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I don’t know what to make of this. It sounds like something I would post as a hilarious joke, and it is truly hilarious, but the guy who wrote it, while admitting he likes to make people laugh and to like him, insists that it is a completely serious event. You decide:
Wednesday should be soon enough for that.
More evidence that “progressives” don’t have real jobs. Nov. 8 is a Wednesday. I’ll be at work. Don’t have time for vague, empty gestures at the sky god who doesn’t love me and doesn’t care.
I suspect a lot of people will have to wait for their mochas when this embarrassment starts.
I have this mental picture of conservatives howling at the sky a year after O was elected – and getting stoned to death.
There was a pop psychology book that came out in the 1970s that urged people to scream. The idea was to dig deep down inside yourself, get in touch with the psychologically damaging episodes you experienced when you were a very young child, and then let out the years of mental anguish with a long scream released from your gut. One of the acolytes of this very Freudian movement called it “primal therapy” in a speech on campus. One of my pals went, and came back laughing about it. The write-up in the campus newspaper was so over-the-top serious that the whole thing became a sort of campus joke.
When decent weather finally came during spring semester, if you were walking to a late session in one of the labs in the engineering buildings, it became pretty common to hear a scream. I was working one evening in a cubicle in a converted classroom in Perkins Hall, and all of a sudden I heard my friend Danny throw one of the windows open and let loose with a murderous-sounding howl. Then he slammed the window and giggled about primal scream therapy. The whole thing was for laughs.
The internet is awesome. I looked it up.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9bgppa/primal-therapy-arthur-janov
I see it begins at 7PM. It was dark here at 7PM yesterday.
So. I guess they’ve got the “barking at the moon” part down pat.
Now, let’s see if they can manage the rest of it.
It’s a shame Trump didn’t win the election before or on Halloween. This would have so added to the festivities.
Whoa, Ansonia, that is seriously deep. I keep coming back to this comment and thinking about it, and the more I think about it, the deeper it gets.
Imagine being a Leftist and seeing that Circus Clown Frederica Wilson with her stupid hat. Wait, this person is in MY party? you’d think. Imagine turning on the TV and there’s Nancy Pelosi, face twitching and eyes widening, using incorrect words and etcetera and you’re thinking, wait, this is one of the leaders of my Party? Imagine watching MSNBC and there is that slimeball Chuck Schumer, the slime oozing out of his pores, calling other people names, but yet you know he is as crooked as any politician alive!
At some point you’d have to realize what a stupid joke you and your Party have become. The best your party had to offer to America for President was a lying Criminal and a Communist! You might be willing to scream at the sky for your own situation, rather than about Trump’s election.
Dang, got a little wild there. Come back later and I’ll tell you how I REALLY feel.
As for the Primal Scream therapy, seriously, how do we know it doesn’t work ? Back in the late 1970’s, I heard at least one or two amazing stories about it working. Maybe this coming Election Day anniversary is a chance to finally have a large enough sample size to study.
(Well, maybe not so seriously.)
That’s because progressives don’t own guns.
I did let my kids have the day off from school after the 2012 election. It was a day of mourning for us, and it was controversial enough without a public primal scream session.
At 9:25 ET I will go outside and listen for the screams.
Seems to be a thing…
I wonder how many conservatives cried the night Obama got elected. Are there no adults on the left?
Not many. It’s really not the party of adulthood.
Well, I didn’t cry but I was deeply depressed.
I cried at home. The next day I went to work, as usual, and didn’t impose how I felt about it on anyone who didn’t want to hear it.
I remember being more frightened than sad when Obama won a second time.
A couple of my colleagues came into work November 9th and boohooed all day. I really had to stifle my cackles.
I would have been embarrassed to behave like that. They would have given you less satisfaction if they’d just said “oh well”. True?
Very true!
My youngest cried.
I have a group of high school friends who are all lefties, and we email back and forth all the time. After the election, there was total radio silence for months. I had a feeling they were emailing furiously and leaving me off. (Good!)
There was a North Korea quality about the professions of anger and grief over Trump’s victory. I mean, at colleges and high schools, there just seemed to be so many people anxious to be seen looking upset about it. People in leadership positions at schools were deliberately signaling for, and incentivizing, a posture of outrage, anxiety and sadness. I found that deeply disturbing.
Far more than conservatives in leadership positions, leaders on the left impose on people a need to act out or profess a certain attitude. With the acting out, the attitude is then unthinkingly adopted.
After Trump won, if I had been a student at one of those colleges, I would have been easily prompted to look glum. I maybe would have drifted into one of those comfort centers to hug friends and color for a while. That isn’t a problem (well, at least not as much of a problem) as long as the prompted person is consciously aware of acting to fit in. I’m saying I would have done that without making a conscious decision to look inconspicuous.
Leftist environments diminish the psychological space people need to really evaluate anything. They keep people out of what you might call the ideal of jury mentality. (In fact, that’s the real purpose of the left’s attack on free speech. ) Leaders on the left are better at exploiting the human need to feel socially acceptable.