USA. The woman handed me my receipt and said, "Have a nice day!"
I froze. A command. From a stranger. With no time limit, and no clear conditions for success.
In my country, no one tells you to have a nice day. You are simply released into whatever day the heavens send. But here, this woman had issued an order, kindly, and looked me in the eye, and meant it. I could not fail her.
So I set out to have a nice day. On purpose. With everything I had.
I noticed a bird, and thanked it. I let four cars merge. I told a man his hat was excellent — it was. I drank a coffee slowly enough to actually taste it, which I had not done in nineteen years. Each small good thing, I added to the report I was building in my heart. For her.
By dusk I was exhausted from niceness. But I had done it. By direct order, I had had a nice day.
So I went back.
She was still at the register. I bowed deeply.
"I have completed it," I told her. "It was a nice day. I will remember it until the hour of my death."
She blinked. Then she laughed — the real kind — and said, "...aw. You just made MY day, man."
I had been sent to have a nice day. I returned having given one away.
So tell me, America.
You say it a hundred times a shift, and mean it lightly.
I heard it once, and obeyed it with my whole life —
and somehow we both ended the day a little better than we began it.
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Aujourd'hui je déconstruis la déconstruction.
La déconstruction est le virus mental le plus efficace jamais conçu contre une civilisation. Il a été fabriqué en France entre 1966 et 1980 par trois hommes : Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze. Il a été exporté aux États-Unis, hybridé avec le puritanisme racial américain, et il est revenu trente ans plus tard sous le nom de wokisme paralyser l'Occident entier. Voici comment il fonctionne, et pourquoi il faut le détruire.
La thèse est simple. Toute vérité n'est qu'un rapport de pouvoir déguisé. Tout texte sacré, toute loi, toute science, toute norme, toute hiérarchie, toute identité, toute institution cache en réalité une domination. Déconstruire, c'est montrer le rapport de force sous le vernis du vrai. C'est arracher le masque. C'est "démasquer".
Formulé comme ça, ça paraît inoffensif. Voire utile. Qui n'aime pas un peu d'esprit critique ? Le piège est là. La déconstruction se présente comme une méthode. Elle est en réalité une ontologie. Elle ne dit pas seulement "interrogeons les normes", elle dit "il n'y a *que* des rapports de pouvoir". La différence est civilisationnelle.
Une société qui interroge ses normes reste debout. Une société qui croit que ses normes ne sont *rien d'autre* que de la domination s'effondre. Parce qu'elle ne peut plus rien défendre. Plus une frontière, plus une loi, plus une science, plus une langue, plus une histoire, plus une biologie, plus une famille. Tout devient suspect. Tout devient négociable. Tout devient "construit donc déconstructible".
C'est la première raison pour laquelle c'est un virus. Il s'auto-réplique. Une fois inoculé, il transforme tout ce qu'il touche en cible. La science est patriarcale, donc déconstruisons-la. Le langage est colonial, donc réinventons-le. La méritocratie est raciste, donc abolissons-la. Le sexe est une construction, donc choisissons-le. Il n'y a plus de roc. Tout est sable.
Deuxième raison. Le virus est *non-falsifiable*. Si vous défendez une norme, c'est que vous êtes l'oppresseur. Si vous niez être oppresseur, c'est la preuve de votre privilège inconscient. Si vous citez des faits, vos faits sont contaminés par le pouvoir qui les a produits. Si vous citez la raison, la raison elle-même est blanche, masculine, occidentale. Il n'y a aucune sortie possible. Le système est conçu pour rendre toute objection irrecevable par définition.
C'est exactement la structure d'une secte. Et c'est exactement ce qui s'est installé dans les universités, les RH, les médias, les administrations, les conseils d'administration depuis vingt ans.
Troisième raison. Le virus s'auto-réfute mais ne s'auto-détruit pas. Si toute vérité est pouvoir, alors la phrase "toute vérité est pouvoir" est elle-même du pouvoir, donc sans valeur. Logiquement, la déconstruction se mord la queue dès la première phrase. Mais elle s'en moque. Parce qu'elle n'a jamais cherché la cohérence. Elle cherche l'efficacité politique. Et son efficacité politique est immense. Elle désarme ses ennemis et arme ses militants. Elle paralyse le défenseur et libère l'attaquant. C'est une arme asymétrique parfaite.
