it's pretty clear that your god doesn't exist, whatever your god is. but, it's just as clear that if you're going to live in the arctic, then you need to adapt intelligently to the climate and food sources around you.

there is a tremendous difference between teaching children to discard debunked or obsolete knowledge, which is progress, and literally separating people from a sustainable, evolved way of life, which is regress.

we really don't have a history of slavery in canada.

and, i'm not going to argue that the genocide that america carried out against it's indigenous population is in some way comparable to what happened up here. it isn't.

but, our great collective sin is our ongoing colonization of the native population - something most of us don't really know the real extent of, or just how bad it really is. when you ask us directly, we claim we don't care. but, our apathy is a reflection of our ignorance.

so, yeah, i don't like receiving death threats. but, i understood i was dealing with a legacy of control and abuse - and that i was talking with somebody that is so brainwashed that they were barely capable of understanding what they were saying.

talk to an inuit person some time about their ancestral, traditional food sources. you'd think they have some kind of attachment to that, right? it's their culture, right? and, in fact, it's their sustainable food source, too - they can't and shouldn't be shipping in french fries and coke.

but, do you know what they actually call their own food? do you know how they speak of the caribou, the seal, the narwhal, etc?

they call it "country food", because they're taught that it's dirty, and inferior. they speak of it in hushed tones, guiltily. it's a disgrace - a disgrace to us.

and, it's not the past.

i just want to expand on this a little, because the history is different up here.

the indigenous people of canada are taught that the british monarch is their great protector. they are trained to speak of the monarch as the father, and of themselves as children. and, this is still happening - to our great national shame.

when you try and talk to indigenous people about these things, they repeat the lies they've been told, and grow angry and agitated about it, as they've been taught to.

it's like arguing with somebody that was raised in a cult and taught to attack the outside world as liars and corruptors - because, in truth, that's very much the actual reality of it.

every indigenous person in canada knows that the great lord, the queen, would never harm her beloved indigenous children. begone with these marxist lies!

the courts have more or less refused to address the issue, even going so far as to erect a fiduciary duty by the crown.

of course, when you get people off the reserve, it's a slow process of nursing them back to health, but you can do it. it's the ones that are born and raised there and never leave, or leave infrequently, that are like talking to members of an isolated cult - because that's actually what they are.

https://dsdfghghfsdflgkfgkja.blogspot.com/2013/10/taking-note-of-death-threat.html

i do hope that nova scotia gets off ok. and, i feel for the people of the bahamas.

but, i think i want to plan for one weekend, mid-week, instead of two.

that would be wizard rifle on wednesday and hot snakes on thursday, both in far away hamtramck.

at least the buses are relatively early on weekdays.

the ndp is a national political party, it's not a motorcycle gang. it's not a cult.

it can't go around smashing up people's cars for defecting from them.

i mean, what's next: executing apostates?

obviously, when they catch the person responsible for this, they should be held properly responsible.

but, i also think that the jagmeet singh needs to take responsibility for the vacuity of his rhetoric and apologize for the consequences of it. this is what happens when you talk shit like this.

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/a-former-ndp-executive-car-is-vandalized-called-racist-1.4580827

i forgot to mention that i started watching the climate town hall.

yes, i'm going to watch the entire thing. it's just going to take a while. one per day, or every other day, depending on when i eat.

the first candidate up was julian castro, and i'll acknowledge that he sounded well spoken enough. i don't really disagree with much of what he said, but i'll just throw out there that the impression that i get from him is that he's a pragmatist, and, at this stage, the global superpower cannot be thinking in pragmatic terms when it comes to climate change. it's too late for that.

somebody asked him about his plans to fund infrastructure replacement, and he suggested it wouldn't be necessary, because he'd reverse the warming. that's not a science-based analysis anymore, that's wishful thinking. but, i think it's wise for me to expect a little bit of that from everybody both because (1) these people have poor science credentials across the board and (2) it is difficult to understand that it really, actually is too late to stop a certain level of damage. the candidate that stands up and says "i know that this isn't just about emissions reductions anymore. i've read the ipcc reports. i understand the necessity to mitigate the irreversible upcoming effects, which means i have budgeted to alter the existing infrastructure" is the one i'm going to take the most seriously, but i'm not sure that's going to happen.

i know that the usual political reflex is to rally people around a cause and be optimistic. but, telling people you can reverse climate change is about as honest as telling them you can bring their factory jobs back. it's magical thinking.

but, the thing i found most instructive was watching him react to the question about what he did wrong in the past, because he stopped to process it. don't get me wrong: it's generally a good idea to think before you speak. but, he seemed to process that he was being walked into a trap, and i'm not sure i believe the answer he gave.

the sum reaction was proceed with caution with this guy.

it's really just about being more like finland.

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/10/21/taking-sports-out-of-school-2/school-should-be-about-learning-not-sports

i would even go so far as to back a congressional inquiry into athletes being given fake grades to let them continue. that's something that needs to be rooted out and stopped forever.

yeah, right now i'm planning for wednesday.

that jet stream looks like it's going to freeze us out pretty persistently, but the hurricane is going to spike the temperatures for us, here. as noted repeatedly: when the dominant pattern is a low dipping jet stream, the only thing that can really overpower it and let the warm air flow up is a major storm in the atlantic. that's set to hit here tuesday/wednesday before the jetstream reasserts itself.

i'm going to sort through the dally acts a little more carefully, but i expect to be in for the day.

if i was to go anywhere tonight, it would be to a math show in hamtramck.

no.

listen.

they're all terrible.

if athletes want to go to school, i'd encourage it, but they should be admitted based on their marks, and properly evaluated on their merits.

now, that doesn't mean that athletes shouldn't go to school.

what it means is that there should be a separation between the scholastic and the athletic - that athletics don't belong at school, and that people certainly shouldn't get scholarships to play sports.

is paying post-secondary athletes a good idea?

not remotely. what a waste of resources that demonstrates a skewed level of priority.

i'm going to make a different proposal: sports should be banned from universities altogether. i never wanted to have to deal with jocks at school, and would have been happier if they weren't there at all.

let the leagues fund their own systems.

and, let's spend that money on things that are important, like scientific research.

have another plate, meghan.

also, i'll listen to what meghan mccain says about population control and climate change after she cuts down on the cheeseburgers.

and, i'm not crazy.

you're crazy.

you're all crazy.

so, you know what is a waste of time?

going to work is a waste of time.
going to church is a waste of time.
going to school is a waste of time.
going to political rallies is a waste of time.
going to family get-togethers is a waste of time.

what a real left, an anarchist left, wants is to get rid of all of these wastes of our time, so that people can live their lives in actual freedom.

they told me i was a leader.

maybe they were right, after all.

they just didn't expect me to lead an army against them....

i mean, i can be a leader if you insist. that's what they always told me i was good at. i was never so sure they were right, but whatever.

i'm just perhaps not going to lead with the ideals and values and goals that you'd want me to.

but, don't misunderstand the point: the feeling is mutual. i think that capitalism is pretty pointless...

it's your society that is a waste of everybody's time - labour, school, religion, markets.

i'm trying to transcend that.

and, it seems like people need leaders, so follow me, if that's what you need.

actually, i would argue that being an artist - be it a writer or a musician - is a more effective means of actualizing real change than being a politician.

the future has to exist beyond a point of representative government.

that's part of what it means to be an anarchist - rejecting the idea of bourgeois government as a giant waste of time.

so, if you thought i had aspirations in politics, you weren't understanding what i was saying.

i would rather be somebody more like ralph nader, who accomplished more in a few years than the entire left has, combined, since.