I begin with a comment on one of the posts from some days ago.
…I am getting the feeling that these lastest comments and walls being raised by many friends of yours is taking its toll. Funny how you like to tear down walls, and unexpectedly (at least for me) many walls seem to be being built. Maybe I am wrong though, it just feels like that. I remember once you wrote sometime or other about Art Devany is going to be left behind if he does not …keep up? (Something like that you wrote) I think many of the pillar bloggers may be feeling the same. I don’t know shit about Jack Kruse. I like his free thinking. I just started looking at his blog since your post. It is exciting. I am reading his comment section with much interest. It reminds me of this “Paleo/Primal” thing back in 2009. It was exciting as hell then. Now….not as much. My only point in sending you this is to say hang in there. You are one of the good ones.
My reply, in comments:
My advantage is that I already blogged almost every day a full 4 years before I uttered a word about paleo. So I guess I’m a blogger who’s paleo, not a paleo blogger. Laf. Thanks for making me come up with that.
They will all go the wayside before me, though I might take my retreats now and then.
And that’s the goddamn truth. I’m a blogger first, paleo second, and I guess I finally came up with probably the one single thing that sets me apart from…pretty much everyone else in the paleosphere in terms of those who blog Paleo predominately or exclusively. At least, I’m not aware of anyone else but me who’s been pumping out an average of a post per weekday since 2003.
paleo hasn’t jumped the shark or anything, in my view. But perhaps blogging about it has, to a degree. I mean, how many times can one come up with different ways of writing that the cholesterol con is a con, the saturated fat con is a con, the vegetarian and vegan con is a con, et al and et al?
But, dammit, I love blogging and I love blogging more than I love paleo. I guess…it’s possible that I could be a fat blogger or an average body comp blogger, but I’d still be a blogger.
So? What? Well, I guess it means that rather than blog about only paleo stuff most of the time, with wider spaces between posts, I’m just going to have to go to some hybrid of Depesche Mode, with fashion being paleo…and do it faster than once or twice per week.
The truth is, I really don’t like limitations and it’s been a long while that I’ve been growing a resentment about being a “paleo blogger,” such that when I do indulge myself in writing of other things that interest me, and that might happen to rub a few the wrong way who otherwise like the blog, I get the pushback in various ways. …As though I have some duty or obligation to blog for the audience rather than just blog, getting whatever audience I deserve for it.
So fuck that. I’m ignoring it from here out. I’ve blogged long enough, and 3,000 posts and I can blog about what the hell I want to blog about; and if you ask me, widening the topical matter will only be to the good. And since the blog is highly visited, it might actually bring smart people into the fray…because we want all the morons to Go vegan!
Ha, and we’re in an erection year. That’s when even women get hard-ons for who’s going to be their next ruler. I always loved erection years. I mean, back in 2007, it was easy to write a post entitled Fuck Obama and His Stupid Bitch. Now, not so much. And what a target rich environment to have Newt Gingrich in the race, that loathsome fucktard who, when Bill “that lying bastard” Clinton sent him to the back of Air Force Bus One and he wined about being dissed, should have just retired and spared us from any further shenanigans and outbursts forever. I’m sure he’d make a fine middle school history teacher. Peter Principle got pwned, there. And holy shit. I’ve missed the whole opportunity to make fun of Rick “smegma-santorum” Santorum. He’s outta there, before I even got the chance. Romney? Oh, I did deal with him last time in a few posts, but my favorite was entitled Moronism (get it?). I also dealt with Democrats as liars, and Republicans as frauds in pretty long posts, but my archive does not seem to be super well indexed by Goolge back in 2004 and I don’t want to go page by page. Instead, I’ll just say that to all you hand clappers, Ron Paul and his son should go seek honest work, like they used to do.
So there, I think that covers all sides of all isles and “independents” and “libertarians” too. I have no use for anyone who seeks rulership. Ever. Good intentions mean fuck-all to me. So fuck Ron Paul, too. I’d absolutely hire him as my personal physician, though.
…So to sum it up fuck all of that shit: wall to wall, floor to ceiling….voluminously.
I’m going to be a better paleo blogger by being a plain old better blogger, from here out. paleo has become way, way too limiting for me.
So there you have it.
Kyle Bennett 
Nicole 
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John 
Matthew Caton 
Henry 
Elenor 
“So fuck that.”
The animal is free.
Nice thing is, your latest blog title works for pretty much anything I can see you wanting to write about.
