Victims of America

I often see letters to the editors and postings on various websites about social imbalances, but almost always without any realistic suggestions of how to solve this ongoing problem. Instead many/ most of these people, canalizing their frustrations into writings, keep looking for the "strong man with the magic wand" that in a second or less will make everything good for his followers. A sad delusion which reminds me of the hordes of naive Germans sitting in a crumbling Berlin, but still feeling sure that Hitler will save them with some "master plan" of their own imagination. Such a dependence on "strong men" isn't only stupid, but may also be turn socially suicidal, an unpleasant truth which the believers back away from, still desperately looking for a more convenient life lie about a "savior".

 

I've learnt a lot about the thinking of ordinary, non-rich Americans by reading some of the postings on these websites. For instance it seems that most/many of them don't believe in Global warming, in science as such, unpleasant historical facts, all of which they just refuse to take into account for e.g. whom they will vote for. As to the insurrection on January 6th which everybody is thinking of these days "it didn't happen or was done by the Democrats/FBI/Obama/Biden/Nancy Pelosi" to incriminate the "strong, non-criminal man, Trump". A "proof" of the strength of Trump is "that he has a strong hold on Putin", not he, but the Russian dictator is the "puppet on a string". Somehow Don the Con has attained the image of being a self-made, honest businessman. His father giving him a large sum of money, $400.000.000, which he squandered on wild schemes, the many bankruptcies, and all sorts of legal problems are being "explained" by "evil people are out for him". They keep trusting him and accusing Obama, Joe and Hunter Biden of being the "real culprits who are scheming to rob the ordinary hard-working American of money. This money they obtain through taxes which they are going to transfer to China."

I haven't seen any of these crazy/deluded people attacking their hero, Don the Con, over this evil tax scheme, and I bet they will deny its existence or blame Obama or Biden. Nonetheless it's obvious from what I've seen in postings and letters to the editors that what is of most concern to these people is their own economics. They know that they can't have a good life in a country like America without money. I suppose it's possible to live on the monthly Social Security-check, but still, it only replaces part of the income of most of the retired citizens so it's understandable that they are worried and driven by worry into accepting lies and crazy notions of Don the Con and his henchmen. To them it's obvious that Biden not only wants to take away their guns and social security, but also to start a civil war. Another concern is their fright of becoming car-less: The gasoline powered cars will be extinct by 2025 which will leave everyone without a car as most of them can't afford buying a new electric car. Also, no one wants these electric cars which they see as new and strange, a crazy whim of a president they don't love like they love Don the Con, no matter what ....

It's tempting to see these people as stupid, but they are not: They watch the system, which they know - at least up to a point - and they evaluate it as something of vital interest to people who can't stuff their pockets with money from others. One can't reproach them for this knowledge which everything in their life has taught them, over and over again: This is how the system is working so let us do everything in our power to stop that boat from rocking and stick with "the man with the magic wand" ....

Social Security in retirement | SSA

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https://www.ssa.gov › retirement

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/medicare-advantage-medigap-enrollment-trap-switch-preexisting-conditions/ 

 

To Take Ownership of One's Body And Soul

 

In 2024 we know what it means when a young and pretty actress has to take off her clothes for a movie director, producer or the like, and that hard-earned knowledge protects her – up to a point. The movieman Harvey Weinstein was stopped in his tracks when he was convicted of assaults and sexual harassments, but before that he raped and took advantage of several young and ambitious actresses who filed against him. 

 

However, we are not blind to the fact that many other powerful men have been doing what he did, and that they or someone like them may still be doing it. To them it may, even be some kind of “male sport” which they don’t see as a crime.

How would these "fun loving" men have felt about the beautiful, young Austrian actress who in 1933 took off her clothes and ran through a forest, totally naked, before she took a swim in a lake, stark naked. Was she exploited by the director, Gustav Machatý? Naaahhh, I don't think so, and the movie, “Ecstacy”, was about a young and beautiful, but frustrated woman who marries a wealthy but much older and impotent man whom she replaces with a young, handsome and virile engineer. Thus the daring nude bathing scene was in accordance with the movie, which made her famous. 

