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i'm not even going to spoil anything that happens in it.

its written by douglas adams, aka the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy guy. dirk gentley's holistic detective agency is MORE INSANE then the hitchhiker books. i could literally tell you what the twist at the end of the book is revealed to be, and you would think i was on crack and lying to you.

im picking up the Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul as soon as i can to see where the hell this goes on to.

Some of ya may have seen my post recently about same title as the post book from 1918. I finished it last night and will share with you what it was about.

It covered in brief the time period of the mid to late 1500s-1700s France and their work at colonizing New France or Canada.

At the time France was in it's Bourbon phase where nationalism and religion were primary focuses. The Monarchy held all major reigns of political power at that time. They were slow to move sending folks to the New World due to not realizing the wealth and resources to be extracted there. Meanwhile the English the Spanish and the Dutch were already there and working on establishing foot holds there.

Eventually the French King would start warming to the idea of discovery but was mostly focused on mineral deposits. So he began investing in well known seafarers to go do some investigations.

Mineral deposits were not found but furs from the local savages would do. For the first many years it was very rough on the French that went over. It was quite difficult to clear land covered in forests to sow crops, constant threat of the English and teepee niggers and winters with low rations and plenty of scurvy. Once you were there getting back home meant three weeks minimum with the wind in your favor. So the folks that stayed were some tough customers.

As time went by they worked out things with the feather niggers save the Iriquois who were allied with the English. They would trade trinkets (lol) and brandy with the savages for furs of beaver and other animals. Timber also became quite a profitable endeavor. Agriculture while sending some to France was largely consumed by the colonists of the time. They mainly lived in modern day Quebec and Montreal. Though they sent expeditions down into Iowa and Illinois. Some savages would go with and help provide something of protection and knowledge of the areas.

Many able bodied men were getting the call for the wild and become independent traders and venture into the wilderness with goods from France to trade for furs. This made it more difficult for the colonies agricultural and industrial growth. Farms kept something of a fuedal system where there was the main land owner and the farmers paid their dues. Land deeds were given out rather freely but the fur trade was too appealing to many.

The Jesuits became coming en masse and establish religious faith to the colonies as well as venturing out to the wilderness to attempt to convert the feather niggers. Their presence helped eas relations and helped the French establish forts and such along the rivers to dominate the fur trade. None of the other western powers commanded control of waterways like the French did.

As time went on the population kept growing and life became more or less stable for the colonists. The towns were safe, everyone had food, many festivals were had and trade was good. The French at the time were very much Catholic and all regardless of rank attended mass every Sunday.

France wanted the colonies to get away from the brandy, timber and fur trade and become more focused on agricultural exports back to France however none of those efforts resulted in much.

Education in the colonies was largely religious and many couldn't read or write so they needed notaries and the clergy to assist. That would eventually get better.

I have to say quite fascinating in all regards. Definitely shows the tenacity of Whites when they want something done in the middle of nowhere, no one is coming to help til next spring. Brutal winters and at times venture too far away and a red nigger would kill you for it.

They endured unfortunately as we all know what these modern places look like now it's a travesty of what blood, sweat and excruciating death Whites put up to make Canada and what it is today.

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archived from V1.0

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/comingracewar.htm

"Chapter One: America's Violent Decline

How do you tell when a great civilization is in decline? When a great nation is on the rocks spiritually, morally, racially, and economically?

I look closely at my country, and everywhere I see signs of decadence, decay, and self-destruction.

Respect for law and order has declined drastically, except in the phony speeches of politicians.

The nation's capital is awash with special counsel and special prosecutors, taking testimony from the President, the First Lady, key members of the cabinet and the Congress--all accused or suspected of criminal wrongdoing. The FBI is far short of being trustworthy, its agents and former agents deep in partisan politics. Local police departments reek with corruption, including condoned lawlessness by some policemen. Our prisons bulge with record numbers of young Americans, mostly the fruit flies of the drug trade, while the big bumblebees of the crime and drug syndicates peddle their wares with impunity.

Every day our newscasts begin with stories of grisly murders, sexual assaults, grotesque abuses of children, mass killings on job sites, and worse.

America is sinking in greed. Our workers fear tomorrow and their bosses grab what they can today. A corporate fatcat can get a $10 million reward for "downsizing" his firm--that is, putting thousands of employees out of work.

Public morality has probably never been lower. Lawmakers writhe and wrangle over how to deal with television programming that spews out sexual rot and gratuitous violence morning, afternoon, and night--prime time sewers. Congress makes believe that a meaningless "rating system" and a V-chip will solve the problem.

Racism has not been as virulent throughout America since the Civil War, with short fuses burning on a thousand powder kegs. We have seen our greatest law enforcement agency, the FBI, sit for weeks in a stalemate with a small Montana cult, the Freemen, whose leaders preach that the descendants of northern Europeans are "God's chosen people," that Jews are "the children of Satan," and that African Americans and other people of color are by nature dumb and immoral.

We see the Freemen and other hate groups like the Aryan Nation, the skinheads, the Ku Klux Klan, and assorted militias piling up arms for what they say is a coming race war in America that will precede the return of Christ."

Had the granddaughter this weekend, read her stories at night. Seems that there’s some weirdly described themes in some of these newer books.

One of those was this little number called Kitty Corn, about a kitten trying to be a unicorn. For reference:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itty-Bitty_Kitty-Corn

In it, this little cat made a paper horn and tried to present herself to her friends as a unicorn. Those two friends told her she would never be one. She just wasn’t a unicorn. Lo and behold a real unicorn showed up, and the little cat saw the differences between her and it. She realized she could never be a unicorn, no matter what she did. However in an odd twist, the unicorn told her that she always wanted to be a kitten, and with the kitten, wanting to be a unicorn, ergo, kitty – corn. it ends with the two of them laying together and their shadows blending so you couldn’t tell either one apart.

One of the lines repeated several times was: “I see you”. Not sure what that is, but seem to be important enough to say, over and over.

Checked out the author she’s not a jew, oddly enough. Has a couple other books that don’t seem to be along the same lines, but I haven’t looked into everything. I had to interrupt the story to tell the granddaughter that the kitten was just pretending. Because she clearly couldn’t be a real unicorn. No matter what she did she couldn’t be a real unicorn.

Needless to say, that book is now off the list of nighttime stories.

How the New World Order, Man-made Diseases, and Zombie Banks Are Destroying America. eBook (free download on the internet) by Jim Marrs

According to this Brit and his sophisticated sarcasm Herbert ridiculed restrictions on AI by presenting the Butlerian Jihad as some retarded Bene Gesserit old wife's tale meant to scare peasants.

Now don't get me wrong. Walter generally knows what he's talking about and is largely just citing Herbert himself but reducing Dune to Beware of false prophets! or Do as you like! is retarded. He might have been vaguely anti authoritarian but he was clearly no starry eyed flower power believer either. Half the book is spent glorifying the fremen's culture of violence and rigid social boundaries. The most tech-friendly factions' plotlines (the Guild, Ixians) are thinly veiled allegories of losing one's humanity in the pursuit of power...


I just don't understand how after reading Dune you can come away with the notion 'well since Paul and his son were tragic rulers you can do away with rules'. Herbert probably didn't think there should be no restrictions on AI. And no, you can't just assume the Butlerian Jihad didn't happen just because it's only expanded upon in the later apocryphal novels. I think what Herbert intended to show with the series is how fragile humanity is and fucked we all would be without some morality (be it imposed by some übermensch or coming from within us).

But maybe he really was nothing but a trippy libby hippy and am just too retardedly conservative to understand his point.

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