{"id":42403,"date":"2025-06-09T15:19:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T15:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/?p=42403"},"modified":"2025-06-10T14:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T14:56:13","slug":"more-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/?p=42403","title":{"rendered":"More good news"},"content":{"rendered":"

from Daniel Pinchbeck; “We\u2019re experiencing an ever-intensifying coup<\/a>. I know for most people here this prospect still seems very remote and absurd*. But that doesn\u2019t mean it can\u2019t<\/p>\n

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or won\u2019t happen. Human beings are fragile and malleable”.<\/p>\n

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“Fear is a strong motivator”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Oh yes it is…feel safer yet?<\/p>\n

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…and is that a stealth helicopter or some voracious silicon-based lifeform surveilling for information closer in**?\u00a0 Well whichever it is hopefully our ancient sceptre here will deter it.<\/p>\n

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The possibility of surveillance failed to distract me, however, from<\/p>\n

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my [self-]appointed rounds, such as another grocery run over the hills, across Duck Flat<\/a><\/p>\n

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and up through Surprise Valley’s little towns [Eagleville; Cedarville]<\/p>\n

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to Alturas<\/a> [paintbrushes, thrift store, groceries]. Not long after noon I was back over<\/p>\n

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the Warners, duly fueled at Rabbit Traxx and headed south<\/p>\n

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to Nevada to investigate a promising looking little fenceline road<\/a><\/p>\n

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for the views.<\/p>\n

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…then down across Duck Flat without a flat<\/p>\n

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and lunch, such as it was, late at the summit,<\/p>\n

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home by three to finish the beer started up there where it was ten degrees cooler<\/p>\n

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and in the warmish evening enjoy fresh oysters from the Holiday<\/a><\/p>\n

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as well as better corn…only for L. to belatedly discover yet another intense aversion – mollusks!<\/p>\n

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All of which made for a very bad night in advance of June the 8th, a Day of Infamy at home where Our Lying Despot [OLD] unleashed the National Guard on LA while in the Mediterranean The Great Semitic Ally disappeared an entire relief ship headed for Palestine<\/a>.\u00a0 Just a normal day in the disintegrating world of [Project] 2025.\u00a0 As promised; what will 2026 bring [if we even get there]?<\/p>\n

*I have a hard time imagining who these people are, but I guess if you’re not payin’ attention…or only paying attention to Faux News, X or “Truth” Social.\u00a0 Which is to say by far the vast majority of\u00a0 American ‘consumers’. Once upon a time America had citizens and consumption was a wasting disease…arguably it still is.<\/p>\n

**Contemplating the world long ago through the lens of DMT*** it seemed a good case could be made that the insects [of Menlo Park anyway] were all remotely controlled by Japanese transistors but the antics of actual dragonflies appear considerably beyond the capabilities of silicon valley geniuses at present.\u00a0 Well at least until the Ukranians<\/a> turn their minds to it, as certainly no de-funded American science lab will be doing much anytime soon.<\/p>\n

***A solo outing under the auspices of Tryptamines sans Fronti\u00e9res<\/a> with neither Gurus nor Guidance. Mindbubble chiirpt! [mindbubble burst]<\/p>\n

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from Daniel Pinchbeck; “We\u2019re experiencing an ever-intensifying coup. I know for most people here this prospect still seems very remote and absurd*. But that doesn\u2019t mean it can\u2019t or won\u2019t happen. Human beings are fragile and malleable”. “Fear is a strong motivator”. Oh yes it is…feel safer yet? …and is that a stealth helicopter or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42403"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42457,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42403\/revisions\/42457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}