Like I've said for years now. George Orwell's "1984" isn't coming in some distant future.......it's here!

Even conservative Psychologist Jordan Peterson advocates the usage of magic mushrooms for medicinal purposes.

Well the headlines piqued my interest right away. I wanted to try it, until I saw the price tag. At $240 bucks for a 25.4 ounce bottle, my mouth dropped.

Nope. Robin Leach needs to be their pitchman. This is for "The Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" crowd.

It's been more than 25 years now since I married my beautiful Filipina.

I can remember when I announced it to my parents. My mother disapproved it.
And my father leaned over and asked...."Hey, does she have a sister!?!" lol

@ #7 Point taken. Individualism not to be confused with libertarianism. I probably should've said "Free-Thinkers"?

Let's just put it this way. The very fact that we're on a blog-site right now and are able to discuss all these various ideas of what should and shouldn't be, without fear of Government Agents knocking on your door wanting to talk to you , or even apprehending you and locking you up.

That's the difference between us and China. IMHO

@#3 Bored

Yep, it's Authoritarianism (China) vs. Individualism (the West) And like you said I'm not sure which system will prevail

I'm still waiting for the Maxwell Smart Shoe-phone.

China created a consumer-oriented society with all our capital, and subsequently lost control of the people. The liberal middle-class it made craves more creative diversion. Now, decades later, the Chi-Com party elites wanna to reign them back in and close Pandora's box. All that's gonna happen with this new policy is that they'll bore these people to death. Nobody's gonna watch that stuff.

The ultra-conservative nature of the party elites will actually turn out to be their Achilles'Heel.

I remember eating the sugarcube laced with a couple drops of the Polio vaccine when I was around 5 or 6 years old (1961~62) at the local Elementary School.

Can't these clinics get police protection!?!

Remember "Radio Free Europe" The USA needs to establish a "Internet Free China" Something that gets past their firewalls. You're a big IT guy Rogers work on that.

I remember watching this movie as a kid (12~13 years old). I'm astonished at how accurate some of his "prophecies" were.

Rogers, could you please remove my Blog entry. I didn't see That Corky had already done it.

Wow, another favorite singer of mine passes away. I'm starting to read these more often nowadays.

Here's my favorite:
"The Year Clayton Delaney Died"

@#5 TOR

Yeah, that's another one, but mostly you'll hear Joto (the j pronounced like an H)

Down here in the Las Cruces/El Paso area, the Mexican culture is dominant, and has been for 50 some years now. I worked side by side with these Mexican-Americans for over 25 years and I've heard them use the word "Joto" thousands of times. It's the spanish equivalent to the english word F****t. They'll use it as a jab to one another jokingly, horse-playing etc.

Good luck in trying to make them "sensitive"

"Native American cultures seem to have far greater awareness of the delicate nature of human habitat, compared to our culture."

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Which leads me to ponder lately; is the modern high-tech ,consumer-oriented society sustainable?

This is like something straight out of "The Onion". But it's not!?!

And that's the disturbing part.

When W. Bush took us into Afghanistan in 2001, I dropped my face into my hands and said in dismay: "This is just gonna be Vietnam in the sand"

The U S Military Industrial Complex won this one....again.

#6> Yep, I agree.

This is what 30 years of tax cuts to the Rich gets you....nothing! Just the vulgar, mega-rich.

We're broke and we owe them our ---. China's strong and flush with money. The 21st Century will be theirs.

God help us.

#2> So True.

I remember hearing stories from my WW2 veteran Father about growing up on a farm in South Carolina, during the Depression. They had cows and hogs, grew their own food and canned. That's how many Americans survived back then.

Those days are over. We're totally dependent on companies to provide. And despite the huge advance in high tech, we've lost all our privacy. The surveillance capabities of all the various law enforcement agencies are chilling.

Welcome to Corporate Totalitarianism!!

I'm very disturbed by recent events of worldwide deludges and wildfires. I'm in my 60's, so I might outlive this.

But I told my 20 something year old son , if the Apocalypse comes, go back to your Mother's people in the Philippines and get with your cousins. If the need be, they still know how to go primitive. He started to wave it off, but then I interjected. You can become a tribal chieftain with 8 wives and dozens of concubines...He began to muse.

Had to give him a motivator.

To confirm this is indeed true, watch "Trailer Park Boys" on Netflix.

It's absolutely hilarious!

I was a part of the Marine Honor Guard the day of his inauguration in 1977. Carter walked down the street instead of being driven. I stood at Parade Dress for over an hour. It was sooo cold. My feet were frost bit.