Hey, blog about whatever you want! Personally, I hope it’s not politics since I find that seriously boring.
Nicole:
It’s not seriously boring. It’s seriously _fucking_ boring, and yet we live in a society that’s voracious for it. That the funny angle.
Blogging about politics is really only the absolute best device to make fun of literally almost everyone. And I like that. It’s even second to religion, at this point.
It’s even second to religion
Make a post on Religion in Politics LOL
The US Political system is fucked – *Laughing from Canada*
Sorry forgot these:
“The United States is in no sense founded upon the Christian doctrine.”
– George Washington
“Lighthouses are more useful than churches”
– Benjamin Franklin
“This would be the best of all possible worlds if there were no religion in it!”
– John Adams
“Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man”
– Thomas Jefferson
“The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma”
– Abraham Lincoln
“I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it”
– Abraham Lincoln
If you’re going to throw around quotes, at least include the source and context. Adams was actually rejecting the idea in that quote, Franklin didn’t say that, etc.
http://www.fallacyfiles.org/contexts.html
I don’t want a debate about religion and the founders, but your quotes are worthless without context and considering other writings from those men (all have pro-religion statements as well).
Leave the poor scholarship to lamestream health and nutrition “experts” (like the “red meat is bad” studies), please.
“It’s not seriously boring. It’s seriously _fucking_ boring, and yet we live in a society that’s voracious for it. That the funny angle.”
That’s because politicians made sure they interfere in every single aspect of our lives. Even with seemingly innocuous things like nutrition you’ll run into the government regulations and “guidelines” (aka big Pharma and big Farma promos). School lunches, farm raids, grain subsidies, you just can’t completely avoid politics even if you’d want to.
I don’t know if there ever was a population as unfree, sick and brainwashed as we are (Egyptians or Roman colonies, maybe? But at least they were honest and didn’t pretend slavery was anything else).
“Egyptians or Roman colonies, maybe? But at least they were honest and didn’t pretend slavery was anything else”
It’s different in at least one important respect. The state doesn’t actually force you to work. In fact, they pay people not to work, at the expense of those who do.
Boring? What about this blog comment (on another site) I just read about U.S. bureaucrats having fun?
“It’s a government agency party! The CIA brings the drugs. The SS brings the prostitutes. The TSA is the creepy weirdo copping a feel and secretly taking pictures of all the women. The ATF brings his heavily armed Mexican buddy. The GSA books the hotel room in Vegas. The Fed flies its party-copter overhead, throwing out handfuls of cash.”
Loads of fun at taxpayer expense!
You have a point, ICG.
If only they were honest about their real human ambitions, I could at LEAST respect that.
Dude, would you please blog exclusively about politics from now on? You’re the only fucking blogger I’ve ever read who was completely right about every fucking thing he’s ever written about politics.
My thoughts on Ron Paul are this: I agree, he’d be a great guy if he were just being a doctor. The problem is I truly see a day when you yourself will be thrown in jail for the things you say on this blog. Ron Paul has started a political movement which may well stem the oncoming tide of Totalitarianism which makes your life impossible to live the way you do now, unless you have a plan and know of some place that won’t be effected by a Corporate Banking Oligarchy with the name USA or UN written on it. At that point, you become fully the slave, or you die fighting it.
There is a real chance to tear down the systems that daily seem to try to choke the individuality out of this country, and many other areas of opportunity, with as little premature death as possible. And this is why I hope the Paul family stays in politics. Someone has to be a standard barer to lead the sheep away from the pens once the fence is broke, and the Paul family is currently in a great position to keep the masses who never question authority, let alone why the concept of authority exists, from bunching up inside the pen while those who think for themselves are loaded up and hauled away.
I would hazard to say that as far as things have gone, as many laws are on the books, and as many regulations that various bureaus are churning out on a daily basis, that there isn’t anything now stopping the political machine from sucking up all the unemployed willing to just follow orders, and start a New Order, New Way, New “Fucking You And Brainwashing You to Like It” at the drop of a useful emergency.
Obviously, I have hope that it doesn’t come to pass, but too much has been built up for the wrong charismatic leader to take advantage.
“The problem is I truly see a day when you yourself will be thrown in jail for the things you say on this blog. ”
While I doubt it”ll come to that in my lifetime, plenty of history and let me go to jail if it comes to it sooner.
Fantasizing about voting yourself into freedom isn’t even masturbation, because mastubation is pretty cool.
