With the recent death of Pope Francis on April 21 at the age of 88, there is some speculation as the world awaits his successor. This is the time for a changing of the guard, and what better time there is than now for me to offer up a few suggestions pertaining to my hope for the future of the catholic church. The suggestions I have in mind are quite controversial, so let me first give a disclaimer.
In no way am I religious, and I personally do not care what the church does, but a lot of people in this modern age still believe in religion, and I respect that. To each his own. On the other hand, the church has a lot of influence on the world stage.
If they have that much influence, they should be setting a good example, but the catholic church has not been able to escape the numerous sex abuse scandals throughout the years, most notably under the watch of Benedict XVI that led to his untimely resignation. I think I have the solution, and as controversial as it may be, I hope you will consider it.
First of all, may I suggest making history once again, this time by selecting a Black pope? If Obama could become America’s first Black president, Megan Markle could be the first woman of mixed heritage who marries into British royalty, and Pope Francis could become the first Hispanic pope, then certainly there can also be a Black pope. It would add a lot more respect to our image in the world, and set another example to the youth as to what they can achieve.
Therefore, I am suggesting for there to be a black pope, and one who allows priests and nuns to marry. I am of the view that many of the sex abuse scandals in the church are directly caused by sexual frustration that arise from priests not being allowed to marry, and that cases of sex abuse within the church would drastically diminish if they were allowed to marry.
What was even the point of priestly celibacy within the catholic church in the first place? How is it that protestant ministers are allowed to marry, but not catholic priests? This is why people think that catholics are a bunch of pedophiles and homosexuals.
Sexual desire is like a powerful volcanic eruption that is not to be trifled with, and trying to pretend otherwise can truly torture your soul. I believe that the subsect of the population who truly possesses the discipline to effectively maintain celibacy are very few and far between.
If you are not one of them, then you are playing with your own head by believing that you are, and if you want to play with your head, the least you can do is grab some lotion and excuse yourself to the restroom, don’t forget the magazines.
Let the masters of celibacy join the priesthood, it is not for everyone. But even so, they can still relax some of their rules. There are some who truly want to dedicate their lives to service, but the number one thing that’s stopping them is the rule of celibacy.
My hope is that the future pope, whomever he may be, will consider this article, and follow in the lead of the late Pope Francis who had already begun relaxing some of the rules by allowing some men in very few locations to join the priesthood after they were already married.
If not, then why not allow them to hire escorts to satisfy their needs? As blasphemous as that may sound, it’s still better than to allow for the very preventable abuse of some poor alter boy.
The only thing I can think of that’s better than that is for religion as a whole to be done away with as the masses begin to awaken to the power of their own potential, and seek truth from within.
It is the end of the month, and time for another review. Our muse for the month of April is Walter White, the tragic antihero protagonist of “Breaking Bad,” portrayed by Bryan Cranston. Spoilers are ahead, so I recommend watching the entire series before reading or watching any reviews for it.
Breaking Bad was an American television crime drama created by Vince Gilligan. It lasted for five seasons between 2008 and 2013, and featured high school chemistry teacher Walter White (Bryan Cranston), who became a notorious meth dealer and went by the alias “Heisenberg,” after being diagnosed with lung cancer on his 50th birthday.
It all started one day when Walt’s brother in law, Hank Schrader (Dean Norris) went on a sting and took him along for the ride. While waiting in the car, Walt spotted one of his former students, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) as he was attempting to flee the scene of the sting. Walt confronted Pinkman and blackmailed him into helping him sell crystal meth. The deal was that Walt cooks, and Jesse sells.
In that moment, Walt broke bad, and it wasn’t long before the middle-aged, middle-classed suburban school teacher was boondocking in the deserts outside of Albuquerque, cooking methamphetamine out of an RV.
Walt would soon clash with other dealers such as Tuco Salamanca (Raymond Cruz) and Gustavo Fring (Giancarlo Esposito), often involving conflicts of interest relating to deals they made. But what made Walt break bad? Was his midlife crisis caused by a surprising cancer diagnosis, or was that only the trigger for a much deeper cause?
Before the beginning of the series, Walt had one third stakes in “Gray Matter,” a tech startup that he co-founded along with Elliot (Adam Godley) and Gretchen Schwartz (Jessica Hecht). Not only was Walt one of Gray Matter’s co-founders, but he was also engaged to Gretchen at some point.
Eventually, he sold his share of Gray Matter for five thousand dollars and ghosted Elliot and Gretchen. As soon as Walt’s back was turned, Elliot married Gretchen and Gray Matter took off into a multi-billion dollar industry.
Walt felt like he was robbed of his chance in life to make it big. He felt cheated by the very people he once thought were his friends. He grew bitter and resentful towards Elliot and Gretchen, and blamed them for ruining his chance.
On his fiftieth birthday, the cancer diagnosis he received was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Something inside of him snapped when he realized that he spent his entire life being a husband, father and a schoolteacher, and had nothing to show for it. Not only that, but he was about to die, and had nothing to show for his life.
This kind of thing can torture a man’s soul, and it caused him to reflect on all of his life’s mistakes. He ultimately chose to break bad in an attempt to chase after the laughing phantom of his youth.
Initially, Walt started cooking crystal meth in order to ensure that his family would be in want for nothing after he was dead. However, the last time he saw his wife Skylar (Anna Gunn) towards the end of the series, Walt finally confessed that he wanted to build his own empire in order to compensate for selling his shares in Gray Matter. But above all else, he simply liked the thrill of the hunt.
And there you have it folks, the real reason why Walter White broke bad. This is similar to an episode of “Batman: The Animated Series,” titled, “If you are so smart, why aren’t you rich.” In this episode, Edward Nygma (John Glover) dons his riddler alter ego for the first time to exact vengeance against his boss, Daniel Mockridge (Gary Frank) for firing him and stealing his intellectual property. Another muse deserving its own review.
Why did Walt sell his Gray Matter Share?
Walt abruptly broke up with Gretchen after spending a fourth of July weekend with her wealthy family. He sold his Gray Matter share to Elliot shortly thereafter, who subsequently started dating Gretchen, and made her a business partner.
It was never really explained during the show’s run why Walt ghosted Gretchen so abruptly, but there is a very plausible fan theory out there suggesting that he felt insecure and inadequate in comparison to her wealthy family.
What might have been?
