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Between Narcissism and Altruism

Stephen Jay Morris

3/28/2024

©Scientific Morality

            The voices in my head clutter up the canyons of my mind. “Don’t be a victim!” “Man up!” “Do it yourself!” “Get off my lawn!” “What are you looking at?” “Be a man!” “Ring, ring on the telephone!” “Monday is the deadline!” “Don’t be so selfish!” “You’ve got to think about yourself sometimes!” “Oh! My Bob!” Shut the fuck up! SHUT UP!

            I do care. I really do. When women and children are starving to death, being maimed, and killed by weapons of war, and you express that emotion, most conservatives say, “Why don’t you adopt them and have them sleep in your garage!” Most conservatives are narcissists. Certain political ideologies attract those with personality disorders. Sociopaths make personal liberty into malignant selfishness. That sentiment ranges from libertarians to Paleo-conservatives: Me first, my family second, and my country on third base.

            Oh, those on the left, on the other hand, are neurotic, clinically depressed, anal retentive, and emotionally wrecked. At one point, some smart-ass yells out, “The whole world is fucked up!” To which I reply, “No. Just you.”

            You know what is acceptable? To hate people and despise the world. But if you declare, “I hate the Irish!”—Watch out! You’re a bigot! If you hate the world, you are seen as a prophet from God. Is it acceptable to hate all except for one group of people? If you hate all countries, then you are an Anarchist terrorist. However, if you love America, but hate all other countries, you are a Patriot!

So, let’s review: Collective hatred is just fine. Specific hatred for a particular race is unacceptable. Why is that? I’ll tell you, boobie: On the left, there is the belief of international solidarity. On the right, it’s tribalism. Stick to your own kind.

            Now the main problem with the right is this gigantic contradiction: Individualism versus National pride. You remember that lunatic, Ayn Rand? Not only was she an atheist, but she believed that the rights of the individual triumphed over loyalty to their country. AKA: dying for your country is a sucker’s game. So, do you put your personal liberty over loyalty to your country? According to Ayn Rand, you put yourself over the state.

            Where do I stand politically? Does it matter? I realized, over the years, that I am not special. I try my best to be a good person. Now, in America, selfish people outnumber the good. You need a magnifying glass to find them. Morality does not come from a compass; it comes from the conjunction of your left brain and your right brain. Once you fine tune it, then you are in business.

            When I was young, my priority was to save the Vietnamese people from the American bombers destroying their homeland. Every night, the news gave up the death tolls while we ate our T.V. dinners. So, we protested and got arrested. It was better than going to the high school football game! I think and feel that we did the right thing.

            Now, Israel’s Likud Party is running a near six-month campaign of committing genocide on innocent Palestinian men, women, and children in Gaza. What can I do? Protest? Write a letter to my congressman? Bomb a building? I don’t care if you think this is a major copout, but I am tired, I suffer from comorbidity ailments, and I have chronic pain in various parts of my body. As such, I do nothing. The young people are managing just fine without me.

If I knew I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself. I am 70.

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Benjamin Netanyahu

The Menace to World peace

Stephen Jay Morris

April 14, 2024

©Scientific morality

            The world would be better off with pacifists than with avenging angels. What religion has taught us is not to trust the followers of any religion. They always put a square peg into a round hole. They twist God’s words to fit their own agenda. If God is so fucking omnipotent, why does he need Christian soldiers, Jihadist warriors, or the I.D.F. to levy his punishment upon evil doers. I suspect he doesn’t really exist. Even common sense will tell you that God doesn’t need an army to implement mega-universe domination.

Sounds kind of primitive, doesn’t it?  It is. Simpletons have this fear of so-called evil. They make the fatal mistake in feeling that the only way to deal with evil is to destroy it. That is a gigantic fallacy. Evil will always replace itself. Someone once told me that there will always be good versus evil. That I do not accept. What is evil? That is a subjective question.  What may be evil to you is good to someone else.

