Sink the Pink

This is the only appropriate place for pink to appear on an NFL field!

It's that time of the year again.

Yes, folks, we must all do our part to RAISE AWARENESS.

I've certainly done my part a few times now in the past several years.

After all, as an avid NFL fan, the spectacle of all the pink all over the place every October certainly serves as an all important reminder!

Millions upon millions (if not billions) of dollars are riding on all this AWARENESS!

Many bloggers and commenters in our fringe sector of teh interwebz oft raise many different points on how all this Pink in the NFL is a concerted effort of feminists to impinge on one of the last true male institutions that celebrates true meritocracy and unabashed expression of masculine aggression. No doubt, the feminists who support such things really do support all this pink invading male spectator sporting events. Awareness is a good thing, right!?

Seems like even the feminists are getting in on the act...Jezebel.com writer, Erin Ryan (not linking to Jezebel, google it yourself if you like), writes in her recent article, The NFL's Campaign Against Breast Cancer Is a Total Scam:

The NFL claims that its pink philanthropy efforts "support the fight against breast cancer" by "promoting awareness" and providing funds to the American Cancer Society. But what they're mostly promoting is, uh, buying NFL gear, the profits from which are overwhelmingly pocketed by the NFL.

Of course, the Jezebeller's feminist-focused point is that not enough money being raised by all these sales is designated for the actual research for the cure...and like most feminists, she's making the marxist class warfare angle - don't buy the pink, it enriches the already rich Billionaire NFL owners, instead of most of it  going for the womynz!

Since the program's inception four years ago, the NFL has raised $3 million for breast cancer. In 2009, the League made $8.5 billion. Last year, they made $9.5 billion. Commissioner Roger Goodell has set a revenue goal of $25 billion per year by the year 2027. A million per year out of between $8.5 and $9.5 billion in revenues? Pardon me while I don't slobber all over the NFL's pink-drenched marketing campaign.

Like most feminists, she misses the forest for the trees. Besides, most of the manosphere folks that believe the pink-ification of the NFL is primarily a feminist agenda are mistaken.

Here's the lady responsible for this eyesore in the football stadiums across the nation:

Center: Tanya Snyder, wife of Redskins owner Daniel Snyder, NFL Breast Cancer Awareness Spokesperson

 She's the wife of a corporate mass media marketing industry mogul who survived breast cancer herself. The pink campaign is just another highly successful marketing campaign to create more demand for the services provided by the Mammogram industry, of which the American Cancer Society is a most lucrative partner in getting the masses to demand their services.

AWARENESS merchandise is just the way in which the NFL is paid off by the American Cancer Society to promote the real agenda:

 WOMEN 40 OR OLDER SHOULD GET A MAMMOGRAM EVERY YEAR

 Why would the American Cancer society advocate that women radiate their breasts once a year after the age of 40? Surely they just want to save lives!

Cancer prevention expert, Professor emeritus at Univeristy of Illinois School of Public Health, Chicago, Samuel S. Epstein, disagrees:

However, the FDA remains strangely unaware that radiation from routine premenopausal mammography poses significant and cumulative risks of breast cancer. This is also contrary to conventional assurances that radiation exposure from mammography is trivial, about 1/ 1,000 of a rad, and similar to just that from a chest X-ray. However, the routine practice of taking two films of each breast results in exposure of about 0.4 rads, focused on the breast rather than on the entire chest. Thus, premenopausal women undergoing annual screening over a ten-year period are exposed to a total of at least four rads for each breast, at least eight times greater radiation than FDA's "cancer risk" level. Such high radiation exposure approximates to that of Japanese women living approximately one mile away from the site of the Hiroshima atom bomb explosion.

Good thing we have all the pink to remind all the women at age 40 to begin their annual dosage of radiation to their breasts...and we're not even mentioning all that radiation she's exposed to if she flies frequently and forgoes the gate rape option and favors TSA radiation "security."

Why, after 10 or so years, when she's 50...why her life will have been saved when the Mammogram detects a lump! A decade plus of regularly radiating her breasts would have nothing to do with it...right?! At least she followed the conventional wisdom!

EARLY DETECTION IS THE BEST PREVENTION

The best prevention for loss of profits from a most lucrative industry, that is.

