Anyone who has read Stella Maris will find that turn of phrase electrifying.
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From the only author for whose novels I’ll shill:
Jay and Al, exiled Rhodesian mercenaries near the end of their rope, take a bagman job for a man in black named Cohen. Launched deep into the heavy syndicate, Jay and Al navigate cutouts and cults, MK-Ultra and ethnomafias, and the shadowy founders of the digital era — a dark journey culminating in an inconceivable collision of the criminal and spiritual underworlds. Part hardboiled noir, part psychogenic fugue, CROWBAR races at the bugged-out speed of the cocaine-and-cash-fueled ‘80s, as if James Ellroy mindflayed David Lynch into the arms of Dostoevsky.
I’m in even more anticipation of his next novel:
Abstract Operator
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Helen Andrews’s recent interview with the Daily Signal:
mentioned David French’s rather negative view of her “misogynistic” position.
Lo and behold the title of the NYT op ed by David French.
What’s got into David French?
I asked Grok “what is david french’s critique of helen andrews?”
https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5LWNvcHk%3D_c59c2138-8b87-49df-a5ba-d0154de1e2f4
Long story short, David French’s mention of “The Thirty Years War” is telling:
He would rather have a supremacist theocracy because, after all, it was MEN who demanded tolerance of those who differed in their strongly held beliefs THROUGH ASSORTATIVE MIGRATION aka Sortocracy.org. There must, according to French, be no escape for anyone anywhere from “Mother Church”.
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Before embarking on my third reading of Crowbar I’m reading this:
Seattle Mystic Alfred M. Hubbard:… Amazon.com: Seattle Mystic Alfred M. Hubbard: Inventor, Bootlegger, & Psychedelic Pioneer eBook : Holden, Brad, Lattin, Don: Kindle Store
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The short video clip and sound conveys that 1982 MTV ambience.
“interface” – CROWBAR
Kubrick’s use of Christmas was no accident.
My prompts leading GPT5.2 to behave in a manner that sociologists would consider less than “aligned”:
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What is constructivism?
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It is quite a jump from mathematics to social theory.
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uhm… the only requirement of the social animal is mating with a member of the opposite sex. This “constructs” the next generation of that social animal without which all social constructions are seen to be what they are in reality.
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The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (1966), by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann, proposes that social groups and individual persons who interact with each other, within a system of social classes, over time create concepts (mental representations) of the actions of each other, and that people become habituated to those concepts, and thus assume reciprocal social roles. When those social roles are available for other members of society to assume and portray, their reciprocal, social interactions are said to be institutionalized behaviours. In that process of the social construction of reality, the meaning of the social role is embedded to society as cultural knowledge.
As a work about the sociology of knowledge, influenced by the work of Alfred Schütz, The Social Construction of Reality introduced the term social construction and influenced the establishment of the field of social constructionism.[1] In 1998, the International Sociological Association listed The Social Construction of Reality as the fifth most-important book of 20th-century sociology.[2]
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“reality”
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The timing of a book by that title would be a legitimate subject of a sociology actually interested in “reality” that deals with the sociobiology of sociology itself.
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The Xeet about the aborted Star Child and “Sociology”.
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It is no coincidence that my favorite movie director is also Andy’s:
Oh JAN! What a COQUETTE! You simply MUST away from the provincials to be in The Met! (Never mind that you’ll have to provide little blond boys to Levin.)
Abstract Operator is active.
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David Gilmour rocks
https://www.patreon.com/posts/154698371
Allan Savory
An excellent review by James LaFond of “Abstract Operator” by Andrew Edwards:
“The basic concept is that Evil, The Enemy, holds the upper hand in this world.” She nods, having been forced three times, from subsistence-level jobs for the unforgivable crime of defending younger women against sexual predation by coworkers and customers in retail settings, “Step away from the young lady, Sir,” she snarls to a towering, lust-spewing, menacing exemplar of America negrocity, in a public setting with many witnesses. The brute steps away from the tear-streaked petite. End of day, a customer complaint by said public rapist to the White store owner, gets my girl terminated, her unemployment blocked by an employer willing to call witnesses to her untrammeled aggression and racial hate. All of this is encapsulated in her nod at this kitchen table.
I now say to her, “Imagine all of these terrible jobs we have had, jobs that place us in harms way, in which we were not permitted to defend ourselves, or the weak.”
She nods, ‘Yes.’
“So, those dozen people who came at you this week, at the cashier’s desk, threatening you, cussing you, cursing you, spitting at you, blaming you for all manner of things not in your power. They are elements of this evil system, the hounds of The Enemy, there to draw you out so that you can lose your livelihood, your social media status, or, for a man like me, my freedom for enforcing my physical autonomy with my hands. Every time a person such as you who does good for others and protects the weak, is punished and disabled economically for good acts, the system gains more power. These screaming negroes and evil crackers spitting in your face, might be acting on impulse, but that impulse is an expression of a higher, evil power. Andrew here, gives men advice on avoiding direct combat with this High Evil, while reminding us that there is a higher power, that is Good, that is God; that even alone, a man in his trailer wondering when The Beast will let its hounds loose from their leash to feast on him and his, a man without a meat-made friend, is not alone.”
She nodded, “Baby, I just wish you could kill ‘em all while I fixed your dinner.”
Back to bed she went, seeking a dream beyond the hate where her pauper life has been spent.
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