            Ever since the 60s and 70s, I was told that the older generation sends the young to war to fight the gerontocratic political schemes. One thing about narcissistic old men is that they know their time on earth is almost up. So, they want the whole world to die with them. The phony good is really the true evil. Or maybe, just maybe, there is no such thing as good and evil. There are people who have mental disorders, or angry people who have personality maladies. They need healing, not punishment.

Then, those who think violence solves everything will give you an example of “what ifs.” “What if someone is raping your wife? Would you give the rapist a therapy session?” We are talking about the long term, you dumb fuck! Not an immediate, singular situation. Of course I would do anything to stop such an act!  Prevention of evil is wiser than revenge.

            If we are going to have World War Three, can we at least wait until the NBA playoffs are over? It only takes one leader that suffers from a messianic complex and thinks himself a Jewish prophet: Benjamin Netanyahu, the not-ready-for-prime-time minister. He wants to drag the United States into war with Iran. The Likud Party initiated it when it bombed an Iranian consulate in Syria. Of course, Iran wants to retaliate. So, they launched hundreds of missiles and drones toward Israel. And, of all those fired, just one missile penetrated. One? After spending millions and billions on Israel’s Iron Dome, you’d think all missiles would be deterred. Can the IRS refund my tax money, then? I need it for some plumbing work in my bathroom.

            Benjamin Netanyahu is not my leader. I didn’t vote for him to be pope of the Jews. What he has done for Israel is to apply a permanent scar in history. What he has done and is doing to the Palestinian people is genocide. Repeatedly spewing the details of Hamas’ horrific attack on October 7, 2023 is not justification for that genocide. The question really is, with Israel’s technological and logistical advances, where were the border police that day? Was the Iron Dome turned off?  I know I won’t get any answers to these questions.

            Being opposed to Revisionist Zionists does not make me Anti-Semitic, it makes me pro-humanitarian!

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Toxic Shock

The Assassin of Mediocrity

Book Review

Stephen Jay Morris

4/2/2024

©Scientific Morality.

Recorded history must be correct and precise. Otherwise, why bother to study it? There are thousands of years of lives that existed before you were born. Some people don’t care about the past. Then, there are the curious and those who want to change history to fit their political or religious biases. My generation has received the most criticism from authors who want to discredit every rebellious generation that ever lived in the towns and cities across the USA. From the Beatniks of the 50’s, to the Hippies/Yippies of the 60’s and 70’s, all the way to the Punks of the 80’s. Most of that has come primarily from reactionary conservatives. A lot of suckers believed the propaganda and stereotypes that the political right wing utilized in their books, so as to mischaracterize the culture rebels and artists of those times. I’m not even going to mention their names. All of it was to say that the so-called woke and Left are evil.

This book, the subject of my review, is crucial within the rank and file of the cultural revolutions of the past. It sets the record straight about the punk movement. Critics who stereotyped leftists as lazy bums who lived off government programs and bought pot with their welfare checks blatantly lied.

There is what’s known as the Anarchist work ethic. One subject of that ethic is this book’s author, Bill Sassenberger. He was a Yippie who became a supporter of garage bands and the punk culture. He went from being homeless in 1977 and working in various low paying jobs, like being an apple picker in Washington state. He drove an ice cream truck in Orange County. Somehow, he ended up in Pomona, California and took over a headshop, converted it into a record shop/clothing shop, and sold fanzines for the “Blank Generation.” It got to the point where he released records on his own independent label.

This book is anchored throughout by reminiscences of his beloved wife, Julianna, and her fight to recover from a debilitating stroke. I recall meeting her casually, but never really got to know her. Bill writes about her in detail and in admiration. I’m sorry that I never got to know her.

The original punks were art school drops-out in Hollywood, California. They were elitists creeps. However, the punk scene eventually spread to suburbia, which energized the scene in the 80’s. Kids were starting bands left and right. Bill nurtured the suburban movement by putting on concerts and releasing records. He even had his own radio show on a college radio station.