Quatrième raison. Le virus produit des humains diminués. Une génération entière a appris à déconstruire et n'a jamais appris à construire. Elle sait soupçonner, jamais admirer. Elle voit le pouvoir partout et la beauté nulle part. Elle peut produire mille pages sur le caractère opprimant de Shakespeare et zéro ligne qui vaille la peine d'être lue dans cent ans. Elle a confondu l'intelligence critique avec la pose critique. Elle est stérile par construction. Un esprit nourri à la déconstruction est un esprit qui ne sait plus rien édifier.
Cinquième raison, la plus grave. Une civilisation se tient debout sur trois piliers. La croyance qu'une vérité est accessible à la raison. La croyance qu'un bien se distingue d'un mal. La croyance qu'un héritage mérite d'être transmis. La déconstruction a méthodiquement dynamité les trois. Pas par méchanceté. Par jeu intellectuel, par fascination du soupçon, par haine de la bourgeoisie qui avait nourri ses prophètes. Mais le résultat est là. Une civilisation qui ne croit plus en sa vérité, ni en son bien, ni en son héritage ne se défend pas. Elle s'excuse en attendant la fin.
Voilà ce qu'on a fait. Voilà ce qu'il faut nommer.
La bonne nouvelle, c'est qu'un virus mental ne survit que tant qu'on lui cède l'autorité du discours. Il meurt dès qu'on cesse de jouer son jeu. Dès qu'on réaffirme tranquillement qu'il existe une vérité, un beau, un bien, un héritage. Dès qu'on cesse de demander la permission aux déconstructeurs pour bâtir. Dès qu'on refait. Dès qu'on transmet. Dès qu'on crée.
Les bâtisseurs ont toujours le dernier mot sur les commentateurs. Toujours. Parce qu'à la fin il reste ce qui est construit, et rien de ce qui a été déconstruit.
Alors aujourd'hui je déconstruis la déconstruction. Et demain je construis.
That voice coming out of AOC’s mouth when she says, “you can’t earn a billion dollars” is familiar. I know it’s a very old voice, but it’s sadly still very strong & it should be familiar to you too.
It’s the voice of Cain… just before he killed his brother.
@ConceptualJames Thank you James. You have spent the time and toil to actually know about these topics. I for one appreciate your effort. I suspect doing a deep dive into these people and their theories was not fun.
Dear President Trump, Thomas Sowell is an American treasure. Please consider honoring him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. I can’t think of a greater representative of American values.
80 Years Ago Today: Britain Was Told to Let 100,000 Jewish Holocaust Survivors Into Mandate Palestine - And Refused
On April 20, 1946, the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry released its unanimous report after months of grueling investigation. Twelve distinguished statesmen had been tasked with confronting the nightmare of Jewish displaced persons (DPs) in Europe and charting a just path forward for Mandate Palestine.
What they found was devastating.
President Truman had already been moved by Earl G. Harrison’s searing 1945 report on the DP camps. Harrison described Jewish survivors still living behind barbed wire in former Nazi concentration camps - in striped pajamas or even SS uniforms - suffering malnutrition, idleness, and spiritual torment. Families remained torn apart. Many had watched their loved ones murdered. Harrison’s conclusion was blunt: these survivors, having endured the worst crime in history, deserved immediate evacuation. For the vast majority, there was only one place they wanted to go: the Land of Israel.
Truman urged Britain to admit 100,000 Jewish DPs without delay. The British, reluctant to anger Arab leaders and protective of their imperial interests, proposed the joint committee instead.
The committee did its work with rigor. They heard from Jewish leaders like David Ben-Gurion, who told them in Jerusalem on March 11, 1946:
“Our case … rests on two elementary principles. One, that we Jews are just like other human beings, entitled to the same rights … and we Jewish people are just like any other people entitled to the same equality of treatment …The second principle is, this is and will remain our country. We are here as of right …
Our case is that of one who builds a house for his family … who was expelled forcibly and the house was given to somebody else … We do not want to remove you [the current occupants], please stay where you are … we will repair [the ruined rooms] … We say ‘You stay … we will be good neighbors.’”
He reminded the committee that Jews had returned not only from lands of persecution, but even from free countries - driven by dignity, by the unbearable reality of living at the mercy of others, and by an undying love of Zion that has no parallel in human history. Hebrew was revived as a modern spoken language. Swamps were drained. Cities and villages rose through Jewish labor and devotion. This was not conquest - it was rebirth.
