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Oh no. I would hate to see this site shut down. Although I rarely post, I highly value your writings and other commentary. Years ago, you had saved the Fourth Turning forum of Neil Howe. I would hope both of these sites could be forever saved.

After that was done, I decided that I could best fill out what was
probably the last few months of my life by writing the book on China.

John, I am telling you what I believe. There is a disorder called cluster headaches (they are more 'eye aches'). They are also called 'suicide headaches'.
If you take your own life, you will feel through your whole body what would eclipse a cluster headache eye as the sun eclipses the moon, and forever.

Tom Mazanec wrote: > After that was done, I decided that I could best fill out what was
> probably the last few months of my life by writing the book on
> China. John, I am telling you what I believe. There is a disorder
> called cluster headaches (they are more 'eye aches'). They are
> also called 'suicide headaches'. If you take your own life, you
> will feel through your whole body what would eclipse a cluster
> headache eye as the sun eclipses the moon, and forever.

I've never heard anything like that before, but really all of this is
just talk at the present time. Right now, it's just contingencies and
possibilities. Things might change drastically at any time. In the
course of writing these World View articles each day, I read about
unbelievably horrendous things that happen around the world
constantly. People are put into situations where they have to make
impossible choices, and the lines separating murder, self-defense, war
and death through action and inaction are so blurry as to be
indistinguishable. Doing Generational Dynamics all these years has
given me an extremely fatalistic view about the world and life and
general, and the fact that we really don't have as much free will as
we think we have. If we're given five choices, A, B, C, D and E, and
they all lead to death but with different amounts of suffering or
slightly different time frames, or different amounts of collateral
damage or collateral damage to "good guys" or "bad guys" or different
amounts of action/inaction, then what's the rule that helps us choose
if they all end up in the same place? And did we really have a choice
anyway? And who decides which choices lead to cluster headaches, and
which don't? If a fireman runs into a burning building and dies, was
that suicide? Here's another conundrum: If a woman consents to have a
doctor shove an iron bar into her birth canal to smash open the head
of a baby just before it's born, isn't that just politics? If war is
politics, then isn't all death just politics? Is Jamal Khashoggi's
death more important than the death of an Ebola victim in North Kivu?
Which is more important, someone killed by a Muslim terrorist or
someone killed by a Christian terrorist or someone killed by a
Buddhist terrorist? Does it matter whether the terror victim was
Muslim, Christian or Buddhist? Well, I'm really just ranting here.
There are people who say that Generational Dynamics has made me
insane, and at some level they're right. Who knows what's going to
happen. I sure don't. Or maybe I do, and that's the problem. Thanks
for your concern. Merry Christmas. Ho ho ho.

John, even if you go bankrupt, as a poor person in America you can still live a lifestyle that a Medieval King would have marveled at. And you have people who admire you (like me). Please don't do anything rash and irreversible.
I had my priest pray for you at Mass today.

Tom Mazanec wrote: > John, even if you go bankrupt, as a poor person in America you can
> still live a lifestyle that a Medieval King would have marveled
> at. And you have people who admire you (like me). Please don't do
> anything rash and irreversible. I had my priest pray for you at
> Mass today.

Let me assure you that someone my age would not live like a Medieval
king.

Then there's the other problem -- what's the point? I ask myself that
question every day. Only 30-40 people thought my book was valuable
enough to spend a few dollars to buy it. I've posted over 3,000
articles on Breitbart since 2010, but they've made it clear that they
don't consider it worth paying for. It's nice that you admire me, and
I appreciate it, but the bottom line is that if what I'm doing were
worth anything, then somebody somewhere would be willing to fund it on
a regular basis, either by direct funding, or by paying me a salary as
a journalist, analyst or Senior Software Engineer. But nobody is. So
everything I do is worthless. This is the Cassandra curse. And if
everything I do is worthless, then I'm worthless. That's the way I
feel. So what's the point?

John,

Jumping in a little late but suffice to say I am deeply saddened to hear you have hit hard times. I can't say I've had the best year either. I found myself throwing up in a bathtub yesterday because I can't control my drinking. I'm not even sure you value anything I have to say but I don't view your work as worthless. While it may not be popular that doesn't mean it isn't important or has value. It is more a reflection of society than your work. I will keep you in my prayers and hope the best for you. It may be helpful to bury your head in the sand for a little bit and step away from GD. The fact is this stuff really can drive people insane. I hope the abyss doesn't swallow you. I know you've made a meaningful impact on my life.

Now if you want to say some mean stuff to me I don't mind at all. I think we all know I've earned my lashings.