In this book there is never a dull moment. Bill’s story includes the shakers and the movers of the punk scene. It’s part autobiographical, part travel log. It contains American history, suspense, compassion, and music. Bill clearly describes his moments with the trials and tribulations of a Baby Boomer. Perseverance became the order of the day. He struggled with poverty, crime, reprobates, the mentally ill, and a sick wife. Fortunately for all, he lived to write about it.

Bill’s writing style is unlike that of Jack Kerouac, with the lyrical poetic props that permeate the novel, “On the Road.” On the contrary, Bill’s style is comprehensible and gets to the point. His recollections are a light-hearted romp through experiences and other anecdotes.

The book is filled with historic photos, band fliers, and fantastic artwork, all of which is printed on glossy paper stock. I must protest, though: my failing eyesight struggled with the small font. Luckily, my trusty reading glasses served me well. Also, Bill includes comments about his book by people he knew.

I hope to Buddha that more books like this are produced. I have a friend named David Spaner who is writing a book about the Yippies. He is a Canadian living in Vancouver. No publishing date has materialized. I do hope he gets published. We need more books about the New Left, starting with the 60’s. Bill’s book is the first shot into the 1980’s American suburban youth atmosphere.

This book was so compelling! I finished it in just four days. I hope “Toxic Shock” by Bill Sassenberger, becomes an underground success.

Buy this book!  If you value history like I do.

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The Sun Melts the Plastic Society

Stephen Jay Morris

2/25/24

©Scientific Morality

You have the right to be you, no matter how idiotic your personality is. But don’t expect me to be like you! It’s bad enough that my generation became yuppies, worshipped President Reagan, and had their finance manager on speed dial. Everybody in the 80’s dressed like harlequins. Yuppies wore suspenders and young white girls wore spandex pants. The only thing good about the 80’s was that I met my then future wife. I was not part of the fads, I kept to myself. I was in three bands. That kept me busy.

Everybody with an ounce of brain thinks that their philosophy is perfect. Ego excess is not only permissible in this country, it is encouraged. Religion comforts the stupid and capitalism empowers the greedy. Behind every church is an oil well. That previous sentence is a metaphor. Capitalism finances the church, so the peasants won’t rebel against their empires. The true culprit of oppression and exploitation is not illegal aliens, the LBGTQ community, or Black Lives Matter. It is the white man with the oil well. I have learned and relearned this over five decades now.

Sure, I was an Anachronism. By 1971, I felt like a stranger in a stupid society. By the gods of fad, I was pronounced obsolete. For a time being, a minority of my generation rejected the material society. We sought the knowledge of spiritual enlightenment not a Mastercard. We called the materialistic society, the “plastic society.” The only way to enjoy the fruits of hedonism is to make a lot of money.

Next to heroin, money is a hardcore addiction. You never have enough! It’s all about more! More! And more!!! I wanted to avoid being an addict. So, I have lived a simplistic existence. No, I don’t wear raggedy clothes unless I am at home. I buy practical stuff. I never had debt because I always paid my bills immediately. I paid in cash. For years I avoided credit. Once you’re in debt, then capitalism’s got your ass! As I got older, things changed in my life; I took on a mortgage, got a credit card, financed a new car. But in the beginning, I was debt free. I didn’t want to be part of the capitalist society.

I did not care about fancy clothes, a big house, gold chains, and a big ass stereo. I wanted to live in a community of kindred spirits. Like one of the hippie communities in greater Los Angeles. Places like Silver Lake and Venice Beach or Topanga Canyon. I wanted to live in a place that had free clinics, head shops, Army surplus stores, vegetarian restaurants, independent record stores, and underground movie theaters. A place that had cheap rent. Instead, I ended up in a duplex in Hollywood. I had a record player, radio, and a cheap Sears T.V. I had a 1963 Dodge Dart.  All paid in full, of course.

Now, I live in a confused country. People don’t know what they want. You get all these grifters, promising a better life by praying to a God that may not exist. Or others trying to push crypto currency with promises of wealth and happiness. People want happiness but don’t know what happiness really is. What the world needs is a free society, not a rich country where only the elite have access to wealth. If that is an old-fashioned notion, then piss off, please!