If Walt didn’t sell his share in Gray Matter, he and Gretchen would have definitely taken off in every meaningful way possible. He might have never met Skylar. But then again, he probably wouldn’t care too much about starting an affair with Skylar if he’d met her after he was already sitting on top of a billion dollar dynasty.
The problem is that he didn’t believe in what was possible. He didn’t believe in him and Gretchen as an item, he didn’t believe in the vision they shared for the future of the company, and he allowed his doubts and insecurities to get in the way of what was possible.
Personal Takeaway:
The cautionary tale of Walter White serves to remind us to believe in what might be possible, and to be wary of friends who do not share our vision. Walt could have been living the good life, but instead he ended up venturing down a very dark path that he responded to by turning to a life of crime.
Whatever you do, if you have an idea that you know could be worth millions in the long run, do not allow others to buy you out. You had best believe that they see your vision too, and they want to reap all the benefits for themselves without putting in the blood, sweat and tears that’s required to thoroughly earn it. They have no problem paying you ten thousand dollars today, just so they can legally exclude you from ten million dollars tomorrow. They are not your friends.
Also, never enter into any deals that require you to give up ownership of your intellectual properties. I recommend retaining creative control so that you can keep earning royalties for the rest of your life plus seventy years. Speaking of royalties, make sure that you copyright your intellectual property. You can do so by visiting https://www.copyright.gov.
All in all, the Elliot and Gretchen story arc in Breaking Bad was an eye opening cautionary tale. I give it a 5 out of 5 blue crystal rocks, and I’ll see you on the next one.
The #SoftLife movement is taking over the world by storm. Whenever people think about someone living a soft life, they picture a white woman, or even a black woman for that matter.
The specific stereotype is usually that of an ultra feminine white woman who inherited all her wealth from daddy, or an educated black woman who earned her wealth at some point after escaping an abusive upbringing full of hard knocks, and now she can travel the world on her own time and dine in style on her own dime.
Those stereotypes are harmful in and of themselves because not only do they reduce the individual down to solely their race, but they also discount everybody else having a similar experience. As harmful as those stereotypes are, none of them are quite as harmful as the racist belief that black men are just not meant to live a soft life.
The reason why that view is racist is because it limits the black man solely to a life of servitude to everybody else besides himself, and that judgement is based on no other reason besides his race and gender, and with zero consideration as to what he has to say about it.
The world is of the insanely rigid view that their comfort and convenience should be achieved on the backs of black men. They dread the day that they will be forced to share their privilege with us, and will defend that status quo with their lives.
They also have an idea of how a black man ought to behave based on negative stereotypes in the media that harms us rather than help us to progress.
Negative stereotypes such as the tatted up black thug in the projects, the pornographic stereotype of the BBC, or a more archaic stereotype of the fat, greasy, blue-collar worker who is always caught sleeping on the job and eating watermelons all day, and they expect us to keep perpetuating that stereotype for their own benefit.
So when they discover otherwise upon meeting you, they try to discourage your grace and elegance, first by acting like you are lame or awkward for being that way, before ultimately seeking to destroy you for it.
At the same time, they expect you to pedestalize and entertain them at work all day. That is why it infuriates them internally when all you want is to be left alone to perform an honest day’s work, get paid and go home.
That is not something I would ever consent to in my right mind, simply because I am nobody’s dancing monkey. And not only that, but it also rudely interrupts the plans I have for my own life, which is to live as soft a life as is possible on this prison planet until I croak.
Life is too short, and we are here for a good time, not a long time. So if living a soft life as a black man in America somehow makes me selfish, so be it. After all that I have been through in my own lifetime alone, the least you can do is stay out the fucking way and allow me the space and mental bandwith to eke out my own path. No one said you had to like me.
The first step towards living a soft life as a black man is to remain cognizant of the fact that these racist motherfuckers are not your friends, they expect you to amuse them. If you let people get inside your head, it could cost you your life.
Secondly, stop working for these racist corporations who want to silently murder you with poverty and overwork. With poverty and overwork comes stress, with stress comes illness, and with illness comes the greater likelihood of ending up in an early grave.
Thirdly, everybody on the planet was born with a unique gift, whether or not they choose to answer the call. Do some soul searching to discover your own unique gift, and then monetize it. The last thing they want is for the black man in America to buy his own house and start his own business. Well I say give ‘em hell, it literally keeps them up at night. Take your revenge.
Fourthly, when you are no longer under socio-economic stress all the time, threats against you may become more legal, perhaps even criminal. Tread carefully on the surface of this planet, remain ever vigilant and keep a low profile at all times, which brings me to my fifth point.
Stay away from troubled people, and most important of all, make sure that they stay away from you, too. If you are a strong, intelligent and elegant black man like I am, you do not fit with the proletariat of society, or who we call normies here on this blog site.
They are a classless bunch of weirdos with bad manners and bad hygiene, compared to you who is the male equivalent of a triple threat. Be careful of the bars, clubs and restaurants that you frequent. Be careful of the kind of women you choose to date.
The normies will gain access to you at these venues, and through some of these women if they can no longer gain access to you at work. Same as how threats against you will become more legal when they can no longer get you fired. But then again your tastes should evolve as you become more of a hedonistic connoisseur.
There is a reason why celebrities walk with an entourage, or why a presidential caravan doesn’t reveal which one of the cars the president is riding in. I’m not saying that you should do the same, but when you start frequenting more high class establishments, the normies won’t be able to reach you then, because they simply cannot afford it.
Speaking of women, many male celebrities end up becoming shrouded in scandal because they cannot control where they stick their dicks. From Cosby to Kelly to Bryant, the scandals keep coming, and have been proven rather harmful to their reputation.
Whether or not the accused is actually guilty of the allegations doesn’t change the fact that their names would have never been called if they did not go there to begin with.
There is only a certain caliber of woman whom you can safely sleep with going forward. Pretty little normies are only there for the money and attention. Where the hell were they on your absolute worst days when you were getting it out the mud, and didn’t much feel like being alive?
Finally, do some more soul searching, but more so as it relates to your tastes and preferences this time. The first step in doing so is to remember when you were daydreaming as a kid about your adult life in the future.
What were the details of some of those fantasies and how can you tweak it to make it work in the world as you now understand it? Your fantasies were not complete back then. There were many missing details because your imagination wasn’t fully developed.
