QuoteIt is time to stop listening to people who are really, Really, REALLY WRONG.

But we know that Musk is not capable of changing.  Musk will mend his ways when a leopard can change spots.



And after the leopards are all extinct, none of them will be changing spots.

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My story is a bit different from most.  I sort of saw all this coming way back in 1972 when the Club of Rome published The Limits to Growth.

At the time, I was young and dumb.  The difference now is I am not so young.  I spent the first half of my life up to about September 11th (When America changed, so maybe there is hope for Musk after all?) thinking the smart brains in the room were working the problem.

Then I learned I was wrong.  Dead wrong, as we all will be.  I learned, contrary to toxic parental lessons that were pretty much beat into me, that I am one of the smart people in the room, and nobody is working the fucking problem.

Through the years I have met a few dozen people who have claimed a 160 I.Q.  Maybe not so many as that, but more than I can remember.  How rare is a 160 I.Q. ?  Only one person in 11,308 has one higher, and claiming that arrogance is beyond me.

So how much would a person need to be a contender on Jeopardy?  Give me a few weeks to review lists of English Kings and such, and I could have been.  Perhaps one person in 162?  That would equate to a 140 IQ.

You don't meet many people claiming an IQ of 140, people insecure enough to need to deceive themselves go for the gusto, the big gulp, at least 160.


But some talents are worthless.  Like the talent of apprehending collapse.  Nobody cares.  The human race has not been out of the trees long enough to become smart enough to change the outcome or to care.  The human race became smart, but not smart enough.  But too smart for our own good, we are.  Then Sigmund Freud and his asshole and much praised nephew Eddie ushered in ' The Century of The Self '.  Baking doom into the cake.

Pleasure became the highest good.  The highest good to a brain-dead populace with more free time and pleasure than any generation born before them.  Temperance did not benefit the elite, the ones who control.  A self-obsessed population of consumers benefits the rich.  To that end the human race was corrupted.

He became a caricature .

Free time, pleasure, and Summer Music Festivals.  Where mega consumers go.

Hamas attacked the SuperNova Music festival. 


A celebration of peace and love attacked, three miles from where the former inhabitants of the land are imprisoned for life .

We live in a nation that has lost all sense of irony.  But the irony of the SuperNova attack is not lost on me.  Omelas again, but now something is not right with the magic.  Almost two and a half million souls do not wish to suffer any longer.  Not locked in their Omelas rooms by choice, they fight the magic.

* (that is the best beer belly I ever saw)