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If You Have No Imagination, You Can’t

Imagine

Stephen Jay Morris

3/15/2024

©Scientific Morality

            The late John Lennon was one of many voices of a generation, though many of those voices didn’t want the job. I think I wrote about this song some time ago. Well, recently, I saw a video posted by a Catholic bishop, denouncing the song, “Imagine,” by John Lennon. The name of the video is, “Why I hate the song, Imagine.” Hate, you say? Now that is a pretty strong word for a bishop of the Church. He initially gave faint praise to John Lennon and then proceeded to criticize the song, reciting it line by line, and explaining how each one was inspiring a rebellion of God, which is a sin.  He declared the song a “secular anthem.”

Okay, Boomer! But it’s not. What it is, is a wishful fantasy about the uniting of humanity. Can you imagine if he had written a line like, “Imagine no priests molesting little boys?” In that case, the bishop would have a reason to complain.

            John Lennon was the voice of a generation whether he wanted to be or not. This issue is similar to the Taylor Swift controversy today. In the early 70’s, the government, oil companies, and protestant churches were shitting bricks over John Lennon. So, like MLK, they spied on him and tried to extradite him from the USA.

            I remember the hatred and anger that spewed over this song in 1971. I was listening to a Top 40’s station when—I forget who the disk-jockey was—after playing the song, the guy went on a tirade about how John was a hypocrite because he was rich. It seems American conservatives have this misconception that, if you have leftist views, you must take a vow of poverty. Wrong! I’d rather be among rich communists that piss poor conservatives. So, am I to believe that if you are a conservative, you must be rich, otherwise you can’t be one? The anfractuous folly of the political right is endless.

            The song is a soft, wistful ballad that seems to have been written from a spiritual state of mind. Lyrically, it is suggesting the listener consider the propositions; ruminate over them. This type of fancible idealism started in the late 50’s to the mid 60’s.  The pacifist movement merged with the folk music era. Afterward came the Flower Children with their visions of world peace, and then the New Age movement in the 70’s. Lennon wanted to captivate the Boomer generation with this ballad, and he did.

Conservatives are afraid of artistic influence over the younger generations, for they are proponents of masculinity. Anything sensitive targets their accusations of inofficiousness to the Christian state. Femininity is evil and masculinity is godly.

John Lennon offered a great and novel proposition when he wrote:

Imagine there's no heaven.

It's easy if you try.

No hell below us

Above us only sky.

Imagine all the people living for today!

A well-said proposition. Most adherents to the three main religions look forward to death. They feel the earth is Satan’s property and that Heaven will be like Disney World. Suckers! Why not live for now?

Now for the political portion of the piece:

Imagine there's no countries.

It isn't hard to do.

Nothing to kill or die for

And no religion, too.

Imagine all the people living life in peace.

Yeah, the conservatives are always preaching about small government. And yet if you say “do away with it” they lose their lunch. Good introduction for newbies to anarchism.

Now the line that pissed off conservatives:

Imagine no possessions.

I wonder if you can?

No need for greed or hunger.

A brotherhood of man.

Imagine all the people sharing all the world.

You may say I'm a dreamer.

But I'm not the only one.

I hope someday you’ll join us,

And the world will be as one.

Oh, gee! How fucking blasphemous!

So, in my confabulatory take of the religious shit, there are no such things as good and evil. God floods the earth and Satan talks about world peace. Forget about it!

This song is fantastic and if you don’t like it, fuck you! And fuck your material property’ too!

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Senator Steve Garvey?

Stephen Jay Morris

3/7/2024

©Scientific Morality

            When I watch major league basketball or baseball, it is my escapist break from subjective reality. Same goes for music or Spaghetti Westerns. However, when politics barges in, that is flagrant trespassing.

My former home state is having a senatorial race. The top contenders are Congressman Adam Schiff and former MLB star, Steve Garvey.  Steve Garvey was the Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman in the 70’s. Boy, could he hit a ball! And I mean, far!  He earned the nickname, “Mr. Clean.” He was deemed an all-American Christian boy. I didn’t care. So long as he could hit that ball, I couldn’t care less if he had been recruited from state prison and called, “Dirty Steve.” Well, he later became a broadcaster and then retired.

