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There’s nothing that starts the day off better than a good kick to the crotch. And evidently, most of the lost and confused, i.e., nearly everyone, craves it.
Searching for a sliver of a piece of sanity in the jigsaw puzzle that is their brains, the lost and confused check in each morning for their daily motivational quips from their fellow guru’s (friends) they idolize that comes in the form of the motivational email with a cute but meaningless meme, or some other drivel. Folks like attention, and attention from a-holes seems to be at the top of the list of favored ways to kill off a few more brain cells each morning.
Folks also like believing they aren’t totally fucked up which is why they listen to the painfully arrogant and stupid in the first place where things like ‘look into yourself, angel, for there you’ll discover true enlightenment’. Anyone who calls another human, ‘angel’, hasn’t truly experienced being with a human.
If such banalities don’t make sense, who cares, they aren’t suppose to. Their purpose is to put a smile on the face of the dumb, while the arrogant scoop up their handful of pride of themselves for the day, knowing they’ve conned another into believing nonsense. And whatever other side benefits the lost give up to the arrogant, well, that’s bonus.
And if one might point out to the dumb that they’ve been conned, or are being conned, forget about it, for the splendidly stupid are no longer there in spirit, completely unable to admit they were wrong…ever.
Besides the neutral expression that she wore when she was alone, Mrs. Freeman had two others, forward and reverse, that she used for all her human dealings. Her forward expression was steady and driving like the advance of a heavy truck. Her eyes never swerved to left or right but turned as the story turned as if they followed a yellow line down the center of it. She seldom used the other expression because it was not often necessary for her to retract a statement, but when she did, her face came to a complete stop, there was an almost imperceptible movement of her black eyes, during which they seemed to be receding, and then the observer would see that Mrs. Freeman, though she might stand there as real as several grain sacks thrown on top of each other, was no longer there in spirit. As for getting anything across to her when this was the case, Mrs. Hopewell had given it up. She might talk her head off. Mrs. Freeman could never be brought to admit herself wrong to any point. She would stand there and if she could be brought to say anything, it was something like, “Well, I wouldn’t of said it was and I wouldn’t of said it wasn’t” or letting her gaze range over the top kitchen shelf where there was an assortment of dusty bottles, she might remark, “I see you ain’t ate many of them figs you put up last summer.” – Flannery O’Connor – “Good Country People”
And present day conning of the clueless by the professional arrogant’s is so good, that the brainless can’t claim to have an understanding of even the basics.
Being so easily conned, does have its benefits though… for the ones doing the conning.
‘Zombie’ Symptoms Linked to CO2 Pipeline Leaks, But Big Energy Planning 96,000-Mile Expansion – childrenshealthdefense.org
Driven by federal tax incentives for carbon-reduction projects, the fossil fuel industry plans to construct a 96,000-mile network of carbon dioxide pipelines across the U.S., despite leaks, including one that sent nearly 50 people in a Mississippi town to the hospital with “zombie”-like symptoms.
The fossil fuel industry has plans to construct a vast network of carbon dioxide pipelines spanning tens of thousands of miles across the U.S., despite leaks over the past several years — including one that sent nearly 50 people in a Mississippi town to the hospital with “zombie”-like symptoms.
Federal tax incentives under the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act are driving the pipeline projects, which aim to capture and store carbon emissions from power plants, according to Emily Sanders of ExxonKnews.
The U.S. has a relatively small network of carbon dioxide pipelines, totaling approximately 5,000 miles and primarily located in the Midwest and Gulf Coast regions.
But to transport just 15% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and financial industry project up to 96,000 miles of new pipelines may be required — enough to cross the continental U.S. 32 times, coast to coast.
After two horrific disasters involving “zombie-like” symptoms, CO2 pipelines may be coming to your neighborhood.
Big Oil is lobbying to kill safety rules that would prevent even more leaks, according to documents reviewed by @LeverNews & @Exxon_Knew. https://t.co/XJv5jG22Vk
— David Sirota (@davidsirota) April 25, 2024
2020 rupture led to mass asphyxiation event
In 2020, a rupture in a Denbury Enterprises carbon dioxide pipeline in Satartia, Mississippi, led to a mass asphyxiation event, causing people to become disoriented and unresponsive, with some even losing consciousness.
As hundreds attempted to flee the area, vehicles stalled and shut down, because internal combustion engines require oxygen.
Burying CO2 shows the depth of dumb, insanity and greed that is now the everyday.
But these true believers are good people right?
“She would have been a good woman if there had been somebody to shoot her every minute of her life.” Flannery O’Connor – ‘A Good Man Is Hard to Find’
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Tonight’s musical offering:
Sayaka Shoji plays Tchaikovsky : Violin Concerto in D major, Op.35 (final moments) – Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
Dispatches from the Asylum 