Beauty Privilege & The Solitary Individual: The Coming Dominance of Female Centered Post- Patriarchial Society

If you're anything like me you spend most of your time alone at least all the time when you aren't being forced to socialize at work. If I could do my job remotely instead of in person and avoid all that human contact I would. The level of self isolation I prefer is that of a wounded animal that runs off to hide right before it dies. Let me die in peace, just don't consume my body.

I used think that my feelings on the subject of being alone were a bit unusual. But not anymore. The solitary individual is the new normal. Probably most of you who are reading/listening to this are single. And in the future at least 80 percent of you will be unattached.

Pretty privilege 

I was watching a Tik Tok video last night right before bed. I can't more strongly recommend against you doing so. I guess if you hate sleep and you enjoy feeling angry after watching stupid content from stupid people. 

In my case I watched a video where a chubby blonde complained about losing her pretty privilege. 

Oh, Boo-hoo. 

I don't know if it's the fact that I'm walking around with 5 more IQ points than you just ticking away like a time bomb, but sometimes I just have to explode at you with a rant. So here it is. 

WELCOME TO NORMAL LIFE BITCH 

So the video in question begins with a young woman in her mid 20's explaining that she has an eating disorder. During the pandemic she was away from her job and worked on controlling her disorder. She ended up gaining a lot of weight and becoming conventionally unattractive. Then she has a breakdown and cries uncontrollable sobs for herself on social media. 

Am I supposed to feel sorry for you? What because you're an unattractive emotional basket case who's beauty privledge got revoked? Welcome to the real world! The way you are being treated is the way the rest of us uglies have been treated our whole lives. You were just too pretty, too self absorbed and stuck up to notice. Thing is your beauty privilege protected you against the way most people behave around people, especially those they view as basically servants. When people go out to drink they want to be served. They aren't interested in the "the staff" as persons unless the servant can show them that they are not just a server. 

No one cares about anyone else. 

The rise of self checkout machines and other automated services have desensitized us to interactions with our fellow humans. Given the choice most of us (especially the younger generation) would choose not to interact with other people. I know the only time I interact with humans is if they have something I want. Like you are either sexually attractive to me, or you have something I desire like food or resources and I can't just push a button to get them. Otherwise, whenever I encounter you, you are simply an obstacle in the way of me getting the stuff I want. It's not deliberate attack against you. Most of this in an unconscious mechanism working behind the scenes of our mental constructs. 

Unattractive women who complain about the way men treat them are actually just experiencing the world the way men are treated in it, and they are horrified by the  experience of being a man. 

If you are a sexually attractive woman you have something other men want. Even other women grant you some respect because they know you are a fierce competitor for attention and resources. Men treat women they are attracted to with special care on the off chance that the woman will respond in kind. 

The bartender wondered why she never received eye contact after she got fat. When she greeted customers she no longer got enthusiastic replies. People simply gave their orders. "Two Bud Lights, please."

It seemed no one was interested in anything about her except her looks. And somehow this suprised this woman. Strange that customers who meet you while you perform a service job take no real interest in you the person. Why? Because they believe you are there to take an order or perform a function. Unless you have some other special status people aren't going to bother to get to know you. When I ring up your groceries no one cares or even needs to know about my special interest in reading secondary literature on 19th century philosophers. And honestly, why would they? They just want their groceries and they want to leave. 

We all want to live alone and be left alone. 

The bartender insists that one of the reasons people are rude and cruel to her is people fat hate. Yes, fat hate exists. But that's not the only reason people ignored her. It isn't just class based hatred of the working staff. Though plenty of people are dismissive of working people. I believe the real reason is that people are slowly socially evolving to become less interdependent on other people. Which means people give less thought to others. The pandemic has intensified a trend that has been growing for decades. We all want to live alone and not be bothered. There's been a trend towards people living alone in the USA. About 15 percent of Americans now live alone and that number has doubled over the last 50 years. It would be higher too, if more of us could afford to live alone. Some experts believe this tendency to live alone is actually increasing poverty and reducing affordable housing.

All Women Have Beauty Privileges

Complaining about no longer having beauty privileges is ironic when you are a woman. As a man I would like to have the problem of being just an ugly woman. Because even ugly women have privileges that men don't get. Women are trusted by God to protect and dish out the vagina. Because access to vagina is so important to men, most men {aka straight} bend over backwards to be nice women. Women must put up with advances they don't want, leering, objectification, and a host of other ills that you'll find covered on more female centric women's studies classes. It isn't the purpose of this blog to cover those stories. Instead we cover the stories people don't want to cover. Like Lady Privilege.™

Since the times of men draping their clean riding coats over mud holes, men have given women Lady Privilege.™ Women get social status and acknowledgement that being male does not afford you.