From  American Cancer Society: The World's Wealthiest "Nonprofit" Institution

The ACS has close connections to the mammography industry. Five radiologists have served as ACS presidents, and in its every move, the ACS reflects the interests of the major manufacturers of mammogram machines and film, including Siemens, DuPont, General Electric, Eastman Kodak, and Piker. In fact, if every woman were to follow ACS and NCI mammography guidelines, the annual revenue to health care facilities would be a staggering $5 billion, including at least $2.5 billion for premenopausal women.

Promotions of the ACS continue to lure women of all ages into mammography centers, leading them to believe that mammography is their best hope against breast cancer.

But it's not just he expensive mammogram machines, jobs for licensing and certifying mammogram technicians, or inflated billings by healthcare insurance companies that are counting on all this raising of AWARENESS!

As Professor Epstein reiterates:

Five radiologists have served as presidents of the ACS. In its every move, the ACS promotes the interests of the major manufacturers of mammography machines, particularly the latest digital machines. These are four times more expensive, but no more effective than the film machines.

The mammography industry conducts "research" for the ACS and its grantees, serves on its advisory boards, and donates considerable funds. In virtually all its actions, the ACS has been and remains strongly linked with the industry. An ACS communications director admitted the obvious in a 1999 article published by the Massachusetts Women's Community's journal Cancer. "Mammography today is a lucrative [and] highly competitive business."

Ah, but all this Pink inspired awareness is not just for the benefit of the Mammogram industry...let's not forget Big Pharma as well:

The ACS conflicts of interest extend well beyond the mammography industry. The ACS has received contributions in excess of $100,000 from a wide range of "Excalibur (industry) Donors," who manufacture carcinogenic products. These include petrochemical companies (DuPont, BP and Pennzoil), Big Pharma (AstraZenceca, Bristol Myers Squibb, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck & Company and Novartis), and cosmetic companies (Christian Dior, Avon, Revlon and Elizabeth Arden).

October AWARENESS merchandise is just the way in which the NFL is allowed to garner their share of the loot from unsuspecting folks thinking they're contributing to "the war against cancer," when what they're really contributing to is the profits of a multitude of industries and "non-profits."

There's all the motive$ you need to understand why the NFL goes all pink every October.

 Since I do not now, nor have I ever worn a single article of pink in my entire life, I guess I'm not a REAL MAN. Somehow, I think I'll manage to carry on.

Shadows on the Wall

 I took Philosophy 101 as a sophomore in college. At that time, I just didn't get it. It bored me. I just didn't understand how all these books about philosophy and the old, dead men that wrote them, had anything to do with the actual life I was living. Although I did give the class a real effort towards what I thought should be an "easy A" (I got a C) I just didn't have enough experience and introspection to understand the appeal of studying what I then considered as nothing more than intellectual navel gazing.


Autodidacticism enabled by daily exploring of teh interwebz for over a decade has most assuredly shown me the error of my ways. Philosophy is at it's core, the search for the truth. There is nothing more interesting, nay, utterly fascinating, than to discover that something you've believed in and followed your entire life, has been nothing but deliberately fostered falsehoods and delusions, indoctrinated for the express purpose of controlling your behavior.

It is the very core of the Matrix allegory...which has now become the predominant zeitgeist of this virtual place we now call the manosphere or androsphere.

Everyone is 'taking the red pill' these days, eh?

Except everyone has gotten there own definitions of what exactly is the 'red pill' and what is the 'blue pill.'

Boiled down to it's basic core, the red pill is truth, the blue pill, lies. Lies that keep us unaware of the metaphorical matrix that has been constructed to enslave humanity and harvest our life force, our energy, our very essence, to fuel it's own purpose.


Like a stagecoach horse with blinders on, allowing it only to see the road ahead so that it can concentrate solely on it's task it's owner demands of it, so to are we the sheeple of this Brave New World Order given our own set of blinders so that we stay firmly plugged in to the Matrix, laboring for the benefit of the system, rather than ourselves.

The Matrix is very real, and we are all plugged into it in some way or another. But the idea itself, of keeping human beings enslaved by limiting their ability to see the bigger picture of their existence, so that they do not even know they are enslaved, is an old one...very old.

Behold! human beings living in a underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the den; here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them, being prevented by the chains from turning round their heads. Above and behind them a fire is blazing at a distance, and between the fire and the prisoners there is a raised way; and you will see, if you look, a low wall built along the way, like the screen which marionette players have in front of them, over which they show the puppets.

