summer busy
So much busy I really am letting this blog fall behind! Today saw me doing the Housewife deluxe routine. I cooked a stir fry on the bbq's pot burner, and used the same bbq to smoke/slow roast two turkey breasts. Very tasty! i also ran my linens through the laundry and aired all my pillows. After hanging on the line next to flowering fruit trees my sheets smell heavenly!
Last couple of days I played minecraft but I'm far too tired and sore tonight. Summer sees me planting and watering, weeding and feeding, koi pond keeping, house repairs if I can't help it, and trying to get out and play once or twice before summer ends!
So this weekend with all the pro-army stuff from the USA I wound up getting aggressive abuse from three americans for speaking up for peace. It was unnerving and distressing and took me awhile to shake off. I worry a bit that the instigators aren't done with me, but maybe they're not clever enough to bypass the block feature enough to hassle me. Or if I'm very lucky, they don't care that much. I have a way of inspiring deep emotion in others, it seems.
In the 70s they used to go round to youth groups and high school classrooms and give talks on how cults brainwash young folks. They wanted us armed to spot the kidnapping behaviour before it got us. Once you've been in it long enough, it takes heavy psychology to break through.
Step one: keep the person malnourished with excess calories, like junk food.
Step two: keep them constantly engaged and busy, with no personal time for reflection or mental processing.
Step three, interrupt their sleep and keep it as short as you can so they're sleep deprived.
Step four, make sure the noise around them is composed of the slogans you're teaching them. Shout it, sing it, tell it with passion, speak it with authority, and most of all, repeat it. Repeat it in every genre you have at hand.
After less than one season you have a willing educated recruit who will die to protect the taught ideology, teach it to others, and break any personal rule to support it.
This sounds like American culture the last twenty five years, doesn't it?
Last couple of days I played minecraft but I'm far too tired and sore tonight. Summer sees me planting and watering, weeding and feeding, koi pond keeping, house repairs if I can't help it, and trying to get out and play once or twice before summer ends!
So this weekend with all the pro-army stuff from the USA I wound up getting aggressive abuse from three americans for speaking up for peace. It was unnerving and distressing and took me awhile to shake off. I worry a bit that the instigators aren't done with me, but maybe they're not clever enough to bypass the block feature enough to hassle me. Or if I'm very lucky, they don't care that much. I have a way of inspiring deep emotion in others, it seems.
In the 70s they used to go round to youth groups and high school classrooms and give talks on how cults brainwash young folks. They wanted us armed to spot the kidnapping behaviour before it got us. Once you've been in it long enough, it takes heavy psychology to break through.
Step one: keep the person malnourished with excess calories, like junk food.
Step two: keep them constantly engaged and busy, with no personal time for reflection or mental processing.
Step three, interrupt their sleep and keep it as short as you can so they're sleep deprived.
Step four, make sure the noise around them is composed of the slogans you're teaching them. Shout it, sing it, tell it with passion, speak it with authority, and most of all, repeat it. Repeat it in every genre you have at hand.
After less than one season you have a willing educated recruit who will die to protect the taught ideology, teach it to others, and break any personal rule to support it.
This sounds like American culture the last twenty five years, doesn't it?