We've all read the statistics on attractiveness and the studied the halo effect in sociology 101 classes, so I don't feel the need to explain too much here. But basically the more attractive you are the more money you make and the nicer people are to you. People also assume you have qualities that you may not posses such as kindness. The difference in how we treat the good looking vs the ugly is analagous to how women and men are treated differently. 

And in particular it is the solitary man that is treated poorly. A man without a wife or family is basically a loser that society has little use for. Think of the juvenile male elephant that has been thrust out of the pack. In the case of many juvenile human males we have thrust them not simply from eye contact or respect for their individual personalities, but from society. They are thrown to the streets to commit crime, or to the sad loneliness of the mother's basement where they dribble out hate from keyboards on 4 Chan and other forums of misogyny.

UGLY GUY SYNDROME & THE SOLITARY MALE 

In a strange twist of fate my particular self is an exception to many of the generalizations I make about solitary men. Unlike my incel brothers, who are often virgins, I've actually had sex. If I pursued relationships, I could probably worm my way into the heart of some tired middle aged woman with her fatherless children in tow. Like most of the ugly, solitary, incels though I've discovered that human companionship is not worth it.

I bring being single up so much to get you to understand that the future is solitary for us all. That the men trapped in basements and jerking to the hub are your future too. The future contains sex robots delivered from Amazon. Work from home and pandemics that kill the poor and those that go outside.

You probably don't believe me about your future. Maybe you're female and you've always benefited from the advantages of being a carrier of vagina. Being connected to society. The attention. Even when it's unwanted attention alerts you to your value and the desire society has for you. 

You might think that as a nearly attractive woman you are protected against experiences of being left out of society. That only the basement dwellers with their unwashed hair, bizarre hentai porn addictions, awkward social interactions, and general undesirableness will be deemed unfit for society. 

But you couldn't be more wrong. 

As industrial economy continues its collapse and good jobs disappear, more men will drop out of work and then society. That means they'll become less attractive to women. Fewer women will find suitable mates. Women will act out of desperation  from the new dating conventions and rely on dating apps and internet dating where they will fall victim to Chad's who only want to use women for sex, and when burned women will use the promise of their promiscuity to attract simps they can take advantage of. 

As I have discussed previously, simping will become the new pimping.™ The few alpha males left will continue on as if nothing has changed. The mass of men will drift towards some kind of MEN GOING THERE OWN WAY. And many subordinate males will drift towards worshiping and empowering females. All of society is headed to female supremacy. The forces behind it are the Breakdown of Western Culture and Values combined with a devastating decline in male hormones resulting in men developing the Alan Alda Syndrome. The Alan Alda syndrome of being the nice guy will become accepted by society not just because the alpha male is dying, but because social structure will not allow anything else. 

THE FUTURE IS FEMALE 

If you're female you will be wading into the pool of hyper-hypergamy. 80 to 90 percent of you will chase the top 20 or 10 percent of men. Most of you will fail. You'll get knocked up and become single moms. Bitter and despondent you'll turn to the social contagion of bi-sexuality out of yearning for companionship or the seemingly endless plasticity of female sexuality. (Remember the monkey sex studies anyone?) Then you'll become disillusioned by females because nothing is ever good enough for women and your biological instincts will demand to be dominated on occasion by the stick of masculinity. Eventually most of these pseudo-relationships will wither and die. Most women will date sporadically if at all. 

THE DAWN OF MATRIARCHY 

But a few women will take on a number of subordinate males and form a new society. A number of intelligent entrepreneurs will aquire subordinated males and gather them in. They will board together. The males will be submissive. They will give all their income to the Domme of the House. 

She will continue to use sex work to earn passive income from OnlyFans® and offer Venmo in her bio on her Tinder app. And she will turn her subs to prostitution to make the rest of her cash. She will convince or force her stable of subs through hypno brain washing and orgasm denial into watching other extreme pornography that will only further her control. 

A recently discovered manuscript detailed exactly how one domme managed to aquire and control six sub males. She began by playing domination hypnosis recordings at night to her subordinate males at just under audible levels. The use of hypnotic suggestion planted the seeds to gain rapid mind control over her "stable."

AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF A FEMALE DOMINATED HANDMAID'S TALE

The manuscript which reportedly was designed with the purpose to train young initiate dommes on how to set up a 'household' as a pretext towards setting up a new female dominated society. Just think 'Handmaid's Tale' but with women in charge. 

It begins with hypnosis and moves banally through things like edge masturbation. The dommes are instructed to keep the subs in a dark enclosed room with headphones on and a tablet playing porn. The edge masturbation sessions start at a few hours a day, but eventually will last the entire time the sub is not working or sleeping.  The sub will be induced by drugs like caffeine, alcohol, marijuana, or even harder drugs. Perhaps PCP. 

The EXTREME PORNOGRAPHY will cycle through all sorts and various kinds. But each session and each kind of video will have a specific purpose. 

