Physician, heal thyself

A recent Financial Times review of Jordan Peterson’s new book underlines why it is a very bad idea to take lessons from life’s losers:

Fifty pages into Jordan Peterson’s new book, Beyond Order, I called the FT books editor. I don’t think we ought to review this, I said. I explained that the author had suffered three years of emotional and physical hell, which he dispassionately catalogues in the book’s introduction. He’d become addicted to an anti-anxiety drug, which he started taking after he drank some apple cider that didn’t agree with him.

He’d tried to come off the drug, had been suicidal and diagnosed with schizophrenia — after which he flew to Moscow against his doctors’ orders to a hospital where they put him in a coma for nine days to help with the detox, after which he had to relearn how to walk. He ended up in a rehab clinic in Serbia — and also contracted Covid-19.

Over those same three years, his wife nearly died of cancer, and he had to deal with the stress of going from being an obscure Canadian psychology professor to a global sensation doing a 160-stop world tour and being watched by 200m people on YouTube.

I told the editor that, apart from the brief and riveting “Overture” describing this trip to hell, the new book was so far unreadable. It is billed as a book to comfort us in these unstable times and connect us with our inner strength, partly by showing how much of “life’s meaning” is to be found by reaching beyond the ordered domain of what we know.

At first glance, the result certainly seems chaotic. One minute Peterson is telling you to imagine who you could be and aim at that, then he’s on about ancient alchemists, then discussing unwelcome letters one might receive from the tax authorities, then back to some mystic stuff about Jupiter and Mars, leading to an extended account of how the snitch in Quidditch, the game played at JK Rowling’s Hogwarts, symbolises chaos. The poor man must have been unwell when he wrote all this, so it would be unfair to trash it.

I even wondered why the people at Penguin had rushed to publish it, when they should have told him to wait until he was better. 

Here is a more useful rule for life than any Jordan Peterson has on offer: don’t take advice from suicidal drug addicts. 

The costs of convergence

 Are now hitting the NFL hard:

Even though the NFL managed to play all 256 regular-season games and all 13 postseason games, the league lost a large chunk of money due to the pandemic. According to Ben Fischer of Sports Business Journal, the league saw its revenue fall from $16 billion in 2019 to $12 billion in 2020. The league had expected to generate $16.5 billion last year, before the pandemic changed everything.

That’s a 27 percent decline in revenue, in just one year. Sound familiar?

From Corporate Cancer:

It’s one thing to simply claim that something is bad, it is another to demonstrate exactly how bad it is. Once a corporation contracts Stage Five convergence, it can go downhill very fast.

How fast? On average, as a rough estimate, up to 20 percent in just one year. This decline can take place in terms of either revenue or units….

While the NFL continues to publicly dismiss its declining ratings as a temporary problem, the fact is that they caused the league to fall short of its predicted 2017 revenue of $14 billion and knocked the league considerably off the track of its revenue target of $25 billion by 2027. A four-percent reduction in annual revenue may not sound like much, but it represents a 10.7 percent decline in expected revenues which is not insignificant to any business, no matter how big it is. Indeed, there are even some who believe that this unnecessary, convergence-caused debacle may represent Peak NFL.

Keep in mind that the TV money is actually increasing while the viewership is declining. This is a fragile situation; it’s more likely that the future will see an NFL with annual revenues of $8 billion than $25 billion in real 2020 dollars. 

And it’s not the pandemic. The pandemic should have boosted TV ratings. The NFL’s real fear should be that it did….

Sigma on Gamma

Orson Wells wouldn’t be at all surprised that Woody Allen eventually became a creepy sex pest who groomed his adopted daughter.

OW: I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man. I can hardly bear to talk to him. He has the Chaplin disease. That particular combination of arrogance and timidity sets my teeth on edge.

HJ: He’s not arrogant; he’s shy.

OW: He is arrogant. Like all people with timid personalities, his arrogance is unlimited. Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant. He acts shy, but he’s not. He’s scared. He hates himself, and he loves himself, a very tense situation. It’s people like me who have to carry on and pretend to be modest. To me, it’s the most embarrassing thing in the world – a man who presents himself at his worse to get laughs, in order to free himself from his hang-ups. Everything he does on the screen is therapeutic.

The Socio-Sexual Hierarchy and the behavioral patterns it identifies have been around since before the dawn of human writing, it just hadn’t been articulated in a sufficiently useful manner until recently. 

