The Native Iowan

It’s a sunny Sunday morn after a frigid Saturday night. Got down to 6c/ 43f. The big old house was very chilly this morning.

Reading and writing a lot lately. I’m in training to learn to sit on my arse. Going in for ankle reconstruction soon.

I have lived an adventurous and hazardous existence. I’ll trade none of my experiences to lose my scars, my stripes, my badges of merit, my participation trophies. But the price of adventure over cost of injury has caught up with me. Ive broke my self up heaps and will now pay one of the fees required.

They call it minimally invasive…. I’ll hold onto this convenient personal belief, I’ll delude myself and feel better for it… Believing that the sawing of my bones is “minimally invasive”…

Post-Op will require my foot in a cast for 8weeks or more. In prep I am practicing sitting, building a list of research topics and discussions, and doing physio. Getting strong so I can enjoy atrophy.

I’m taking it easy. Do not want to re-injure the ankle, have any accidents before they take the saw to my bones.

I sit, I read, I write… preparing myself for the fallow times to come…

One of the bigger concepts I have been ruminating upon is that of “Convenient Personal Beliefs”…

We all lie to ourselves. We create myths and legends in our minds. One that comes to mind quickly, one that covers both delusional myths and BS legends is that of Che Guevara…. “Ernesto “Che” Guevara was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, politician and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture”

I never understood, even when I was a young liberal minded no-nothing-at-all, how a sadistic and moralistic and evil dude won the mindless popularity contest. Even when I was young I knew Che was “evil”… I knew… In real life, however, Che Guevara was a monster. Despite Che’s global reputation as a lovable revolutionary, there was a very dark side to him, marked by immoral behavior and ruthless brutality. Behind the romanticized image of the charming rebel lay a man deeply embedded in the brutal and bloody violence of armed struggle. In the mountains of Cuba, and later in Bolivia, Guevara was not merely a theorist of guerrilla warfare but an active participant. Crucially, Che was personally responsible for overseeing the wanton execution of numerous individuals – executions he saw as necessary for the cause, but which by any objective standards would be labeled as cold-hearted terrorism. https://rabbidunner.com/the-dangerous-allure-of-radical-chic/

Another convenient personal belief is that of what was referred to early on as “Climate Change”… Some call it Global Warming, I call it glowball warming… I have written of many friends, peers, compadres that are sold 100% on the “sky is falling” version of “climate change”.

Think of your grandchildren. Is a common BS line… what about the children of the future… says the misled fool that thinks the millions and billions wasted on mitigating the effects of climate change by throwing money into unproven and sometimes erroneous tech is the right road forward.

I very much cringe as the liberal elite western world believes sending their dirt over seas, to less developed nations, is a positive in the war against climate change. There is a convenient personal belief that if I send my manufacturing, my industrial production and emissions to “somewhere else” my hands are cleaner. My plans for a brighter and better future for my grandchildren glows by exporting that which we deem unwanted, dirty, bad.

Sure, destroy another Nation’s future, but not our own. Makes sense to me!

Child labour, slavery, below existence-level wages, strip mines, coal fired power plants, and more that is evil and bad and unwanted “HERE”, is apparently OK, over there.

In recent political history a humongous convenient personal belief was that Prez Joe Biden was … sharp, running circles around us, better than ever, just a stutterer, commanding and inquisitive… Sure, we know, knew it was all lie but, if you believe your lie is it still a lie? Is it not Truth if you believe it? Or is that a twist too far?

Another is the idea that Palestinians are victimised by the Israelis, the Zionists, the West…

I agree the Palestinians are victims, but their scourge is their religion, their elected radical leaders. Period.

And, as a result of our convenient personal beliefs, we import thousands of sad, beaten, needy folks. We open our arms, open our borders to people, folks, races, religions that Hate Us!

Sure, sounds like a winning plan to me.

Another sad, convenient personal belief is that one can change or choose their sex. That there are more than two sexes. That biological sex is fluid. I know I’ll get nailed again (and again) for this position, my words… but… Its one of those “follow the science” sorta gigs… Convince me there are more than two sexes. I am very open minded. I simply dont think lying to myself or others is a positive. You got a dick you are a guy. You got a vagina and you be a gal. Cut your dick off, mutilate yourself and you’re a guy that cut his dick off. You’r not a gal.

Another convenient personal belief is that of abortion… I have a long, long history discussing this topic. I have people near and dear that tell me… “Its not a human life”, “its just a parasitic node attached to the “host””, “you are male so dont have a say”…

I am not opposed to abortion. I refuse to tell folks what they can or cannot do with their bodies in private, on their own dime. I am not anti-abortion, but I do say a) call it what it is, “murder”, and b) no public funding for murdering the unborn. Pay for it yourself.

And the beat goes on.

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Later

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