1. Edge Masturbation. Edging fogs the mind and delivers endorphins allowing the mind to be controlled.
2. Findom and Femdom. Extreme pornography that teaches extreme pro female viewpoints. 
3. Humiliation porn. Pornography that degrades and abuses the male breaking down defenses and ego. 
4. Forced bi-sexuality and forced gender emasculation. Removal of masculine traits. 
5. Ruined orgasm pornography. Porn that devalues male pleasure and the penis.
6. Castration videos. Porn that ends with the male hormone gone. Sometimes includes the removal of the penis. 

After one has subjected their group of males to these brainwashing techniques the dommes control is complete.  Once women gain control of the family and household of subs it is only a matter of time that women gain complete control of society.*

As one can see by my sketch of a possible female centered future, complaints about Beauty Privilege from the point of the view of the formerly beautiful are nonsensical. 

First, asking for advantages that are  unearned and immoral is shameful.  Women can't lose the Beauty Privilege anyway because they always have it over men.  Women misunderstand the role of beauty and attractiveness in the games of dating that play between the sexes.  The hyper-hypergamy of modern times leaves most men alone and worthless, and the upcoming future will dissatisfy most women to the point that they will initiate a non-democratic female version of the handmaid's tale where men will be forced to shed their masculinity and worship women. Just another reason we need to ban women's studies; otherwise, we must surrender to the female wave that is coming for men. 

*I have detailed the society I would expect to come about on my twitter account through a work of fiction. I am unable to locate the exact tweet. 

Why they won't work anymore; The Horror of Living

I'm re-reading a bit of the Conspiracy Against the Human Race and thought how it applied to the current labor market here in the United States. In the Conspiracy humans are deceiving themselves into not accepting the terror of living because of their fear of death. 

It's quite similar to how poor people and low wage earners accept that corporations have neglected the low wage worker until Covid-19 came along. Suddenly, a number of jobs that were looked down on now seemed really important by the middle class. A lot of folks figured out they don't eat without a lot of low wage workers risking death for them. Even a few corporations (for a few weeks) noticed how important some of its lowest paid employees were. 

But that might be less important than the workers themselves gaining some knowledge and class consciousness. I think until the pandemic most people in low wage jobs didn't understand that they actually have great power in the economy. Without the hard work of farm workers, warehouse people, delivery drivers, grocers, and food establishments much of the work of the world stops. I think that lesson might have given some self esteem to workers who've always been demeaned historically. 

One section where the conspiracy got my attention is where Ligotti (the author) talks about the famous Russian writer Tolstoy. And if you know anything about Russians it's how unfunny and depressed they are. For instance when Vladimir Putin was asked about happiness, he replied "There's no happiness in life," "There's only a mirage on the horizon, so we'll cherish that."

But it's not just Putin. I was watching a YouTube video about life in Russia and the pretty Russian girl telling us about her apartment home and general life while she walked a crowded boulevard. She pointed out that in contrast to her time in the USA she noticed that Russians never smile at strangers because they think only stupid people smile. After all what's to be happy about? Russians are serious about things when it comes to life and death. 

Getting back toTolstoy there apparently there are 4 ways people deal with the ultimate question of human existence. It's the 4th way that seems most relevant to the labor situation:

"The fourth way out is that of weakness. It consists in seeing the truth of the situation and yet clinging to life, knowing in advance that nothing can come of it. People of this kind know that death is better than life, but not having the strength to act rationally—to end the deception quickly and kill themselves—they seem to wait for something. This is the escape of weakness, for if I know what is best and it is within my power, why not yield to what is best? … I found myself in that category."

I think we might all be in that category if it weren't for the fact that a lot of us are working so much that we don't take 5 minutes and think about our predicament as human beings. Not too mention that just about anyone who takes the time is mocked as a depressive kill joy because don't you just know that living in America is just super cool joy fun times. 

So, to continue our discussion of depressive philosophy Ligotti writes about the great philosopher of pessimism:

"In a section of The World as Will and Representation where Schopenhauer argues that only pain is real while pleasure is an illusion, the philosopher writes: “I cannot here withhold the statement that optimism, where it is not merely the thoughtless talk of those who harbor nothing but words under their shallow foreheads, seems to me to be not merely an absurd, but also a really wicked, way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the most unspeakable sufferings of mankind."

I think a lot of workers were blind to the horror of what they go through. They assumed the horror is natural. That it's not being imposed upon them, but instead is a reflection of the natural order. That there is thoughtless talk of optimism in their heads, implanted by the capitalist system. 

