Lemonade and Mafias
Since I'm in NOW I SEE mode this morning....

There's a lemonade aspect of a monstrosity like lockdowns.

Many parents have realized that home schooling is better. They weren't forced to try it before. Now they see the benefits, after LEARNING BY EXPERIENCE how it works. Home schooling CAN'T work for poor parents with no resources, but it CAN work for middle-class parents with older kids.

Many employees have realized that working from home is better, after LEARNING BY EXPERIENCE that it's possible. They weren't forced to try it before, and the bosses weren't forced to allow it before. Again, WFH is simply impossible for many occupations, so it's not lemonade for them.

As I realized in 1969, prison breaks old habits. I had been allowing depression/laziness to take over my life. Prison broke the habit and taught me how to work. Prison often breaks drug habits as well. It didn't need to break my drug habit because I wasn't actually using drugs. I'd tried pot a few times and didn't like it. That wasn't my problem.

In this case the lockdown-prison has broken the ASSUMPTION that school is necessary, and the ASSUMPTION that working 8-5 in an office building is necessary. The school breakage may be a rare unanticipated consequence, since the governor-psychopaths who eliminated school forever are the same governor-psychopaths who had been telling us over and over and over that school is the cure for all ills.

But there's a big limitation in the school and work lemonades that doesn't apply to the literal jail situation.

We haven't changed the RULES that keep the habits running, and we don't have a competing STRUCTURE to encourage and DEFEND the new ways. Attendance in the school building is still required by all state laws, with special tricky exceptions for home schooling. Leaving kids at home to do their own schoolwork is also illegal. Most of the Die-Versity shit** for businesses assumes and requires attendance in the office building, because the Die-Versity dictators must SEE your race and sex and non-binary preference so they can COUNT you.

The NOW I SEE lemonade will be useless until we develop NEW RULES AND NEW STRUCTURES WITH REAL BULLYPOWER around the new way of doing things.

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I've been pointlessly asking Where are the Guilds? Here's a better question.

Where's the Mafia?

Prohibition wasn't a response to flu, and it wasn't an intentional part of Madman Wilson's agenda. It was a Federal formalizing of a movement that had been accumulating in the states for 40 years. By 1920 enough states had their own prohibitions that they could leverage a Federal amendment. Prohibition didn't automatically close anything; most breweries and distilleries were able to switch their output to non-beverage products. Bars and restaurants changed their menus but didn't change anything else.

We might draw a useful analogy from the public response to Prohibition. After a moment of obedience we cheerfully found and developed workarounds, and most police winked at the workarounds because the workarounds paid the police. That's the most optimistic vision of the near future. It's time to resume old-fashioned corruption in ALL fields of endeavor, since ALL HONEST WORK has been outlawed by the holocaust.



In Italy the Mafia is still active and useful. At the start of the siege there, the Mafia fed unemployed workers who were not receiving anything from the government.

In most of US the Mafia has lost its power.

Where have all the mobsters gone?
Gone to Wall Street every one.

Now they're part of the "official" NYC power structure, able to get billion-dollar bailouts and infinite power with zero chance of punishment. No risk, all murder.

We need to reconstitute a network of non-NYC psychopaths who use their evil powers to employ ordinary people for currently illegal activities like manufacturing and hairstyling and teaching, instead of following the NYC practice of slaughtering ordinary people.

Ordinary people would be happy to work for gangsters if the gangsters offer real work in exchange for real pay. I've seen this setup in Enid, which was a solidly 'connected' city. Low crime, low cost of living, plenty of work as long as you kept your trap shut and paid your vig.

The BIGGEST advantage of operating outside the law: You can eliminate ALL THE OTHER SHIT that gets in the way of doing a proper high-quality job. Rules, regulations, litigations. Mafias don't meekly "comply" with regulations, and mafias don't meekly settle lawsuits. Mafias deter regulators and lawyers with violence and extortion, ideally stronger violence than Deepstate and nastier extortion than Epstein.

The only rules that matter are real safety rules. If you're working around combustibles, don't smoke. If you're doing delicate or dangerous work, you can't be drunk or high.

WHEN WORK IS OUTLAWED, ONLY OUTLAWS HAVE WORK.

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** Footnote: The Die-Versity shit just got a lot worse, thanks to those "conservative" blackrobes who were recently appointed by the "conservative" politicians who told us over and over and over that we needed to fight hard for more "conservative" blackrobes to prevent this exact shit from happening. HOW MANY FUCKING TIMES CAN YOU BE FOOLED BY THIS SUCKER FILTER? Obviously the answer is Infinity Fucking Times.

Labels: Experiential education, Jail mode, Sucker Filter

  ¶ 7:42 AM