Done.

Escaped Wage Slave is on hold.

Writing once relieved my anguish, now it enhances it. I'm yelling into a void.

I'm terribly lonely, sad and depressed.  I'll just remove myself further from the scene.  I have nothing new to write. Perhaps I'll come back writing about fluffy clouds, singing birds and butterflies. But the clouds will be man-made, the birds won't be singing but complaining about the cell tower and all the butterflies will be dead.

There is no one in my life that doesn't have Stockholm Syndrome or happily tolerating their oppression.  No one to talk to, all by myself... as the song goes. My disappointment in my fellow citizens is profound.  They don't deserve my company.  I wonder how they walk without a backbone.

I'll be cancelling the internet connection subscription and use the $80 a month to buy books.  Real paper books. The amount of deceit and manipulation on the Web is greater than TV.  People love it.  I haven't been getting along with people since the advent of the Smart Phone.  That device magnified gossip and robbed people of their personality. Do people have personality anymore?  Mine isn't wanted.

It's time to cleanse the soul, ask forgiveness for my transgressions and work on forgiving those with such ignorance and arrogance.  I sure hope the Second Coming happens because a comforting story is all I have to hang my hat on. My Going will happen soon, I will make it as natural and peaceful  as I can unless I am violated by a needle. Then something will burn down and suicide-by-cop may be an option.

Thank you all for visiting my site.

Wes

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Wesley says... 052

1) Mask wearers: Intelligent people don't eat their own shit. You exhale for a reason.

2) In a real pandemic one wouldn't need a 'test'.

3) What was all that kerfluffle about the burkha, Hilary? It seems women want to cover their face.

4) These days I feel like Howard in Counterpart, the nervous undercover Howard in the Other World.

5) Women are the negative pole of society.  Generally, of course... not, you know who... emogie... emogie... emogie... xxxoo

6) How can there be a dentist in Paradise?

7) Why such attention on the minuscule?

8) I'm beginning to realize the need for competition in society.  Those official Led Zepplin at the Chgo Stadium t-shirts 1978 were green ribbons of participation.

9) Dan Rather was 150 feet from the Kennedy Assassination, never told what he saw. MacNeil was in Dealey Plaza, Bill O'Reilly, too. Nobody saw nothing. Listened to these reporters for years.

10) This will be the last post of Escaped Wage Slave until I get three responses from people I know.

10 days.

DLTBGYD* II

DON'T LET THE BASTARDS GRIND YOU DOWN

"[They] were not fighting this perpetual war for victory, they were fighting to keep a state of emergency always present as the surest guarantee of authoritarianism."- George Orwell, 1984

This country is on a razor's edge. There will be an explosion or implosion, which may be worse. The course will be made day by day, solutions to large public problems pointed at society's structures seem so lame. As much as "throwing money" at a problem is degraded that is exactly what we do with hurricanes or financial meltdowns. Of course, getting the money out of the working persons' hide must happen first before the throwing can begin.

What is happening now is a squeezing by higher forces of our bank accounts, our integrity and our balanced mental make-ups. In the economic world, very little comfort exists for any but the elite and it forebodes to get worse. In our daily lives we are assaulted by news and observations of corruption and our emotional and interpersonal relationships deteriorate as these destructive instances invade a happier life. It takes an incredible amount of awareness, self and worldly, to be on top and ahead of depression in all its forms.

Your job (if you have one) stinks. Your spouse is a louse. Your pension plan is swirling down Wall Street's toilet. Getting older, unappreciated and peace seems like such a fantastic prospect. Where do you go from here? I'd suggest to be thankful for the roof that is, hopefully, over your head every night. To be grateful for the state of health, hopefully well, that you are in today. And to tell any loved ones that, hopefully you be with, their importance in your life. It's absolutely essential to train your mind to see the wonder of the world around you and negate the misery so prevalent today with honesty and empathy. If any tools of kindness are available its' time to use them.

first published September 16, 2018

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RESISTANCE III

  

RESISTANCE

THERE IS RESISTANCE IN THE AIR

IT MAKES MY WORDS FALL TO THE FLOOR

HALFWAY TO THE RECIPIENT

TO GET THE RESPONSE, "OH, REALLY?"

THERE IS RESISTANCE IN THE AIR

WHEN MY REQUEST IS MET WITH, "YOU NEED THIS."