You must now decide for yourself if there is anything you would add to, or subtract from your fantasy now compared to before, and then make your dreams a reality. Your inner child is starving for his dreams to be validated, and it’s time you stop ignoring him for the sake of other people’s egos and expectations, for you too are worthy.
Soft life is not exclusive to any single group. It is the reward for making all the right decisions within a market as capitalistic as the American economy.
Have you ever applied for a job, then when you follow up for an interview, you are told that the position has already been filled? It’s either that or they don’t even bother to reply.
Do you find that this happens a lot more often than normal? Is it just you, or is something else going on not too far beneath the surface that might not readily cross your mind?
Many companies have a practice of uploading a job posting to your typical search site, but they are not currently hiring for the position. So then why even post if they are not ready to hire?
The most common reason given by news reports covering the topic is that employers want to get a feel of the market just to see how many people are in need.
Although I am certain they must get a giant ego trip out of feeling depended upon for basic human sustenance, the primary reason for them doing so is so they can have an aggregate of potential applicants to pull from in the event of an emergency vacancy within their company.
And while that is understandable, the bait and switch element of that hiring practice poses many undue hardships for job applicants, including but not limited to; applicants feeling like they wasted their time when they could have applied elsewhere, mounting frustration from being unable to differentiate between real and fake ads, it creates the need to compete more intensely than normal often pushing ethical boundaries, especially if you have many little mouths to feed, and last but not least, a deferral of hope that sickens the heart, causing many applicants to give up, the worst of them all, especially if they have been hungrily job hunting for a while now.
The thing to keep in mind is that employers do not care about your needs. They will always act in their own best interest. Perhaps I should say that they will NEVER act in your best interest. They HATE you. If this doesn’t prove it, I don’t know what will. Why would anyone want to work for an enemy unless they were a sycophantic masochist?
As a sidebar, if you have many little mouths to feed, you really shouldn’t be working for anyone. I have literally seen pregnant women get fired in the middle of winter.
This statement is not meant to excuse accountability if someone deserves to get fired, but it simply supports the notion that accountability can be redirected to securing sustainable income outside of employment.
Which is why I keep emphasizing that one must remain resilient and eke out a living based on the gifts one was born with. Imagine how many hurdles you could dodge just by remaining committed to this principle. Imagine how much red tape wouldn’t even phase you.
Your world would have been different, and with that new world comes a host of new problems. As bad as those problems might be, getting the runaround and having someone waste your time would not be one of them.
Sending out multiple resumes hoping that at least one of them bites your bait would definitely not be one of them. Not only that, but you would have the necessary resources to put out those much bigger fires whenever they do arise.
There are plenty of amazingly gifted and talented people who are asleep at the wheel. Do you not know who you are? Did you truly believe that nature formed your bodies only for it to be broken by a disgusting bunch of sadistic pigs? Only normies work for other people. Let them fight over crumbs.
Just think that if I had only answered my calling since the time that I had first come of age, I wouldn’t even know what a bait and switch job posting is. I wouldn’t care, and when I eventually came across the news report, I would have been appalled, unlike now.
That is but one example of all the bullshit you have to deal with when you serve other people in a subservient way. The only benefit that comes from me living in this godforsaken timeline is that I am not naive. If you don’t build your dreams, others will hire you to build theirs.
I have come to find that in recent years, employers often complain that people don’t want to work anymore. The first time that I heard them complain was during the Covid pandemic of 2020 that created a labor shortage on a massive scale.
People returned to work the following year, hoping that things would be different, but were only met with more disrespect than ever before. They were now puzzled as to what happened.
We were all kind of hoping that the pandemic would humble our employers somewhat, and that they were calling us to return to work with a different approach in mind. But the opposite was proven to be true as greed and corruption was at an all time high.
Now there seems to be a mass exodus as people are walking off these jobs left and right. Employers are once again complaining that people don’t want to work anymore.
Only now, with the pandemic out the way, they make it sound like people don’t want to work because they are lazy. But are the people truly lazy? Funny how employers neglect to tell you about the part that they played in the mass exodus.
There was a time in America when the 40 hour work week was sustainable. In 1982, a guy could work 40 hours a week in a factory or warehouse, or as a mailman, and was able to afford a car and a house in the suburbs with a nicely manicured lawn, and a white picket fence.
He had a tradcon wife who could afford to stay home and bake pies all day, a couple of kids and a dog. He was able to live the American dream solely off his factory salary with a few extra perks, and then retire comfortably after thirty years with a lifelong pension. It was fucking beautiful.
Not only that, but on a more social level people were generally more decent and respectful despite basic human shortcomings.
Fast forward to 2025, and it’s damn near impossible to buy a house, the rent is through the roof, minimum wage is higher than ever before but inflation quickly wipes it out all the same.
On a more antisocial level, people are stupid and racist, and one is literally punished for even daring to believe that they are allowed to live a half-decent quality of life. Employees are treated like expendable cattle, surveillance is gradually chipping away at your rights to privacy, and some of the absolute most despicable people on the planet seem to hold all the cards.
This new system is more oligarchal, the former was capitalism. That is the kind of paradigm shift that occurs whenever one’s culture is infiltrated by an enemy. This is nothing new. It has happened time and again throughout all of history, but now is America’s turn.
For 18 years, I have been living in the very spot where the United States was once located, and I want to find my way back to the United States. Now we can either live in a cabin in the woods, and live like it’s 1982, or we can learn as much as we possibly can about this “brave” new world and find a way to make it work somehow.
I believe that people are inherently innovative. Once you become truly motivated and you are in the mode, it is next to impossible to be lazy. It often gets to where people have to literally beg you to take a break, or go to bed for the night.
People have to literally drag you to the dinner table and spoon feed you at that point. Once you get to that level, laziness takes on a whole new meaning because neglecting your physical upkeep is also a form of laziness.
It isn’t that people don’t want to work, they just don’t want to be abused by a blasted bunch of ingrates who themselves are lazy. If push comes to shove, they would rather live in their damned cars before they swallow another ounce of disrespect.
Why were they even begging us to return to work if they neither value, nor appreciate us? We are tired of being abused. We want to work, but not for other people. We want to work for ourselves.
We don’t want change, we want things to be different. Because if you say you want change, don’t get upset when the man tosses some literal change in your direction. What may be a small fortune to you is only a tax write-off for him.