We have two glaring problems (among many others) in electoral politics: One is gerontocracy. Some think that the older you are, the wiser! Old age is not wisdom, it is senility. The fact is that, when you are old, you tend to forget much of what you learned. Steve Garvey is 75.

Another problem is American idolatry. Celebrity worship. We’ve had a body builder, an astronaut, a B-Movie actor, football players, and military generals elected to political office. They usually run as Republicans. Shit! In 2015, this country elected a T.V. game show host and business magnate to the highest political office in the land! Some Americans think that the Republicans are the official party of the USA. So did a lot of Cuban exiles. Other Americans see the Democratic Party as the party of the downtrodden and the working class. Superficially they are. However, if you peel the onion skin back, you will find out, like the GOP, that they are in love with the rich.

So, what about the common Americans? The ones who work in factories, have small businesses; the working class? How come a plebeian never got elected to political office? This is supposed to be a representative republic. When you have a criminal trial, aren’t you supposed to be judged by a jury of your peers? Who represents the poor and the middle class? Only wealthy white guys. Why? Does it have something to do with Meritocracy? Nowhere in the constitution does it say that we are a Meritocracy. Come to think about it, there is no mention of Jesus or Christianity in there, either. And nothing says the U.S. is a capitalist country.

Some Americans think if you run America like a business, it would be a better country. Wrong! First of all, America is a nonprofit nation that gets its money from income taxes, import fees, docking fees, entrance fees to national parks, admission fees to museums, copyright fees, along with many other sources. You can’t run America like a business because this nation is in constant debt. American government could never make a profit! Neither can you run America like the military. Ask somebody who went through boot camp. If Bill Gates ran this country, this country would still be in debt! You can’t run America like a church, or like a baseball team, or like a Hollywood studio. You run it like a fucking government! We don’t want somebody with a degree in business management. We need a college grad who’s got degrees in political science and civics. Oh, and let’s not forget, Economics.

The ego of some celebrities think they can just waltz into political office, sit in a chair, and automatically run a country. Trump thought he could do it as president. But soon he realized he didn’t know shit about the intricacies of federal bureaucratic rules. So, being the dumb ass that he is, he has said in jest, “I want to be a dictator and I can run it anyway I want!” Some Americans believe that if you’re an asshole, you are strong. Let me break it to you: if you are an asshole, you aren’t strong or tough; you are just an asshole!

So, Steve Garvey, take your bat and glove and go home. We don’t need you in the White House, or any other government branch. We need you in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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Senator Katie Britt, Stepford Wife

Stephen Jay Morris

3/8/24

©Scientific Morality

            It was President Biden’s fourth State of the Union speech of his first term. Hopefully it is his last. The speech was tepid but cacophonous. A soundman can perform many tricks to make a human voice sound like that of someone in their thirties. Whatever the tricks were, they worked for Biden. He sounded as if he was in an 80’s punk band! Just kidding. However, he did project his voice louder than usual. We have all seen the videos where he speaks in almost a whisper. Either he drank 10 cups of black coffee or took some diet pills to prepare for it.

On the right side of the House Chamber, the white Conservatives sat on their hands and, like good little protestants, repressed their emotions. Some, however, had the audacity to belt out inaudible heckles, primarily female MAGA members. It was a Democratic football rally where the left side of the room frequently stood and applauded, chanting “Four more years!” I’ll wager Biden’s personal doctor chanted, “You have no more years.” It was every State of the Union speech delivered by Democrats for decades; that sloppy populism they spew from the podium. Of course, we’ve had Republicans, as well, whose pronouns for America are “she” and “her.” They claim they want a “strong America!” Wait! Wait! Whoa, Nelly! Isn’t that what the so-called “woke” want? A strong woman? Sounds kinda feminist to me.

