Thank you for your commentary on your travel experience Rebekah, so good to be at ground zero. The Divine put you there for a reason. I sincerely hope that Trump will honour the support RFK jr has given him for the sake of the people of U.S.A. and all people. Happy to see the people rise against the tyranny of the sitting govt. I prayed for whichever candidate was best for their country to win. I trust that has happened.šš
Ground zero? So the towers really came down? I was told (reliably, of course) the footage we saw back in 2001 was a hologram - an elaborate optical illusion.
Oh thatās nice to hear! I actually have wanted to rename my Substack for a while now as I donāt feel dystopian anymore either (even though thereās plenty dystopian if you focus on itā¦) š
Yeah, there is Dystopia everywhere, like naĆÆve citizens volunteering their biometrics to save pulling a plastic card from their pocket - what people will give up for convenience.
Great point about the contrasts between the online- and real-world, not being nearly as similar.
Well it is still dystopian down under... I wouldn't change it just yet
Albanese and that bloody MAD bill they're still going for broke in Australia.... Hopefully the positive changes in the US will impact this rubbish here...
NYC's never been the friendliest place in the world but it is my favourite city. To me, NYC is the city and the rest of the world is the suburbs... although I haven't been there in about 7 or 8 years.
Yes I would say Perth is a little provincial seaside town in comparison! People who live here told me the city has changed since Covid. They said it's grimmer than it used to be.
On a more positive note, I haven't been to NY but I have been to Toronto. At the latter I was very favourably impressed by the main railway station and believe it is similar, in design, to Grand Central Station in NY. Have you been there Rebekah? This is a video performed at the same. https://youtu.be/hjM4SWoJ59E?si=h6Lsrla_9weFWqHE
Based on a VERY limited sample of New Yorkers, you have concluded (or at the very least conjectured) that NYers are significantly more anti-social/introverted/less trusting/more misanthropic than Perthites.
I wonder what test might be designed to test this conjecture. Ah, the scientific process invoked. Might we design a Likert-type survey and administer the same to a large, random sample of each of the populations, offering monetary incentives for its completion to guarantee very high uptake. Might we conduct a social experiment in which a person who is a stranger in the social context of each place walks past people trying to engage them in eye contact, only for the results of the same to be recorded unobtrusively by a third party.
Ah, the election you mentioned.
The day before the election the Melbourne Cup was run and the horse that came second, and which might have won had the race gone a further 50m, was an outsider called Warp Speed. This reminded me of Trump boasting about āOperation Warp Speedā (a plan to get covid vaccinations into arms of Americans as quickly as possible) in the run up to the 2020 election. More recently there has been his urging of the Israeli government to get the job (genocide) done as quickly as possible ā before he gets elected.:) Was he merely chasing votes on each occasion ā¦ sucking up to a covid-spooked public in the former case and sucking up to the strong Zionist lobby in the latter? I do not know.
Politician ā¦ media man ā¦ businessman? Whatever he is, I suspect he is not the Messiah (to lead the world away from world government) that many neo-cons imagine him to be.
Meanwhile, regarding MAHA, in capitali$t USA there are va$t intere$t$ in keeping people unhealthy for as long as possible.
And just as the 'health' system needs sick people so the 'justice' system needs lawbreakers. I understand the US has an incarceration rate 5 times the world average and that 38% of white males have been arrested by the time they turn 23.
Gee, I can well understand why the USA is regarded as the flagship of the west. :)
Iām not sure I see the utility of comparing my personal experience (āI have foundā¦ā) to the conditions required for a scientifically generalisable result in a well designed experiment ;) I agree, there are very powerful interests that will not be impressed by the MAHA agenda!
I wondered how the whole crop-growing farm belt would react to Trump saying they were going to get the pesticides out of food - that's a big ask in most US cropping systems. When that poll came out of Iowa before the election giving 7% to Kamala I wondered if the farmers had got frightened. But no, just a bad poll.
Yes, the pesticide issue is not straightforward. Trump is a politician and politicians make noises, in the run up to elections, calculated to increase their chances of election.
I just read that RFK Jr has appointed Regenerative Farmer Joel Salatin (he was featured in the Food Inc movie) as one of the six advisors to the Secretary of the USDA. Exceptional news.
I think the plan, listening to RFK Jr, is simply to redirect subsides from soy/corn/wheat to different food/systems. This has been proposed for a long time, to make broader nutrient food cheaper (vegies/fruit etc), rather than subsidising crops that go straight into the processed food system.
Thank you for your commentary on your travel experience Rebekah, so good to be at ground zero. The Divine put you there for a reason. I sincerely hope that Trump will honour the support RFK jr has given him for the sake of the people of U.S.A. and all people. Happy to see the people rise against the tyranny of the sitting govt. I prayed for whichever candidate was best for their country to win. I trust that has happened.šš
A great prayer Luise.
