Recommendation: Nick Rekieta

I'm making a formal recommendation here: follow Nick Rekieta on Twitter and YouTube.

Nick's one of the lawyers on YouTube that makes videos and does livestreams providing legal commentary on topics of interest. He became interested in the #KickVic controversy, first covering it and then getting involved when he assisted the accused--voice actor Vic Mignogna--in raising the funds required to mount a civil legal effort against the SJWs who initiated the attack.

His value, primarily, is in telling laymen how the law--American law, specifically--works in practice compared to how laymen think it operates. Secondarily is his complete and total animosity to the SJWs making geek media suck harder than a black hole, which often means he's dunking hard on them. We need men like this. First, he tells us how the rules of the game actually work so we can avoid making mistakes. Second, he helps keep up morale by word and deed. This man is valuable and should be supported.

As the situation with Vic Mignogna shows, he's able to step up and make things happen when he's convinced of the need to act. Because of him, Vic has the law firm of Beard Harris Bullock & Hughes at his back. Because of that suit, Frog God Games engaged the same firm to go after the SJWs attacking its man Bill Webb. Beard & associates will find more folks reaching out to them as they mount more successes against SJWs, proving that lawfare works. Nick's role in demonstrating this to us is not to be underestimated.

Naturally the SJWs that know of Nick know of his role in these affairs and seek to silence him. He briefly got punted off Twitter this past week, but because--as usual--the claims were baseless Twitter backed down and restore Nick's account. Even if you don't watch his livestreams, check the summaries that get made from his streams; they often focus on the key points of a given night's stream. He's proven worthy of our support.

Narrative Warfare: It Doesn't Matter Who #QAnon Is.

The Supreme Dark Lord, Vox Day, gets it with regard to #QAnon. I also don't care who Q really is; I care what Q does, and Q is doing good for the world by his efforts. Folks who fail to grasp this get tripped up on irrelevant details, and I'll let the smarter man do the talking here.

It's about getting the job done. Who does it, or why, is not relevant at this time; what matters is that someone does what needs to be done when, where, and how it needs to be done. So long as Q delivers--and he does--then Q can be a flying purple eater for all that it matters. You can concern yourself with those details after the fact, after the Deep State is done, and we begin recording all of this for the benefit of posterity. To worry about it now is a category error; stop sperging.

Status Matters: Why Dr. Gender Studies Defeats Master Plumber in Life

People laugh about, and lament at times, being pushed into a university degree over other options like Trade School. They talk about how they know people who did so and now live debt-free. For all those folks, necessary as they are, I always see the same result: they still end up under the boot of a university graduate.

It's about status.

The plumber who has no debt, his own home free and clear, same with his late-model truck AND car, is always inferior in status to Dr. Gender Studies ringing him up at the gas station.

You think not? Wait until Dr. Gender Studies gets political and starts playing the hustle. NOW that degree pays off; the grants, the patronage, the media deference, the sudden employment in office jobs with minimal work for maximal pay (plus benefits)- all of that comes from that PHD, and once that gravy train starts it only goes up from there.

Frame Game Radio calls this "The Diversity Industry", but you older folks known this as the "Sharpton Shakedown" racket, and it is how Dr. Gender Studies translates the potential to the real. That is why the smarter ones get into organizing, read Saul Alinksy, and participate in lefty agit-prop; they're learning their trade- how to weaponize empathy to shake down suckers and marks for profit.

There is no way that Master Plumber can out-status Dr. Gender Studies, and Dr. Gender Studies knows it. Soon the Dr. has that plumber by the balls, extracting money and other concessions (e.g. diversity hire slots, which goes to the Dr.'s friends, family, and allies) via lawfare and media manipulation (the real trade skills).

Frame Game Radio even has a name for this: The High Sparrow Strategy.

Now watch. Watch to see which of these college kids starts that hustle; they're the would-be Sparrows, and where one pops up a lot more rally in hopes of getting in on the racket somehow. That Hogg kid? He made his first go of it; he's had a taste, and he'll come back for more.

