Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

[Higgenbotham]

With a great deal of effort, there are things that an individual who is lucky enough to have adequate resources can probably do to protect themselves and their offspring. Though that's not the main reason for the existence of the Dark Age Hovel and I have no qualifications to give any advice, I will talk about it from the perspective of what I personally know and have done.

But I don't think they are right when they say above that "this unnatural forcing to a permanent on or off position can have far-reaching consequences." I don't think such things are as permanent as they lead people to believe.

This is another example of how the emphasis is on how it's everywhere (industrial chemicals) with no investigation of why it is that the range of measurements varies 100 fold (between different people) in this case.

I try to keep the information in this Dark Age Hovel somewhat limited to what is not generally appreciated or known.

Avoiding Toxic Exposures. The general idea would be to inventory everything in the environment that someone comes in contact with and make a decision as to how to handle it. Obviously, nearly everyone can easily know by now that drinking bottled water isn't a good idea and lots of other similar things. So I'll just mention a couple that seem underappreciated. When moving to a metro area, I've generally tried to locate upwind and at least 1 mile from a major arterial freeway that has a lot of truck traffic. Some are now saying to be at least 10 miles away. Asthma and cancer rates for children living close to freeways are astronomically higher, anywhere from 2 to 6 fold. Also, many workplaces are located right on freeways. I was in such a workplace. The building had 6 floors and was located less than 100 yards from the most heavily traveled freeway in the city. People would be outside the building walking and playing volleyball on their lunch hour every day they could. Management encouraged it as healthy activity and that was repeated as if it was fact, which I found kind of strange considering there were probably over 300 engineers and scientists working there out of about 600 people total. I found the building maintenance man the first week and asked him about the ventilation. He discussed the positive pressure in the building and that the air was being pulled from the top of the building. He said that in the years he had worked there I was the first person who had ever asked him about the ventilation. I then checked around for any evidence of diesel soot inside the building, didn't find any and opened the door at ground level to ensure inside air was leaving the building rather than entering.

Staying in Detox Mode. American culture demands differently, but I don't use anti-perspirant or, more generally, knowingly do anything that blocks natural detoxification pathways. Minimizing the use of air conditioning is another one. I think one of the best pieces of advice any teacher gave was from my homeroom teacher who was a physical education teacher and would tell the kids in homeroom that, "You should break a sweat every day." I know, I know, by American cultural standards it's really "weird" not to use your anti-perspirant and air conditioning. I think making it a cultural requirement to block your natural detoxification pathways is even weirder, especially given the load of toxic chemicals people are exposed to.

Eating a Truly Good Diet. Many say they do but I found out I only really have for less than 6 months of my life. That was in the time before my daughter was conceived. I was eating 12 fruits and vegetables per day and exercising enough to handle the increased food intake. After a few months on this diet, some of my gray hairs were dark at the roots and my bald spot was noticeably filling in. That's how I kind of knew I really was eating a good diet. I was doing other things along with that but mainly attribute it to the fruits and vegetables. I guess now my diet is just sort of OK.

Seeking Out Competent Alternative Practitioners. About 15 years ago, I made the mistake of buying a sofa that had particle board in it and was off gassing. The smell really bothered me (to the point that I covered the sofa with plastic) so I knew I had a problem. It was then that I thought more about the fact that scents like those found in laundry soap had been bothering me too. I found an alternative practitioner who gave a class for $100 per month one day per week. The students were supposed to go home and practice every day. The purpose of it was general health but during the course of it a lot of people's health problems went away. A few days into doing his recommended exercises, I was urinating more each morning than I thought was humanly possible. Then about 50 red things that looked like mosquito bites came out on my back and oozed orange liquid out of them. He had seen this before. After a couple weeks it was all over and the sofa smell and other smells no longer bothered me. One of the most interesting things I heard in the class was from an advanced student who was doing the lung training. She said she had last smoked menthol cigarettes 20 years before and the exercises were releasing menthol out of her lungs. Last year, I saw him again for the first time in 14 years when my daughter had a reaction to a flu shot. I discussed that recently. An ENT's Physician Assistant had looked at her and told us to get her ready for a tonsillectomy/adenoidectomy, maybe not now, but it would be inevitable within 3 or 4 months tops, so we might as well get ready. I asked the PA how many kids she sees that are in a similar situation and she said, "Ten a week." 14 months later, my daughter's tonsils and adenoids are normal.

