"The important thing is to see your hands in a dream,...in the dream in which I saw my hands, I looked in the mirror and my face was black, I'd turned into a nigger,..."

 

ELLE France's beauty editor, Jeanne Deroo, who is French (the folks who want you to know, despite their disgusting history, are not racist) "honoring" a black person (non-racially) because (after France's long, evil, and bloody racial history) she didn't know she was doing wrong - until someone black told her. I'm surprised she listened then. 

That's how things "work" in totally non-racial environments non-racial blacks (try to) maneuver non-racially - otherwise, they're out of the non-racial jobs the non-racists, like Jeanne Deroo, hold over their trying-to-be-non-racial heads - which is as fair and non-racial as it gets.

BTW - Jeanne Deroo will apologize (has apologized) and the controversy's all over, for her, now.

That's totally fair - by NewAge standards - and completely non-racial,...

Everybody knows - once you're "honored" - it's time for a celebration:

"Gay teen activist honored by Obama charged with sex crimes against a 14-yr-old boy"

Sigh. I'm learning to hate my memories. 

Especially while reading the news.

It occurred to me today that - if this product of foster care were honest about what traits I've observed in others as "human nature" in my lifetime - they would add up to abandonment, betrayal, cruelty, deception, delusion, evil, almost a crippling sense of insecurity (that must be covered at all times and at all costs), lying, lust (lots of lust) murder, and violence with a capital "V". They've also all been topped off with massive amounts of stupidity, piled high like "nuts" on a sundae, covering whatever brief interludes of love, and/or compassion, I've seen and received in facsimile.

Unfortunately, intelligence was what I was counting on,...

 

Knowing Adolf Hitler was a NewAge, vegetarian, occult-worshipping type, I can't grasp how - after years of kindergarten, elementary, jr. and senior high, and maybe even a college education - The Hitler Youth still grow into adulthood, hearing their master's call:

"Toxins are like cholesterol clogging an artery, except they block the path to woo-woo transcendence instead of the left atrium. Or, as Vanessa Grigoriadis puts it in New York magazine, “Food is the focus of an enormous amount of modern moralism ... One wants to be skinny because one wants to be healthy; one wants to be healthy because one wants to be good.” As religion declines among elite urbanites, a new scripture—“sprouting and enzymes and whatnot”—is swirling into the void.

The problem with this way of thinking is that food and weight are not matters of morality. Thin is not “good,” carbs are not “bad,” and in a world of actual pressing political and social ills, your dinner plate should not be the ground zero of your ethical renewal. Don’t call me evil—or “toxic”—because I’ve never quested after the liquid sublime. (Also, your breath smells like dandelion root.)

But the cleanse mentality is more than just judgmental and irritating: It’s dangerous. Making each meal a drama of discipline, deprivation, and control? Floating along on a superior high that isn’t really about how much weight you’re losing (but actually kind of is about how much weight you’re losing)? Seeking to express your achievements, be they moral, social, or financial, in the most visible terms you can manage? Does anyone else think this sounds a lot like an eating disorder?

Yep,...

 

Is this just foolish nonsense or is it more sinister than that?

"We are sorry and issue an official apology for our involvement and the involvement of our ancestors in the horrible institution of transatlantic slavery. The United States of America, France, and the United Kingdom should issue similar formal apologies for this evil institution that broke up families and caused generational hardships that continue to the present day."

Andrew Klavan says religion works, largely as I thought, after all:

  "If you don’t have a sense of evil and unfairness, I don’t think you can preach truly."

See? It's kind of a "birds of a feather" thing,...