I see.
And do you see, I said, men passing along the wall carrying all sorts of vessels, and statues and figures of animals made of wood and stone and various materials, which appear over the wall? Some of them are talking, others silent.

You have shown me a strange image, and they are strange prisoners.
Like ourselves, I replied; and they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave?

True, he said; how could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?

And of the objects which are being carried in like manner they would only see the shadows?

Yes, he said.
And if they were able to converse with one another, would they not suppose that they were naming what was actually before them?

Very true.
And suppose further that the prison had an echo which came from the other side, would they not be sure to fancy when one of the passers-by spoke that the voice which they heard came from the passing shadow?

No question, he replied.
To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.

The red pill | blue pill allegory is really nothing more than the offer to Socrates allegorical prisoners to allow them the opportunity to take off the chains and climb out of the cave and see the world as it really is.

Come see the truth...or don't. You can stay right where you are, comfortable amongst your fellow prisoners,  firmly enthralled and entertained with watching the shadows on the wall. These shadows, they have messages for you, messages that will help you bear your existence, chained and enslaved.


From The Allegory of the Cave:

Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance.  We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know.  When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives.  But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better.  In fact, you want more!  It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care.  Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant!

In the 21st century, our cave is our matrix. Our views of the world and reality, nothing more than the shadows of lies, delusions and illusions projected not on a cave wall, but into our minds, by our televisions, movie screens, bill boards, newspapers, magazines, books and all other manifestations of mass media.

Take the red pill...or take off your chains and get out of the cave. Live a real life as you were meant to.

Or, take the blue pill, keep the chains on, and spend the rest of your existence in the bowels of that dark cave...the light outside is too bright and dangerous anyways.

A Salute to Conventional Wisdom

Originally published in bad faith...

Population control is about so much more than simply reducing the number of births.

“Conventional Wisdom” promulgated through the technologically-driven mainstream media, is one of the primary tools of the social engineers in their efforts to control the population of we the sheeple…the proles of our declining Western Civilization.

I know this, because I’ve educated myself about this by relentlessly pursuing what I could discern of the real truths about the many different topics in which lies are commonly accepted by the masses as truths.

Teh Interwebz is the University of Autodidactism.

At this University, I have deliberately belabored to see just how far the rabbit hole goes, and I don’t think I’m anywhere near to finding the bottom of it.

Four years of discovering the truth by reading, experimenting and sharing experiences amongst fellow truth-seekers on teh interwebz provided a much more realistic, practical and applicable education, than the 5 years I spent attending my State’s institution of higher learning to earn a Bachelors degree…

…or the two years I spent working in the belly-of-the-beast, as a unionized Government cubicle jockey, pretending to be productive and feigning labor at maximum capacity to fit in with the rest of the bureaucratic parasites that never did anything productive or meaningful, but existed solely to consume taxes. Everywhere I looked, I saw actors and actresses, playing the role of  professionals; conveying the impression that all their make work projects accomplished more than simply using every last penny budgeted so they could justify submitting an even larger budget to waste the next year.

Getting laid off from that job was at the time quite disconcerting - good money, easy work. But in retrospect, it was one of the best things to have ever happened to me. Here I am, more than a decade later, and I cannot imagine what life would be like doing a meaningless job for so long, one that produced no value other than to justify the next budget cycle's inevitable increase. The job was soul killing. I didn't know it then, but I know it now. The look in so many of my fellow Government employees eyes...everyone, always ready to spew out rationalizations and justifications at a moments notice as to how and why they "earned" their lucrative salaries and collectively bargained benefits.

Public academia, and public service. Two sectors where one is supposed to learn and grow into productive, valuable citizens, contributing to the benefit of society. Hah. That's not the lessons I learned in either sphere.

I learned far more about the world as it really is, and about myself and my place in the real world, from the influences and insights gained from blogs, message boards and websites that inspired true introspection and productive ruminations…than I ever did watching tell-a-vision, the movies, or from the approximately 13 wasted years I spent in the State of Hawaii’s institutionalized public schooling system.

I discovered that everything I thought was real and true, were nothing but lies, misconceptions, misdirections and misinformation designed precisely to capitalize on, and exploit my health and my productive capacity. All for the benefit of the system, at the expense of my mental, spiritual and physical well-being.

