The object ia primarily attention. So surveillance is not a deterrent and doubling down is to be expected.
Individuals who are reluctant to expose themselves to restraint are content to share in the escapades vicariously via schadenfreude: pleasure experienced not because an enemy has been chastized, but because an icon has provided an example criminal behavior and avoided meaningful restraint.
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Pfizer shot
Got it today.
The Matrix will get a new clutch.
truth
The Many Faces of Manipulation
PROPAGANDIZING
ADVERTISING
PROSELYTIZING
MARKETING
BOOSTING
PERSUADING
IMPACTING
PROMOTING
INFLUENCING
SCHOOLING
MENTORING
SOCIALIZING
The notion of the blank slate satisfies both the impulse to control and to negate autonomy. Autonomy is the antithesis of authority even as the negation of autonomy creates the demand for authority.
I am not anti-social, but I am against socializing.
April Pictures from the road house
Celebrations
Why do I dislike celebrations of all kinds? Because they are artificial and designed to manipulate the participants. I am anti-social, happy to be solitary and disconnected. ‘Tis a guilty pleasure that must not be over-indulged.
Pundit Announcement
“Black Voters are Silenced, Again.”
Myth, Dream, Nightmare
Reality is that suppression of one kind or another is totally American. Less lethal than extermination, the normal version is known as COMPLIANCE. Overseas, the agenda was referred to as PACIFICATION.
Pick a Knee
I knew that image would be memorable.
Purple in the yard
In addition to the wisteria, there are virginia day flowers and a host of weedy things, which are probably lyreleaf sage. I should probably take a picture since the front yard is carpeted.
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