Again another passage from Ligotti:

"Optimistically wicked or not, most people cannot afford to care, or to care too much, if they are living in the best or the worst of all possible worlds. They can only care about the one thing that, if one is to think of being alive as being all right, is worth caring about—feeling good, or as good as possible, whatever “feeling good” might mean to a certain individual at a certain time. "

"By the same token, should our mass mind ever become discontented with the restricted pleasures doled out by nature, as well as disgruntled over the lack of restrictions on pain, we would omit the mandates of survival from our lives out of a stratospherically acerbic indignation."

Obviously, Ligotti is speaking here in philosophic terms. I would extend his thinking to terms of this analogy. Today people are becoming disgruntled over the amount of pleasure that the corporations have doled out via wages. When the pain of working everyday was lifted from them indignation about their lives stepped in. "How did we live this way?" Many folks started asking. The veil has been lifted. The unskilled and low wage earners now know that their work is still important. The system won't survive without them. 

The proximate cause of our misery, the most direct line is our common enemy the ruling class of the 1 percent. And some recent disclosures from Amazon and other companies prove exactly what critics of capitalism have always said. Low wage jobs are made disposable, intentionally keep poor people on the edge. According to the NY Times:

“Even before the pandemic, previously unreported data shows, Amazon lost about 3 percent of its hourly associates each week, meaning the turnover among its work force was roughly 150 percent a year. That rate, almost double that of the retail and logistics industries, has made some executives worry about running out of workers across America.“

But it's even more than that. 

I didn't like the idea of being a conspiratorial thinker. But when some of the bad guys are saying the quiet part outloud it's hard to ignore.

According to a lengthy expose by the New York Times, Jeff Bezos the founder of Amazon believes people are naturally lazy. He uses monitoring devices that allow Amazon to track employees every movement. They track how long you go to the bathroom. Amazon doesn't believe in offering raises after 3 years of work because they think complacent workers mean a slow ride to mediocrity. These are the enemies my friends. 

The Loneliness of the Long Covid-19 Summer: AKA Do we all have to die? Anti- natalism & the over population crisis.

I don't know about you guys, but I can feel the early onset Alzheimer's hitting me like that new BTS Deal from McDonald's. I mean all I know about that meal is it's chicken nuggets, fries, and a drink which I'm pretty sure was already on the menu, but now we all get gaslit with commercials telling us that meal is somehow 'new,' so I guess like you, I don't know what's true anymore. 

Now if you're anything like me you spend all day on the internet listening to podcasts from guys like Sam Harris and doing pseudo-intellectual research from news articles and philosophy journals all the while consulting my personal library of 1970's Social Theory secondary literature from German philosophy authors that most you can't pronounce.

I do that mainly because I failed at my dream of becoming a philosopher, and because I enjoy reading secondary literature for fun. The second reason I do it is for you. Let's face it, you don't have the time to do research or read books anymore. Most of you have families and careers, or spend way too much time playing video games. Maybe it's been so long since you've used that brain of yours that you're just unsure of yourself, or maybe you come here because you notice a misunderstood genius™ when you see him. 

I've got to tell you that according to my research the mear fact that you have enough interest in this blog (now podcast) indicates a level of intelligence far greater than normal. When you read this blog you are engaging in ideas that the common folk out there have no idea about. How many people are talking about Critical Theory, anti-natalism, Nihilism, and Karl Marx on podcasts these days? Most people drink shitty carbonated soda water and discuss conspiracy theories like how the virus that causes Covid-19 was instigated by Aliens & Tom Cruise wants to gather your spirit souls together and dump them from a B-19 bomber that's been retrofitted with rocket engines so he can blow them all to hell in a volcano. I mean if true that's one hell of a conspiracy against the human race. 

Speaking of which one of the folks I began researching a few years ago is a man by the name of Thomas Ligotti. Ligotti is horror writer who wrote one of the best books to introduce the concept of anti-natalism to a mass audience.

Ligotti is best known for influencing the famous HBO TV show the True Detectives. Some, not me, but some people might say the writer from True Detectives borrowed liberally in a line-by-line fashion from the book The Conspiracy Against the Human Race. But I wouldn't say that! 

The conspiracy Ligotti is talking about here isn't Tom Cruise piloting an anachronistic WW2 bomber into outer space to deploy atomic bombs at trillions of spirit/souls. The conspiracy is that alone in the universe only human beings become aware of their existence and ultimately their deaths. 

No other creature. Just us. And frankly, that news is not really popular with our people. Nobody wants to talk about death. I wrote a podcast episode that was called 'suicidal musings' and it got about 1/5th as many downloads as my other episodes. Until I changed the title.  So you see the conspiracy against humanity is live and well even today.

I know I say this a lot but... life is suffering. Ligotti quotes the philosopher Bahnsen describing that events in the universe are an, "indiscriminate butchery and mutual slaughter among it's individuated parts." (Ligotti part 13 of 246)

Electrons smashing together, the tiger crushing the bones of it's prey, the lustfully engorged anus of a baboon being roughly taken. They all amount to nothing but destruction. Which is just pointless and unscripted. So who cares? Well, no one did until the consciousness of man arose. 