She changed her name from Hedwig Kiesler into the much more flashy Hedy Lamarr, which is known even today, and not only for the many blockbusters she made in Hollywood, but also for her insight into technology, mathematics and science as such. Actually, she is the one who invented an important part of the internet communication system we use today.

I think that what made her able to make her name in a movie like “Ecstacy”, at a time period that wasn’t used to and therefore got shocked at seeing nakedness and female orgasms on the big screen, was a certain ruthlessness. She didn’t feel exploited by having to undress and show her nakedness in front of either the director or the besotted public all over the world. To me it seems that she sort of took the full ownership of her body and used it as she chose. For instance, she was married six times after fleeing her first and very wealthy husband who more or less kept her prisoner as a “symbol of male status”, a signal to his specific world of wealth and power, which she turned down in order to make her own. It seems that all of her husbands and lovers were powerful men, and she may have exploited some of them in a conventional manner, but she herself, wasn’t subdued by them. Or put in another manner: She didn’t become an obvious Harvey Weinstein-like VICTIM, on the contrary.

Bad boy Harvey doesn’t exactly look like a guy anybody would lust for, but he did hold a power, that would open certain doors in the movie industry that were of use for a lot of young actors and actresses. Did he go too far in his sex-ploitation and demands or was he sent into prison by all these young women because they found other ways to make an impression on the right people? Or, has the times really changed that much that the world of the ugly, non-attractive, but powerful men has been invaded by women who simply don’t accept more of that? People who dream of a career without being victimizing? I, for one, hope so ....

 

https://apnews.com/article/harvey-weinstein-verdict-los-angeles-rape-trial-1a3a9db4e4589a9e0fb03214bc01fecf 

 

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2017/10/27/weinstein-scandal-complete-list-accusers/804663001/ 

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Status And Subjection to the Principles of Victorian Morality

A pretty statue - some may even call it beautiful even though it doesn't quite fit our ideas of the looks of the one it depicts: Queen Victoria (24th May 1819–22nd January 1901) depicted by the sculptor as the 18 years old queen at her coronation. Victoria's reign ran for 63 years and 216 days, and one of the ultimate heydays of it was when The British Parliament granted her the additional title of Empress of India in 1877. Actually that seems to have been the doing of the wise Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, 1. Earl of Beaconsfield who knew that the queen just loved flattery and the new title of Empress certainly was flattering. 

Besides, knowing the queen as he did, he must have known that she wouldn't be too happy when her daughter and namesake, Victoria, came into her title as German empress which were bound to happen as her husband, Friedrich, was to inherit the title from his father. However, Vicky, as this English born German empress was called, didn't enjoy that title for long as her husband, Emperor Friedrich, died 99 days after becoming the emperor of Germany in 1888.

 

Vicky, Kaiserin Friedrich

Vicky took after her mother, but was prettier although not a raving beauty as one of her sisters, the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria: Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848-1939). 

She, who was the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria, is the sculptor who made the statue of her mother as a young woman, ready to take on the obligations as a queen. It was erected in 1893 and received a grade II in 1969. Louise became a widow in 1914 when her homosexual husband, John Campbell, the 9. Duke of Argyll, died. There have been some weird stories of their ill-suited marriage which was more of convenience than anything else: He liked boys and men, and she had a fling with one of her art teachers. Times were different then and both of them had to dance to the pipes of morality.

Louise as an elderly, but still quite pretty woman 

 

https://www5.open.ac.uk/research-projects/making-britain/content/queen-victoria-becomes-empress-india 

 

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Samson - The Biblical Superman Who Fell Victim To A Woman

Beautiful? Yes. Seductive and cruel? Well, so they say, and that's how modern people remember Delilah.

Even though being portrayed as some sort of Superman in The Old Testament (Judges 16) the Israelite Samson had the misfortune to fall in love with the seductive Delilah. What he didn't know was that she was a Philistine, had been paid to entrap him to reveal the source of his uncommon strength. 

As he was known to fight lions, hands to claws, and to always win all of his fights he was an uncommonly strong adversary who had to be curbed for the Philistines to win over the Israelites. Before these enemies of Israel came to think of Delilah and her use as a seductress many, according to legend actually an entire army, had been slain by Samson using nothing but the jawbone of a donkey. Everything about him seemed supernatural, but Delilah proved that when it came to love and sex he was not one of the most difficult men to handle. Was he naive when he revealed the source of his strength? Yes, definitely and very much in love although he, being born a Nazirite, was meant to live a chaste and law abiding life and certainly not marry a Philistine woman.