We want to earn an honest living instead of feeling peer pressured into playing office politics and sick mind games with a bunch of stupid fakes all day. Imagine a work day where all you literally had to do was show up on time, clock in, do your job, get paid a sustainable wage and bounce.
When last I checked, it was much later than June 19, 1865, but it has become painfully obvious to me that they are attempting to sneak slavery in through the back door by means of oligarchism.
Only this time, it’s not just the black man who will be enslaved, but members of every race who don’t achieve financial freedom up until a certain deadline that is set to occur in the not so distant future.
But it is our responsibility to do some soul searching in order to discover our respective niche, and then create a successful business around that niche. Or did you truly believe that nature formed our bodies just for them to be broken by a greedy, sadistic bunch of pigs, all in the name of profit?
We were all born with one unique gift, or another. The problem is that most people tend to neglect their gift, often due to a misguided sense of envy towards another person’s gift.
As such, they end up being stuck competing in the deadly rat race for scarce benefit and spoils where they are surrounded by a bunch of rat bastards, a difficult cycle to break free from.
When people think about creativity, they instantly assume that it means they will become famous, and not everyone wants to be famous. Some people truly cannot handle fame. But what they fail to realize is that their gift doesn’t necessarily have to be an Oscar worthy talent.
Perhaps you have liked baking, or interior decorating since childhood. Perhaps you have always liked carving shapes into wood, doing so comes naturally for you. And so you practice everyday a little at a time, not realizing that it will make you a truly legendary carpenter someday.
Practicing your gift may not grant you A list level fame, but you will nonetheless be famous and highly sought after in some niche circles. Whatever may be, as the saying goes; if you don’t work on your own dreams, someone else will hire you to work on theirs. And while you are working overnight, holidays and weekends for time and a half, they are on a yacht with their girlfriends (or yours), sipping champagne and living the soft life laughing at you.
If doing some soul searching to discover your niche is your ticket to financial freedom, wouldn’t you take it? Imagine living a soft life of your own where your financial security is not contingent upon pretending to like the people who utterly despise you.
Finally, let me close by reiterating the question that is the title of this article — is it true that nobody wants to work anymore? The answer is an astounding no. People do want to work, just not for any of you.
March 31, 1995, the day the music died. Thirty years later, her murderer is eligible for parole, and is not the least bit remorseful. But what a coincidence that her parole eligibility concurs with the thirtieth anniversary.
It is the end of the month, and time once again for our monthly review here on this site.
Our muse for the month of March is Selena, the Tejana singer whose promising life was tragically cut short in 1995 at the hands of Yolanda Saldivar, her deranged fan club leader turned agent whose obsession with Selena bordered on psychosis, and led her to commit the unthinkable.
Tomorrow is the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Selena, and a fitting time to reflect on what happened, why it happened, and why it is a cautionary tale for those who may be a bit too easily trusting.
Origins:
Selena Quintanilla, known simply by her stage name, Selena, was a Mexican-American singer, the youngest of three children born to Abraham and Marcella Quintanilla on April 16, 1971 in Freeport, Texas.
Her father, Abraham, who is himself a musician, discovered Selena’s musical talent when she was six years of age, and would often allow his children to perform at his restaurant. However, the family relocated to Corpus Christi, Texas in 1981 after falling on hard times.
While there, Abraham promoted Selena Y Los Dinos, a newly formed band that started out by performing on street corners and at weddings before releasing their first album, which was the same name as their band in 1984.
Selena soon became a household name in the “Tejano” genre, and went on to producing several other albums, including; Dulce amor in 1988, Selena in 1989, her debut solo album, and Dreaming of You in 1995, released posthumously.
A match made in hell:
Selena first crossed paths with Yolanda Saldivar after Saldivar attended one of her concerts during the early 1990s. It was not long after that Saldivar started a fan club for Selena with the permission of Selena’s father who was still her manager at the time, and appointed herself as the club’s president.
Saldivar soon relocated from San Antonio to Corpus Christi with the intent of getting closer to Selena, and was soon seen everywhere with her, always by her side. Saldivar eventually became Selena’s agent as well as the manager for her clothing boutique, Selena’s Etc.
By then, Saldivar had become too overly involved in all of Selena’s affairs for someone who Selena barely knew. But it was too late, Selena was already in too deep.
What happened?
On the morning of Friday, March 31, 1995, Selena agreed to meet Saldivar alone at a motel in Texas in order to question her about the possibility that Saldivar was embezzling money from her boutique and fan club.
At some point during the altercation, Selena was shot in the shoulder and rushed to a nearby hospital where she was pronounced dead later that afternoon after several failed attempts to revive her. She was just two weeks shy of her 24th birthday.
Saldivar was finally apprehended by police and the FBI after a nine hour standoff that was eerily similar to the OJ Simpson standoff the year prior. She was subsequently tried in a court of law, found guilty by a jury of her peers, and sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after thirty years.
The mind of a murderer:
Saldivar had intentionally set out from day one to make Selena her muse whether or not she was willing, and she was granted unearned access into Selena’s life much too easily. Saldivar developed an obsession with the power of Selena’s charisma, and the fact that she was able to attract a large audience from all walks of life.
She envied Selena. She wanted that power all to herself. Otherwise she wanted to go down in history as the one who was solely responsible for erasing the grace and charisma that was Selena from the face of the earth, forever.
Saldivar knew that doing so would make her famous, and she is correct because isn’t she now famous? It is important to note that there are some who want to eat off your name by any means necessary, and they don’t care how they do it. The end justifies the means.
These are very dangerous people because they have made up their minds that they have nothing to lose from destroying the life of their muse. And if they cannot become famous, they will gladly settle for being infamous, even if they have to be infamous behind bars. It’s worth it to them.
What made it possible?
I believe that Selena was a bit naive and too overly trusting of the intentions of a stranger. First of all, she didn’t know this woman from a can of paint. What made her think that she could trust Saldivar enough to grant her unearned access into her life?
Secondly, there are some who believe that her father was too controlling and mistrustful, and I can understand if perhaps Selena wanted to venture out on her own, and develop her own sense of identity.
But at the tender age of 23 years, Selena couldn’t possibly be hip to all the ways of human nature. Her early success and support from her father had afforded her a rather sheltered life that the average 23 year old is not privy to in this world.
