This week’s newsletter, which my first since we returned from a long break in USA with my wife’s sisters and nieces is a mish-mash of awesome info. 

What a time we had, we popped to the white house. 

Sadly, Biden was already in bed and Harris doesn’t do interviews, probably best as Floyd finally showed his political hand in the gift shop. 
#ultraMAGA

Can you imagine a Trump:Godzilla 2024 ticket…..

The gift shop was doing a brisk trade and I have sorted some xmas presents for my friends.

Natalie found her spiritual home in NYC.

I posed up a storm in our NYC hotel foyer. 

But the best bit is just spending time with family. 

As a result of all this frivolity, here is a selection of cool stuff I have read, thought or watched the last 3 weeks. 

I randomly came across this book, after seeing an interview with a former child actor about how prevalent abuse (of all kinds) was within the industry. 

She was a child star in the Nickelodeon hit show iCarly, and started acting at the age of 6.

But this was very much her mother’s dream, not hers. 

It is written in an incredible way that is painfully funny (laugh out loud funny), but the detail can be quite upsetting. Her prose is amazing, her insights as she recovers are incredible, and it is a tour deforce in enmeshed trauma between mother and child. 

The number of reviews says it all. 

And I also enjoyed. 

There is some crazy stuff in here:

  • Fentanyl (deliberately smuggled into the USA to disrupt their society is the argument)
  • tiktok (not just a fun app, but a way to disrupt society is the argument)

The goals are:

A chinese govt funded study of “digital propaganda and opinion manipulation in social media platforms” explained that “emotional content can easily lead the audience to have the illusion of ‘independent thinking’ and atttribute irrational emotions to ‘righteous indignation’ or ’empathy’, which intensifies the value of the delusion.”

– C19: they bought all the PPE in Oct/Nov in the world as they knew the virus had been leaked, and they couldn’t stop it.

So, they decided to maximise the damage. They also lied about deaths during their total lockdown to promote lockdowns in the west to disrupt our economy and lives, despite our own pandemic plans specifically stating that lockdowns should be avoided due to collateral damage being too severe.

Bonkers, a bit scary but easy to read.

Pairs up nicely with a great substack about the outrageous rise of “Neotoddlerism”.

“In infants, the chief causes of outrageous behavior — impulsivity, grandiosity, attention-seeking, and a sense of entitlement — are considered normal, but in adults they’re key symptoms of the “cluster-B” personality disorders. All four such disorders — narcissistic, histrionic, antisocial and borderline — are characterized by overemotionality and a need for validation. They’re also associated with heavy social media use, likely because dramatic cluster-B behaviors, such as playing the victim and catastrophizing, excel at getting attention on such platforms.”

“Instead of trying to produce the best arguments, neotoddlers try to produce the most outrageous video clips, which typically involves vandalism, desecration, or some other kind of public meltdown. Thus, they outrage others by embracing their own outrage and lashing out at the world. This surrender to their own impulses makes them first-order thinkers, meaning they consider immediate consequences but not consequences of consequences.”

A brilliant read if you want to make some sense of the world we live in today.

Click it 👇

I have also just started reading this: 

I found it after reading a thread by the author on Differences of sex development (DSD), which may be (or may not be) pertinent to the two boxers at the Olympics.

This was a refreshingly data-driven, common sense piece of information, rather than hysteria on each side of the debate. 

You can read it here, click it 👇: