Pretty much all of us who read your substack are aware of all of these things, but the way you put it together brings the stark reality of it home. Thank you.
The (free) cheese used to bait the mouse is never actually eaten by the mouse. Rather , after the trap crushes the mouse (i.e., “victim”), the same bit of cheese is used to trap the next “victim”. (ad infinitum). Blessed be Darwin….. provided the stupid “victim” mouse hasn’t yet reproduced.
In Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide" series, an alien race built a massive supercomputer to derive the answer to "the ultimate question of Life, the Universe, and Everything," and the computer famously replied that the answer (which the builders aren't going to like) is "42," and the reason the answer doesn't make sense is that the builders don't actually know the "ultimate question."
Now, here's the fun part. Douglas Adams was a huge computer geek. In old DOS prompts and other text-based operating systems, an asterisk ('*') often was -- and sometimes still is -- used as a "wild-card" character to represent whatever you wanted or needed it to be. The ASCII code to get an asterisk on a keyboard that doesn't have a key for it is ... you guessed it: 42.
So, 42 is an asterisk, and an asterisk represents whatever you want or need it to be. Ergo, the "answer" to "the ultimate question if Life, the Universe, and Everything," is "whatever you want or need it to be."
Why do I bring this up? Because that's basically the Democrats' message for the 2026 mid-terms. The Right hears what the Democrats are saying and doesn't hear a unifying message. The Left hears what the Democrats are saying and hears whatever they want to hear, and believes that's the message.
And that's the thing: The Dems' message doesn't have to be unifying. It doesn't have to be inspiring. It doesn't even have to be coherent. It just has to convince people to pull the lever for the candidate with the 'D' after their name.
What better message to get the support of people who have no self-control than, "whatever you want"?
Anything is possible when you reduce everything in human experience to desire over reality. Here's a great article of apology from a French entrepreneur for his country's contribution to this 'woke' nonsense:
American society is coming dangerously close to a majority of our fellow citizens believing that their appetites take precedence over the truth of reality.
It does leave a pretty picture doesn’t it? It would seem to entire civilized world is going crazy. Probably be laughable if it wasn’t the most dangerous time in our lives. I look at the wars waged in the past and they’re pretty devastating. Usually for all sides. But it seems as though this war will be lost without firing a shot.
Pretty much all of us who read your substack are aware of all of these things, but the way you put it together brings the stark reality of it home. Thank you.
Am I the only one who sees this coming to a head? With a less than happy ending 😢
The (free) cheese used to bait the mouse is never actually eaten by the mouse. Rather , after the trap crushes the mouse (i.e., “victim”), the same bit of cheese is used to trap the next “victim”. (ad infinitum). Blessed be Darwin….. provided the stupid “victim” mouse hasn’t yet reproduced.
The Democrat's prime platform plank is that YOU are never at fault for your situation. Someone else is.
In Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide" series, an alien race built a massive supercomputer to derive the answer to "the ultimate question of Life, the Universe, and Everything," and the computer famously replied that the answer (which the builders aren't going to like) is "42," and the reason the answer doesn't make sense is that the builders don't actually know the "ultimate question."
Now, here's the fun part. Douglas Adams was a huge computer geek. In old DOS prompts and other text-based operating systems, an asterisk ('*') often was -- and sometimes still is -- used as a "wild-card" character to represent whatever you wanted or needed it to be. The ASCII code to get an asterisk on a keyboard that doesn't have a key for it is ... you guessed it: 42.
So, 42 is an asterisk, and an asterisk represents whatever you want or need it to be. Ergo, the "answer" to "the ultimate question if Life, the Universe, and Everything," is "whatever you want or need it to be."
Why do I bring this up? Because that's basically the Democrats' message for the 2026 mid-terms. The Right hears what the Democrats are saying and doesn't hear a unifying message. The Left hears what the Democrats are saying and hears whatever they want to hear, and believes that's the message.
And that's the thing: The Dems' message doesn't have to be unifying. It doesn't have to be inspiring. It doesn't even have to be coherent. It just has to convince people to pull the lever for the candidate with the 'D' after their name.
What better message to get the support of people who have no self-control than, "whatever you want"?
Anything is possible when you reduce everything in human experience to desire over reality. Here's a great article of apology from a French entrepreneur for his country's contribution to this 'woke' nonsense:
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/brivael-le-pogam-the-french-owe-everyone-an-apology-for-the-scourge-of-wokism
American society is coming dangerously close to a majority of our fellow citizens believing that their appetites take precedence over the truth of reality.
You nailed it!
Why did this ring so true??
It does leave a pretty picture doesn’t it? It would seem to entire civilized world is going crazy. Probably be laughable if it wasn’t the most dangerous time in our lives. I look at the wars waged in the past and they’re pretty devastating. Usually for all sides. But it seems as though this war will be lost without firing a shot.
ALWAYS devastating for both sides. But history’s lessons never seem to outlive “living” memory.
The midterms will convince you, non-believer.