The committee’s unanimous recommendations, issued exactly 80 years ago today, included authorizing 100,000 immigration certificates immediately for Jewish DPs and removing the restrictive land purchase regulations that Britain imposed on Jews. The British Mandate would continue temporarily until a permanent solution could be found.
Britain - despite proposing the committee in the first place - refused to implement the recommendations. The survivors remained trapped in Europe as winter approached. In his October 4, 1946 statement, Truman expressed deep regret in the British refusal.
Eighty years later, the lesson holds - Jews, whether DPs or not, were not intruders. They were returning home.
In Israel, Jews built a thriving democracy from barren land through sweat and resolve. This is not a story of “colonialism.” It is a story of redemption.
The year is 1950. Your doctor lights a cigarette and tells you smoking is fine. He read it in a study. He is telling the truth about having read it. He does not know, or is not saying, that the study was funded by the tobacco industry.
The year is 1958. Your doctor tells you to eat less fat. The evidence is contested. The contestation is not in the public messaging. The food industry has been helpful in clarifying which findings deserve attention. Some researchers who published contradictory data have been quietly defunded. Ancel Keys is on the cover of Time magazine.
The year is 1962. Your doctor prescribes thalidomide to your pregnant wife for morning sickness. It has been approved. The FDA gave it the green light in Europe. Twelve thousand children will be born with severe limb malformations before anyone in an official capacity acknowledges the problem. The families are told the drug was safe. The drug was approved. Both of these things remain true.
The year is 1972. Your doctor prescribes Valium. Britain is in the grip of a benzodiazepine wave that will last two decades. The dependency risk is known internally. It is not shared. Your doctor is not lying to you. He was not told either.
The year is 1999. Your doctor prescribes Vioxx for your arthritis. It is newer than ibuprofen, well-tolerated, and Merck has a study showing it works. Merck also has internal data suggesting it roughly doubles the risk of heart attack. This data will not reach your doctor for four more years. Fifty thousand people are estimated to have died in the interim. Merck eventually settles for 4.85 billion dollars. No criminal charges are brought.
The year is 2002. Your doctor prescribes OxyContin. Purdue Pharma trained its sales representatives to tell doctors the addiction risk was less than one percent. That figure came from a letter, not a study. The letter was about patients with terminal cancer on short-term doses in hospital settings. Your doctor is a GP with a patient who has a bad back. Nobody draws a distinction. Nobody is required to.
The year is 2008. Your doctor checks your cholesterol. Your LDL is elevated. You are prescribed a statin. Nobody mentions that the number needed to treat for primary prevention is approximately 250. Nobody mentions that the muscle deterioration you'll notice over the next two years is listed as a rare side effect rather than a documented pattern affecting a meaningful percentage of patients. The trial that informed the prescription was funded by the manufacturer.
Now it is today.
Your doctor has new guidelines. New studies. New consensus.
He is confident.
He has always been confident.
The confidence has never been the problem.
The confidence is, in fact, precisely the problem.
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I have got update from inside Iran for those who are genuinely worried.
Mainstream media is spreading nonsense to exploit your worry and save the regime.
My mom called this morning, she had to call cause internet’s cut again (it is a war crime). Explosions are louder than the 12-day war, but everyone is calm: strikes are precise, mostly away from homes. For nearby targets (mosques, IRGC/Basij bases in neighborhoods), people get phone warnings to evacuate first,consistent with 12 day war.
Even near Persian new year holidays, families are staying home as President @realDonaldTrump and Prince @PahlaviReza advised, avoiding schools and public spots because the regime uses them as human shields.
That’s why we in exile thank @POTUS and @netanyahu : they go to great lengths to protect civilians while the regime deliberately hits crowded areas to cause maximum casualties, not just in Israel, but also in Saudi Arabia, Dubai, and Qatar.
Our only real worries: the regime itself, their faulty Chinese missiles, and their constant use of human shields.
Remember 2020: after striking the US base in Iraq, they shot down a civilian Iranian plane full of families and kids, hoping Trump would hit back so they could play victim (a Russian-style tactic). They miscalculated, Trump didn’t retaliate and we painfully saw what this regime is truly capable of.
Stay calm. No one wants war, but this cancer leaves no other option but surgery.
Be patient, stay hopeful, and pray for American & Israeli heroes and for Iranians to come through safely.
And please share this video with your friends. You shouldn’t trust MSM on this topic. My instagram id is @iranidaturan