I STATE WHAT I WANT 

AND I GET WHAT I GET

THERE IS RESISTANCE IN THE AIR

PUT IN MY PLACE AT THE END OF THE LINE

DRIVING ME INTO MY MIND

WHEN CONVERSATION BECOMES A REASON TO TALK

THERE IS RESISTANCE IN THE AIR

WHEN FIVE WORDS ARE SAID BEFORE INTERRUPTION

AND CORRECTION

NO MATTER WHAT I SAY

RESISTANCE IS IN THE AIR

MY WORDS SPIRAL OUT CLOCKWISE INTO DECREASING RINGS

TO A POINT HALFWAY

THEN REVERSE INTO A LARGER SPIRAL INTO THE EAR

AND  HEARD AS THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF MY INTENTION

THERE IS RESISTANCE IN THE AIR

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first published May 14, 2019

Crazy and Fat

Progressive white women are crazy because the left makes them that way

By Andrea Widburg

One of the things I couldn’t help but notice during the BLM protests last year was the fact that deeply distraught, hysterically angry white women seemed to be taking the lead in many of the protests. It turns out that I may have been on to something. A women’s publication called Evie has caught up with the fact that a study from last year found that over half of white, Democrat women have been diagnosed at one time or another with a mental health problem. I’m not at all surprised.

To quote myself, in July, after sharing several videos of crazed white women during the height of the BLM marches, I wrote:

The root problem is that these women are receiving mixed messages that would make even the strongest person go crazy. Beginning in high school, or even earlier, they're told endlessly that they're both victim and oppressor.

These mixed messages make straight white girls distinct from other students. White boys are told they're evil, toxic oppressors of both women and minorities. It's an ugly message, but a consistent one. Boys lucky enough to have countervailing influences shake it off and become the men they should be. The boys who don't have better influences, interestingly enough, become feminized, even if they're not gay, as if trying to escape that awful toxic masculinity.

Meanwhile, everyone who is non-white and/or non-straight, whether male or female, or something else, is told that he, she, or it is a victim. White privilege, racism, homophobia, transgenderism, misogyny — all of them define how non-white and/or non-straight people suffer endlessly at the hands of straight whites.

And then there are the straight, white girls. On the one hand, they're...well, white and straight. That means they are evil oppressors who have benefited unfairly from white privilege. In the morality play that is leftism, they owe the world big-time. On the other hand, they're women, which means men have victimized them from time immemorial to the present.

It’s not just the BLM phenomenon that highlighted crazy women in the past year. COVID took revealed numerous white women who were incapable of staying silent if people didn’t wear masks. (See here and here.) These white women were the ones who acted as the voluntary civilian brigade to enforce every jot and tittle of the new fascists’ lock-up and mask dictums. They enjoyed their power and were obnoxious all over America.

It turns out that I was on to something. The article in Evie notes that a Pew Research study has found that more than 50% of white women who identify as politically “liberal” (or, as I more accurately say, “leftist”) have some form of mental health problem. What makes the article interesting is that, after noting real hormonal issues (periods, post-partum depression) and women’s propensity for depression, it got to the nitty-gritty, which is that leftist women’s mental health issues transcend merely biology:

The study, which examined white liberals, moderates, and conservatives, both male and female, found that conservatives were far less likely to be diagnosed with mental health issues than those who identified as either liberal or even “very liberal.” What’s more, white women suffered the worst of all. White women, ages 18-29, who identified as liberal were given a mental health diagnosis from medical professionals at a rate of 56.3%, as compared to 28.4% in moderates and 27.3% in conservatives.

And then, showing that Evie is not your ordinary hard-left women’s magazine, the article points its finger at Progressivism itself:

But at the heart of the matter is this: Progressivism is an ideology that supposedly demands equality for all, and one that keeps score to an exhausting degree. The privilege between social classes, between races, between men and women, between religious and non-religious, and more, all have to be constantly monitored, and “inequality” has to be exposed for the purposes of “accountability.” That kind of behavior isn’t just unrealistic, it’s unsustainable. In all honesty, it’s understandable that anxiety and depression thrive in these kinds of environments when we’re focusing on every minute, problematic issue in our world and not able to take comprehensive, productive action to solve all these problems.

I’ll throw in one more factor, which is leftist white women’s college attendance. Colleges today are disproportionately female, making normal male-female relationships unusual. In addition, as I noticed when I took my daughter to college a few years ago, the colleges seem deliberately structured to make young women crazy. Certainly, many of the cheerful, normal young women I met her freshman year were angry, neurotic harridans by senior year.

If you can’t keep your daughter from attending college, at least try to get her to join Turning Point or some other campus conservative group. Her life will be much happier.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/04/progressive_white_women_are_crazy_because_the_left_makes_them_that_way.html

Wesley says... 051

1) Noah, you experienced a flood on a spinning ball.  Please explain.