And I can guarantee that Woody Allen still hates Wells with a burning passion. It wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest to find that he has attempted to mock Wells somewhere in one of his films. But I’ll never know, because you couldn’t pay me to watch Woody Allen movies.

Patreon community standards

It probably won’t surprise you to learn that this woman’s account on Patreon is still active. In fact, she’s currently the #4 creator on Patreon, which despite its thought-policing has become little more than a factory of degeneracy and filth:

Yagami Yato is a voice artist who produces voiceovers for animation videos, usually from anime. Her popular YouTube Channel has over 800,000 followers. Some of her work is considered to be NSFW (not safe for work), which has led to the recent controversy around accusations she has been promoting obscene material to children.

Her Patreon account is for more explicitly adult work, whereas her YouTube Channel is meant for material appropriate for all ages. 

Fuel was added to the fire a few days ago when an anonymous Twitter account referring to themselves as Yagami Yato Confessions claimed that Yato had groomed them when they joined her Discord server as a teenager in high school. They claimed that Yato used many minors as her moderators.

The account alleged that Yagami had used sexually explicit comments around them and had made light of their warnings to her that she shouldn’t market NSFW material to minors. The account also accused Yagami of sending them sexually explicit audios from her Patreon account….

Yagami Yato stated that all her NSFW material will now be locked behind her Patreon account.

It’s telling that Patreon doesn’t consider sexually explicit content sent to minors on its platform to be a violation of their community standards. The next discovery stage is certainly going to be informative, because you know this is far from the only such incident there.

Don’t jump to logical conclusions

If, at this point, you’re dumb enough to get the not-vaccine, you really don’t have any excuse:

Utah’s chief medical examiner urged the public not to jump to conclusions about the death of a 39-year-old woman four days after she received the second dose of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine — insisting there is no evidence the jab was connected to her passing.
After receiving her second jab on Feb. 1, Kassidi Kurill became sick and was hospitalized. Four days later, the single mom died under mysterious circumstances.
But Dr. Erik Christensen, chief medical examiner for Utah’s Health Department, told Fox News that the tragic mom’s second dose and her death are only “temporally related.” “We don’t have any evidence that there are connections between the vaccines and deaths at this point,” he insisted. “We don’t have any indication of that.”

That’s a fascinating excuse. Now we know JFK didn’t wasn’t assassinated. The rifle firing and his death were only “temporally related”. Also, when did New York newspapers start using British slang? Americans don’t get “jabs”, they get “shots”. Is “jab” supposed to be friendlier and less frightening, or more progressive, somehow?

Any time you see someone babbling about evidence, you can be certain they are lying. In this case, the dead body of the woman with the material that was injected would be the evidence, as well as the syringe that was used, the bottle from which the material was taken, and so forth. It’s certainly possible that she died of West African Rat Disease or asymptomatic Ebola or even an excess of ennui, but Ockham’s Razor strongly suggests that it was the not-vaccine that killed her due to the known exposure and temporal relationship.

I don’t what the long-term effects of the genetic markers being applied to a statistically significant percentage of the population will be, but I can certainly think of a lot of different uses for them. And pretty much none of them are good. If you wouldn’t have a glowing target tattooed on your forehead, you probably shouldn’t submit to genetic therapy by people who openly talk about their desire to reduce the human population.

If at first you don’t succeed

I’ve long said that President Trump’s greatest accomplishment was keeping the USA out of war with Russia. I still believe that Putin would have ordered the invasion of Ukraine if Hillary Clinton had won the 2016 election. But now that Biden is the Official Not-President, the neoclowns are desperately attempting to provoke war with Russia again:

Just a few weeks ago I wrote a column entitled “The Ukraine’s Many Ticking Time Bombs” in which I listed a number of developments presenting a major threat to the Ukraine and, in fact, to all the countries of the region. In this short time the situation has deteriorated rather dramatically. I will therefore begin with a short recap of what is happening.
First, the Ukrainian government and parliament have, for all practical purposes, declared the Minsk Agreements as dead. Truth be told, these agreements were stillborn, but as long as everybody pretended that there was still a chance for some kind of negotiated solution, they served as a “war retardant”. Now that this retardant has been removed, the situation becomes far more explosive than before.
The issue of the Minsk Agreements brought to the fore the truly breathtaking hypocrisy of the West: even though Russia never was a party of these agreements (Russia signed them as a guarantor, not as a party), the West chose to blame Russia for “not implementing” these agreements, that in spite of the fact that everybody knew that it was the Ukraine which, for fear of the various Neonazis movements, simply could not implement these agreements. This kind of “in your face” hypocrisy by the West had a tremendous impact on the internal Russian political scene which, in turn, greatly strengthened the position of those in Russia who never believed that a negotiated solution was possible in the first place. In that sense, these agreements represented a major victory for the Kremlin as it forced the West to show the full depth of its moral depravity.
Second, it is pretty obvious that the “Biden” administration is a who’s who of all the worst russophobes of the Obama era: Nuland, Psaki, and the rest of them are openly saying that they want to increase the confrontation with Russia. Even the newcomers, say like Ned Price, are clearly rabid russophobes. The folks in Kiev immediately understood that their bad old masters were back in the White House and they are now also adapting their language to this new (well, not really) reality.
Finally, and most ominously, there are clear signs that the Ukrainian military is moving heavy forces towards the line of contact.

The Saker isn’t the only one seeing the signs. And while this isn’t a war that the US can hope to win, what it will do is tie the US military down and give China a free hand in the South China Sea. And while you might wonder what good that will do the neoclowns, don’t forget that while they are experts at subversion, their historical military record is one of defeat followed by defeat followed by catastrophic defeat.

Hate is not a strategy.

Diversity training

 It will get worse before it gets better. And by better, I mean people will be legally permitted to burn “diversity trainers” at the stake. On the corporate premises. On company time. For a bonus.

Jennifer Spargifiore, 23, filed a civil complaint, alleging that Panda Express pressured her to strip to her underwear in front of colleagues during company training, NBC reports.

Panda Express and Alive Seminars, the self-improvement consulting outfit that led the exercise, are the defendants named in the suit.

The claims are bizarre and if true, which we don’t know yet, otherworldly creepy.

Spargifiore worked for Panda Express from Aug. 10, 2016 to July 15, 2019, primarily in L.A. County. She says “the Alive seminars were often a prerequisite to promotion,” adding that attendees were required to provide their work ID numbers so seminar fees “could be debited directly from their Panda Express employee accounts.”

Spargifiore goes on to say the seminars in question quickly devolved into psychological abuse. Notably in the lawsuit, Spargifiore named the date of July 13, 2019, two days before her departure, alleging that she was pressured into a “trust-building exercise” that required her to strip down to her underwear.

She did not add the reason they asked for such a thing, if they even gave one.

“She stripped almost naked in front of strangers and co-workers – was extremely uncomfortable but pressed on because she knew it was her only chance at a promotion,” the lawsuit said. “Meanwhile, Alive Seminars staff were openly ogling the women in their state of undress, smiling, and laughing.”

If that isn’t eye-opening enough, the lawsuit goes on to claim she was then forced to “hug it out” with a male participant, who was also in his underwear.

“The seminar more and more resembled a cult initiation ritual as time went on,” the lawsuit says. Furthermore, the suit says Spargifiore was constructively terminated” just days after leaving the seminar early.

I give it three years before white women are required to have sex with POX and white men are required to have sex with trannies as part of their “diversity training”. Because the important thing is to a) keep your corporate job and b) ensure that no one can call you racist.

She was always a Jezebel

The most famous Fake Southern Baptist has declared what every genuine Southern Baptist already knew: she is no longer a Southern Baptist:

For nearly three decades, Beth Moore has been the very model of a modern Southern Baptist.

She loves Jesus and the Bible and has dedicated her life to teaching others why they need both of them in their lives. Millions of evangelical Christian women have read her Bible studies and flocked to hear her speak at stadium-style events where Moore delves deeply into biblical passages.

Moore’s outsize influence and role in teaching the Bible have always made some evangelical power brokers uneasy, because of their belief only men should be allowed to preach…. Because of her opposition to Trump and her outspokenness in confronting sexism and nationalism in the evangelical world, Moore has been labeled as “liberal” and “woke” and even as being a heretic for daring to give a message during a Sunday morning church service.

Finally, Moore had had enough. She told Religion News Service in an interview Friday (March 5) that she is “no longer a Southern Baptist.”