Eye to eye? Yes, but Delilah is out to cheat her lover, Samson into betraying his secret

When he told her that the source of his uncommon strength was his long, uncut hair, she took advantage of him. When he fell asleep she had a servant to cut off his hair. Also he was blinded by the Philistine who then used him as a strong, blind "working machine", forcing him to grind grain in a mill at Gaza. However, they forgot to keep an eye on his hair so they didn't notice when it grew out again, which according to legend was the first step in giving him back his lost strength. Well, before that he had the chance of proving a certain amount of slyness after having been such a fool with Delilah: The Philistine brought him into their temple of Dagon, and when he asked for permission to rest against the pillars they gave him leave to do so. Resting he prays to his god, Jahwe, and fast as lightning he regains his full strength, tears down the pillars of the Philistine temple, thus kills both himself and a lot of Philistines when the rubble hit them.

Wow, what a hero, but what about Delilah? What happened to her? It's not known which makes it even more ironic that she and her name is what have been remembered of the legend, and not as much the strongman, Samson. As it is most see her as the epitome of the sexy, treacherous and basically sinful woman although she is not the one who are being led by her sexual drive. It's very typical that the male's behavior which in this case means that he doesn't live up to his obligations as a Nazirite in the end is blamed on the woman. She is not the one being driven by sexual urges, he is, but she is blamed for making him feel what he feels. It's like reading about the way Middle East women are being seen by the men of their faith an nation ....

https://www.grunge.com/494258/the-untold-truth-of-samson-and-delilah/ 

 

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Delilah 

 

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Playing by - Or Discarding - The Rules?

I know that's the general impression, and I admit that so much speak for it being the truth about a large part of this group of Trump-followers. However, I don't find this condescending statement to be the only "truth" about his boisterous and seemingly non-informed fans. 

From all that has been made known years ago about Donald J. Trump as a person, a public figure as well as a politician he is not someone one should expect to stand a chance of ever becoming the president of USA. Nonetheless, that's what happened and now he is desperate enough to opt for one more chance of gaining access to The White House and thus the "immunity" he needs. Everything considered the chances of that wish coming true ought to be slim, but after all, that's up to the voters. As it is, what strikes most of his non-followers as extremely strange is that not only has he fans, but they seem to adore him, yes, even think of him as some sort of "savior" which means that they will be voting for him. How is that even possible when he, to all accounts, is a sociopatic egomaniac who only thinks of himself and his own gains, neither his country nor his voters? Not even all of his followers deny that that's the case, but they don't seem to take the knowledge of his culpability to heart and back away from any association with him: WHY???????

This man is anything but a new "Jesus", and it's obvious to non-followers that he is not even a friend of people like the ones that appear at his rallies or who vote for him. Actually, before he gained his president status of power and importance, he has uttered contempt for people like those who now are following him and who aim to secure his position. For instance, he complained that they "looked poor" and poverty is something he abhors. To be poor to him means being what he shuns at all costs: One turns into a loser, a fool, and thus a laughing stock.

OK, Mr. Ex-president, follow your own advice on women and try to grab the feminine main symbol of America by the pussy as that's how you see your country

Well, one thing is what this man does both in his private life and in The White House, another is how his followers feel about him. Although they don't seem to be blind to his many flaws, I have a strong impression that they love him for them. That means that these flaws are something they like about him i.e. because they "translate" them into something they are not: A sort of "freedom fight". Seemingly he got away with a lot many of his followers got caught up doing and that's what they like about him. He is not even ashamed of what he is or has done: Normally people who have done what he has, both in his private as well as his political life feel ashamed at being caught in the act. After being caught these people blush, stammer, and excuse their misbehavior as best they can, but not Trump. No, normal excuses or explanations are not for him, as he just turns around and accuses those who exposed him and his various misdeeds. Actually, that's the tactic of Goebbels which he seems to have taken to heart and uses without regrets even when people prove that he is lying: He doesn't follow the rules, tacit or general, which proves that he doesn't feel they are his concern, and his followers love it.

