us into this impasse will continue their reign..these people are idiots.
For 14.5 years I thought of the stuff I presume these guys think about or how they think and it was torture.

They are so self and other conscious. The lens of history, the lens lf the creep next door.
Good god..who cares? It is how uniformly inane the lens is in its fundamentals that makes it so alien.

They star in dramas and movies, they are blind to the heist underway and the essential impracticality and unsustainability of this world underway since they don’t seem to know when or how or why you say “No” and how important that is.
You cannot have a concept of piracy or heist when you don’t get that the elite’s spitefully bullshit notion of meritocracy or reality doesn’t mean that improvidence, which characterises the worst people who are our parasitic pseudo who project their own worst fears about their parasitic, hedonistic selves on to society at large.