It was never a case of simply falling for any old story found anywhere on the world wide web. Like everything else in so-called civilization, it’s full of bullshit and lies as well.

But the difference is, you can actually read something that may sound crazy at first, but after some introspective ruminations and observing various manifestations of those ideas in real life, and eventually you discover that whatever THEY SAY is really just another echo of deception, reiterated in ignorance by minds programmed by our homogenized, mass media culture, rife with misformed disinformation.

You should never take anything found on teh interwebz (or anywhere else) at face value. You have to discern which virtual tirades, manifestos, declarations or diatribes are justifiable and based on truths…and which ones are crackpot lunacies and monomaniacal mental disorders vomiting their mental wastes into the virtual ether.

Perhaps you may think this blog is one such outpost of insane drivel. I make no claim of having a 100% grasp of sanity, nor do I claim to understand REALITY in perfection. I only know that up to this point, I've discovered things that work for me.

YMMV and all that.

For myself, I find nothing more convincing than experiences and anecdotes from anonymous authors who may be writing thousands of miles away from wherever you are logged on…who can describe behaviors, results or phenomena exactly the way you perceive or experience these things too.

I find the miasma of compelling anecdotes that exist as a multitude of anonymous testimonies in posts, articles, blogging entries and commentary, a convincing narrative that conveys varying degrees of undeniable verisimilitude, especially when you experience these truths yourself.

The similarities in human experiences that cut across cultural, socio-economic and religious differences, is another consideration in attempting to comprehend the enormity and ubiquity of deception present in our modern mass media shaped culture.

At no other time in history, could we human beings communicate near instantaneously with other people all over the planet, and compare notes and share observations and experiences like we can now. When one reads enough perspectives from enough people from all over the globe, you begin to see that as humanity, despite our cultural and ethnic differences, we are more alike than many would like to think.

Many a blogger and commenter in the “manosphere”  has referred to or utilized the Matrix allegory.

For this red pill eater, it never gets old.

Because it is, in fact, a metaphor that is apropos to so many different facets of life in our brave new world order.

We are in the dying throes of a declining civilization, and the entities behind the causes of this decline are desperately trying to keep the lid on the Pandora’s box of ugly truths that would expose all of the lies and deceits they’ve inculcated into our mass consciousness.

They’ve literally poisoned our minds and spirit through the pervasive influence of mass media and our institutionalized educational curriculum.

They’ve literally poisoned our bodies by adulterating our food and water supplies.

They’ve altered our minds and personalities through their manipulation of the conventional wisdom of our culture, by literally and figuratively emasculating the males and masculinizing the females, to foster a ubiquitous interpersonal relationship dysfunction syndrome amongst the populous.

They’ve erected elaborate barriers in our mental programming to prevent us from creating meaningful and lifelong connections with each other, be it romantic, kinship, or even true and meaningful friendships.

Relationships that are life affirming and generate positive feedback loops and inspire individual growth have been hopelessly corrupted by a million whispers of suggestion and subversive thoughts…subconsciously role-modeled behaviors and ideas that saturate every aspect of our mass media broadcasts.

There’s a reason it’s called TV PROGRAMMING.

We are endlessly inundated with depictions and portrayals of the various models of dysfunction and pathology of the human psyche; normalizing deviancy and destroying standards that were once commonly accepted values…all to program our minds to make us much more susceptible to their marketing propaganda to manipulate our behavior for their lucrative marketing enticement schemes.

So take the red pill. Set your mind free. Accept nothing at face value.

Not from the Government, nor from the mainstream mass media.

Always question authority…perhaps not openly — as that could be hazardous to your personal well-being — but at least always in your own mind.

The biggest lie of this epoch in human history, is that our Government-media complex is benevolent and working for our best interests. Don't believe the biggest lie of them all....that they are here to help us. To fix our problems. There's nothing to fix.

The only interest they are working for, is how best to shear the wealth, labor, productivity and life force from we, the sheeple. We are human resources, worth only the value we produce as we perpetuate the system as we endlessly consume....and in turn, are eventually consumed.

You may not be able to break free from all of the population control measures they have put into place…
…but at least give it your best effort to refuse and resist wherever and whenever you recognize the dialectical agenda in effect.

It is better to die on your feet, resisting and reveling in every moment of your free will…than to live on your knees, broken and controlled by a system that exists solely to exploit you.

 I AM NOT A NUMBER, I AM A FREE MAN!!!