I fear the answer to the subtitle question is “yes”.
I wish I could lie and pretend that I don’t need anyone. That I am a rock.
I have no need of friendship
[…]
I have my books
And my poetry to protect me
[…]
I touch no one and no one touches me
I am a rock
I am an island
And a rock feels no pain
And an island never cries
Most of the song describes me now. The lines I quoted particularly stand out.
I’m surrounded by books. I have a book of Sanskrit poetry by my knee that I read every day.
I have not touched another human being in so long, and I never want to touch one again.
I feel nothing but contempt for 99.99% of humans who are slaves and suckers. Who would <redacted> me without hesitation when their scammer masters give the command. They have the supreme virtue of mindless obedience.
Here’s something Japanese-Americans never talk about. The Japanese-Americans who were in Japan on the eve of war with the USSA. I grew up believing my people were sooper patriots. Nobody ever talks about how the Japanese-Americans in Japan like Iwao Peter Sano obeyed their emperor and went to war for Him.
My grandfather refused. He dropped out of an elite university, got out of the country, and got most of his siblings out of that madhouse.
Unfortunately, men like him were rare. The majority are obedient enablers of tyrants.
Notice that I didn’t specify the majority of any specific race, ethnicity, religion, or country. And that I used the present tense.
Americans put down Germans during the Nazi period as “good Germans”. As if Germans had a monopoly on mindlessness. Americans believe they are special. They are not.
Look at their madhouse now.
Most of the TAnons - Q people without the Q - I know love Godland and hate Nazis. And love these guys.
If a TAnon can be up in arms about how the vaccine killed their ___ and still vote for the self-proclaimed “father of the vaccine” without hesitation, why not?
Logic is for LIE-bruls, loser!
WE R WINNING - and winning is everything!
Consistency, history - those things mean nothing to TAnons trapped in a perpetual present of nonstop microamnesia.
The Die Heart Trilogy (1): Microamnesia
Five years ago at the start of convid, I initially bought into the mask myth - a remnant of my Japan-worship - but soon learned how useless muzzles were.
I’ve been through this before. I used to be a WAnon, a cheerleader for Dubya’s war. I explain why in “PIE in the Sky”:
PIE in the Sky
I’m annoyed by Anons. Not anonymous people like myself, but beLIEvers in SomethingAnon fantasies:
I actually never liked Dubya himself. And I was never terribly fond of Trump either. But the fact remains that I supported their evil for years. I believed they were imperfect men promoting perfect causes.
I used to feel the thrill of being part of a ‘movement’. An online mass delusion. WAnons like me knew nothing about Afghan or Iraqi history. I bet most weren’t even aware that the USSA once supported Saddam. We never talked about the Iran-Iraq War. Just about ‘our’ Murrican ‘victories’. Iraq was just a bloody canvas for our fantasies, not a real place to us.
Not one WAnon I personally know ever publicly admitted they were wrong.
And in all the thousands of words written by those WAnons that I used to eagerly swallow, not one wrote what
did:Who funded Saddam again? [...] Saddam was tasked with destroying Iran by the US.
Looking back at my MAGA days, I’m embarrassed to admit that I had so little interest in Trump’s past. At least I knew about his Trump University scam. Other TAnons acted as if the guy had come out of nowhere to ‘save’ us.
They also lack curiosity about their new idol Eeeelon.
Willful ignorance is a common thread among Anons. It’s not just that they don’t know; it’s that they don’t want to know.
When I was WAnon two decades ago, I absolutely refused to look at any nonofficial takes on 9/11. Not even to debunk them. Because the 9/11 myth was the bedrock of my cult.
I never want to be so closed-minded again.
Openness to knowledge was my key to escaping from one Anon ‘movement’ after another.
While I was a WAnon I did read antiwar stuff on the side for three years, and eventually I finally had to admit that the USSA was not ‘winning’. Two years after the fall of Saddam, the NuIraq I had hoped for was not materializing.
One might think my First Purge was of the WAnons in my life, but when I woke up, almost everyone I knew online was WAnon, and I remained on good terms with them for many years. They quietly stopped reading my blog after I stopped pushing the narrative, and I didn’t try to convince them they were wrong. Gradually they all gave up on cheerleading for war without me having to say a word.
As late as early 2020, I was willing to overlook the ugly past of the WAnons. I had a lively online social life with them.
Then came CONvid.
My best friend, a man I considered my brother, freaked out and became a mask fanatic. Among other things. I had to block him. A relationship that had lasted over three decades came to an abrupt and ugly end.
Almost everyone I knew bought into the scam. My own family in Hawaii banned me. My respect for almost everyone plummeted to zero.
I didn’t block anyone else, but I lost interest in talking to dethplague believers. The First Purge was quiet.
Out of the survivors of the First Purge, most then bought into the next shiny thing. Putin’s invasion. ZAnon.
I confess I used to read the Saker, Martyanov, et al. But I soon realized that once again I had been fooled into believing in a nonexistent victory. And I couldn’t tolerate Americans who didn’t know a word of Russian worshipping Russia’s supposedly Christian tsar fighting the globalists. So I shrunk my social world again with the Second Purge.
Now my social world is reduced to one phone call a week and a couple of pen pals.
This week’s call was like the last with an out-of-nowhere rant about HOW DARE PEOPLE QUESTION DOGE. With supposedly fake stories. Because no criticism of Eeeelon could possibly be true.
A couple days after I got a TAnon letter.
I’m afraid my other pen pal - who bought into masks - is also TAnon.
Am I going to have to listen to another loooong speeech about the enemies of Eeeelon next week? The week after that? Get another TAnon letter?
I have never seen this degree of programming before.
Never seen a grandma (not mine) write at great length in praise of DOGE. A topic that excited her more than her own life or family or friends.
I feel as if I’m living in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. In 1930s Germany. In North Korea. Do North Koreans spontaneously rant and rave about Kim Jong Un? I’m guessing not.
I’m mentally preparing myself for the Third Purge. The last one, because after this there will be no one left to purge.
In Chinese, a purge is 肅清 ‘solemn pure’. Here’s that word in Mao’s handwriting:
For me this isn’t about purity. It’s about sanity. Because I’ll go mad if I don’t isolate.
I'm not sure if you're my tribe, but you certainly trip the detector. https://innomen.substack.com/p/catchall /to see for sure?
Over time, I came to the conclusion, first that TV is propaganda, not just the news but all the entertainment as well, so then I stopped watching TV. Next was movies. Stopped watching them as well. Alternative media wasn't far behind.
So I am not dropping friends so much as waiting for them to walk away from received opinion. The process seems to be what happened in Eastern Block countries where everyone eventually stopped believing what their Governments and media told them. Just walk away.