By paying attention to these kinds of things, I think that people can get their body burdens of toxic chemicals down into the low end of the range and possibly reverse transgenerational effects from these chemicals.

[Guest]

The new dark age sounds like living in Zimbabwe or Mexico. Guns and ammo will be paramount. I also think moving tona small town with same ethnicity as yourself would help. I doubt blacks will benefit because black areas are crime ridden a d dangerous. The same.goes for Mexicans and other Hispanics. I think whites and East Asians should help each other. East Asian men are reliable, East Asian women, not so much. The dark age will be extremely tribal. Whites and Asians have high levels of agency. Wherever they go, others will follow~especially the undesirables.

I also think life expectancy will drop to the 50s and 60s for most people. What is life expectancy in Zimbabwe now, 33?

[Guest]

What Will Happen When They Give The Green Light To Millions Of Radicals To Cause Widespread Chaos All Over America?

https://themostimportantnews.com/archiv ... e_vignette

[Guest]

Time and tide wait for no man - or nation. The entire UK social and economic structure has massively changed since the 1950s in ways nobody could have foreseen. There's nothing to be 'recovered'. The economy has undeniably collapsed, but a society collapses before an economy collapses. It was not hard to see this coming, quite the contrary actually. The economy might improve at some point but the society will never recover. The UK, as we knew it, is finished.

[Higgenbotham]

This is probably the last article I will post for awhile in support of the topic of the underlined sentence below. Except for the specialists, it seems the gravity of the topic just gets drowned out in the day to day noise and its lack of immediacy as the evidence dribbles in little by little year after year.

THE TOXINS THAT THREATEN OUR BRAINS, BY JAMES HAMBLIN

MARCH 18, 2014

Leading scientists recently identified a dozen chemicals as being responsible for widespread behavioral and cognitive problems. But the scope of the chemical dangers in our environment is likely even greater. Why children and the poor are most susceptible to neurotoxic exposure that may be costing the U.S. billions of dollars and immeasurable peace of mind.

Forty-one million IQ points. That’s what Dr. David Bellinger determined Americans have collectively forfeited as a result of exposure to lead, mercury, and organophosphate pesticides. In a 2012 paper published by the National Institutes of Health, Bellinger, a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, compared intelligence quotients among children whose mothers had been exposed to these neurotoxins while pregnant to those who had not. Bellinger calculates a total loss of 16.9 million IQ points due to exposure to organophosphates, the most common pesticides used in agriculture.

Last month, more research brought concerns about chemical exposure and brain health to a heightened pitch. Philippe Grandjean, Bellinger’s Harvard colleague, and Philip Landrigan, dean for global health at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in Manhattan, announced to some controversy in the pages of a prestigious medical journal that a “silent pandemic” of toxins has been damaging the brains of unborn children. The experts named 12 chemicals—substances found in both the environment and everyday items like furniture and clothing—that they believed to be causing not just lower IQs but ADHD and autism spectrum disorder. Pesticides were among the toxins they identified.

“So you recommend that pregnant women eat organic produce?” I asked Grandjean, a Danish-born researcher who travels around the world studying delayed effects of chemical exposure on children.

“That’s what I advise people who ask me, yes. It’s the best way of preventing exposure to pesticides.” Grandjean estimates that there are about 45 organophosphate pesticides on the market, and “most have the potential to damage a developing nervous system.”

Landrigan had issued that same warning, unprompted, when I spoke to him the week before. “I advise pregnant women to try to eat organic because it reduces their exposure by 80 or 90 percent,” he told me. “These are the chemicals I really worry about in terms of American kids, the organophosphate pesticides like chlorpyrifos.”