Ground zero? So the towers really came down? I was told (reliably, of course) the footage we saw back in 2001 was a hologram - an elaborate optical illusion.
Well I found that a refreshingly pleasant read, hinting optimism that MAHA may eventually translate to some MAuHA. We can hope.
Oh thatās nice to hear! I actually have wanted to rename my Substack for a while now as I donāt feel dystopian anymore either (even though thereās plenty dystopian if you focus on itā¦) š
Yeah, there is Dystopia everywhere, like naĆÆve citizens volunteering their biometrics to save pulling a plastic card from their pocket - what people will give up for convenience.
Great point about the contrasts between the online- and real-world, not being nearly as similar.
Well it is still dystopian down under... I wouldn't change it just yet
Albanese and that bloody MAD bill they're still going for broke in Australia.... Hopefully the positive changes in the US will impact this rubbish here...
NYC's never been the friendliest place in the world but it is my favourite city. To me, NYC is the city and the rest of the world is the suburbs... although I haven't been there in about 7 or 8 years.
Yes I would say Perth is a little provincial seaside town in comparison! People who live here told me the city has changed since Covid. They said it's grimmer than it used to be.
Understandable given that the great plague wiped out half of NY's population.
Did you notice any change in the mood the next morning? 'Oh good, Trump's in, we can all relax now?'
Not in the streets - I saw more grim faces. But that makes sense, Iām in blue Manhattan.
Lucky you picking the best time to see NY Seems that a good time was had to refresh your ideas Pat Russell
Thanks Pat, yes I always get a fresh perspective from travelling.
On a more positive note, I haven't been to NY but I have been to Toronto. At the latter I was very favourably impressed by the main railway station and believe it is similar, in design, to Grand Central Station in NY. Have you been there Rebekah? This is a video performed at the same. https://youtu.be/hjM4SWoJ59E?si=h6Lsrla_9weFWqHE
I have not!
Interesting āobservationsā.
Based on a VERY limited sample of New Yorkers, you have concluded (or at the very least conjectured) that NYers are significantly more anti-social/introverted/less trusting/more misanthropic than Perthites.
I wonder what test might be designed to test this conjecture. Ah, the scientific process invoked. Might we design a Likert-type survey and administer the same to a large, random sample of each of the populations, offering monetary incentives for its completion to guarantee very high uptake. Might we conduct a social experiment in which a person who is a stranger in the social context of each place walks past people trying to engage them in eye contact, only for the results of the same to be recorded unobtrusively by a third party.
Ah, the election you mentioned.
The day before the election the Melbourne Cup was run and the horse that came second, and which might have won had the race gone a further 50m, was an outsider called Warp Speed. This reminded me of Trump boasting about āOperation Warp Speedā (a plan to get covid vaccinations into arms of Americans as quickly as possible) in the run up to the 2020 election. More recently there has been his urging of the Israeli government to get the job (genocide) done as quickly as possible ā before he gets elected.:) Was he merely chasing votes on each occasion ā¦ sucking up to a covid-spooked public in the former case and sucking up to the strong Zionist lobby in the latter? I do not know.
Politician ā¦ media man ā¦ businessman? Whatever he is, I suspect he is not the Messiah (to lead the world away from world government) that many neo-cons imagine him to be.
Meanwhile, regarding MAHA, in capitali$t USA there are va$t intere$t$ in keeping people unhealthy for as long as possible.
And just as the 'health' system needs sick people so the 'justice' system needs lawbreakers. I understand the US has an incarceration rate 5 times the world average and that 38% of white males have been arrested by the time they turn 23.
Gee, I can well understand why the USA is regarded as the flagship of the west. :)
Iām not sure I see the utility of comparing my personal experience (āI have foundā¦ā) to the conditions required for a scientifically generalisable result in a well designed experiment ;) I agree, there are very powerful interests that will not be impressed by the MAHA agenda!
More FUtility than Utility, you think?:)
I wondered how the whole crop-growing farm belt would react to Trump saying they were going to get the pesticides out of food - that's a big ask in most US cropping systems. When that poll came out of Iowa before the election giving 7% to Kamala I wondered if the farmers had got frightened. But no, just a bad poll.
Yes, the pesticide issue is not straightforward. Trump is a politician and politicians make noises, in the run up to elections, calculated to increase their chances of election.
I just read that RFK Jr has appointed Regenerative Farmer Joel Salatin (he was featured in the Food Inc movie) as one of the six advisors to the Secretary of the USDA. Exceptional news.
Very exciting!
I think the plan, listening to RFK Jr, is simply to redirect subsides from soy/corn/wheat to different food/systems. This has been proposed for a long time, to make broader nutrient food cheaper (vegies/fruit etc), rather than subsidising crops that go straight into the processed food system.
Was there any reverberation over the sadly euthanased pets, squirrel Peanut and raccoon Fred?
Only online and amongst people I already know. That was incredibly shocking and incredible timing.
Thanks for that. I came late to the party, and it was all in meme by then.