That's what we're producing now: High Sparrows and their cadres of Useful Idiots to throw at shakedown targets. Don't say it's not a thing, or you wouldn't be wondering why the culture industry is so full of them. Not all of them will reach the coveted status of a High Sparrow, but many of them will do just fine being the right-hand hench-things of a High Sparrow. They acquire status to attain power, and through power they take the wealth via the State of Master Plumber to first satisfy outstanding debts and then become stupidly wealthy.

The smarter ones don't necessarily have (SJW tag) Studies degrees. They have Public Relations, Marketing, Journalism, Communications, etc. degrees and network their way into becoming a handler for front-things like Dr. Gender Studies. The smartest go into traditional professions--Banking, Law, Medicine--with a secondary study in media so they can work the Talking Head and PR games as required but otherwise stay behind the camera. Nonetheless, they have the real skills needed to seize and hold power now; sending kids to the trades may get them a more-or-less debt-free adult life, but always in servitude to people who wield real power- and that is one way that Empire keeps its parasitic life going. Until you can upend the status game, Empire can't fall.

Red Ice Radio - Brett Veinotte - Hour 1 - School Sucks: Intelligence & Education vs. Schooling

Synopsis: "Brett Veinotte has worked in education for the last 12 years, in a variety of capacities. After leaving classroom teaching in 2006, Brett began to work exclusively as a private tutor in the greater Boston area. In 2009, he began The School Sucks Podcast as an outlet for the lessons and experiences he had gathered in and around the schools. The show addresses the problems, history and hidden lessons of American compulsory schooling, but also covers a variety of educational topics including The Trivium, communication, mainstream media, peaceful parenting, philosophy, self-esteem, history and political science. Brett will discuss the difference between schooling vs. education and the importance of cognitive liberty. We’ll also compare past to present day intelligence levels and hear about the Flynn effect. Then, Brett tells about the 9 types of intelligence. Later on, we’ll discuss Charlotte Iserbyt’s work, John Dewey, the Scandinavian school system and the banning of homeschool in Europe. Brett also comments on anti-bullying laws in school and how it creates helplessness. In the member’s hour, we’ll speak more about homeschooling and what to do if it’s illegal in your area. He’ll also give his view on fighting the political system. Then, we’ll discuss how parents have become an enforcer for school, changing the dynamics of the parent/child relationship. Brett also talks about the 6 pillars of self-esteem. We’ll move on to talk about the power of pop culture and whether parents should shield their children from the programming. At the end of the hour, Brett gives advice for people who want to drop out of school."

The Eyeopener Report - The Answer to Common Core: Alternative Models of Education

As James Corbett says: "For those who are opposed to a conception of schooling centered on rote memorization and endless standardized testing, the introduction of biosensors and other devices into the classroom to monitor students' behaviour, the prolongation of childhood and arbitrary grouping of individuals by age, the unquestioning obedience to authority that is inherent in the classroom dynamic, the training for the workforce implicit in the segregation of tasks into arbitrary work periods, the Pavlovian conditioning of the bell, what is the alternative? What can be positively proposed as a counterbalance to this palpably destructive form of modern day schooling? Find out the alternative education models that are being implemented in classrooms around the world in this week's edition of The Eyeopener."

Empire Consumes The Gifted

Synchronicity happens. Today, I get up and while I'm drinking my coffee I'm checking in with my friends and acquaintances via the usual social media outlets when I see that a game designer by the name of John Wick shared a link to this article about existential depression in gifted children. A Google search reveals plenty of reposts, so I won't reproduce it again here (follow the link and come back), but as I read the article I felt that familiar anger again.

You see, 30+ years ago I was that gifted child suffering acutely and severely from existential depression. As this was the 1970s and 1980s in a working class family, a working class neighborhood and a working class school district (in other words, a system designed to produce proles--human resources--for the corporate sector to consume and discard) you should not be surprised to find that the adults legally responsible for my safety and well-being UTTERLY FAILED to do their job. Their incompetence, as I know now, was not entirely accidental; the Prussian system we use world-wide to school and train (not educate) children has no intention of making good use of gifted children that don't arise out of the high-class families that run and own this system of human resource farming that fraudulently calls itself "civilization". (Yes, that's a global thing; it's just as much a shit-canning of the common man in the West as it is in the East, in the North as in the South- if you're not one of the elite, you're just a thing to be stuck in place and ground up before being yanked out and cast off as old and busted. That's our global system, and no amount of gilding the cage can conceal this from those with eyes to see and ears to hear.)

