Lacey: I was interviewed, as the President of the Messiah College Democrats. Before the debate at Messiah between Obama and Clinton. And I said that I could “feel the weight of history”. *I laugh*
See…I have an unusual way of seeing the world. And…I assumed everyone else sees the same things I do, but just doesn’t talk about them. Because…at that point, I was…feeling…behind. And I…just…assumed everyone else…would automatically know what I was talking about.
Eric: What were you actually talking about?
*he laughs*
Lacey: I was sensing something close to like…an aura.
And there was the significance of the debate between Hillary and Barack. Because that was a very historically important election. But also, I was sensing…something Four Dimensional. *she laughs*
Like…an actual weight.
*she laughs*
Gettysburg has a very heavy feeling, in a similar way. Parts of the Bermuda Triangle do… Parts of Western North Dakota do. It’s not uncommon. But…it’s not without meaning.
Eric: What’s the lightest you’ve ever felt?
Lacey: Back in the early 1990’s…the Mall of America used to feel light. …Sometimes…new houses, purchased by a happy family, feel light.
Most old places always carry a certain literal weight, spiritually.
Eric: What does that weight feel like?
Lacey: Well…God exists outside of time. And…this element does as well. But, like a ghost, it’s possible to sense it, here.
It feels almost physically heavy. …It’s sort of almost physically suffocating, with its heaviness.
It’s…akin to the feeling of…carrying a heavy backpack. *I laugh* But it’s…all over. And…it’s obviously not just on your back. It’s…more like the thoughts of others, throughout history, are focused on that moment and it’s…so much focus…from so many people…that it creates a weight. Like a machine that crushes tin cans.
Eric: Assumption at Munich. Does that seem obvious to you?
Lacey: Yes.
I could never figure out what to write about. In classes. Because….everything seemed so obvious.
Eric: Summarize the whole book.
Lacey: Oh! That’s-
He was writing at a toddler level understanding of history.
*she rolls her eyes*
But I guess everyone loves it?
*she looks nauseous*
Well…given the historical trends at that time…they made the decision to maintain the status quo. At the expense of objectivity and truth. Which is a common mistake, possibly, made by world leaders throughout history. …To hold on to common, comforting, popular understandings instead of being sharp, and embracing the inherent stress and pains of real change.
Dull. Ordinary stuff-
Eric: When’s a time in history when people when people haven’t done that?
Lacey: *smirks*
Well, and embracing change and being sharp…may not produce good results. Of course. …Because, I would say…the Nazis…succeeded in embracing real change. Embracing real change and creating some intellectually coherent response. Coherent, not perhaps sane. *she laughs*
Eric: How was it insane?
Lacey: Because you can’t annihilate a whole group of people, and almost ever be successful. I know evil seems smart to some people…but it actually isn’t.
Eric: What fundamentally goes awry, when one does that? Specifically.
*he laughs*
Lacey: People…don’t like…change. Big change. They like continuity. They like…gradual change…not sharp, abrupt, shocking changes. …For one thing. …Obliterating an entire group of people…who have existed for centuries, possibly even thousands of years…? People really don’t like that. …That’s very disorienting.
See…we’d have a horrible uproar…with the immigrants being sent to the detention centers, if established, fully legal…assimilated Hispanics were being taken. But it’s remnants, here and there. …And…for whatever reason…people aren’t as upset by that. It’s not like some huge, frightening change.
Maybe the Germans, already in the mindset to create big real changes, in the 1930’s, didn’t realize how extreme the Holocaust actually was.
Eric: Could Americans do the same?
Lacey: *thinks*
Not at the moment.
Right now we’re too…fragmented…to create some that drastic. …We’re more likely to fall apart, entirely, as a country.
The detention camps are extreme. But…there’s the precedent of the Holocaust. And other internment camps. …We’re actually mentally attuned, to the possibility. …Something new and shocking? Something creating big real change…? …I think we’re too lacking in unity. We can’t come together to create anything that…astonishing, at the moment. …In my opinion.
Eric: Has there ever been a time in American history when we could have?
Lacey: *thinks*
I think in the 1980’s…during the Reagan years…we had enough unity to do something. But…what?
Isn’t that when they started selling kids?
Eric: Yes.
Lacey: YEAH! …So…we could have solved the Climate Crisis? Or…somewhat stemmed the hemorrhaging job market, now basically dead, for Blue Collar workers. …So many things.
But…it seems like we just stupidly wandered off into a…psychotic…evil…dystopian…”Free Market” wormhole, instead.
Eric: Wormhole to wear?
Lacey: Hell? *she laughs*
The end of the world?
Maybe wormhole isn’t the right word.
Sorry.
*Later*
Eric: You were in love with Vladimir Putin? Yes?
