Kevin D Perry

Signs of some remaining vitality: Butthole Surfers still makes me wanna careen dancing and break stuff.

#punk #SmalltownHighPlainsWeird

We worry about this. We also worry that RFKjr & co want to put autistics in camps, so...

It only makes sense if you're an unhinged eugenicist, which is what I suspect most of the T bankrollers and toadies are.

And it's been the same regurgitated crap for ages. I first came across him and a couple of his acolytes 15(?) years ago. Sniffed out the fash quickly. They love Evola and Guenon.

Began to dawn on me as a teen, but I blamed it on small towns. Got out into the world and saw it, began to blame it on hypocritical Christians. Now I'm old enough to see that this is the way of things. The world is on fire, and people are collectively insane.

Hide Me Among the Graves by Tim Powers.

Yeah, I wonder how many of them would throw that around in the presence of someone (like my son) who has real disabilities? Do they say it at church (assuming they go at all)? That was considered a rude term at best to my conservative family and neighbors forty years ago.

I have been banging that drum, and several adjacent ones, for a while.

I used to read whatever I could get my hands on, and grabbed one of his books from our church library in the mid-80s when I was in my teens. My reaction was visceral and negative. The new pastor removed them all shortly afterwards.

We should all reread Jacques Vallee's "I, Product" every day until it really sinks in.

All of it. How difficult do you find it to carry through with a thought for longer than a few minutes? How driven are you to perform a dramatized version of yourself, despite your best intentions? Is this, perhaps, by design?

I'm sure They have our best interests at heart, though. Totally benign.

This "brave new world" created for us by DARPA and Silicon Valley and its techbros (are there techsistas?) is exactly equivalent to the Junk Lady in Labyrinth. Google, Facebook, the endless promptings inside our favorite apps.

Neal Schon > Eddie Van Halen.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Repitan! A king is not a dictator is not a President is not a CEO.

#politicsfordummies #politics #punchanazi #standfordemocracy #corporaterulesucks #endbillionaires

Yes. Bruce Cockburn has a song titled "Orders" that is all about this. I can't listen to it without tears. I'm so tired.

Feudalism is the power hierarchy of fealty between regional lords. Manorialism is distinct from this and is the level at which distinctions like peasant, serf, slave, etc are meaningful. It also has no resemblance to the neofascist capitalist social order these people envision. Peasants had rights.

That seems to be the general societal orientation, at this point. I haven't decided whether I can even go back inside a church, but one thing is high on my list, & that's a predominance towards hope and away from all this negativity. Causes are great but I'm always running on fumes and I just can't.

So maybe let's not play into the hands of people who want to turn other people into biofuels, for whatever reason. If we can't stand on a set of principles, shoulder to shoulder, we are lost. Maybe for you it can't be the imago dei, but try egalite, fraternite, liberte, and live and let live.

And a lot of the difficulties and bad conclusions I cycled through would have been avoided or at least mitigated, if I had the support and realization of the nature of the invisible foe I struggled against my whole life, undiagnosed.

My unusual brain, my disability, has often hindered me, for sure. It's tough to live in a world that doesn't make sense, that tells you in a million small ways that you, your understanding, your very being, is wrong. But autism wasn't sitting on my shoulder like a demon whispering evil in my ear.

My unusual brain has led me to question status quos, but rather than end up where, say, Peter Yarvin ended up, I went the route of Leo Tolstoy, Jacques Ellul, and Dorothy Day.

Did I struggle at times? Yes. Dwell in the wilderness? Yes. Make mistakes? Draw bad conclusions? Act meanly? Yes.

...honest, and respect. The formation of my character, including its flaws, has been the work of many builders aside from myself - parents, teachers, role models, religion, economics, media. Autism has affected how these things have landed, but it was not the determining factor of good versus evil.

So let's not attribute odious ideas to a trait held, without their choice, by a diverse group of people. I am on the spectrum. It has often affected my interpretation of the world, and hampered my life in all kinds of ways. But I have tried to do right by others, to treat people with kindness,

I don't know if many people are aware of the cozy relationship between progressivism and eugenic but, to the extent you fail to repudiate it, you become the flip side of the Nazi coin, which is bad enough on its own, but also plays into stereotypes effectively used these many years by rightwingers.

To ascribe the origins of ideas you don't like to an essential trait possessed by a group of people is, of course, rank prejudice. It's a nasty path that ends in nasty places. As in, eugenics, forced sterilization, and murder ("euthanasia" when tarting it up for a party).

I don't know if this is that contingent in the extreme left who aspire to edgelord status, or whether it's just your regularly scheduled creep of scapegoating laid bare by stressful times, but it needs to be addressed.

#Prejudice and #eugenics ...a few years back, I started seeing people in occult circles (e.g. Gordon White, where it stands also for "egregious") throwing around the words "Aspie" and "spectrum" as pejoratives. That trend has been evident in discussions in seemingly "progressive" spaces, as well.

I agree that Yarvin is a problem. But if your solution is to demonize people on the spectrum, you are yourself adding to the problem, and following the same kind of thinking you seem to want to criticize.

The thing about JC's writing is that he manages to place songs and riffs in a space that is in conversation with the various subgenres of heavy but transcends them all. A true master of Sounds What Can Be Made With a Guitar. Gloomyasfuck, but a necksnapper.

#AliceinChains #JerryCantrell