My abandonment of this shit milieu, my transformation of my frustration into an anger-fueled passion to expose to one and all that this is not the real world--but instead a bullshit fake meatgrinder that pretends that it's a wonderland, a Matrix where everyone's conned into thinking that they can be what they want if they just (insert bullshit fraudulent claim here)--stems from that childhood experience. I learned, as I now see clearly, that I got at a pre-school age just how full of shit this world really was; I lacked the language to express it, and I had not the experience to process it, but I knew that this world was bullshit and no amount of cajoling from the system--formally, by way of government agents, or informally by the adults in my life--did anything to prove otherwise. Indeed, their reactions confirmed my findings.

Every other aspect of "normal" life just served to reinforce this conclusion over the years. Since the physical frontiers are closed, I abandoned this world emotionally and mentally instead for those frontiers. (And yes, as soon as that former frontier reopens, I am out of here. No, that story about the company claiming to colonize Mars is not believable; undersea colonization will happen first.) It's not worth saving, let alone serving, so I now await the inevitable collapse that Empire's fraud must experience. Then there will be a window of time, a liminal space, where I can intervene and put down this cancer for good and never again should there be any of this horror visited upon we that are gifted. Call it the Magneto Option if you like, but that would be misleading; I am not only an anarchist, but also an individualist (as no institution created by Mankind has ever done what individuals in lawful community could not do, and Empire always turns them into organs of his parasitic predation; we don't need what is not emergent in Nature when it comes to such things- the family alone is lawful).

Empire consumes the Gifted. It fears what these best expressions of Mankind could do if it didn't prey upon them, turn those it can into Thralls and cripple or kill the rest. (I could myself lucky to merely live in exile.) If we want this phenomenon to end, then we must kill Empire and bring the system down for good. Empire Must Fall.

History... Connected: The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America w/ Charlotte Iserbyt

Richard Grove of Tragedy & Hope interviewed Charlotte Iserbyt about the corruption of American public education and her experiences in fighting against it. This is a long one, over an hour, but worth your time.

The School Sucks Podcast: Doing a Series on the Trivium

The folks at the School Sucks Podcast are doing a series on the Trivium. This week they put up an episode on Grammar and Logic, following both the Introduction and part one of Grammar and an interlude about religion and Sophistry. Plenty of citations, links and embedded documents are on the podcast episode pages, putting the Corbett Report to shame. Follow the links, turn off the football and pay attention to this instead.

Two embedded documents in particular got my attention, and that's the pair I'm embedding below:

Trivium and Quadrivium Cliff Notes by Gene Odening

Trivium Method of Critical Thinking and Creative Problem Solving

Take the time to read these either before or after listening to the series. (The last part, covering Rhetoric, is not up yet; when it is, I will edit this post to reflect the complete series.)

Recommended: The School Sucks Project

Another great project to come out of the Tragedy & Hope community is The School Sucks Project, which has its own podcast that you can listen to here. While other outlets focus on things that seem far away or out of one's control, what your children (and you, for that matter) deal with when it comes to the schooling system of your community (wherever that is) is both right at hand and well within your capacities to handle. Nonetheless, a lot of our problems arise out of a paradigm for transforming children into adults that arose in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars of the early 19th century. The Project addresses these problems, and seeks out solutions for various folks from how to make the system not fuck over your child to ditching out entirely and homeschooling or unschooling instead.

Yes, they have a YouTube channel. Below is a sample, uploaded on Monday of this week--the 7th of October--and gives you some idea as to the fundamental issue that the project deals with.

The Ultimate History Lesson Hours 1-5 (Official Playlist)

Above is another of the Peace Revolution productions that makes Richard Grove and his associates so damned good and reliable. This is a five-hour interview with John Taylor Gatto, the well-known teacher and advocate regarding education and schooling (not the same thing). In addition, Grove took the time to curate from his footage additional material that adds value to the documentary interview. Sources are cited, so you will want to hit the pause button and take notes while you watch; again, this ain't something to veg out to, or use as background noise.