And even after that most of you have never considered the options when it comes to life or death. Half of you spend more time watching obnoxious tik tok videos than giving thought to the most important questions humans can fathom. I mean I work in a grocery store so I know what you agonize over like which flavor of ice cream to buy Rocky Road or banana split and since you aren't 7 the answer seems pretty obvious. 

Anti humanism & anti natalism 

There's a natural revulsion that elites have toward the lumpen proletariat masses. The dirty unwashed folks like you and me. That's why we prols are  suspicious of elites. It's why I wouldn't put it past the elites to be trying to cull the entire population. Maybe injecting us with trackers and allowing the Covid-19 to spread on purpose. 

Another way we know the elites hate us is that they study things like anti-natalism and intergenerational future philosophy. Anti-natalism is of course the philosophy that humans should stop giving birth to other humans, so that we can stop the agony of life. Some philosophers have even termed anti-natalism as the ultimate humanism. Nothing could be more human than ending all suffering in the future. Would this apply to other animals? I don't know. I've never heard anyone suggest it would. Though animal rights activists insist that other animals count when we talk about minimizing suffering as a foundational element of morality. But anti-natalism as the ultimate humanism is a bit odd don't you think? It means the ultimate good a human could produce comes from the extermination of humanity. 

Likewise when you asses another very new though popular idea like generational futures which contends that the future has a claim on us today. Usually it seems that claim wishes to control us to some degree. If it's not combating climate change, asking us to conserve resources, maintain the natural habitat, then it's asking us to invest and enrich future generations at our expense. It's not at all unlike a very rich man asking his poorer brethren to donate to charity. All those claims and requests seem fine and dandy unless you are sitting in some encampment in the developing world hoping for a few liters of clean water. 

Which just goes to show you that maybe the Illuminati, or the ruling class, or a bunch of shape changing interdimensional lizards really are hoping for our deaths. 

Honestly, who could blame them? Most of y'all are nasty. Now I'm not talking Jeffrey Toobin masturbating on Zoom© nasty. But nasty none-the-less.™

Speaking of good ol' Jeffery, I feel like maybe he got a raw deal getting fired from CNN for jerking the old tubin' after he thought he hung up on a zoom call. I mean what's a guy to do wait 20 minutes after a zoom call to masturbate like he's going swimming after eating a big meal? There are no riptides on the internet. 

Secondly, before we go here. How many of y'all got my Iron Maiden joke in the title about the long distance runner? I bet if you did you aren't a 15 year old with 6 Iron Maiden t-shirts that you forget to tuck into the back of your jeans, because for some reason Gen Z refuses to either tuck in or untuck a shirt all the way. I guess what I'm saying here is pull up your pants, wear a belt, and untuck that front tuck son. 

Either way all these lock downs have been doing is introducing you to the new lifestyle of choice for Japanese men and incels everywhere. The one where you don't go outside or have a bf/gf. 

All the rest of you norms acting like it's easy to jump from relationship to relationship. I mean it takes me usually six or 7 years to find a replacement for my girlfriend, which in hindsight makes my idea to dump my last gf seem maybe silly. The older and uglier I get & the more inflation starts eroding my modest raises of 25 cents a year the more it starts looking like I might be able to start my own anti-natalist cult. I'm not getting anyone pregnant in the near future and maybe Dr. Fauci is just getting us used to the idea that porn is all we need and let's just roast marshmallows on the embers of the human race. Frankly, that's a conspiracy I think I could get behind. 

Why nothing feels good anymore: Self Help Guide to Hating Yourself and Everything Else!

Nothing feels good anymore. 

I'm sitting on my couch in an air conditioned apartment that is at least 50 degrees cooler inside than the hellscaped 120° Arizona summer is outside. I have a giant 50 inch TV screen that plays endless content at me at decibel levels that are slowly making me go deaf. I keep scrolling through TV shows and networks. One by one. And there's nothing on even though I can order up virtually any movie, book, or music ever made.

It all seems boring.

I don't know if you sit in the dark like me eating a two day old gas station donut reflecting on how pleasure disappeared from a world built on making everything easy, but it did.

It starts with how your attention span goes from reading a book for six hours in a row to not being able to focus on the next 7 seconds of a Tik Tok video. Despite the fact that the video contains nothing other than the seductive dancing of 20 something girls shaking their assets at you.

I should take a moment to warn you. If you were hoping for a moment of cheer, or for a happy ending then you've come to the wrong place. One reviewer of my content once commented that my blog was, "nothing more than a showcase for the relentlessness of the of the psychology of depression."

There is no happy ending. If you are happy you should probably stop reading this blog and go on with your happy life. If you are sad, you should stop reading this blog; otherwise, I suppose you might find yourself in the kitchen holding a razer blade in mocked suprise as your artery gushes out a maroon waterfall of death.