2) The birds like listening to my guitar 432. I like listening to birds. Loons are generally a great listening audience when they are not under water.

3) Where do the snowmobile tracks on the lake go when the ice melts?

4) I am all for the extermination of Amalek haters.

5) Rails against Genetically Modified Organisms - turn on a dime - then insist I need to take a DNA altering serum. Another bar conversation gone sour.

6) Whenever I hear someone say to me "There you go." I hear, "You go now." Isn't "Here we are" better?

7) Everyone should be biracial and gay.  Discuss among yourselves.

8) This country has given up one of the greatest joys a human being can experience - the making of joyous music together.  The development of musical talent. The deep heart connection to your surroundings. Just gave it up.

9) United Airlines is going to use diversity guidelines in the future. Everyone knows Korean lesbians make the best pilots.

10) Go with your gut instinct.

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Where are the Men?

Where are the men?

By Chris Boland

In March 1964, the New York Times reported that dozens of people heard the anguished cries of 29-year-old Kitty Genovese as she was raped and murdered outside her Queens, New York, apartment but they did nothing. The Times was lying. The lie worked, though, because we’ve also seen things happen when people should have intervened to stop something but refrained. Now, thanks to ubiquitous smartphones, we’re seeing that, in 2021, there’s an epidemic of passive Americans watching tragedy strike.

Many of us have seen recent videos in which something terrible happens and bystanders capture the event on an iPhone or other devices. The carjacking of an Uber driver, and his subsequent death at the hands of two teenage girls in DC, the vicious beating of an Asian man on a New York subway, and the ghastly assault of an elderly Asian woman in New York – all have shocked the senses of a country nearly numb from a constant stream of appalling images.

These events have several things in common: They take place in public spaces, are witnessed by other people, and are recorded on digital devices. The most important thing these events have in common is that no one stepped up to stop the aggressor. In all three events, people watched as an innocent person was savagely attacked and no one lifted a finger to intercede, except to lift their phones and hit “record.”

In 1964, believing the Times to be truthful, the public was outraged that a young woman could be raped and murdered within earshot of dozens of her neighbors and no one would come to her assistance. Now we view a video of naked violence without pausing to consider who recorded it and why? Who was present? Where is the outrage? Where were the men?

There are myriad explanations for why men are impotent in these situations. It could be that men are less virile, as is evident in falling testosterone levels. It could be fear of litigation; of being sued by the criminal. It could be the absence of actual empathy, from real human contact, as opposed to “virtual” empathy, gained from watching digital media. It could be simple fear.Portland Wokies Target Treesfor Racism

Perhaps it is none of the things listed above; perhaps it is something deeper and much more damaging. Maybe we have lost sight of Truth; the idea that there is a universal right and wrong. Instead of a shared concept of good and evil, we now have billions of individual worlds of relativity. Each of us constructs a reality not based on good and evil, but rather on a spectrum ranging from pleasant to unpleasant.

When we see a fellow passenger on the subway savagely beaten, we find it unpleasant and hit record to share the unpleasantness with others. When we see two girls carjacking an uber driver we record the unpleasantness for our Twitter followers. When we see an elderly woman beaten to the pavement and kicked in the head, we have more unpleasantness to post on Facebook.

Men, in these situations, should not post on Facebook or Twitter. They should not be recording at all. Men should be acting. Men should know what is good and what is evil and act accordingly. But in a virtual and relative world, men do not act; they experience and share those experiences via a post to social media. It is as if the act of recording and posting the videos is to form a consensus on the unpleasantness of the event and to develop a sense of outrage. But outrage is feeling, not an action.

There is a theory in moral philosophy, emotivism, which proposes that moral claims within a statement can be reduced to the expression of feelings; that there is no moral value outside of how an individual feels. When we witness an act of evil in the emotivism framework, the nature of the evil is reduced to a feeling and the imperative to act is obscured. This explains why we see evil acts perpetrated in the presence of passive men who do nothing to intercede.

Emotivism blends well with our contemporary culture. Woke-ism and emotivism combine to define a culture devoid of moral imperatives based on good and evil, and instead only require a consensus of feelings. Thus, we can burn down businesses in dozens of cities when a police officer kills a (former) felon by holding his knee to the suspect's shoulder blades because we have formed a consensus of outrage. The murder of the Uber driver, the beatings of the Asian man on the subway, and the beating of the Asian woman on the street lack consensus, and therefore no action is required.

Men do not step up because they no longer recognize good and evil. The men are still around us, but they have been emasculated by their feelings.