For decades, chlorpyrifos, marketed by Dow Chemical beginning in 1965, was the most widely used insect killer in American homes. Then, in 1995, Dow was fined $732,000 by the EPA for concealing more than 200 reports of poisoning related to chlorpyrifos. It paid the fine and, in 2000, withdrew chlorpyrifos from household products. Today, chlorpyrifos is classified as “very highly toxic” to birds and freshwater fish, and “moderately toxic” to mammals, but it is still used widely in agriculture on food and non-food crops, in greenhouses and plant nurseries, on wood products and golf courses.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/arch ... ns/284466/

My more specific predictions would be:

• There will be a major global financial panic and crisis. Supply chains will break, resulting in unavailability of critical raw materials and components. Global trade will begin to shut down. As it begins to become apparent that the supply chain linkages are permanently broken, the global interlinked financial markets will shut down and cease to exist. This will all happen very quickly. It will not take years from the initial panic.
• The focus of governments will turn to controlling their panicked and hungry populations. Due to lack of availability of imported goods and adequate storage "sufficient to reconstitute" a system consistent with nation state government, this will prove to be too little too late and most government will devolve to the local level as populations lose faith in their national governments and the national governments lose the resources and ability to control their populations.
• There will be no large scale nuclear war. Instead, the population will be culled through starvation, local strife (including settling of long-standing scores) and disease. Wave after wave of pandemics will sweep the world.
• Similar to national economies and governments, centralized utilities will fail or become so decrepit as to be unsafe and unusable. All centralized utilities including the power grid will shut down permanently.
• The initial worldwide kill rate during the first couple decades following the financial panic will exceed 90%. The global population will be in the range of a few tens of millions when the bottom is hit in two or three centuries. Similar to the last dark age, the world's largest cities will have a population on the order of 25,000 and a large town will be 1,000.
• Life during the coming dark age will be similar to the last dark age but worse due to environmental damage and pollution.

[Another guest]

“So you recommend that pregnant women eat organic produce?” I asked Grandjean, a Danish-born researcher who travels around the world studying delayed effects of chemical exposure on children.

Wouldn't banning pesticides lead to global famine?

What about fertilizers?

[Higgenbotham]

“So you recommend that pregnant women eat organic produce?” I asked Grandjean, a Danish-born researcher who travels around the world studying delayed effects of chemical exposure on children.

Wouldn't banning pesticides lead to global famine?

What about fertilizers?

Depends on who you ask. Some, maybe even most, would say AI will solve it. The permaculture crowd seems optimistic too. They talk a lot about the "abundance" permaculture provides. My view is the human race is boxed in on several issues (including immigration) and the only path out is a new dark age. Also, with each issue, everything humanly possible is being done to make the outcome worse.

[Guest]

Either way, the 3rd world is dependent on 1sr world food handouts. When the 1st world supply chains break~either because of war or civil unrest~Africans and many others across the "Global South" will starve.

[aeden]

Border over run in Texas and yes, they will starve, and disease will be endemic.
Water pathogens will take out the majority of the population.
Chicago Mayor wants to empty measles warehouses since they are going under as New York already has in real time.
The locusts will take down the hubs. This is old news here.
Private education cluster groups are setting up. Public Education if you can call it that
we consider is past critical mass and simply diseased pits now on numerous mental and physicality facts.

[Guest]

Border over run in Texas and yes, they will starve, and disease will be endemic.
Water pathogens will take out the majority of the population.
Chicago Mayor wants to empty measles warehouses since they are going under as New York already has in real time.
The locusts will take down the hubs. This is old news here.
Private education cluster groups are setting up. Public Education if you can call it that
we consider is past critical mass and simply diseased pits now on numerous mental and physicality facts.

A Venezuelan illegal is on TikTok telling other illegals how easy it is to squat in houses, even if Americans are living there. His face and name are visible in the vids and he has not even been questioned by the police.

Truly America is over.