All the best,
The real court jester

Heisenberg wrote: > John,

> Jumping in a little late but suffice to say I am deeply saddened
> to hear you have hit hard times. I can't say I've had the best
> year either. I found myself throwing up in a bathtub yesterday
> because I can't control my drinking. I'm not even sure you value
> anything I have to say but I don't view your work as
> worthless. While it may not be popular that doesn't mean it isn't
> important or has value. It is more a reflection of society than
> your work. I will keep you in my prayers and hope the best for
> you. It may be helpful to bury your head in the sand for a little
> bit and step away from GD. The fact is this stuff really can drive
> people insane. I hope the abyss doesn't swallow you. I know you've
> made a meaningful impact on my life.

> Now if you want to say some mean stuff to me I don't mind at
> all. I think we all know I've earned my lashings.

> All the best, The real court jester

I've always considered myself lucky that I've never been addicted to
alcohol or drugs or anything worse than chocolate ... and computers.
So it's ironic that the end comes to me via the Cassandra curse.

One thing I've learned over the years is that there's something wrong
with everybody, and everybody is addicted to something. For the lucky
ones, the addiction is socially acceptable. For the unlucky ones, it
isn't. But there's always something because the human body is
desperate to fill a 24 hour day, and needs an addiction when nothing
else is avaiable. So everyone is addicted to something.

Good luck controlling your addiction. I hope it works out for you.

John,

I can tell you you're read all across the world.

I myself am french, and I've been reading you for nearly ten years, almost everyday.

I don't know how old you are, but come on, with all your knowledge, there must be a job you can apply for, whether it's GD related or not.

Don't do something silly, try to cheer up, I know it's not easy but it can't be the end of all this.

Regards.

François.

John wrote:

Heisenberg wrote: > John,... <insert some nifty Heisenbergish verbiage here>

I've always considered myself lucky that I've never been addicted to
alcohol or drugs or anything worse than chocolate ... and computers.
So it's ironic that the end comes to me via the Cassandra curse.

One thing I've learned over the years is that there's something wrong
with everybody, and everybody is addicted to something. For the lucky
ones, the addiction is socially acceptable. For the unlucky ones, it
isn't. But there's always something because the human body is
desperate to fill a 24 hour day, and needs an addiction when nothing
else is avaiable. So everyone is addicted to something.

Good luck controlling your addiction. I hope it works out for you.

OK,.. so, obviously, you (John) just need to buff up your makeup and fashion skills into viral social media addictiveness territory, and THAT should fund your other endeavors.

Simple solutions are always best, aren't they?

I, personally, am addicted to air, actually. It's gotta be something, as you said, and that's my "time waster".

I find that striving to be thoroughly and singularly addicted to air, to the exclusion of all other addictions, lends me a certain "clarity" and "perspective" as to what's really important in life.

What you do is not indicative of your worth, by the way. It's how well you breathe (air). That's the real measure. There IS a knack to successful breathing, as I'm sure you know. It's considerably more difficult than we are lead to believe,.. to do WELL at any rate.

Truly, your ability to breathe while doing research and monitoring "the media" (and other informational sources) is quite impressive. I'd suggest that you continue breathing while doing that.

Although, if that's too depressing, per se, in that you get annoyed by all the "bad news" that you have to dredge through, then how about doing the research necessary to create "reality based fiction", or even that odd derivative art work of fiction called "computer games/simulations/story-telling"?

Putting some "more popularly formatted" fiction-ish-ness (or "BASED ON real events and people"-ness) out there for broad-based consumption MIGHT generate some "buzz" that could be capitalized on, perhaps.

And DO keep yourself apprised of the JB Peterson progress on his alternative to Patreon. When I start funding myself with patronage from those lovely people who will enjoy my video examples of my naivete and semi-suicidal endeavor to NOT DIE building a death-trap to travel the oceans of the world so as to NOT DIE while "enjoying" storms and doldrums and withering humidity and bits of boat snapping off and floating away,.. it's a certainty that I'll choose a "free speech" service, because I'll be spouting various non-PC observations in the course of things.

Do not be addicted to fully emulating Cassandra! Learn FROM little Cassy. She really wasn't too bright, after all. Ask the question: "What would SMART Cassandra do?"

..fooey on STUPID Cassandra! We all know you're not stupid. Play the part that you're meant to play, which is Smart Cassandra!

...and about China:

The Chinese are very good losers. They lose alot, but they fall UP! Their "mass" virtually guarantees that they "fall up" when they lose.

They will always lose, but they will never be conquered. They will never lead, but they will never be slaves to anyone not of themselves.

Until they are "broken up", they will never advance mankind. Let's hope they are broken soon.

FishbellykanakaDude wrote: > I, personally, am addicted to air, actually. It's gotta be
> something, as you said, and that's my "time waster".

You've got to find a reason for taking the space you take, breathing
the air you breathe.