…What’s your opinion of the current situation in Europe? They say…that…everyone is scared.
Lacey: *laughs*
*thinks*
He’s a harmless man…if you don’t cross him. He’s completely benevolent, if you don’t…totally…betray him. …He’s very even-tempered.
He’s actually very calm. Very rational.
Very…meticulous.
…To be honest, I truly think China, and North Korea…and whoever else “hates” us right now? I truly think they wouldn’t hate us…if we hadn’t been selling kids into Hell, and eating babies. To look cool.
That’s how they see us. …As completely idiotic, degenerate losers. Who owe them a lot of money.
…Even if our economy is larger? Even if we’re still “America”…we’re carrying the stain of that…embarrassment. We can’t command respect, anymore. …They see us as LOSERS.
…And we pissed Vladimir Putin off. We completely pissed him off.
With all that business with NATO?
We…made him very angry. …He got angry. For many real reasons. …And I think, combined with the sale of children? …He just decided to pull the trigger.
*she shrugs*
He just couldn’t take it anymore.
*she thinks*
Too many of his personal boundaries were crossed. …He takes his country very personally, too, so…literal physical land boundaries may be…in his head…linked with personal boundaries.
The thing is…there’s no going back.
We can’t undo all that. He can’t undo all that.
…But I don’t think he wants to harm anyone, really. He’s a very dangerous man. True. …But he’s not insane. …He’s not lacking in empathy. He’s very rational.
At least, I think.
…I don’t think it’s likely we’ll see any real…ground war…in all of Europe. I think anything of that scale is unlikely. …I can see why people might be worried, but…I almost wonder if that’s more…them refusing to be accountable for their own shit, as world leaders, than actual defense planning. …Not that them being defensive and…narcissistic…is mutually exclusive with them also being legitimately worried.
But I don’t think it’s likely. I don’t were at all likely to see much…more…dramatic fighting.
However, is it possible? Yes! …Because…they keep egging him on. In my opinion. …They keep aggravating him.
And frankly, I think Zelensky is getting tired of being used.
So…if they keep begging for some horrific war? We may have one! Sure! …They may get one, after all.
It’s not impossible.
And actually…it could go on-
The war isn’t just Putin’s personal lark. …Again, he’s a very sane, rational man. Obviously intelligent. …So…even if he dies…Russia will continue. …This is a long-term issue.
The West needs to come to two realizations:
- You simply cannot sell kids. Ever. It’s strictly verboten, for real. …You can’t do it. …It’s perverse, and pure evil, not…sophisticated and different.
- You can’t assume so much. …You can’t make so many assumptions!
The West…fell apart…before World War I…because they made far too many…enormous assumptions. …Far too many.
The West, over the last two hundred years…has made one assumption over another. …One dangerous assumption after another.
I think…JFK…made idiotic assumptions, often. Which is how he died, in my opinion. …But he assumed he was in the clear.
…The whole West has been like that-
Eric: Name some of these assumptions.
Lacey: I mean…the Stock Market Crash of 1929…was because of this very problem itself. People making…endless assumptions. Everyone.
And we’re still like that. When it comes to our financials. …The fiasco with Bernie Madoff and Enron, happened because, again, people kept making far too many assumptions.
…What other assumptions have we made? Dangerous assumptions?
Well, that “developing countries” in Africa and South America, can be safely shat upon. …Because colonialist countries supposedly did that. …It’s not safe. …We’ve created enemies.
And those enemies…are not necessarily enemies with Iran. Or China. Or Putin.
…I’m sure there are some very dangerous African enemies. Good luck finding them.
…Assuming national unity. Assuming Americans will never actually start another civil war.
…Assuming…Hollywood is…the root of all evil. And…this…unstoppable force to reckon with. Remember when people used to say that? *I laugh*
…No, the West has a history over the last two hundred years, of making deadly assumptions.
Eric: You don’t think we did as much before then?
Lacey: No.
…No.
The early 1800’s…were…violent. As were the previous centuries. But…they produced results.
…And maybe, even…that…is why…- Maybe…things became too heated. Maybe people started making…assumptions…because Industrialization allowed it. And encouraged it. As did American Capitalism. …And…so people started making all these emotional…optimistic…assumptions…because it was a psychological reaction to trauma. …Telling themselves that “progress” was real, and…certain.
Eric: So…you don’t think we were as optimistic? Before?
Lacey: No!
…I think the Industrial Revolution…gave literal flight to…the best ideas of the 1700’s. Of the Age of Enlightenment. …And so we’ve been in an era of soaring optimism.
*they laugh together*
Eric: Do you think that soaring optimism is coming to an end?
Lacey: Not anytime soon.
…I think it’s in our DNA.
And I think we’re determined.
…I’m not sure what will happen though. And, ironically, I worry it could even be the end of the world.