Thirdly, trusting people is dangerous in general, but this is especially true if you are who some may call a “chosen one.” In other words, if you are gifted and you know exactly who you are, and you choose to answer the calling that was placed on your life since birth to achieve something exceptional on the world stage.
All normies are fake, stupid and unoriginal, hence why they are normies to begin with. So if you are not a normie, you are therefore eccentric without any effort. You stick out like a sore thumb and human predators can spot you coming ten miles away.
People will make you their muse and create agendas around your life for their own benefit. In short, if you are on stage you are already enough of a target as it is, and human nature is fickle and peculiar, so you must expect the agendas to come, and thus respond by enforcing thorough access control.
Even if Selena did not want to rely too much on her father, she could have asked one of her former band members, or someone with whom she is already familiar to help her run her business and her fan club. But instead, she chose to involve someone whose intentions were not clear to her.
Fourthly, Yolanda told Selena to meet her at a motel, and to come alone, and Selena agreed. She should have reminded Yolanda that she doesn’t give the orders around here, and then ordered Yolanda to meet her on her own terms, with eyewitnesses present. Whenever someone says, “meet me at some random, sleazy motel off the freeway, and come alone,” it’s usually trouble.
Personal Takeaway:
Predators like to heat check their targets before going in for the kill, just to see who they can target, and what they can get away with. When they see that you are famous, talented and boundaryless, that is every predator’s wet dream.
They don’t always get the target they want, sometimes they have to settle for who they can get, otherwise they would go without. You can disarm them by learning all that you can about human nature, and by asserting an impenetrable fortress of steel around you at all times. Don’t be their wet dream, become their worst nightmare.
Possibility of Parole:
Saldivar would have become eligible for parole as of today’s date, March 30. However, the Texas parole board rejected Saldivar’s parole petition a few days ago on March 27.
This is a most welcome move on their part as setting Selena’s murderer free so close to the anniversary of her death would have been an insult to her fans and loved ones, and above all else, her memory. Saldivar will again be eligible for parole in five years, and I hope that good sense prevails once again. She is to remain behind bars until her final breath.
Thirty years later, where might she have been:
Selena would have turned 54 years of age two weeks from now on April 16. I can envision a happy life where she would have been married with kids. By now, her kids would be grown with kids of their own, which would have made Selena a grandmother.
And with numerous album releases throughout the years, her career would likely have catapulted into mainstream success, the likes of which would have only been matched by the success of Beyonce. She might have eventually landed a couple of roles on daytime soaps, plus numerous film and television cameos.
Conclusion:
In closing, let me say that I am not fear mongering in any way, I am simply saying to be careful when dealing with strangers, and remember to keep those boundaries up. I give this true crime cautionary tale on trust and boundaries a four out of five double pepperoni thin crust pizzas.
Thank you all for reading, and I will see you on the next one.
Why does it seem like there are some who can do no wrong, while there are others who can do no right? It doesn’t matter if the accused is actually guilty any more than it matters whether the accuser is innocent. So then what really matters? What is the basis of deciding whether or not someone deserves punishment? Besides being wealthy, I think it has everything to do with the halo effect.
The halo effect is when someone is assumed to be inherently good based solely on their physical appearance. This doesn’t only apply when determining guilt or innocence, but is also present in social and romantic situations.
Several key features that add to the halo effect are; having an attractive facial symmetry, height, being in better shape, light or pale skin, straight or curly hair texture, speaking more intelligently (unless you are black), signs of youth regardless of age, owning clothes, cars and other accessories that symbolizes wealth or any combination of the above.
The opposite of the halo effect is the failo effect (popular among incels), where someone is assumed to be inherently evil, stupid, or somehow otherwise unworthy, based solely on physical aesthetics.
Several key features that add to the failo effect are having an ugly or otherwise offensive facial symmetry, lack of height, being overweight, having darker skin, a coarser hair texture, your gender, using more slang words out of context, male pattern baldness and signs of ageing regardless of age, wearing plain clothing or other accessories that symbolize poverty or frugality, or any combination of the above.
Any combination of the above is the problem that most incels face, because everything else could be on fleek, but his face is a deal breaker. And the irony of that whole situation is that it may not even be a bad face, just not an attractive one.
In other words, she would have otherwise found him to be quite handsome if she was not viewing him through a sexual lens. They always look for rigid jawlines and hunter eyes, and if he is lacking in those departments, then his handsomeness is not commonly viewed as masculine among groups of female admirers.
Female groups practice hive thinking. One of the girls may really like him, but she will reject him if her friends disapprove because her friends will reject her if she doesn’t.
If they don’t reject her then, they will allow her to become a liability and pull down their social value, and nothing matters more to them than social dominance. Sisterhood above personal likes and preferences. Most normies are too weak willed to reject the group for their own sense of individuality.
The worst part is that it’s not entirely the fault of the man in question. Sometimes it really only boils down to evolution and genetics, his luck of the draw so to speak.
Society believes that anyone who suffers from the failo effect is generally not deserving of anything worth having. As a result, one is forced to live in a constant state of entropy that is disproportionate to others as they face one brutal act of sabotage after another.
It is easier for them to railroad an innocent out of job opportunities, money and even his very freedom than it is to admit that they just don’t like him and leave him alone.
The halo effect is a problem because it gives a free pass for one to abuse another based solely on the way they look. As a result, it breeds entitlement, narcissism and mental disease that encourages others to join them in persecuting an innocent.
Racism like all forms of prejudice was born out of the halo effect, and the persecution it breeds doesn’t work without the consent of all of society, which explains why no one rushes to the aid of the innocent in question. Not only that, but most normies fear that they too will come under attack if they ever try to defend you, so they’re just glad the heat is off them.
Most normies who are lacking in the looks department end up becoming douchebags in order to get laid. If you are not willing to douchemaxx to get ahead, then welcome to my blog. You’ve come to the right place.
People are shallow. People are racist. This is a very sobering and objective truth. It seems like your only two options now are to either hit the gym and stack your paper to improve your own life as a priority, or become a minimalist doomer living in your mother’s basement until you croak.
The road ahead is very long and lonely, and is not the type of journey for extraverted normies to concern themselves with. The toughest battles are given to the most capable soldiers. Please see my article about the power of solitude.
If a plane goes even 1 mile outside of its designated parameter, it’s far off course, and it’s hard to get back on. The same is true for friend groups that’s wrong for you, or even family for that matter.
