Tucker Carlson recounts a private meeting where Donald Trump dismissed serious concerns over a potential war with Iran by casually telling him, "In the end, we're all dead anyway."
"I said to him, shocked, 'But what about our kids, our grandkids, our country?'
@JessuslovesYou@AJA_Cortes There aren’t many homeless south of Santa Ana, not necessarily an Irvine thing, more of a south county thing. IPD is very “effective” though.
I love this. I used the phrase “blood memory.” I was referring to the inherited affections and inclinations that we have toward our common cultural memory.
Phil Williams, without citing any evidence, claimed that it comes from Mein Kampf. He used Grok (lol), to verify his “leading the witness” prompt and even it didn’t provide any citation from Mein Kampf.
In fact, the phrase was coined by M. Scott Momaday to describe the Kiowa (Oklahoma plains Indians) experience, which saw themselves as inheriting a deep, cultural memory from ancestral times. The two books are House Made of Dawn and The Way to Rainy Mountain.
This deep experience which was passed on through the Kiowa spirit throughout the generations was an inheritance of lineage, landscape, story, duty, and religious rite. Here, blood is analogy. It refers to kinship and lineage, not recollections implanted in the plasma.
That is where the phrase is from. The idea though of a collective unconscious that has pattern clusters based on lineage and kinship has been explored at length by Carl Jung. I realize Jung, who is not a biological materialist, isn’t scientifically fashionable. But I don’t really care about that because I’m not a biological materialist either.
So the next person to put it on the map was a dancer by the name of Martha Graham. She published an autobiography in 1991, which used the phrase as its title. She explicitly explains that it was Carl Jung, whose idea of a deep memory motivated the title. For her, it is the role of the individual to reach deep into his or her inherited memory to recall the soil out of which they came. There is no indication that Martha Graham was a disciple of Mein Kampf.
In any case, I find it absolutely delectable that a phrase coined to describe the experience of the Kiowa is now somehow connected to Adolf Hitler because I used it.
Legacy journalism is dying. It is dying by suicidal incompetence and rabid activism.
@BonifaceOption I’m starting to think he outsourced his brisket cooking to Claude as well. Same result as his “article”—a burnt worthless pile of rubbish.
Bret Weinstein On Why Figuring Out Who Killed Charlie Kirk Actually Matters
Bret Weinstein breaks down the discourse around Charlie Kirk's killing with Julian, why figuring out who did it and why is vitally important, and why he calls this one of the most anti-democratic tragedies in recent memory.
There's an obligation here that shouldn't get lost in the noise.
@BretWeinstein
He was given a Lego piece to add to the structure -- an apocalypse op worthy of a doomsday preacher -- that is being built. Here he is snapping the piece on. It is meant to prepare us for the idea that rogue code is responsible for the bad thing that's soon going to happen to us. Or that these folks will claim they saved us from in some fake close call.
I doubt he even knows what he's part of. Or wants to know.
The Heritage American debate isn’t just about severing your connection to the American past.
The more sinister idea is that what you do today carries no inheritance forward.
Serve your country. Build something. Sacrifice. Endure. Die for it.
Then be told your descendants have no special claim to your story, no right to take pride in your sacrifice, no deeper connection because of what you gave.
Once you convince a people that inheritance, lineage, and posterity mean nothing, you’ve weakened one of the oldest reasons men sacrifice for a future they’ll never live to see.
That is fertile ground for any system that wants loyalty transferred from family and inheritance to the state.