            After over an hour, the speech ended and Biden slowly made his way through the remaining attendees, making deals and taking selfies. Republicans went home to clean their guns and yell at their illegal alien housekeepers.

But wait! There’s more: the prerecorded rebuttal from the Republican Party. What did they have in store for the American people? Why, look! It was Junior Senator Katie Britt, sitting in her modest kitchen, looking like a helpless, diminutive housewife from Alabama. She was sporting a diamond studded cross hanging from her dainty neck. And what was up with that green blouse?

So, here is this demure housewife who was once a virgin of the white race. What do Millennials call these types of women? “Trads,” short for traditional. Of course, she failed to cry on cue, but she projected a deeply concerned tone about her precious husband and children being in danger of illegal aliens, transgender children, and other nonwhite entities that you hear about repeatedly. The same old alarmist puke!

            Yeah, there she was, sitting in front of a computer-generated image of a kitchen. Now, think about it. Does she prepare meals for her family? Do they all say grace before eating dead cow parts and other artery-clogging foods? No way, Jose! Their housekeeper, “Juanita,” cooks and cleans for that family. Then, she does the worst imitation of actress, Nicole Kidman, from the movie, “Stepford Wives.” Using innocent banter, this brown-eyed, brunette pixie couldn’t convey a real emotion if she tried! She made the whole nation laugh at the GOP! In a surprise pivot about the southern border, she spoke at length about a woman who was allegedly gangbanged by twenty illegal alien men, taking turns raping her, for hours.

Guess what, people! The border is fine. Nobody is raping innocent women. Remember, Democrats always use talking points about people missing meals to pay the rent, but Republicans relish talking about murder, rape, and internet porn. At least, the Democrats’ talking points are feasible, but Conservatives come straight out of True Crime Pulp Fiction. I wonder who the asshole was who wrote Britt’s speech!

            The two-party system sucks smoggy wind and, year after year, it’s the same old shit: Fear, fear, and more fear! The GOP’s propaganda is worse than that of Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party. By the way, the State of Israel has 17 political parties. We’ve got only one: the Republicratic Party.

The best country in the world!

Shut the fuck up, dip shit!

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The Very Last Resort

(Arron Bushnell self-immolates)

Stephen Jay Morris

3/2/2024

©Scientific Morality.

A normal person cannot comprehend someone walking up to the Israeli Consulate and pouring gasoline all over themselves, striking a match, and burning to death while screaming, “Free Palestine!” Was he insane? Back in the 60’s, Vietnamese Buddhists set themselves on fire to protest America’s occupation of their country. They believed in reincarnation and had faith that they would return to earth for their sacrificial good deed. But Arron? He was a member of the United States Air Force. It is alleged that he was a Gay Anarchist, which makes me very inquisitive about him. Why was he in the Air Force? Was he a weekend leftist? I wonder if this question will ever be answered.

Let’s talk about his political suicide. Or was it suicide? This is a very controversial point. This act was, indeed, an existential shock. As for me, I am afraid of death, even were it to occur in my sleep. But many brave souls are willing to die for a cause, or for a loved one. I would die for my wife. That is understandable. But for my country? People who send others to war would never die for the USA. So, why would I?

Why would a 25-year-old man self-immolate? Was it because he was experiencing a moral panic? Maybe. If you are a moralist and hear continuous, daily death tallies of innocent men, women, and children, you feel helpless. He may have had fantasies of being a Rambo type and going into Gaza with an AR-15, shooting IDF soldiers, and freeing Palestinians. Or, perhaps, parachuting into Gaza with food and water to help. Maybe Navy Seals could complete such an unimaginable act, but without professional help, it is not really feasible. What Arron did was apparently self-determined and purposeful. It was his protest of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Palestine, the genocide of the Palestinian people, and the U.S. support of the Israeli government in these actions.

The mainstream media played this down as suicide. The reactionary element of America has played it cool. Oh, there have and will be insensitive memes or hateful posts on X, but I would be very surprised if some conservative pundits pose analytical theories on Arron’s motives. Maybe some MAGA lunatic will set himself on fire to stop abortion. (Am I now a participant in stochastic terrorism? Sure, why not.) I doubt that it would ever happen. It would be fun, though.