Perhaps this blog/podcast is best left for posterity, or for the professional psychonaut who seeks only the most extreme mind spaces. Because in my world there is no escape. This is after all the End of the World.™ We don't just cover the apocalypse of the world, but the apocalypse of the mind. How depression will tear at your soul. Rob you of your personality. Steal your happiness and contentment, and how it will eventually degrade your humanity. It will leave you in a stinking pit, to rot, as you watch helplessly as layers of morality fall in to the fire. Eventually you will be stripped of anything you value, you will notice you are the nothingness. A black hole sucking everything into it. Crushing all around you. There is no light at the end of the tunnel. Nothing escapes the gravitational pull of a black hole. Not even light. 

So with that warning be wary of what you seek. Perhaps avoid this content at all cost. You too could accidently slip into the event horizon of my self destruction. Because here it is so easy to ignore the outside world and become terminally fascinated by the inner dwelling of ego. 

Another morning and another ultimate cheeseburger. Two cow patties placed on a bun. The Jack in the Box© puts too much mayo on the sandwich. I take a bite of the burger and ignore the swelling in my legs and feet and the dull ache in my forearms from the blood clots that never went away. My blood pressure on a nice resting day sits at 140/99 but after the salty burger it zooms to 165 over 120 and my heartbeat surges to 120. My face flushes bright red and later when I walk to work I'll try to forget I can't feel my right foot anymore because of the self-diagnosed diabetes. 

As I gobble down the rest of the fat & protein from some sickly cow put to pasture too late I notice the restaurant is full this morning. A homeless encampment has sprung up. Half a dozen or more homeless have taken up the few booths I usually sit at. None are socially distanced. The place now reaks from body odor and unwashed clothes. Some of the homeless are happily munching down the fatty food. 

Some are slumped over their tables satiated, or perhaps nodding off from pain pills. Others still scattered in random seats are pushing the regular customers to the 'bar like' seating near the windows where I see immigrant workers eating on benches dressed in neon yellow jackets preparing for a hard day's work of jack hammering and construction. 

I won't be joining them. Duty calls at the grocery store next door. I take my free ultimate cheeseburger© granted to me because I accumulate so many Jack Points® that I get free food all the time and stagger towards the building I call work. 

My walk to work is interrupted by my phone constantly notifying me of some Tik Tok® Only Fans® gal begging me to fill her Venmo up.  

“Go ahead." I tell myself. Just finish your final self destructive act, because you'll be dead in a few years anyway. You can ignore a few drops of blood in your fecal matter, but the growing cancer won't ignore you. 

Only Fans & the Simping contagion of your Mind 

When you lock eyes with a praying mantis you know you have finally fulfilled your purpose. She needs your destruction. Her feeding on you brings forth her unborn life. In your old age your feeble sperm deposits on the ground so don't worry that she intends to bite your head off. It's just one more final humiliation to join the indignity of being fleeced by a generation of women who refuse to tuck in their entire shirt which seems to you less style and more borderline satire. 

At work after nearly 30 years of laboring you watch an anomalous labor shortage turn teenagers into hot commodities and watch children lap you making 15 dollars an hour to start at jobs that you've worked your whole life at. You begin to understand the cruelty of Darwin and survival. That life doesn't even out and the powers of the world have no intention on keeping their word to you. So now you cycle between feeling of jealousy and self pity. 

You know that an economy finally asking the ruling class to behave and give decent wages and working conditions eventually benefits mankind.  But even the martyrdom of a depressive is tested when 35 years of sleeping on pull out couches, growing up on ranch beans and hominy and now watching teenagers who get fed organic coffee espressos, drive their parents jeep wranglers, and complain about about only getting 2 dollars an hour more than you to do the same job you've done for 30 years, who spit on the sidewalk of hard work, knowing all along that it was just a ruling class meme, that deep in the pit of your stomach you know there's something wrong with you. That the world was probably better off without your success.  That you were the idiot. The imbecile. You were a fool. You weren't the champion of the underdog. You weren't on some Marxist crusade for worker freedom. You were just a failure.  And it was you who needed protection. 

Tomorrow is a New Day and Tomorrow Never Comes

THE DISJUNCTION OF MODERNITY 

I have no ambition to better myself. 

I know how much that bothers many of you to hear. Very few things could be more anti- American than refusing to improve your station in life. I know for some of you this idea might be hard to picture. But it reminds me of a scene from my favorite movie Clerks. The two main characters are talking near the end of the film. Dante is trying to convince Randall how difficult change is for him:

   DANTE

   (sadly)

  My mother told me once that when I

  as three, my potty lid was closed,

  and instead of lifting it, I chose

  to shit my pants.

    RANDAL

  Lovely story.

