Which pitch?
News or something:

Jeb Bush, who has been victimized by Trump’s badgering insults for months, shot back that he was “sick and tired of [Trump] going after my family.”

“While Donald Trump was building a reality TV show, my brother was building a security apparatus to keep us safe,” he said. “I’m proud of what he did.”

Well, a TV show was one of the things Trump built, along with some big buildings and big businesses. It's more relevant to look at Trump's high-concept proposal for the President Show, and compare with Jeb's high-concept proposal.

Trump's pitch: BUILD A WALL.

Jeb's pitch: BUILD A SECURITY APPARATUS.

Compare the two.

(1) BUILDING A WALL is something that everyone understands. Walls work. Most people have built walls and fences either personally or via contractors. After you build or repair a fence or wall, it KEEPS OUT ENEMIES of various sizes. Bugs, mice, dogs, dickheads. The same holds true at the national scale, with concrete walls on the border or "functional walls" like tariffs and passport restrictions.

(2) Even Repooflicans know what Bush's SECURITY APPARATUS actually does. TSA molests grandmothers and lets bombs slide right through. Homeland Security locks down your city when somebody sees a book that a kid dropped on the street. Federal Bureau of Instigation plans terrorist acts and recruits dissatisfied youngsters as accomplices. The Army invades and bombs every country except Israel, recruiting massive numbers of dissatisfied youngsters as enemies. When those ACTUAL terrorists try to get in, we OPEN THE WALL to WELCOME AND LOVE them, as Jeb himself constantly says.

The SECURITY APPARATUS has made us VASTLY LESS SAFE and INFINITELY MORE VULNERABLE to crimes by the government itself and to crimes by actual terrorists. That is the SOLE AND COMPLETE PURPOSE of the SECURITY APPARATUS.

On the personal level, which of these two devices will do you more good? SECURITY APPARATUS or WALL?

Easy answer.

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You can also use existing walls. The SECURITY APPARATUS is constantly hammering, constantly seeking points of penetration, constantly trying to destroy families and morals and civilization. When the demon of SECURITY APPARATUS comes calling, sometimes you have to put existing walls between him and you...


This man wasn't intending to fill the camera, but he did. He's clearly accustomed to MAKING THINGS. He spent his life CREATING REAL VALUE, and the Carrier Company paid him real dollars in exchange. The DEMON at the front of the room has just announced that Carrier will no longer MAKE THINGS and PAY PEOPLE. Dude realizes that he's in the same room with a DEMON, and has to GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE before he gives the demon what the demon deserves. See Moral Rigor.

The DEMON then exhibits typical CHUTZPAH, emitting the following weapons which I quote verbatim:

"If you don't want to hear it, other people do. So let's quiet down. Relocating our operations to Monterey will allow us to maintain high levels of quality, competitive prices, and continue to SERVE the price-sensitive marketplace."

Translation: Quiet down. You have been raped up the ass. Lay back and enjoy it, because raping you up the ass enables us to SERVICE the price-sensitive marketplace and to pay our CEO trillions in bonuses. You SHALL be happy to know this. Rejoice! Trillion dollar bonuses for Chris Nelson! Our Lord And Saviour SHARE VALUE Hath Spoken! Hallelujah!

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You can also build non-physical walls to keep the SECURITY APPARATUS from dissolving your soul and gumption. First and absolutely, remove the TV from the house. TV is the most perfect soul-destroyer. There's no way to guard against its toxic mix of fast attention switches and multi-layered backbeat. Use other media cautiously, always ready to stop, turn off, or retune.

Spend as much time as possible MAKING THINGS, whether abstract or concrete. When you are CREATING, you are pushing a countervector of MAKEFORCE that helps to clear out the influence of the soul-destroyers.


On every level from international to soul, WALLS protect you from many types of enemies, INCLUDING SECURITY APPARATUS. A leader who proposes to BUILD MORE WALLS is more likely to help the nation and your soul. A leader who proposes to BUILD MORE SECURITY APPARATUS is your enemy.

Labels: Age of Stings, defensible spaces

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