What Arron Bushnell did was a humanitarian act of altruism; the highest form of altruism, which is putting someone else’s needs above your own. America is so indoctrinated with the Ayn Rand virus of, “Fuck you! Me first.” Sacrifice is more moral than self-interest. What Bushnell did was the highest form of morality: sacrifice.

If you are willing to die for a cause, die in the anarchist revolution. Bakunin once said, “A revolutionary is a doomed man!” There is nothing romantic about revolution. It is full of hardship, bloodshed, and death. If that scares you, then become a Democrat or Republican, and waste your vote.

Me? I’m almost 70 years old. Unlike President Biden, however, I know my limitations.

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Interview of a Lost Soul

(The Chaya Raichik interview)

Stephen Jay Morris

2/27/2024

©Scientific Morality

How do you know when someone is a liar? When they call other people liars. Meet Chaya Raichik, brainchild of Libs of Tik Tok. She has this obsession with attacking hermaphrodites, transgender, and other human oddities; just like Matt Walsh and Candace Owens, who believe that public schools are indoctrinating innocent children into sexual perversion. Do they have proof?  Why should they provide proof when 30% of Americans are gullible suckers!?

Teachers brainwashing young kids? There is no evidence of this. If there was, and it was on some phone camera, groups like Project Veritas would creatively edit it and make it look like an actual crime was committed. There are no photos, audio recordings, or witnesses. Jesus! The John Birch Society accused public schools of indoctrinating kids into becoming communists. Now, in the 21st Century, we have a circus of conspiratorial delusions. At least left-wing conspiracy theories had a modicum of arguments and plausible theories. But QAnon? They just make shit up, like someone who has been smoking weed all night.

One of the many imbecilic conspiracy theories concerns transgender people. The primary job of the authoritarian right is to scare people. They succeeded minutely with this one, but the rest of the public thinks they are nuts.

Libs of Tik Tok have posts on social media that depict trans people like characters of 1950’s, drive-in theater, monster movies. Instead of giving compassion to the emotionally vulnerable, they mock these underage transpeople the same way Jesus was mocked when he was carrying the cross and bleeding from his wounds on the way to his crucifixion. Too much? You can see Israeli soldiers on Tik Tok mocking the dead children of Gaza. In so doing, they spew more Anti-Semitic ammunition about evil Jews.

I have said in previous post that Jews are like everybody else. I do know this: in a nation that is predominately white, there are some Jews who sorely want to be accepted by that society. How do they try to accomplish this? By attacking their own people. Just like Candence Owens, who attacks her fellow black people. If you want to make money and get attention, attack your own people and The Daily Wire will give you a podcast.

So, who is this Chaya Raichik Zoomer anyway? I’ve heard rumors about her. One, that she comes from an Orthodox Jewish family. Two, she is from Brooklyn, New York. And three, she is Putin’s personal secretary. NOT true! I can make shit up, too! She is not articulate; she talks like someone who is on barbiturates. She doesn’t have an accent. She projects a paranoid personality, and she wears a 1969 hippie hair style. During her recent interview with Taylor Lorenz, she kept looking around the local area like she was expecting an assassination attempt upon her.

So, who is Taylor Lorenz? She is a reporter from the Washington Post. She has the composure of a Tupperware representative. She could sell Tupperware to Boomer women, but interviewing a right-wing mental case? Forget about it. First, when interviewing subjects, you do not let them ask questions of you. YOU are interviewing THEM; they are not interviewing you. Now, Chaya is a hard nut to crack. She is secretive, condescending, humorless, and stoic. It appears she is symptomatic of a sociopath. She also has a persecution complex. She refuses to answer questions because they are “personal.” I’m surprised she didn’t evoke the Fifth Amendment. Taylor asked her how she got into politics. She answered, “Oh, it was the Covid thing. You know? The government telling you what to do! When to shop or forcing you to wear a mask!” That is solid proof right there that she is dumb! The CDC recommended wearing facemasks in public, it did not mandate it. It was private businesses and heath institutions that were requiring patrons to wear masks. It was NOT Uncle Sam.

So, the whole interview was a waste of time. I wish she had been cross-examined by a rough Jewish lawyer in a court room. Interviewing her was like interviewing a tortoise shell.

This is fair warning:  if you want to be famous and rich, avoid being a conservative activist. You remember Wally George? Of course you don’t.

Lorenz asked Raichik how much money she makes. She answered, “That is a personal question.” Whenever someone refuses to answer that question, that means their piggy bank is empty. Now, if asked whether she has a boyfriend, she would likely say, “None of your business!” And that would mean—like are most Millennials and Zoomers—she’s probably a female Incel.

What a sorry world we live in!

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A real man should know his limitations..

Some people are not cut out to be a podcaster. When will there ever be a platform where anarchists can post videos.

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A Nonentity Turns 70

Stephen Jay Morris

2/20/2024

©Scientific Morality

Easter Sunday falls on my birthday this year. The last time that happened was in 2013. In my mind, it represents a kind of resurrection in my life. Maybe I’ll become famous—like Colonel Sanders or Grandma Moses—in my later years. Nah! That is one big pipedream of mine. This is the only life I have known and probably will be the only one I have. I hope that religion is wrong. I don’t want to live forever in bliss or in agonizing pain in hell. I embrace my mortality.

My past was littered in pain, struggle, humiliation, sickness, failure, lousy sex, poverty, and other negativities. However, I had moments of happiness, in 15-minute gradations. I was happy when I married Pamela on May 3, 1987. Plus, the time my song was on the radio in 1980. When I did have them, my periods of happiness were intense.

Before I fall asleep at night, I think about my past. I know it’s bad for my mental health, so I try to avoid reminiscing about the past. However, I don’t think about the bad times, only the good. I think about people I liked and wonder what ever happened to them. A lot of senior citizens like to bore younger people with long stories about their past—another thing I avoid. But the past can be informative to a new generation. There is that famous Winston Churchill quote: “Anyone who was not a liberal at 20 years of age had no heart, while anyone who was still a liberal at 40 had no head!” My head is attached to my torso just fine, thank you very much. My political views are to the extreme left at my old age. Why? Because, in my opinion, pragmatism is not a sign of maturity and creativity is a sign of happiness. Regardless, I have never wanted to be part of the two-party system.

So, what about the present? It consists of problems, more problems, and many more problems. I’ve got major health issues and, thanks to the untaxed one percent, we’ve got inflation. Yesterday I saw a single serving can of soup for $2.10. Jesus! The present sucks as far as G.O. politics, American politics, and religion goes. And thanks to the Likud party dropping bombs on Palestine’s innocent civilians, anti-Semitism has made a big comeback.

What about the future? At this point, I just don’t know. Pamela and I no longer like living here and want to move. The Catskill Mountains is a nice vacation destination, but we’ve come to find that some of its inhabitants are obnoxious white trash. We’ve got deer hunters, meth head Zoomers, MAGA dick heads, paranoid old ladies, and a gas station that sells over-priced junk food. Oh, and there are the Orthodox Jews who are a-social. Not a desirable location for us at all.

Being a nonentity is like being invisible. The way my life is going, I have zero influence. I am learning to control my ego. I am settling for less because I have no choice in the matter. I am going to be featured in two books, so I was told. My story will be in print if anybody cares. I do want to travel and see other lands before the grim reaper comes for me. Maybe death is just closing your eyes and never opening them again. I don’t know; I just don’t know.

And now, here come the 70’s. I could live to a hundred years old or die tomorrow.  When you are my age, you can go at any time. Life expectancy for males is now 73. Yeah, I am afraid to die, but I can’t stop it. It’s all about acceptance of physical law.

I wonder, who is going to die first? Biden or Trump? – Socrates said: “Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

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Transphobia must end!

Only the innocent die!

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Putin must be removed !!!

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Civil War! The movie!

Proud boys will be swatted like flies

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