“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock
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I know a little about everything, but not much about anything.
What you get here mostly is art. Particularly of the Western Comics and Anime/Manga variety. I post art of all kinds. Including music to a lesser degree. There is also occasional gaming content. Also perhaps some philosophical and political musings. But mostly it's me just posting art I find anymore.
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Anything my strange little heart wants to post
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"Police Station Blues" (Peetie Wheatstraw cover).
Walpurgisnacht release - - 6.00PM BST (GMT +1) Saturday 30.4.22
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MY FAVOURITE WEBSITES
Comic art https://www.elivalley.com/home.
Rhetoric https://earth-wizard.livejournal.com/56638.html ... https://fictivemuseum.blogspot.com/2013/11/graham-harman-in-interview-with-sonyto.html?m=1.
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Debt management sounds like a scam, but isn't. You can legitimately get interest on debts written off. Better than succumbing to the grind, trying to work for 20 hours straight. Artistic grind is fine, plugging away at something you think worthwhile in itself, with what time and effort you have. But work grind grinding away hours to get money... you need to either reduce your life expenses, or increase your pay per hour. When you're dead everything is done, it's fixed and final. It'll be too late to do what you wanted to in life.
https://www.gov.uk/options-for-paying-off-your-debts/debt-management-plans
-JOIN A UNION! ( It's like backing the right horse,even if you don't do anything apart from paying your sub, as long you need to work to live, then you benefit from upwards pressure from your union on wages and conditions - and as long as it's not a toothless union, obviously. If you're union hasn't got you a wage increase at least as much as your monthly sub you've wasted your money. IWGB for example got its' members paid £thousands during the Covid pandemic, by threatening to take the British government to court, as its members didn't qualify for "furlough" like directly employed workers, which forced the govt to start the SEISS scheme .) https://iwgb.org.uk/en/ (E.g. for those in non-traditional employment, if your sector isn't represented you can still join the holding branch). Unions aren't about group think, grassroots ones aren't anyway , they're about combination. You can only do so much on your own.https://www.instagram.com/reel/Co_6lOZIdu4/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet . What's the alternative to combination ? Dog-eat - dog. Pyramid schemes, and grifts, and things that really benefit the grifter most. Gurus who say get a suitable girl who is going to buff you up, get you prestige in front of friends and family. Go for the big bucks first. The goods or services are secondary . Hustle. That'll end up in CCJs and disgruntled customers on the phone, prolly as the infant you've now bred as well starts screaming in the background. Arthur Miller's "Death of A Salesman" is the modern Tragedy. That's not to say business gurus are bad people, or wrong about everything . They're right in that you need to get paid. This is from one of Ayn Rand's protégés: "The reality from my vantage point was that 50 billion years from now, when the earth is nothing but an ice ball, my problems of today will be too insignificant to have been recorded. Indeed, there would undoubtedly not even be a record of the entire century in which I had lived most of my life." (Robert J. Ringer," Winning Through Intimidation ". His first books are relentless. Later books admit not everyone has to think like him, or Ayn Rand.)