Two’s company and three’s a crowd. A wise man once told me that if you give the devil a ride, he’s going to want to drive.
Say for instance, you were born into a family of attorneys. Your father is a lawyer, your grandfather is a lawyer, and his father before him was a lawyer. For the entirety of your life so far, you have been told that you must follow in their footsteps. You go along to get along even though you have always wanted to be a singer.
Legal papers may bore you, but music is your passion. If you don’t break free from among them and take a plunge into the deep blue waters to do some soul searching and seek truth, you will go on believing that law is your passion.
This would have been most unfortunate because not only have you missed your true calling, but doing so has caused a ripple effect that led to a brain drain in your preferred industry. You could have been the single greatest vocalist of all time. But now, you have allowed someone less deserving to steal your destiny because you think you’re supposed to be an attorney.
Likewise, over on the wrong side of the tracks, you always wanted to be an attorney. You tell your family and some of your neighbors out of naivety, hoping they would encourage you. Not only do they not support you, but they actually call you a divestor because they all collectively have a crab in a bucket mentality.
In order for you to get along, you foolishly turn down a scholarship to study abroad just so you can fit the mold for society’s expectation of you. Five years later, you are now a single mother of four with no man in the damn house, flipping burgers for a living. All your old school mates are living the dream, while you can’t even find the time to pick up a book after work.
Not only do you not know who you are, but the legal profession has also suffered a brain drain. You could have been the most legendary attorney of all time, but now an innocent man being railroaded by the system will lose his case and get sent to the chair because you missed your calling. That condemned man could have gone on to father a son who would’ve found the cure for cancer, but that will never happen now either, and on and on it goes.
It also doesn’t help that it’s difficult to break out of certain mental conditioning. Once you’re off course, it’s hard to get back on, and it usually takes something truly drastic taking place in your life in order to snap you out of it.
But before that drastic thing happens, you can choose to take a plunge into the deep blue waters and do some soul searching. What does that look like? It could look like many things, but whatever shape it assumes, solitude is definitely at its core.
When you shut out the useless noise and clutter, your brain starts talking, and when your brain finally shuts up, your heart starts talking. That’s usually when you remember what you wanted to do when you were fourteen, and still living at home with no responsibilities.
Solitude can be brutal, especially if you are an extravert, but even if you are not. It is when you are truly alone with no distractions that all the mistakes of your life will flash before your eyes. But it is also when you will discover who you really are.
Before that, you were seeing yourself through the lens of other people’s perceptions of you, but those perceptions are skewed based on their own biases and subjectivities. If you want to get an unbiased, objective perspective of yourself, you must be willing to enter your isolation arc.
Not only should you be willing, but also prepared to face whatever you will discover, because all of your life choices and mistakes might hit you like a ton of bricks. It could get pretty intense. You are not going to have any support, you will only have yourself.
If you are looking for some kind of higher power to be there for you to lean on in those moments, maybe you’re not ready for this. Your isolation arc might even reveal that the higher power in question is not really what you thought it was, but that topic deserves its own article. The bottom line is that the isolation arc is going to screw you raw with no lube, there is no buffer for this.
But once you are done, your covert enemies will be exposed for what they truly are, and it will then become clear to you exactly why they are your enemies. Most importantly, you will never make another decision out of fear, which means that no one will ever be able to manipulate you. After that, you will essentially become a whole new person, and your trajectory for the future will be back on course. It’s going to be a beautiful day.
In last week’s article, I speculated on the next four years under Trump as well as outlined my expectations from his administration. But one of the topics I did not touch is the expected end of the welfare state, and how it would affect those who depend upon it.
This will of course take place in stages as they gradually cut social services one by one. Its impact on the economy will be negative to say the least, as those who depend on those services will become displaced. However, hard as it is to accept, ending the welfare state is a clear step in the right direction.
First of all, social services have for many decades served as a bridge to help get needy families out of poverty. The grassroots of the welfare state took place sometime circa 1968 during the Johnson administration. That was when planned parenthood programs initially took effect, and disproportionately targeted African-American communities in comparison to other ethnic groups at the time.
The main requirement for planned parenthood was to be the head of household as a single mother. Many black women at the time felt pressured to kick their man out the house in favor of a welfare check, and as a result of that, many black boys grew up without a strong father figure in the house.
This dependency mindset is particularly dangerous because it encourages dependency on a system that at any given moment can decide to starve them out. Not only that, but many rules were put in place that limits their sovereignty and autonomy under section 8 housing, similar to what one would expect in communist Cuba under Castro.
It’s one thing to temporarily use social services as a stepping stone to get ahead in life, and quite another to permanently rely on them. For some, finding their usual spot in the food stamp line every Monday morning is their chosen field, and it is revolting. They are making it bad for those who are actually making use of the opportunity, all while playing right into the hands of the racist, entitled, misandric, communist left who wants to keep them docile and dependent.
The idea of socialism is that the citizen surrenders his sovereign rights and civil liberties in favor of government handouts. The pro is that he receives the very basics of food, clothes and shelter. But what if those basic needs are met at the expense of some higher purpose?
Almost like how talk show hosts on commercial radio would rather waste precious airtime to distract you with useless banter when they could have been discussing existentialism and how it could impact your ultimate destiny. The con is that they control too much of your life. The likelihood of missing your destiny is much higher, and to add insult to injury they only provide you with a limited supply under the pretext that they have many mouths to feed.
We see examples of this in Cuba where food is rationed to one loaf of bread per week, per household. In 1970’s Jamaica where grocery items (often incompatible) were married to each other as bundle deals, and the government controlled the retail price. And finally in 1980’s China where entire families got evicted from welfare camps if they had more than one child per household.
Capitalism on the other hand allows for the individual to be more responsible in his pursuit of happiness. Though social services are available for those who need it, the onus is on the individual to decide how he would rather eke out a living. Preferably, he would do so by honing his passion, but not everyone is willing to commit to finding out what that even is, which is exactly the point. They don’t have to do any kind of soul searching if they don’t want to. They don’t have to do anything.
The pro of capitalism is that you retain most of your civil liberties, but the con is that the free market is highly competitive. For that reason alone, you will likely fall through the cracks of society if you don’t figure it out, and do so quickly.
