KEEPING YOUR SANITY XII
The day after Easter is a good day to talk about salvation and outrage.
For it’s an important component of keeping your sanity these days to understand why so many fellow Americans are poisoning their souls with a constant outpouring of hate, anger, outrage, and the demented desire to destroy the lives of those they disagree with.
From Dr. Seuss to statues of Abraham Lincoln, they are constantly on the lookout for something to be outraged about, something to tear down and demolish. It is fascist evil insanity – what could be its source?
The Left is always talking about “root causes” of social evils, so let’s talk about theirs. Let’s start with the distinction philosophers make between repentance and remorse.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GET TOO CLOSE TO A 6,000 POUND ELEPHANT SEAL
The Antarctic island of South Georgia is one of the most extraordinary places on earth. Square miles of king penguin rookeries, thousands of fur seals, hundreds of gigantic elephant seals amidst a backdrop of massive glaciers and snow-capped mountains.
All of the animals here have no fear of you whatever and ignore your presence – except if you make the mistake of getting too close to a bull elephant seal for his comfort. It’s a mistake I made as you can see. Luckily, with several tons of blubber to carry, this fellow can’t move as fast as me, so I hightailed it quickly. That satisfied him, and all was soon back to placidly normal again. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #62 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
THE RAPE OF JUSTICE, LAW, AND MORAL DECENCY IN AMERICA
FLASHBACK FRIDAY – SLEEPING IN AN IGLOO
April 1990. When our oldest son Brandon was six years old, I took him with me to the North Pole. It was my 14th expedition there, and as always, we stopped to visit friends at Canada’s northernmost community, the Inuit hunting village of Grise Fiord on Ellesmere Island. Brandon thought it would be cool to sleep in an igloo, which the Inuit do only when they’re hunting seals or walrus far out on the ice.
So the villagers happily complied, showing him how they built one, carving out blocks of wind-blown snow, shaping and placing them in an inward-sloped spiral with one block on top, and packing snow as mortar between the blocks. When it was bedtime – still daylight with 24-hour sunshine by April – they lined the inside with caribou skins, which shed like crazy with hairs everywhere but sure are warm. Snuggled into our arctic down sleeping bags, we slept like stones.
It was an experience both of us will never forget. Never pass up an opportunity to have an adventure with your kids they’ll always remember. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #50 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
HALF-FULL REPORT 04/02/21
Welcome to the Good Friday HFR!
Yes, I admit to the self-promotion above. My friends at Escape Artist invited me to do an interview cover story for the April issue of their Insider magazine. Click on the link for the full issue, for they have kindly provided it free to all TTPers.
While you can scroll down to page 20 for my interview, you’ll also find a number of valuable articles, like Asset Protection and Bitcoin and How to Bulletproof Yourself from Cancel Culture. There’s a lot of cool info here – I hope you enjoy it.
There’s also a lot of value info in this Good Friday HFR. Get ready, ‘cause here we go!
THE TEN WOKE RULES FOR POST-AMERICA
[VDH has never written anything more insightful and more concise than this. Copy and send to everyone you know.]
There are 10 new Woke Rules we are now expected to live by that are changing America, maybe permanently.
1) Money is a construct.
2) Laws are not necessarily binding anymore.
3) Racism is now morally required.
It gets worse…
THE MONEY THAT MADE US HUMAN
On display in the National Museum of Congo in Brazzaville: “Ancient Money.” I took the picture because this is the money that made us human 90,000 years ago. They are tiny Nassarius gibbosulus estuarine snail shells too small for food, perforated with small holes to string on a necklace, used as money “before the establishment of the CFA” as the sign says, the Central Africa Franc in 1945.
These are the same species of shell that was the first jewelry in history unearthed at seashore sites in Morocco and hundreds of miles inland in Algeria some 90kya (thousand years ago) – meaning they were traded. For the first time in history, a species began to exchange things between unrelated unmarried individuals to share, swap, barter and trade, and over great distances.
Other animals do not barter. This, maintains science author Matt Ridley, is what made us distinctly human, enabling us to cooperate with other groups or tribes, to innovate, to evolve ever more complex cultures. This little shell, used as money, is the founding of human culture. And after 90 millennia, it was still in use in Africa until 75 years ago! (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #61 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
SKYE’S LINKS 04/01/21
The Ruling 'Crat-designed invasion of cheap labor and more 'Crat voters has just begun, but the 'Crat base doesn't like it:
Gallup CEO Warns Joe Biden: 42 Million Migrants Want Entry to U.S.
More Blue vs. Blue - Two 'Crat Senators proudly announce that they will not vote for anyone with the wrong color of their skin and the MSM goes crickets: When Wokeness Damages Democrats
When guns are outlawed, outlaws will still have guns – who knew? Glock 19 Disguised As Nerf Gun Seized In North Carolina Drug Raid
CORPORATE COMMUNISM IS REAL AND COMING FOR YOU
@Corporate communism began trending on Twitter yesterday afternoon (3/30) due to the video above of MTG (Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene) coining the term.
The freshman Republican is talking about the Xiden administration’s ambitions to buddy up with so-called private companies in creating a way to identify who has been vaccinated against the Chicom Virus.
She’s right. These “vaccine passports” would allow some combination of companies and the government to prohibit unvaccinated people from traveling, going to events or gatherings, or otherwise participating in a free and normal society.
THE TOMB OF TAMERLANE
This is the interior of “Gur Emir,” the tomb of Tamerlane (1336-1405) in Samarkand, the great Silk Road city now in Uzbekistan. Tamerlane was the last of the nomadic conquerors of Eurasia, a Turkic-Mongol whose conquests extended from New Delhi to eastern Turkey.
Gur Emir is only one of a multitude of extraordinary sights in legendary Samarkand that make being here a life-memorable experience. We’ll be here during our exploration of Central Asia soon again. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #59 photo ©Jack Wheeler)