Chris Boland can be reached at cboland7@outlook.com.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/04/where_are_the_men.html

Bff Report ...011: Reborn B'Je'Bus*

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-footed_ferret

Black-footed Ferret Reports: 

Dispatch 11 from DumbFuck Nation, United States of Absurdia

I woke early Easter on the top of the world, literally, but my spirit was in the dumpster. I tried to re-create my prayer time by the bench down the trail, but it was colder and windier.  I meditated a bit, stretched a bit, took in the fresh air which I am always grateful.  I was going to stick around long enough to see if Julian, the guitar playing custodian would show up, but I was kidding myself.  I was dying for a human connection. New Mexico wasn't going to pay double-time and I got the sense he wouldn't take it and skip Mass.

New Mexico calls it self the 'Enchanted State', as if the people are under a spell.  I can see the magical nature of the place, I can see the controlled minds of the people that live there.  The bat shit bossy female Governor and her combined surveillance and warning system, nothing magic about it.  Her creepy 1984 diktats come on your car radio with beeps and buzzers, your cell phone receives a scary text at the same time.  And she reminds everyone, "We are under 'lock-down' (a prison term).  Like it all, now is commonplace and accepted to use 'lock-down'. The population is mind controlled, under a spell, not doing anything for their own benefit. Sitting in a sunny prison.

I enjoyed the Seven Gorges Bridge perhaps because I knew I would never return. My original intent for departing was to look for a property to buy and the two of us could live happily ever after not in a prison like California.  No point in moving to another prison.  In my real estate search, scratching the surface, Taos NM was beyond our budget anyway. It's a fancy poor town. And I didn't bump into Miles Mathis, either.

I burned some gas going through Sante Fe and Albuquerque, all was quiet. The churches were closed and it pissed me off just on principle.  Freedom of religion and assembly could stop this suicidal insanity, yet the preachers and the priests are in on it or cowards. The State cancelled Easter. Sad.

I stopped to get gas and use the facilities.  On the way into the store standing by the front door was a younger Native American. I could tell he was chilled to the bone, you know the look. I said Hello and took care of business. On the way out he says, "Are you going to Gallup, can I catch a ride?" I took a long look, he was a large man, easy 250 lbs.  He had on a t-shirt, shorts and canvas sailing shoes. And he was frozen to the bone, shivering.

"Sure. You are not going to take me out to the desert and kill me, are you?"

"No.", said in the humblest way possible.  He followed me closely out to the pump not in a threatening way, but of thankfulness.  He was standing at that spot quite a while.

"What day is it?" "Easter Sunday", I reply.

"I spent the night in the desert", he says. "And the night before in jail. I want to get back to the Res."

"Jail is no place to be.", I responded.

While the gas was filling, I had to rearrange a bit to slide the passenger seat back. After he got in I found a folded wool blanket in the back of the van and threw it on his lap. I received a puzzled expression.

We took off West I 40 and I turned the heat up Hi. The blanket never moved on his lap and we rode in silence for most of an hour. Now I think maybe he thought I put typhus in the blanket.

A lightly used Exit somewhere in West NM, he gives me about a three second lead time. "I'll get out here." I step on the brakes and careen up the ramp. Hands me the blanket, and I make him shake my hand. Didn't seem to be his custom. He gets out of the van, waves and starts walking North down a, truly, deserted road. I watched him for while, then down the ramp West intending to make this existence work.

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https://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2021/03/bff-report-010-this-time-poland-wins.html

https://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/09/bff-report-09-resigned.html

https://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/08/bff-reports-08-sick-and-tired.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/08/bff-reports-007-wall.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/08/bff-reports-006-earnest-tubb-lives_13.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/08/bff-reports-005-cure.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/04/bff-reports-004-hand-shake.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/04/bff-reports-003-rest-stop.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/04/bff-reports-002-silence.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/04/bff-report-001.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/04/black-footed-ferret.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/04/head-for-hills.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/04/announcement.html

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Wesley says ... 050

1) If there is a woman in the room, you are in Cancel Culture.

2) The black fatherless household is easy to explain when you understand a black woman is impossible to be around.  Ask her 9 year old son.

3) You fuckers went socially insane and I don't mingle well.

4) Wearing a mask is some weird, Hey Look At Me! thing, when you don't even get recognized.  I've grown to ignore them. No Christmas card from me. No, no, no.

5) So, you are going to take a shot of a non-FDA approved, experimental gene altering and blood clot inducing serum. Why? Tell me again?

6) You give your heart away you get pain.

7) I'm tired of the I Don't Know defense. It's hard to have a conversation.

8) Lee Harvey Oswald was a crisis actor.