Your landlord is practicing a form of capitalism when he raises the rent, and your employer is practicing the same form of capitalism when he cuts your hours so you can barely make rent this month. That specific form of capitalism is very vampirical by nature and requires you to bleed in order for others to eat. That is the kind of capitalism that everyone has a fucking problem with, but capitalism in and of itself is not inherently bad.
It is the very system that this great republic was founded upon back in 1776, that allows for someone who was born in poverty to change their lot in life.
The same capitalist free market that allows your employer and landlord to abuse you, also allows you to invent something truly life changing and register the patent for it. But you have got to stop doing a job and actually start working if you don’t want others to suck you dry. Socialism allows you to survive, and Capitalism allows you to thrive.
Is it really worth sacrificing long term goals for short term gain?
On January 20th, 2025, history was made when Donald J. Trump was inaugurated as the 47 president of the United States, thus making him the first two term president who has a gap in between terms.
This is a most welcome change to the presidency, because it has been four years since this country has seen any real leadership. Now that the gross incompetence of the Biden administration is in our rear view mirror, what could Trump’s second term mean for the future of America, and the world at large. In this article, I will attempt to predict, or speculate on the next four years under Trump.
First of all, what I admire about Trump is his swift and decisive ability to make a decision without apology. The best example of that was Friday afternoon when he along with Vice President Vance hosted the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the white house.
Trump made an example out of Zelenskyy after he wasted Trump’s valuable time by declining a cease fire intervention from the Trump administration. Zelenskyy was then essentially kicked out of the white house, and offered the opportunity to return once he decides what he wants to do going forward.
Zelenskyy will now have to go home empty handed as the bloodshed that’s currently taking place on his soil continues on his watch. This will make Zelenskyy less favorable in the eyes of the Ukrainian electorate, who will likely not re-elect him.
This latest episode is among the earliest signs of what to expect under the second Trump administration. We have already seen ICE raids being played out all across the country since the end of January, and more to come. Or did you really think that the raids have stopped just because the mainstream media have stopped talking about it around the clock?
Truth be told, very few immigrants come to this country with the best intentions, myself being one of them. You would think that most immigrants would be grateful for the opportunity to come over here, and do so with the intent of starting a business, purchasing a home, then eventually raise a family and help to uplift their community.
But no, most immigrants come over here with a cutthroat ghetto mentality to get a normie job and sabotage their colleagues at work. This is not a socio-economic issue, but rather, it is an issue of character.
If someone had a bad character right from the jump, giving them resources they never had won’t improve their character, but will only further enable them. Having stronger border protection won’t completely eradicate this nuisance, but it will drastically reduce the possibility of inviting more degenerates to come over here. We already have enough of our own problems as it is, and the push to end birthright citizenship is only the first step in the right direction.
Meanwhile, the donkeys over in the entitled madhouse to the left seem to get the impression that your interest in securing your borders and bringing all the American jobs back home somehow makes you a racist. Why? Because they can’t get a bunch of freebies anymore? The devil with all of them. Let them take a plunge into the deep blue waters and figure it out for themselves.
During a time when I thought I was one of them, it was only because I was genuinely scared of what I may have had to go through to get to where I wanted to go. But now that I am certain that pain is inevitable, I am more than willing to be fearless in stating how I have always felt. If they were smart, they would use that pain to mold them into who they were always destined to become. They’ll be alright. Or will they?
Trump represents capitalism, the first real capitalism that we’ve had in this country since the Reagan presidency. None of the Bushes were able to achieve that level of capitalism, and it is our duty as Americans to help Trump bring back the free market of the 80’s, where a guy was free to make a buck from doing what he loves versus what he feels he must.
But before we can get there, we must first weed out the mental illness that has taken over the status quo and tried to normalize itself within society.
It is filled with a special kind of envy, malice and entitlement so deep that it blinds all logic and reason. It is a disease, and it must be eradicated. This is not just about ethnic cleansing, but really more about preserving the way capitalism was truly meant to be.
However, no one is coming to save you. The single role of government within a democracy is to secure the unalienable rights of we the people. It is ultimately up to you to use that liberty to pursue happiness. Read, listen, study, journal, network if you must, but then finally take the necessary first step in order to get ahead.
Answer the call. Choose the right side of history. This is a fight for the future.
Welcome back to The Buckinchere Transcendence. Here on this blog site, I have started a new feature where I will be reviewing books, short stories and other forms of popular culture on the last Sunday of each month, and I am pleased to announce that this is my first review for the year.
It covers a 2003 episode of the Twilight Zone revival mini-series titled, “Another Life,” that features a successful rapper whose happy life is constantly interrupted with visions of a brutal police interrogation where he stands accused of murder. Spoilers are ahead, so I recommend that you watch the episode first before reading this review. With that said, let’s begin.
The Twilight Zone was an American anthology series that ran for five seasons between 1959 and 1964. It was created by Rod Serling who was also the presenter of each episode. The series tackled many social issues of that time, such as greed, prejudice and power, and never failed to deliver without a hint of social commentary.
After five seasons, and 156 episodes, the original series ended in 1964, but there has since been three revivals, and one 1983 feature film, none of which strayed from the original mantra of the series. The episode that will be featured today was episode 26 from the second revival, hosted by Forest Whitaker. It premiered on February 5, 2003, written by Amir Mann and Brent V. Friedman, and starred Wood Harris as Marvin the tormented rapper.
The Plot:
Marvin Gardens had the perfect life. He had the perfect home, a loving wife (Kimberly Elise), and he was a celebrated hip-hop artist, renowned by all. However, very early into the episode, we see that Marvin’s picture perfect life begins to crumble as he becomes haunted with visions of a brutal police interrogation where he stands accused of murdering a police officer.
The police officers savagely assault Marvin in hopes of getting a confession out of him regarding the whereabouts of the murder weapon. A female officer at the scene pleads with him to make it easier on himself by confessing, but Marvin maintains his innocence, and insists that he is a successful rapper, much to the ridicule of the male officers.
They tell him that his name is Dwayne Grant, and that he lives in the projects with his sister and their single mother. Meanwhile in another life, Marvin’s visions are affecting his work and his relationships, and people are starting to notice.
Fearing bad publicity, his wife Jasmine suggests that he sees a psychiatrist (Brian Markinson) who suggests that Marvin’s visions are rooted in repressed memories from his past. Marvin gets belligerent and berates Dr. Sinclair, stating that he worked hard to get to where he is at, and he doesn’t need any phony pills to tell him who he is, and that is when Sinclair morphs into one of the interrogating officers in the holding room as Marvin goes into another vision.
