{"id":49,"date":"2014-09-30T13:03:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T17:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/?p=49"},"modified":"2017-06-15T13:28:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T17:28:05","slug":"bang-no-whimper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Bang? No whimper?"},"content":{"rendered":"

How does western civilization end? My friend The Ambler<\/a> sent along this link to “We’ll Become ISIS<\/a>” on James Kunstler’s Clusterfuck Nation blog. Clusterfuck is going with a bang-type finish, assisted or accompanied by a convulsion of male violence:<\/p>\n

“My guess is that they will shift their attention and activity from the mind-slavery of the current Potemkin economy to the very monster we find ourselves fighting overseas: a domestic ISIS-style explosion of wrath wrapped in an extreme ideology of one kind or another replete with savagery and vengeance-seeking. The most dangerous thing that any society can do is invalidate young men. When the explosion of youthful male wrath occurs in the USA, it will come along at exactly the same time as all the other benchmarks of order become unmoored \u2014 especially the ones in money and politics \u2014 which will shatter the faith of the non-young and the non-male, too. Also, just imagine for a moment the numbers of young men America has trained with military skills the past 20 years. Not all of them will be disabled with PTSD, or mollified with rinky-dink jobs at the Wal-Mart, or lost in the transports of heroin and methedrine.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How does western civilization end? My friend The Ambler sent along this link to “We’ll Become ISIS” on James Kunstler’s Clusterfuck Nation blog. Clusterfuck is going with a bang-type finish, assisted or accompanied by a convulsion of male violence: “My guess is that they will shift their attention and activity from the mind-slavery of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Q4T3-N","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":109,"url":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/?p=109","url_meta":{"origin":49,"position":0},"title":"Terror and resistance","author":"Kevin Steel","date":"October 9, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"It is a question that had to be asked. Oct. 9, 2014 Daily Mail: Could terrorists turn themselves into Ebola suicide 'bombs'? Experts fear ISIS jihadists may infect themselves to spread virus in West It's also a question this publication had unwittingly answered elsewhere the same day. Different motivation, different\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Linking, not thinking"","block_context":{"text":"Linking, not thinking","link":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/?cat=12"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":57,"url":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/?p=57","url_meta":{"origin":49,"position":1},"title":"Good #gamergate round-up","author":"Kevin Steel","date":"September 30, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The Internet Aristocrat, whose epic YouTube rant, Quinnspiracy Theory: The Five Guys Saga, really set the tone for #gamergate, has released a good video chronology of the story,\u00a0GamerGate Part 1: The Path We've Taken, with a slew of links he references posted below. For the clued-out, #gamergate is about the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Media"","block_context":{"text":"Media","link":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/?cat=13"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":397,"url":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/?p=397","url_meta":{"origin":49,"position":2},"title":"Grace & Steel Ep. 84: Production Notes","author":"Kevin Steel","date":"July 6, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KMGVictoria\/status\/882853840520790017 I read this tweet from my co-host about Grace & Steel Ep. 84 and thought, \"Well? I guess I should say something about this in my production notes. But what?\" I'm not exactly sure what the technical problems were and I didn\u2019t bother to find out. I only know\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Grace & Steel Podcast"","block_context":{"text":"Grace & Steel Podcast","link":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/?cat=10"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}