    DANTE

  Point is-I'm not the kind of person

  that disrupts things in order to

  shit comfortablly. 

I can't say that I've ever heard anything that more succinctly describes my modus operandi. 

My lack of ambition used to bother me, and I know it bothered anyone I told. Whenever I admitted my truth that I had no particular talents, that I was bored of life, that improvement meant nothing to me because life is meaningless. I was always met with a protest, "Oh, you don't really mean that." People would say. What they really meant of course was that they did not want to feel meaningless, that they thought their mad skillz were impressive, and surely life had some kind of meaning, even if I couldn't figure it out. 

But I doubt my ambitionlessness means anything to most of you now. Most of you are bored and useless non-thinkers. Unlike you, my typical day consists of eating Jack in the Box failure food and contemplating the Nothingness of the Universe. A hobby that  just a hundred years ago was the past time of the rich, the insane, or the genius. Frederick Nietzsche nazel gazing at the Eternal Recurrence as his syphilitic mind spat out dreams of the überman as modernity itself spat out Eugenics and Hitler. "Aren't three generations of imbeciles enough?" It would ask. 

Americans have become low wage workers living in the decadence & crumbled ruins of a what was once was the Ultimate First World Country. Rising levels of productivity in the economy for decades have mocked the workers who created it as median levels of income have remained stagnant since the 1970's. Meanwhile the share of income at the top exploded to such obscene levels that richest men in the world have contemplated colonizing outer space. 

The pandemic startled America out of it's newest Gilded Age. The inept orangutan voted into office by a hollow and decayed middle class buried his head in the sand as thousands of Americanz died and many more lost their livelihoods. 

Suddenly, it wasn't just Professors of Marxist theory that exposed the ruling class propaganda for what it was. It was the people themselves. Nurses, cab drivers, grocery workers, delivery drivers kept the economy afloat. They risked their lives so that millions in the middle class could stay at home and work on ways to automate away the jobs they had previously celebrated. 

The pandemic made it clear to the Reagan democrats that job creators could do little to help. Upper and middle class folk saw heroism in simple acts like riding a bus to work a thankless job bagging groceries or emptying bed pans. Too afraid to leave their homes suddenly the middle class gated communities were at the mercy of the proletariat. Would the minimum wage security guard protect their insulated McMansions if they were desperate? Probably not they reasoned. 

And so began the government bailout. Trillions spent. Some of it even going to the poor themselves. $1,400 doesn't seem like much to the rich. But to the poor? It's a lot when you realize most poor people couldn't cover a 500 dollar emergency if they had to. Suddenly the poor had that in the bank. They were gifted an extra $600 in unemployment benefits if they lost their jobs. Most low wage workers had never earned that much money working full-time their whole lives! Most didn't know it was possible. 

In some ways the pandemic has been the best thing to happen to poor people since the Clinton boom years, if you disregard a half million lives being lost. And that's easy to do since the Wúhan virus was just a made up super flu that only kills the old and sick at rates less than 1 percent of the population. There were other negatives of course. The illuminati taught us to wear masks and accept social control. Everytime I pass a Covid-19 sheeple in his electric vehicle sitting by himself, but still wearing his mask I knew January 6th was no aberration. Our days as a Republic were over. But I'll still take that extra 600 bucks any day of the week. 

With that extra 600 dollars in pocket many minimum wage earners are shrugging off returning to work that offers only unpredictable schedules, low pay, no benefits, rude customers, and overall crappy work conditions. But the poor should be careful, because they can only go so long without work. And while the populace is ready for change, the system isn't. 

A FAILURE OF IMAGINATION A BRIEF PRIMER ON AMERICAN EXEPTIONALISM

There is no need to speculate using pseudo arm chair sociology what Americans are going through. And what's to come. What's coming is not more investment in the working class. It's not the reinvention of work. It's exceptionalism. American style. Despite calls to provide continued pandemic relief during these troubled times what you should expect from the system is right wing reactionary propaganda campaign against workers and a ruthless capitalism that will cut benefits and toss people to the streets. 

Unlike Sarah Palin's usage, American exceptionalism's original meaning wasn't a bravado statement about how great America was, it's a question about why America never developed socialism or strong worker movement. One of the reasons socialism never developed was the brutal form of economic warfare from the ruling class. American bosses put down labor strikes using governmental help and hired thugs to rough workers up. Strikes were violent affairs in the early days and you better bet Americans learned their lessons. You fight capitalism? You can get a bullet to the head. Don't expect capitalism to evolve quietly. It never does. Dozens of red states have already begun to cut the generous benefits and are putting in place measures to deny the unemployed any benefits at all. 

ARE WE WITNESSING THE FIRST LUMPEN PROLETARIAT REVOLUTION? 