The visions gradually become more dominant, and it is soon revealed Marvin’s life as a successful rapper is actually a fantasy, and the interrogating officers’ account of him living in the projects is the sad reality of his existence. The police caught the actual killer, but only after they had already beaten Dwayne unconscious.
The female officer goes to his aid, and discovers some rap lyrics that Dwayne scribbled on a piece of tissue. She is also revealed to have fulfilled the role of Marvin’s wife in Dwayne’s fantasy.
Analysis:
It appears that Dwayne was in an intense state of shock during the interrogation, a shock so great that in order to escape, his mind conjured up a powerful fantasy based on his single greatest dream, which is to become a rapper. He also managed to rework the attractive female officer to play the role of his wife in the fantasy, based on her compassionate nature, and her sympathy towards him.
This is similar to the Joker movie of 2019, where Phoenix’s joker in that film fantasized about being in a relationship with his neighbor Sophie (Zazie Beetz), and enjoyed the thought of her playing a supportive role surrounding his dream of being a stand-up comedian, and laughing at all his jokes. In both instances, the fantasies of Dwayne and the joker became so intense, that it blurred the lines between fantasy and reality.
A man who fantasizes that a woman who he does not know is his wife, and especially one who is on the opposite end of a power balance is usually deprived of love, as this is a clear sign of desperation. This suggests that Dwayne may have been involuntarily celibate as Phoenix’s joker was in the 2019 film.
Though it caused a great deal of confusion for Dwayne and the interrogating officers, the fantasy may have actually saved Dwayne, rather than harm him, because he might have snapped and gone mad without it. By delving deep into his fantasy of a perfect life, Marvin was able to save his dream by saving his sanity. In that moment, survival was his only objective, and he had to do whatever it took in order to make it to a place of safety.
Personal Takeaway:
I first saw that episode in 2013 while living in a Brooklyn ghetto, somehow managing to survive between jobs while thinking about moving out to LA. The main character of the episode was very relatable to me at the time, due to the fact that we are both black men trying to make it out of a situation to where we would then be able to live out our dreams.
I found the episode to be very touching, particularly because it made me realize that there is a thin line between existing in a living nightmare, and living the life of your dreams. On the other side of all your fears, doubts and anxieties is everything you could ever possibly dream of. I recently re-watched the episode one Sunday night on the eve of my book release, and found the episode to be every bit as touching and relatable as ever before.
In addition to Raven Leilani’s Luster novel, this Twilight Zone episode is every bit as much to be commended for me following my dreams and becoming an author. I give this one a 5 out of 5 record albums, and I hope to see you on the next one. Thanks for reading!
Over the past ten years, humanity has become increasingly more hostile and competitive than ever before. There is no doubt that there has been a shift in the collective consciousness of the planet. It wasn’t always like this, so then what could have happened to drive the collective of humanity to this level of depravity?
There was once a time when evil acts would be committed in secrecy, the perpetrators being extremely careful for fear of being exposed. Even if one was a practitioner of evil, there were still elements of shame and respect involved. But today however, all that shame and respect has gone out the window, and evil is on full display.
People today are even bold enough to stalk and harass those whom they despise. When in fact, wouldn’t it make better sense to avoid the people you hate? After all, that’s what normal people do. And that is not to say that hidden malevolence was better. In fact, it granted them some extra time to do long-term damage insidiously. But at least they weren’t so damned obnoxious with it.
Humanity has always been capable of grave acts of depravity, but never has it been as bad as it has gotten over the past ten years. The world is getting more and more wicked with each passing year, and it is only going to get worse over time. But what’s really happening though?
I theorize that the planet is going through an intense period of transformation, the likes of which is unprecedented throughout much of human history, and that this transformation is largely attributed to the dawning of the age of Aquarius.
The last two thousand years saw us going through the age of Pisces, an age of religious dogma, therefore an age of fantasy, and an age of ignorance and superstition, the dark ages of humanity. Ironic how much of feudalism played out during the age of Pisces, and to some extent, I feel like we are still living in the dark ages in comparison to where we should have been by now.
But in fact, I feel like we are also waking up to the reality of our human potential. Who needs some god or man to rule over us, when we can do for ourselves? This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius, an age of ingenuity, an age of artisanship, an age of innovation and creativity. Gone are the sleepy, ignorant days of the age of Pisces. We’re moving into an era where infrastructure is built to last, and the moment we can provide for our own safety and sustainability, “you’re fired!”
People who benefit from our ignorance are aware that they will become obsolete, unless they do everything within their grasp to keep us in a state of ignorance, and do so quickly. So a lot of the chaos in the world is attributed to them stepping up their game, trying to gaslight each other into believing that one is more superior, and that one will not survive without the other. This is of course all in a bid to secure their relevance because they know their time is up.
Astrologers are not certain of the actual year that the age of Aquarius will begin, but having given us a range of years between 1447 and 2150, they speculate that it may have already begun, or may begin at any point over the next 150 years.
Although the world started descending into a state of chaos around 2017, the peak of human depravity was seen in 2020 during the pandemic and the George Floyd protests, the lowest point of humanity thus far, but still not the absolute worst, oh no. That day is yet to come.
If 2020 was not the beginning of the age of Aquarius, it definitely marked the beginning of the end of the age of Pisces, and humanity will continue to slowly descend into depravity for the foreseeable future, until we have completely transitioned over into the new age.
This process is necessary to weed out those who are still stuck with the notion that you should work till you drop, just so you’d be able to afford useless junk to impress people who don’t like you. When in fact, the age of Aquarius will be an age of ingenuity and creativity, building things with long-term benefits that serve others, building things that last.
What’s happening now may be necessary to weed out those who are obsessed with power and status, but once the separation process is complete, it will be well worth it. What we can do is to be an example to help encourage others to join us in helping to move things along a bit more smoothly.
We can cope with arts and the humanities as most of human civilization had before during times of trial and change, this is nothing new. Although we must remain patient and trust the process, we can pace ourselves in how we discover our own purpose in the storm, this is why I write.
Finally, if the process will truly be completed in 2150 as predicted, then none of us will live to see the completion of the transition, but we can choose to create a legacy that will allow for history to remember us favorably.