Sonderweg

I Housekeeping

Several of you have reached out, which I deeply appreciate. This email covers most of the bases...

Dear ______,

AI drafted a response which was surprisingly apt. Ugh. Have to de-enable that.

The goal is to fall asleep by 9 and wake up at 4-5, which typically happens. I catch up with a nap and what sleep I missed the following day if necessary. I'm assuming this slightly heightened state will ease off, hopefully during my trip to Germany starting on the 16th. For better or worse, I'm just dashing these things off, by and large in an hour or two. I think it's run its course now. Nothing really burning that I need to say at the moment. I'd like to drop personal stuff and politics entirely for a while and do music reviews or art stuff or just put up old stuff, which I try to specify with the original publication date. I'm pretty happy, actually. Most days I leave home around 7 or 8 and drive for an hour or two to a slightly different region (Coal region to the north, Maryland / West Virginia / New Jersey, etc) and go antiquing. I'm trying to buy enough so that I don't need to go out during the winter and can just focus on writing a book. I don't know what it will be. I think a memoir remains presumptuous, and besides I've been doing that episodically. Some of this is just getting things out after not writing for 12 years. At all. So, it's just a pent up dam bursting, which I knew would happen while I wasn't doing it. I'm going to try and schedule these things more routinely. Like, maybe at 8 AM every morning, or at least during weekdays. Also more formal maybe more abstract, less personal and hopefully not political at all. The arts, humanities, history, things I actually care about.

II Germany Trip Details

Sent this to my cousin Birgit, it sums up my attitude towards Germany...

Hi Birgit -

I want the AfD to win. Not because I agree with them, but because Germany really does need to grow up out of the shadow of the Holocaust. Frankly, our generation should have done it. These losers have no answers, just like Trump. Germans today seem to be afraid of their own shadow. I find it so odd. Let these losers take over, the right wing boogie man needs to be exorcised in a Catholic mass in Bavaria, to say it poetically. It's not the second coming of Hitler, it's the second coming of Trump.

Nietzsche said that an Ubermensch could 'jump over his own shadow', namely overcome all the biases, conditioning, socialization, religion, errors of the past, if he tried. Germany needs to jump over its own shadow. I'm so tired of this bowing and scraping to Israelis. Be contrite towards Jews, sure. Fuck Israel -- it's one of the worst countries in the world, and they're proud of it. It's like being proud of the Einsatzgruppen, what they do to children with snipers. It's totally absurd and it is the most hated country in the world, worse than Iran. Worse than North Korea. It is worse than those countries, too. So, Jewish people who support that shitty country really need to look in the mirror and stop pointing the finger at Germany.

Mama Merkel took in those poor Syrians. I was so proud to be German. Then they support another Holocaust, done by Jews no less!!! And I'm ashamed again.

Germany is so silly. I don't get it at all. Maybe I'm the silly one?

Here endeth my epistle. ;)

Can't wait to see you all.

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III Synthesis

Eh, the Nazis tried it. The New Democrats tried it. New Labour tried it. The National Bolsheviks try it. And the AfD tries it. It never works. The Third Way.

Just have the state own all the biggest corporations and apply modern management techniques for the sake of efficiency to cut out feather-bedding. Then let small producers go entirely, don't regulate them at all, save for labor / environmental basics. UBI everything and destroy the bureaucracies that manage the unfortunate. It sucks and it all too often fails.

And fuck old people. They are utter leaches on the system. Cut the benefits of the top 50% of entitlement leaches. Blood suckers who hate their grandchildren. Greedy geezers who say no to everything and yes to nothing. Just going overboard for fun, no reflection on any geezers in my life, FYI.

Fuck the empire. Cut it by 90%. 'Protect' "us" from [Mexico and Canada]. Dats dee joke, said The Great Rainier Wolfcastle. 2nd only to Duffman, who is Jewish, but uses Nazi rhetoric to sell beer. Oh well.

Oh, almost forgot this.

Just cost about a buck-nighty eight. Take some pages out of China's book within the Constitutional framework, which is impossible thanks to the filibuster and the Supreme Court sucking dick. Oh well. Whatevers. Everyone knows it's fuct. Nobody does a thing about it. George Carlin pointed that out 30 years ago.

It's funny, the German system is kind of scleretic. They have the Praktikum system for non-college people, which is good. Spend money on infrastructure. But everything is totally expensive, just like here. Of course, their health care system is far superior, but they can't build anything right anymore either.

The Berlin airport was a shit how and the Stuttgart Hbf is an utter dog's breakfast. They don't have finance capital fucking them as much – no Polymarket or Kalsi, I assume – but the industrial system is getting hollowed out by China. They, along with the rest of Europe DNGAF about AI. God bless 'em.

It's too expensive to produce there. So, you have to fuck the rich, first. Then workers are going to have to do more with less. I see no alternative to this other than shared sacrifice, top to bottom. Or, liquidate the parasite class, nationalize their theft – comes to about 80 trillion, I think, should cover the debt priddy easy – and reinvest it in the country in the most rational and multiplyer effecty way.

That's my program, but I don't think it has anywhere near 70% support in the country. Probably only a slim majority of 57-58%. Roosevelt, Nixon and Reagan numbers, you know. America First is out. Liquidate the Child Fuckers! Now that's a slogan! You could put it on t-shirts. You could monetize it! Yaaayyyy!!!

So, instead of dwelling on this shit anymore except in moments of weakness, I'm going to Elysburg, PA this morning to a booksale at 8 AM sharp. It's an hour and a half away on the northern rim of the coal region by Knobels Park, a German-ish amusement park that has stood the test of time. Never been, although you can pay for each ride, if you want, meaning you don't have to get raped, like at Hershey Park. People like it, I've been told. Again. And again. And again again.

Then I'm going antiquing in the Mahantango Valley. Then off to Hegins, where the used to have the pigeon shoot, before the fuckin' liberals put a stop to it. Great. Don't have one in San Francisco or New York City. It's how they didn't starve to death during the Great Depression. It was a kind of homage, but nobody asked them, they were just vilified as utter hicks by the cocksuckers from the city. City people are real the savages. Genocidaires, in fact.

Let Hegins be Hegins! Then I'm going to find a tavern, have a civilised lunch and then 'get tore up in the hot sun', as the Moonintes advise. I wonder if we have any theories on whom the Mooninites represent. I've got a pet one, but I'll keep it under my hat.

Thank you for your attention to these everso pressing matters!

Sincerely,

DJT