All rules for socially acceptable behavior go on some kind of tacit adherence to the understanding of good-behavior in that country and time. In former times in our part of the world everything went by Christian doctrines that fenced in people and their lives: "You're a good person if you do this or that, but not if you do something else." Everybody knew these doctrines as they were common knowledge and thus their guidelines in life. However, in the recent centuries much of that has been assailed by new teachings that disrupt the impression of a safe world to many, and many individuals of today hate it. Somehow the philanderer, the (presumably) pedophile, the rapist, the fraud, the bankrupt "billionaire", the snob, etc., etc. has come to represent the opposite of what he is. People feel that he is their safeguard against all kinds of social changes which they fear as e.g. the freedom of women, abortion, non-religion, racial acceptance, etc., etc.. The so-called American school system have prepared them for someone who are more words than genuine promises of a better world, and it's very, very sad.

 

https://www.playbytherules.net.au/about-pbtr 

 

https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/2018/08/09/play-by-the-rules-but-be-ferocious/ 

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/05/trump-supporters-republican-approval-cnn-town-hall/674142/ 

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/willskipworth/2023/10/18/the-biden-harris-campaign-already-has-more-followers-on-truth-social-than-the-trump-campaign/?sh=29e793bd139e 

 

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The Presumed Honor of Being Sacrificed

 

A well-known scenery for Christians and others who know of the Christian religion: Crucifixion was a severe punishment, and two of these men, hanging on a cross, were considered sinners, i.e. thieves and robbers, who (more or less) deserved to be punished by death. The execution of them had nothing to do with a sacrifice to a god or anyone else which means that it had no special symbolic value as it was nothing but society getting rid of them. Actually, that also was the purpose of the execution of the third man, but he was neither a thief nor a robber. He was executed as another kind of criminal, actually a sort of social rebel who had set out to turn society upside-down by changing many of the ideologies it was run by. However, the death sentence of him is double- or triple-layered as his execution on the cross not only was a punishment by those in power, but something much more. As the presumed son of "God", i.e. Yahweh, he is not only a victim being murdered for his ideas by his superiors, no, he is a godly sacrifice no less. Someone who has been chosen by the ultimate figure of power in society: "God". Most often that is seen as a great honor to the individual who is sacrificed although his/her death in itself may be squalid and cruel.

                                    Yahweh on a winged wheel

In many, if not all, religions one meets the concept of "sacrifices" to the deity. Normally, that means that some hapless human or animal is killed to honor god, but not by their own choice. As to Jesus, hanging there on the cross, he is not only sacrificed by his presumed godly father, but he also plays along by allowing himself to be killed as a sacrifice. Something which in a way renders his  death meaningless as he chooses to die with a belief in his resurrection. One might say that all of this drama is a weird sort of playacting to the gallery.

"La Doncella" from Llullaillaco didn't die to honor Yahweh, whom neither she nor her Inka countrymen had ever as much as heard of, but sacrificed she was at the age of 15 sometime around 1500. Hopefully, she either knew and accepted her fate or she had absolutely no idea of what was in store for her and the two other children that followed her on that fateful journey up on the mountaintop. She was extremely well-preserved and still has an aura of her inborn personality: This is a person who lost her life at a very young age because she was chosen by someone else who sacrificed her in the hope that the gods (whom I don't know) would endow her family and countrymen with the luck they may have felt that they had lost or needed to secure. 

  The mummies of the three Inka children who were sacrificed together 

To me the main point of a sacrifice is who found someone - human or animal - and decided that his/her death would bring him- or herself luck or happiness as it would please his/her gods. I understand a self-inflicted sacrifice because then you yourself chose to give you as a gift to the god you believe in. However, it totally escapes me how the same effect in a supposed act of "pleasing god" is secured by killing someone else and call it a "sacrifice" because the one who is killed didn't chose that kind of death: In that case there is no sacrifice, but only a murder. Even though it was considered a great honor to die as a sacrifice to the gods and these children were surrounded by rich gifts in form of gold, shell and silver statues, textiles and pottery that doesn't bring them back to life so that they themselves may - or may not - chose to sacrifice themselves, e.g. in some brave act that might save their society.

