Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

250 years ago, after a violent incident in Boston, British customs officer John Malcolm was tarred, feathered, and dragged through the streets of Boston. The print depicts the incident with two members of the Sons of Liberty feeding a feathered Malcom tea.


Depicts two Bostonians forcing a tarred and feathered man, with a noose around his neck, to drink from a large teapot. It refers to the treatment of John Malcolm, a British customs official, on January 25, 1774. The American man holding the teapot wears a hat with "45" on it, a patriotic symbol referring to the John Wilkes case of 1763. The other American wears a large bow in his hat indicating his membership in the Sons of Liberty.


The "secret society" that started America...The Society of the Cincinnati named for ancient Roman hero Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus. It is the nation’s oldest patriotic organization, founded in 1783 by Major General Henry Knox & officers of the Continental Army who served together in the American Revolution. Membership is largely restricted to descendants of military officers who served in the Continental Army. Some of the living descendants today are a closely guarded secret.


The Diamond Eagle was presented to George Washington in May 1784 - a gift from the officers of the French Navy. He wore it as the first President General of the Society of the Cincinnati, and all PGs since have worn it as their badge of office.

In January 1784, newly produced Eagle insignias were delivered to Adm. d’Estaing, Gen. Rochambeau, and Marquis de La Fayette, known in America as simply "Lafayette" for distribution to French officers to mark their official membership in la Société des Cincinnati de France.


Society of the Cincinnati Eagle Insignias


Jan 31, 1982: the two-part made-for-TV-movie WORLD WAR III premiered on NBC. Part 2 aired on Feb. 1, 1982. Starring Rock Hudson as the President, Brian Keith, David Soul, Cathy Lee Crosby, Katherine Helmond, Robert Prosky.



World War III (1982) Carnage Count





A powerful demonic force emerges from a war-torn jungle, comes to America with an army of believers, and uses a rock-and-roll band to break into and gain control of the world.


"For we do not know what beats the night dreams when its hours grow too long for even God to be awake." - Hildred Castaigne

The Repairer of Reputations

The story is set in New York City in the year 1920, 25 years after the story's publication. It is told from the view of Hildred Castaigne, a man whose personality changes drastically following a head injury sustained by falling from his horse. He is subsequently committed to an asylum for treatment of insanity by Dr. Archer. Due to his accident, Hildred is a prime example of an unreliable narrator.

As related by Hildred, the United States has apparently prospered in the meantime, significantly improving its infrastructure. The rise of a new aristocratic elite in the United States has passed laws that reduce the influence and immigration of those considered foreign, including exclusion of all foreign-born Jews and the establishment of a state for those of African descent. Further forced assimilation of Native populations has also been implemented to resemble the use of Cossacks in the military (Chambers belies the extent to which this "solves" the "Indian problem" by also noting the installation of an equestrian statue of Philip Sheridan). Suicide has been legalized, and has been made generally and readily accessible in the newly established government "Lethal Chambers" being rapidly rolled out across every town and city.

Yikes!!! Nine minutes after American Airlines Flight #11 struck the North Tower, 90-plus floors above Lechters. "Ring this up first. I'm not leaving until I pay."


They were refrigerator magnets.
9/11 Receipt


The "Great Reset" makes more sense if you use "reset" as defined in Black’s Law Dictionary:


Combine that with the definition of "kleptocracy" and it all comes together.


More clown world...this time a US Navy veteran...


ZeroHedge - Apparently, there is no separation of Satan and State.


Today I learned a new word: ENSHITTIFICATION

Kinda just rolls off the tongue. LOL.

Last year, I coined the term 'enshittification,' to describe the way that platforms decay. That obscene little word did big numbers, it really hit the zeitgeist. I mean, the American Dialect Society made it their Word of the Year for 2023 (which, I suppose, means that now I'm definitely getting a poop emoji on my tombstone).

So what's enshittification and why did it catch fire? It's my theory explaining how the internet was colonized by platforms, and why all those platforms are degrading so quickly and thoroughly, and why it matters – and what we can do about it.

We're all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening, in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit.

It's frustrating. It's demoralizing. It's even terrifying.

I think that the enshittification framework goes a long way to explaining it, moving us out of the mysterious realm of the 'great forces of history,' and into the material world of specific decisions made by named people – decisions we can reverse and people whose addresses and pitchfork sizes we can learn.

Enshittification names the problem and proposes a solution. It's not just a way to say 'things are getting worse' (though of course, it's fine with me if you want to use it that way. It's an English word. We don't have der Rat für englische Rechtschreibung. English is a free for all. Go nuts, meine Kerle).

But in case you want to use enshittification in a more precise, technical way, let's examine how enshittification works.

Pluralistic: My McLuhan lecture on enshittification (30 Jan 2024)

Anything is possible...


...on twitter that is.


Jacques Devauld album art for "Space Dance" (Motown Sounds, 1978)