Forget Southern Baptist. The woman was clearly never even a Christian. You don’t “love Jesus and the Bible” and then dedicate your life to systematically perverting their teachings. The fact that a woman is talking incessantly about the Bible doesn’t mean that she actually believes a word of it; even the Devil can quote Scripture. 

Both Beth and Russell Moore are textbook evil infiltrators, invading a church and seeking leadership positions in order to subvert and converge it.

The NBA: woker and broker

The NBA All-Star game is down 76.1 percent from its peak viewership.

Like all sports everywhere, the NBA has been suffering in the television ratings game, dating back to last season and the restart in the Disney bubble. That included an all-time ratings low for the NBA Finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat.

Well, it appears things aren’t much better today, as it was revealed that Sunday’s All-Star Game also hit an all-time ratings low.

Per Anthony Crupi of Sportico, Turner Sports’ coverage of the NBA’s midseason event averaged just 5.94 million viewers and just a 2.4 rating in the all-important 18-49 demographic. That was a drop of nearly 24 percent from the year-over-year average.

And consider this — the record high for the All-Star Game, which came in 1993, averaged 22.9 million viewers and boasted a 14.3 rating.

Professional sports are suffering from a triple whammy. First, demographics. All the outreach efforts to Hispanics, Asians, and other not-Americans can’t disguise the fact that not-white people don’t care about sports invented by white people as much as white people do. Ockham’s Razor suggests that they never will, for the obvious reason that they never have, and relocation to the USA isn’t going to cause a sufficient percentage of them to do so.

Second, the convergence of the leagues. The changes in ownership from a class that cares first about the sport to a class that cares about financial performance and influence over the masses is significantly reducing the quality of the product while serially turning off segments of people who increasingly become ex-fans.

Third, the behavior of the players. This is, in many ways, an extension of the convergence, because the behavior would not have been permitted by the old school owners. But it is nevertheless distinct, as the players are not so much biting as relentlessly gnawing at the hands of the people whose interest keeps them fed.

I am a lifelong NFL fan who was active in two fantasy leagues for more than 15 years. I subscribed to NFL Gamepass from the time it was initially offered. Two years ago, I stopped subscribing. Last year, I only watched part of the Super Bowl. Most damningly, I know a die-hard Packers fan and shareholder who didn’t watch one single moment of the NFL, not even when the Pack played in the NFC championship game at Lambeau.

Pro sports are not going to bounce back from their convergence. In fact, the pandemic is disguising the full extent of the catastrophic declines.

I don’t believe her either

Piers Morgan understands the importance of not apologizing when you haven’t done anything wrong:

Meghan Markle wrote to ITV’s boss to complain about Piers Morgan hours before the Good Morning Britain co-host quit on the day the show scored its highest ever ratings and beat BBC Breakfast, it was revealed today.  

The Duchess of Sussex insists she was not upset that Mr Morgan said he ‘didn’t believe a word she said’ in her Oprah interview – but was worried about how his comments could affect people attempting to deal with their own mental health problems, an insider told the Press Association.

Standing firm today, Mr Morgan told reporters outside his West London home: ‘If I have to fall on my sword for expressing an honestly held opinion about Meghan Markle and that diatribe of bilge that she came out with in that interview, so be it.’   

On Monday Ms Markle went directly to ITV’s CEO Dame Carolyn McCall, the former boss of the left-wing Guardian newspaper, who signed off on the broadcaster’s £1million deal to show the Oprah interview and said yesterday they were ‘dealing with’ the GMB host.   

Mr Morgan is understood to have been ordered to apologise – but he refused and quit instead saying he had the right to tell viewers his ‘honestly held opinions’ and declaring: ‘Freedom of speech is a hill I’m happy to die on’.  

Good for him. The deceitful, grifting Hellmouth whore simply can’t bear to take any criticism whatsoever, and she has destroyed everything she touched with the exception of Suits, in which she was a tertiary and mostly irrelevant character. If he holds his ground, Morgan will end up coming out of this kerfluffle on top.

It’s rather amusing how the British press is having such a hard time figuring out why she hates the British Royal Family so much.

Meghan hates Princess Kate for the same reason every moderately attractive girl with ambitions of being the popular hot girl hates the beautiful head cheerleader. It’s nothing more than raw, unmitigated envy. Meghan can’t compete with Kate’s position, class, style, or popularity, and her genetics prevent her from ever being considered “an English Rose”, so naturally she hates the other woman with the passion of ten thousand burning hells.