Oh don’t get me wrong, I have very little faith in it actually working. The hope keeps me from building a bunker in the hills though, haha. I’m a type that just wants to innovate, create, and enjoy the fruits of that creation. I may end up in East Asia somewhere doing it, but I’ll do what I have to do in order to create amazing things.
So, you like Ron Paul and what he stands for, but don’t think he will succeed in the long run? Sure, I like some of the things he stands for and purposes, but realize there is no way in hell most of it going to come about due to the entrenched interests (short of nuking DC while congress and most of the lobbyists are there; which again, don’t see happening, period, end of story).
In mean time, why really concern yourself with what is going on there? Why not try to live life like you want to?
“In mean time, why really concern yourself with what is going on there? Why not try to live life like you want to?”
Now see, if everyne or even most people were as perceptive as you, by which I mean people in general, I’d just hang up blogging altogether. Or, I’d blog about unicorns, or pussy, or somethng.
Amen, brother.
I second that amen. My thoughts exactly.
Ha! That’s why I exercise my right to refrain from voting. I refuse to participate in deluding myself.
Jeremy,
The powers that be know that only about 2-3% of the population are smart enough to take Richard seriously. They know the rest of the population is brainwashed, and they don’t care about the 2-3% that know what’s going on.
Are we going to overthrow anything? No, absolutely not.
We’re just going to sit and watch all the other sheep live as brainwashed slaves for a banking oligarchy. But it’s the brainwashed slaves choice to live their lives as working joes, sucking down fructose and gluten.
They are not interested in censoring Richard, or preventing him from saying anything. We are all free, but only if we see through the bullshit. But the powers that be know how to make free-thinkers, like Richard, look like lunatics, and the rest of the sheep follow suit in believing so.
They have no interest in trying to dominate every single soul on the planet, especially by force. 1984 is not their style. All these souls choose to be dominated, and a rare few choose not to be dominated. You and I have chosen not to be dominated. We see through the bullshit, we can save those we love through information and abolition of willful ignorance, but the masses will remain willful ignorant slaves.
The powers that be have found the ultimate form of slavery. Those that chose to be slaves, and make it their most meaningful purpose in life to be slaves. Just as an example, I really believe that is what the feminist movement was all about. Convince women to think their lives will be more meaningful if they sell their labor to a corporation, to be the donkey chasing the carrot, rather than raising their offspring, their own flesh and blood, and caring for their mate. It is very sad when I think about it.
Matthew,
I think you’re right on the money. All this 1984 and conspiracy crap actually serve to work against real freedom because people look around and conclude that it’s not anything like 1984, so let’s go get another Cinnabon.
Oh, and everyone’s smart phones run on time. 🙂
Ha ha! Great Rick! Blogging about blogging… meta blogger?
No Jorge, couz, meta meta-blogger.
I agree that we don’t need nearly as much organized “leadership” as we do. What I’m less sure about is how to make this change come about. I think the solution would involve breaking down the mechanisms that allow (and encourage) power to accumulate in the hands of a few.
Anyway, keep ranting about stuff! It’s always interesting even when I don’t agree.
“What I’m less sure about is how to make this change come about”
Of that I am absolutely sure.
No way, and especially not voting or democracy. Conversely, we do enjoy a moment in history where you can engineer your own freedom in an unfree world, because it’s not stiflingly unfree. Maybe in a hundred thousand to a million years, the value of real freedom and minding your own fucking business and not spending your life agitating to live at the expense of other people and dispensing with the idea of a safety net at the expense of others will become common hman traits.
But it ain’t happening in our lifetimes, so best to ignore as much as you can and live as best as you can.
Carry on “pumping out” (I love Double Entendres).
Have you blogged about problems other than diet, exercise & lifestyle that you’ve solved?
Don’t know about solved problems, Nigel, but worth thinking about.
“So fuck Ron Paul, too. I’d absolutely hire him as my personal physician, though.”
I didn’t realize you were preggers, Richard. Boy or girl?
Dear Sean (or is it Shane?) – half the reason I come to this blog is to read comments like this. Ah, comedic relief!
Richard – my humble request is that please continue to blog about n=1’s you do. I think, out of the multitudes of Paleo blog posts out there, those on self-experimentation are the most interesting and helpful (I might just be an unscientific, moronic, ignorant cunt, though – wink). Outside of that, I’m psyched you will be writing about all ranges of topics that get your rocks off (and not giving a fuck about what your audience necessarily wants to read) … I believe that’s the MO of most great writers.
