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Writing Day
Nov. 9th, 2017 09:08 amWriting day, writing day!
Actually I'm not really in the mood today. I would have preferred tomorrow, but tomorrow is grocery day, and after grocery day I will need an easygoing reading day, and the Cowboys play on Sunday, which means I would have to wait until Monday if I don't make today a writing day. Such a busy life for somebody without a wife, without a job, without any real purpose in life whatsoever. But, yeah, it is still too busy for me.
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May 14, 1994
In one of my intellectually aspirational moods, I tried to read a book titled "Mathematics: Queen and Servant of Science (1987). I didn't get far. After just beginning it, I wrote that my "mind already jams into a heavy stillness." Not much later, we get this: "So, it looks like the Monkey-Knight is going to put mathematics aside after all." Yup, it sounds like a familiar pattern with me all right.
* * *
Tweet: "A reminder that if you're a predator and you're starting to get worried that your time is coming, you should be worried because it is ..."
Very serious. No kidding. Allegations are streaming in from the woodworks. There's a strike at Alabama's Roy Moore for screwing around with a 14-year-old girl, and recently the sky began falling on Kevin Spacey's head for alleged assaults against young guys (he's gay). And now the comic Louis C. K. had to pull a movie premiere, because a big scandal is breaking over his head about harassing women.
When Bill O'Reilly got canned from Fox News, I thought the culture was turning big for feminism and sexual abuse, but the dam really crumbled with the Weinstein story. Since then, it's almost a daily roll call of accusers and abusers, and with consequences - not just rumors and head-shaking. It's like a revolution.
Naturally, I have mixed feelings. On one hand, I can certainly appreciate the narrative of a culture overcoming sexism and sexual abuse. On the other hand, I kind of feel an appreciation for a world in which men just naturally prey on fine babes and that there really isn't anything to be done about it, except perhaps scapegoat the politically weak, such as minority men. Living in a world where the rich feed on the poor and the white feed on the colored, I kind of savored the game of men feeding on hot babes.
It is still hard for me to believe that the culture can make this turning, that sexual predation is not a big part of human nature, which cannot be stopped until humans become extinct. But it really is beginning to feel like a revolution. Maybe racism and poverty cannot be eradicated, but sexism can. Who knows?
Another telling tweet: "Right now, the HuffPost front page has stories about 9 different men who are accused of sexual assault. It would be 10 but we had to take down Charlie Sheen to make room for Louis C.K."
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I'm glad I didn't wash my socks. Pop just took me out to get some clothes. It's been a few years, and my socks in particular are in shreds. Now, I can just throw away the old ones. I remember, as a kid, clothes were the one thing I did not ever want to get as a gift. Now I regard clothes as precious luxuries. I regret that I was not able to find any shorts I like, or swim-trunks that can serve as shorts.
However, this shopping expedition took away three hours from my day, short-changing this writing day. I wasn't feeling very inspired anyway. I was mainly using the day to edit the Old Journal entries I worked on during the previous writing days to boot them up to the Three Journal. In addition to clothes, time also seems to be a precious luxury that I just cannot get enough of, which is something for a guy with no real life to speak of.
* * *
A news tweet on the sex allegations: "The LAPD is forming a task force to investigate sexual misconduct in Hollywood."
Jeet Heer comments, "They're going to need a bigger boat."
They should net dozens, if not hundreds, of indictments. Anything short of that, and it's not a revolution and it is not all for real, but only a wave of social hysteria from social media.
* * *
Regarding Roy Moore's sex scandal and the Republicans' acceptance of it, along with their acceptance of a lot of Trumpy behavior, Ross Douthat tweets, "The thing about trading your principles for power is that once you do it the Devil always come back offering variations on the same deal."
Actually I'm not really in the mood today. I would have preferred tomorrow, but tomorrow is grocery day, and after grocery day I will need an easygoing reading day, and the Cowboys play on Sunday, which means I would have to wait until Monday if I don't make today a writing day. Such a busy life for somebody without a wife, without a job, without any real purpose in life whatsoever. But, yeah, it is still too busy for me.
* * *
May 14, 1994
In one of my intellectually aspirational moods, I tried to read a book titled "Mathematics: Queen and Servant of Science (1987). I didn't get far. After just beginning it, I wrote that my "mind already jams into a heavy stillness." Not much later, we get this: "So, it looks like the Monkey-Knight is going to put mathematics aside after all." Yup, it sounds like a familiar pattern with me all right.
* * *
Tweet: "A reminder that if you're a predator and you're starting to get worried that your time is coming, you should be worried because it is ..."
Very serious. No kidding. Allegations are streaming in from the woodworks. There's a strike at Alabama's Roy Moore for screwing around with a 14-year-old girl, and recently the sky began falling on Kevin Spacey's head for alleged assaults against young guys (he's gay). And now the comic Louis C. K. had to pull a movie premiere, because a big scandal is breaking over his head about harassing women.
When Bill O'Reilly got canned from Fox News, I thought the culture was turning big for feminism and sexual abuse, but the dam really crumbled with the Weinstein story. Since then, it's almost a daily roll call of accusers and abusers, and with consequences - not just rumors and head-shaking. It's like a revolution.
Naturally, I have mixed feelings. On one hand, I can certainly appreciate the narrative of a culture overcoming sexism and sexual abuse. On the other hand, I kind of feel an appreciation for a world in which men just naturally prey on fine babes and that there really isn't anything to be done about it, except perhaps scapegoat the politically weak, such as minority men. Living in a world where the rich feed on the poor and the white feed on the colored, I kind of savored the game of men feeding on hot babes.
It is still hard for me to believe that the culture can make this turning, that sexual predation is not a big part of human nature, which cannot be stopped until humans become extinct. But it really is beginning to feel like a revolution. Maybe racism and poverty cannot be eradicated, but sexism can. Who knows?
Another telling tweet: "Right now, the HuffPost front page has stories about 9 different men who are accused of sexual assault. It would be 10 but we had to take down Charlie Sheen to make room for Louis C.K."
* * *
I'm glad I didn't wash my socks. Pop just took me out to get some clothes. It's been a few years, and my socks in particular are in shreds. Now, I can just throw away the old ones. I remember, as a kid, clothes were the one thing I did not ever want to get as a gift. Now I regard clothes as precious luxuries. I regret that I was not able to find any shorts I like, or swim-trunks that can serve as shorts.
However, this shopping expedition took away three hours from my day, short-changing this writing day. I wasn't feeling very inspired anyway. I was mainly using the day to edit the Old Journal entries I worked on during the previous writing days to boot them up to the Three Journal. In addition to clothes, time also seems to be a precious luxury that I just cannot get enough of, which is something for a guy with no real life to speak of.
* * *
A news tweet on the sex allegations: "The LAPD is forming a task force to investigate sexual misconduct in Hollywood."
Jeet Heer comments, "They're going to need a bigger boat."
They should net dozens, if not hundreds, of indictments. Anything short of that, and it's not a revolution and it is not all for real, but only a wave of social hysteria from social media.
* * *
Regarding Roy Moore's sex scandal and the Republicans' acceptance of it, along with their acceptance of a lot of Trumpy behavior, Ross Douthat tweets, "The thing about trading your principles for power is that once you do it the Devil always come back offering variations on the same deal."