 

That becomes very obvious when we take a closer look at another one of the three children of Llullaillaco, i.e. "El Nino". The eldest of them, the 15 year old "La Doncella", was heavily drugged and seems to have died in her drug induced sleep which after all is a merciful death, but not so with "El Nino". He was an approximately four year old boy who must have fought desperately to save his life as he was severely injured. Several of his ribs were broken and his hip was dislocated. As to the cause of his death he seems to have been strangled by the clothes he was wearing. 

This poor child was tied up which in my opinion is an indication that his untimely death was an assault which he did not participate in willingly. One shouldn't let oneself be deluded by the holy term "sacrifice" no matter whom does the killing to honor what god. The legend of Jesus makes him out to have chosen to let himself get sacrificed as part of his teachings, but - as I said - his death is meaningless as he is supposed to get resurrected. 

 

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/130729-inca-mummy-maiden-sacrifice-coca-alcohol-drug-mountain-andes-children 

 

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Zana - The Exploited Ape-Woman

When one reads or hear of mermaids, trolls or supermen and -women one knows that one has crossed the threshold to the world of myths and fairy tales. As to well-known figures like e.g. Bigfoot then he/she exists for those who believe in the possibility of his/her existence although he/she appears to be more of a mythical than a realistic figure. The same goes for ghosts who, just like e.g. Bigfoot, may or may not exist as realities. One thing is for sure: The BELIEF in them is what keeps them "alive" in our mind.

However, there are individuals/persons/creatures who once were a living part of our world, but who still seem to be someone out of a fairy tale. One of these creatures is The Ape Woman Zana, whose life and very existence is difficult to get hold of. Tarzan was called "The Ape Man", but he was nothing but a literary character, whereas Zana was a living, breathing being in the world of humans. Her descendants have been investigated, e.g. with eleborate DNA-studies, and we still don't know what and who she was. The Russian merchant, Edgi Genaba, who allegedly found and caught her in the 1870s in the frozen wilderness between Georgia and Russia where she seems to have lived all her life up till then, must have seen her as some kind of animal who, not being human, had no rights to preserve her freedom. According to legend she lived by herself, all naked, and although people of the area knew of her they didn't talk with her. Apparently she was covered in thick red hair, and she was very strong and muscular. Besides, at 6 feet 6 inches she towered over the local residents. When they gave her clothes, she would have non of that, but simply shred them. Her captor, Edgi Genaba, let people come and gawk at her for money, and at some point she was raped by locals and got pregnant at least six times when drunk. As two of her six children died when she went to the river to wash them after giving birth none of the surviving four children were allowed to stay with her. At that point she had become an abused alcoholic who may not have been able to fend for herself or her children. However, with time she became an "unpaid servant" - or rather a slave - who was kept drugged by alcohol to do chores and serve as a sexual outlet for men. Thus, with her the word "abuse" attains a special sombre tone ....

 

By now many scientists think that she was either some kind of "yeti" (i.e. a "Bigfoot") or a surviving Neanderthal, but nobody seems to know for sure what she was. However, also her descendants were uncommonly strong and muscular, but apparently not as hairy as she was. The legend has it that one of her sons was so strong that he might lift a chair with someone sitting on it, just using his teeth. Also he - and maybe more of her descendants, seems to have had an extra bone in his neck as well as very large eyes. In my opinion he is quite handsome and not more "ape like" than many modern men of e.g. Eastern Europe.

Zana and her eldest, surviving son, Khwith

 

The children of Zana talked and more or less found their way in society. She, on the other hand, grew more and more alcoholic, and eventually she died after 20 years of captivity and abuse. As was to be expected science has taken her life and case up in many studies, but without any clear conclusion.

One of the granddaughters of Zana

 

https://medium.com/the-mystery-box/zanas-story-78541727cd93 

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3025466/Was-19th-Century-Siberian-apewoman-yeti-6ft-6in-Russian-serf-outrun-horse-not-human-according-DNA-tests.html 

 

https://dna-explained.com/2021/07/30/the-origins-of-zana-of-abkhazia/

 

https://medium.com/the-mystery-box/zanas-story-78541727cd93 

 

https://soldat.pro/en/2019/03/20/zana-chto-vyiasnili-sovetskie-ychenye-o-jenshine-ieti-iz-abhazii/ 

 

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