The poor in America are quite familiar with the cruelty of Capitalism. Here in the USA desperate poverty is visible in ways that shock visitors from other countries. A million homeless in the streets. The mentally ill left to roam bus stops and raid garbage bins for dinner. It's a stark reminder for those on the bottom rung in America that things could get worse. Go to your minimum wage jobs. Don't complain. The homeless could be you if you aren't lucky. In the U.S. if you hear a person complain about work you often hear the rebuttal, "hey, at least you have a job." 

But the Lumpen Proletariat Revolution will not be won at work. For those of you who don't own a closet full of Marxist secondary literature, the lumpen proletariat were the underprivileged folks that played no role in history for Karl Marx. Prisoners, the disabled, the feeble minded, criminals of various sorts, the drunken, drugged out, suicidal, and misfits that could not be trusted to keep a job, join a union, or form a family to fight the ruling class. But how have things changed? 

I WEAR MY HOBO ON THE INSIDE 

It seems that yesterday's lumpen misfit is today's hope for radical transformation. The founder of communism, Karl Marx, understood that the worker held just one advantage over the rich. It was her ability to withhold her labor. Marx also rightly understood that the worker creates much of the value for the capitalist. Most workers; however, are afraid to use that power to strike. Today, it appears that the only workers willing to withhold their labor turn out to be the desperate and most underprivileged in society. 

I don't think it would have been much of a advantage a few years ago to have the outcasts of society withhold their labor. But today with labor force penetration at its lowest point ever, with millions of workers retiring, fewer babies being born, harsher attitudes towards migrant workers, along with the recalcitrant attitudes of many who worry about their continued health risks from acquiring Covid-19, along with the generous welfare benefits that allow millions of people to exit the workforce temporarily, the baseline of laborers is just too low for replacement much less economic growth. 

In addition we see a striking and unheard of growth in the disabled. Millions of workers are now excused from work because of poor health. On top of that we are living through the greatest and most destructive drug addiction epedemic the United States has ever known. 50,000 or more deaths a year from heroin. Suicides and death by alcohol are growing so quickly that the average life expectancy in the United States has dropped for the first time outside of war. The United States is fast approaching third world status for most of it's poor. The Lumpen revolution will not be a matter of strikes by ordinary workers. It won't be a top down unionization effort (though the brave McDonald's workers who strike for a 15 dollar wage have played an important role in economists looking at the minimum wage.) The revolution will be bottom up. 

Instead it will the disabled, the ex-cons denied employment, the morbidly obese, the drug addicts, the massive new homeless population from the financial cliff, the angry mothers without child care, the mentally ill, the fed up unskilled, the Gen Z kids who can't afford to leave home, and a smorgasbord of others who are either denied employment, or rationally choosing to forego working, along with the increasingly  alienated and angry unskilled workers who will sit at home that will frighten the small businesses and corporate leaders into raising incomes for all. 

Possibly. 

Though most likely we will see the American dream die. The Republicans will use asymmetrical and non-conventional warfare to wrestle control of the White House. Egregious electoral reform will doom efforts to reorganize the economy, and the divide between the haves and the have nots will continue to widen. 

THE FINICIAL CLIFF COULD END AMERICA AS WE KNOW IT 

The financial cliff that awaits many on the other side of these pandemic benefits could force hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions of people into the streets. Homeless tent cities will become permanent fixtures. The busses and public transit will be filled with drug addicts nodding off. Public restrooms will be plastered with needles from the bloated corpses of heroin overdoses. 

It doesn't really matter if orthodox Marxists are correct and that changes from the base of the economy alter the superstructure of culture. Fewer jobs and forced automation make a skillless workforce redundant. There is a reason that the market did not increase low end worker's pay. The market knows these workers are replaceable. The market knows it has created a lazy and entitled underclass it can exploit. 

Continued improvement in productivity will allow capital to remove most of these unwanted workers from civil society. They will simply shuffle about with suitcases full of clothes from fast food restaurants to grocery stores stealing just enough food to survive. They will drink to forget. They will overdose on walkways. And the middle class will drive around them and mutter under their breath. The few workers who manage to survive on the miserly wages that unskilled labor pays will lament the freeloading welfare state for paying as much to freeloaders as they make with their pathetic paychecks. The poor will shame the underclass and do the work of ideology for the ruling classes. 

Daniel Bell believed that economy, politics, and culture were independent of one another. That modernism had a logic of despair and depravity that as Thomas Mann wrote that modernity, "cultivated a sympathy for the Abyss."

Bell didn't have much of a response to modern times. He hoped that old fashioned religion could provide meaning and solace to an overworked and overlooked populace. Today, Jordan Peterson gives many of the same insights to young men who've seen jobs dry up, their prospects for marriage disappear, who respond with despair and violence. Despite Bell's worry you don't need to cultivate a "sympathy for the abyss" when you live it. Maybe religion could offer respite in the future of tomorrow, but tomorrow never comes.