Kim, you can call me Shane, but you have to do it in a really awful fake southern accent.
That’s under the presumption he could be a competent GP, which I believe he could be. Sure looks healthy for his age and that’s worth paying attention to.
I’ve never been particularly interested in politics, but it was really this election cycle and looking at the candidates and the general situation of the political arena that finally led me to conclude that there is no hope in it.
None whatsoever, Jill. That’s why I find the bright eyed agitation over all of it so damn funny. Make no mistake, my only real drive to blog about politics is to laugh and ridicule.
Just a wee jaundiced comment in passing.. not actually directed at or to you, Richard (and blog on, fer shure!).
Why do people think that “awakening or educating” SHEEP will result in them turning into wolves!? All the hopes for the future seem to ride on ‘if only’ we can get people to *understand* … why, then….
Then, what? They’ll arm themselves and fight back? They’ll VOTE more ({disgusted eye roll} yeah., that’ll help….) Will they do anything other than (or perhaps it’s enough to merely) KNOW why they’re marching towards the abbatoir, baa-ing all the way?!
{sigh}
Eleanor, I just do what I can, and I take it one mind at a time. I don’t do this for the dumb sheep, but for those with real minds and thankfully, there are a lot of them.
Most of them young, too.
The best part of an election year is having your family try to convince you to vote. REAL AMERICANS love voting.
Richard, I’ve been a regular (although mostly lurking) reader of yours since 2003 or so and will continue to be regardless of subject matter. I came for the social/political commentary and stayed for the “paleo” and found value in it all. I dunno man, I guess I just like your style.
Thanks for being around for so long, Rick.
I shall endeavor to proceed with style.
Fantasizing about voting yourself into freedom isn’t even masturbation, because mastubation is pretty cool.
Best.
Line.
Ever!
Ron Paul’s the man, that’s all.
“Ron Paul’s the man, that’s all.”
For whom? He might well be fine as a father, doctor, husband, friend, co-worker, colleague. But NOBODY should be president. Nobody should rule other people, not even a “majority” (the bigger mob).
Richard, if he got elected, he’d slash 1 trillion off the budget, end the foreign wars, put a halt on the printing presses, end the drug war, make libertarian philosophy mainstream. I don’t disagree with you, but some perspective. If doesn’t get elected, the current trajectory is terrifying.
Are you old enough to remember Regan? I am. My first vote cast.
Similar sorts of things were supposed to paradise in on gold standard parachutes from that Messiah too. Instead, the size scope, cost and budget increased dramatically, just like it always does.
Fool me once.
The very best you could hope for with a Paul presidency is some form of gridlock where he simply doesn’t sign any legislation (gridlock is good, such as it is). Imagining he could get rid of the Fed, or do any of the other enormous budgetary and program cuts is just pure fantasy, even if he was elected, which he’s not anyway and never will be.
And I predict neither will his son. We’ll all be Western Europe, eventually.
Nope, 1985 born. (Does my age disqualify my arguments now?) 🙂
I think Reagan and Paul are quite different and to lump them together would be a stretch. Paul’s entire existence is minted in austrian economics, his philosophy rooted in Rothbard and Mises.. “radicals” by intellectuals.
He’s got a photo of Grover Cleveland in his office, the veto god. He can’t be bought, he won’t bend and he won’t dilute his message.
In short, he’s the real deal.
I agree. Paul was a congressman during the Reagan years and opposed the big-spending and ultra war hawkishness back then. He’s always been consistent. On the other hand, I have to agree with Richard to a point. I can’t imagine Paul doing more than a few good things and a decent amount of vetos. His biggest and boldest ideas won’t get any support from the Congress or Senate, unfortunately. Real change can only come from bottom up (i.e., a bunch of Paul types winning local elections–not likely at all) or a forced reset in some major crisis (much more likely, unfortunately).
Ever looked up some of Reagan’s speeches from even before he was governor of CA?
ICG: Ron Paulians are taking over the GOP at the local level across the country. It has not been easy, the establishment is fighting them tooth and nail. But there are a lot of encouraging victories Colorado, Missouri, Minnesota, Iowa, Nevada..
Richard: No, but I can imagine what you’re trying to infer. How about I throw you a question. Have you seen Ron Paul’s voting record for 30 years? He won’t even give Rosa Parks a gold medal with taxpayer money, in the heart of Washington, corruption central. No, again I’d say you can’t equate Reagan and Paul.