9) 900 black Americans shoot 900 other black Americans annually in the City of Chicago alone and I am a white supremacist, a hateful person of European descent?  No connectie.. no makiesenseee...

10) I am drunk and alone, which is the best part of being drunk and alone.

Pitch y Catchee 2021... 10*

... miss him... miss him...

The three mile jaunt escaping westbound – we found the lake earlier – ended at a crowded bus stop on the corner of Addison and Western. We only had to look forward to a 20 mile bus ride and 154 stops, but no buses were coming. The semi-adult too grown Cub Scouts/wannabe Eagle Scouts, Cub Fans, went ‘Eggplant’, as the Japanese say. Americans say, ‘Nuts’. Miles around the BubbleGum factory was chaos. We waited in line at the bus stop, 20 back.

A 53 year recollection seems to remember a quick game played. We were there leaning against the whitewashed cinder block, could have been a hot dog stand, could have been a dry cleaner, could have been both at the same time. A non-descript small business on the major thoroughfare.

I took a notice of Lane Tech High School across the street. I wandered over to take a look, we had time. We didn’t have schools like this in Mount Greenwood Heights were we were from. Lane was the premier vocational school for electronics, radio, etc. It was a beautiful structure and campus. The Chicago Public Schools had Lindbloom on the Southside, specializing in carpentry and CVS – alumni of Dick Butkus, Ray Scott and Pat Gregerson, or for those not from the Eastside, a.k.a. Chicago Vocational School. Near the steel mills CVS stressed mechanical, lathe, design, auto mechanics. My uncles got there WW II GI bill college diploma in engineering night classing from CVS and it was well respected. There was a time education had a purpose.

I come back to find Frankie so agitated, so hysterical laughing and spitting, he couldn’t even tell me what happened. I pieced the story together. The guy several spots down in the queue was what we, as twelve year olds 1969 knew as a ‘bum’. He wasn’t bothering us at all. He was napping against the warm wall when I left. He stank like a bum, but harmless. He was wearing overalls.

As I interpreted, MR. Bum, (this is 2021 and the man deserves human respect), with 40 people around him, stood up, dropped his overalls, squatted down and took a shit against the wall of the whitewashed cinder block building everyone was waiting for the bus leaning against, in line, patiently waiting.

For the next 40 years living in the City of Chicago, every time I went by the corner of Addison/Western, I would look at that little building and chuckle. We were 12 year boys. This was exactly in our humor wheel house, to use a baseball metaphor. We laughed for 2 straight hour’s home on the Green Limousine. We laughed about that being the best part of the day for entire friendship.

I would love to hear Frankie tell that story one more time.

I don't know exactly how this story ends. We got off at the corner of of 11400 S. 53 years later, I'd like to think we had a hug, a laugh, incredible time in our lives, really, what a day.

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2021... Even though we lost the opener, plenty of baseball left.

This is our year, fellas. If Tony don't screw it up...

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https://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2021/04/pitch-y-catchee-2021-10.html

https://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2021/03/pitch-y-catchee-2021-09.html

https://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2021/03/pitch-y-cathee-2021-08.html

https://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2021/03/pitch-y-catchee-2021-07.html

https://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2021/03/pitch-y-catchee-202106.html

https://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2021/03/pitch-y-catchee-2021-05.html

https://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2021/03/pitch-y-catchee-2021-04.html

https://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2021/03/pitch-y-cathee-03.html

https://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2021/03/pitch-y-catchee-2021-02.html

https://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2021/02/pitch-y-catchee-2021-pt1.html

Beisball 2020*

https://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/02/beisball.html

Opening Day*

https://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2019/04/opening-day.html

Pitchers and Catchers*

https://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2019/02/pitchers-and-catchers.html

Home Run Around*

https://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2010/11/post-election-notes-i-awoke-this.html

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I Ain't Foolin'*

1) Admit you have been duped.  Tell someone.

2) Realize the television only tell lies.

3) Understand the latest domestic fright is bad made-for-tv movie production. Actors all around.

4) Do not take the shot. I'm not responsible for your stupidity.  Who is when things go wrong?

5) Stop being afraid of people. Find a new bond with someone. It begins with a "Hi".

6) Stand up to mouthy, bossy women.  These petty tyrants have delivered this situation.

7) Men - tell young women what a beautiful smile they have. Post-menopausal women can keep the mask on, stay afraid, always, afraid and make sure everyone knows how afraid they are. 

8) Start making your own decisions in life for yourself.  Leave me out of it.

9) Rediscover bravery. Quit taking stupid orders from controlling people.

10) You are not that important and your opinion doesn't matter. Live honestly.

Get outside, get some fresh air.

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