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 2000: Babylon.com (by Yours Truly) opens with "I don't want to be no slave to no dot-com!" 

2023: Generation X workers have become disillusioned with tech culture—and their jobs.

That anyone has room in their head for this is disturbing: What Each Zodiac Sign Can Manifest This Week When Jupiter Retrograde Starts

Burning Man starting to feel more welcoming to people of color (after more than two decades, they're doing the best they can).

 

 

 'I'm not usually racist' HAS to be one of the most honest statements heard recently. Bravo.

Except for Haitian, spoken in Florida, there is no reflection of blackness in America. If your descendants were brought here in a slave ship, you have no cultural anchor to hang onto, except for what your people made out of the experience. There's no vacations back to "the old country" to let the pressure off or understand yourself more - as most others have. There's no money coming from ancestors and family "back home" - as most others have. There's no strength coming from a history of anything. How anyone can think blacks don't deserve reparations blows my mind. How anyone can wonder why we stay so angry does, too. Where does it get to go?

 

For 20 years, I was married to a French woman more devoted to FIVE of the Top 10 Worst Alternative Health Practices Influencers Pedal than our marriage, which has left me triggered and abused - and probably will for as long as I live - since American society's also decided there will be no escaping even the worst Alternative Health Practices. They'll just keep these cults in our faces, as another tax on our lives.

That's how I look at what the Panda Express cult was doing during the pandemic,...

Which will have to "funnel down" - after attempting another twist-and-shout on my powers of prophesy, astrology, various thoughts on racism, quackery, cults, and pandas - to closing this post with an assist from 2012, and Panda Bear, MD: 

"The best blog on my blogroll, the Macho Response, is not even a medical blog but rather the observations and reflections of a guy living deep in one of the many strongholds of the lunatic fringe and who is slapping them around as they deserve and to the best of his abilities. I’m sure we don’t agree on everything. The Crack Emcee, as he styles himself, is an artist, a musician, and an atheist while I am tone deaf, art-insensate, and a devout Orthodox Christian…but I ain’t a fascist and there is plenty of room in my mind at least for some reasoned differences of opinion. The Emcee is nothing if not reasonable which is not to say that he doesn’t, in a commendable macho fashion, disembowel the usual sensitivity fascists, self-help gurus, and the obnoxious cult-like behavior that is the norm among many of our elites. Sometimes even reasonable men must run up the Jolly Roger, spit on their hands, and commence to cutting throats (If I can paraphrase H.L. Mencken)."

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It's nice to see people are catching on to the difference between cults and their mere (but still torturous and harmful-to-business) offspring - cultish thinking. Why do we live with this? How have we - Americans - grown accustomed to it? 

  It's a pretty standard collection of corporate psychology types, none of whom have any obvious connection to Scientology (or to Landmark, a quasi-cult,…)

...It's just a semi-extreme version of the kind of "management philosophy" you'll find in a lot of companies today--walks like a cult, talks like a cult, almost definitely isn't,…

I used to try and explain that distinction, and the experience, all the time. Nice to see we're getting somewhere. (But when will we make a connection between corporate cultish thinking and our lousy business climate? I don't want to work in these places, with anyone into the mind set, or buy their products.) It's also nice to see people are catching on to The Landmark Forum finally:

But it's still disappointing it isn't Lululemon or Panda Express,...

One Ain't Flying Over Anything Until After The Weekend

If you want to know what's going on with me, health-wise, I just wrote an update here. To those who have donated, thank you, you're very kind. I especially appreciate the ones who don't necessarily like me and do it anyway. I "get" it, O.K.? 

To my folks, here, I promise Whole Foods and Panda Express will never see a dime.

Oh - and also to my regular readers - you might want to join the conversation over at my man, Lem's, Comment Home. That's where all the "losers" from Althouse are congregating, shooting the shit, discussing the topics of the day, calling each other names and sorting each other out - minus the whole Nurse Ratched routine:

   

 Feel free,...

 

Other Great Ideas: L. Ron Hubbard Drinking A Margarita, Oprah Winfrey Buying Her Audience Burritos, J.Z. Knight Covered In Tamale Sauce,...

While some are pissed off about the Hacienda Restaurant's major advertising blunder, we're not. Why should we be? Few others take seriously the gray area that cult leaders, killer cultists, or even the cult murders exist in, so why should the Hacienda Restaurant? Hell, Hollywood made a whole Academy Award-winning movie about The People's Temple - never mentioned them once - and hardly anybody even noticed!

Look, the Hacienda Restaurant messed up by being too direct with the advertising. All they have to do now is quietly hook up with Cafe' Gratitude (or Panda Express) and this stuff will blow over in no time. The trick in the 2011 world of American restaurants is to make cultism's mystic mayhem™ of murder and madness a normal part of the atmosphere. For instance, next time, the Hacienda might want to advertise their poisoned Kool-Aid as a "free" drink.

That way they'll fit right in.