I'd make that a gift link but I'm out of them, but I think you can figure it out..
November 28, 2025
"Think of all the lost boys who have disappeared into their rooms, only to return as something unrecognizable, like a modern changeling."
That's my favorite sentence in "Your Phone Isn’t a Drug. It’s a Portal to the Otherworld" (NYT).
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Gift link: "Your Phone Isn’t a Drug. It’s a Portal to the Otherworld"
'If you believe in nothing, you will fall fof anything' chesterton supposedly remarked
If your belief system is so fragile you will fall for transgenderism hamas worship 'white fragility' et al
“The internet is a place crowded with uncanny entities and enchantments. Sometimes these enchantments reach back into our physical world. If we hope to travel wisely, the old instructions still apply: mark the threshold, remember that time moves differently there and know that every gift from the otherworld carries a price.
Above all, keep part of yourself rooted in the real world — grounded, embodied and tethered to other people. We’ve seen what happens when someone wanders too far. Think of all the lost boys who have disappeared into their rooms, only to return as something unrecognizable, like a modern changeling. Or the many adults who have fallen victim to conspiratorial thinking, caught the way wanderers once followed will-o’-the-wisps into the marsh, seduced by lights that were always illusory.”
The author is correct that there is no going back voluntarily. However, reality has a way making things happen involuntarily.
When family church and school built up the country instead of instilling hatred against one or another party
Thats the granscian walk through the institution that folks from allen bloom to chris rufo have tracdd
It's brain fungus for our children. And if you take away the phone, curtail the internet, then you're a luddite parent of a child in full explosive mode.
Similarly western media and education dissolves traditional institutions abroad so consequently traditional cultures rebel
Good advice from Inga. This advice also for those who wander too far into the signposts that are planted by legacy media. Do not wander too far into the bubble. There lie dragons.
Thanks, Tim.
A.I. is Grima Wormtongue.
If you call young white men racist and toxic and drive them out of school and belittle the honest trade work most of them are good at there will be consequences.
We let rich white over educated women take over the education system and they have predictably turned our public schools into a Misandrist cult that systematically turns young men into angry broken vessels.
The next decades will be a revenge tour. And the college educated Karen's who prompted this have earned everything that follows.
There is something to mcluhsns medium is the messagd
But the message is as important
Those messages are not unique to these shells however
Those alienated from these progressive cultures will find some
Oasis some shoal to attach themselves to
"Or the many adults who have fallen victim to conspiratorial thinking,"
Yes, believe Dr Fauci when he says it wasn't him or his bat virus chimera research investigating the STING pathways!
Believe what the news tells you!
The problem for the ruling elite is that they no longer control information or the asking of questions, and therefore the application of logic to that information.
Sure, phones are a problem for young minds, and sure, you should stay grounded to your friends, but to extend that to the idea that one should not question narratives presented to us by the media or politicians is more three card monte, slipping in an unrelated point.
If it weren't for conspiracy theories, how much actual news about Trump would make it to the MSM, for example. I don't think that Inga really understands what she is asking, or are only people hired by the billionaires who own the media allowed to form theories about conspiracies?
Data shows that parents want children to have phones in classrooms - in case of a emergency or school shooter.
Data also shows that children learn to engage with other children and subject matter when phones are banned from the class room.
We have told young men to work for 15$ and hour so they can pay a $2200 dollar mortgage and get married to a woman that will divorce him and take the house and the kids and make him pay her half his paycheck for 18 years for the last several decades.
And now we are shocked when men decide to play video games instead.
95% of people in jail are men.
Nearly twice as many boys drop out of school.
Males have 4 times the suicide rate.
95% of work related deaths are men.
90% or wartime casualties are men.
We really need to take a hard look at universal suffrage.
I do not believe that it is possible for a person with a normal moral understanding to be cynical enough to get to the truth of what is going on, and labeling the people sniffing around their BS illogical narratives as "conspiracy theorists" is day to day maintenance of their narrative power.
The irony of the new york times pushing this viewpoint well its ouroboros
You don't have to give your children free reign of the Internet. They don't have to have a phone when they're twelve. But parents have to also buy in. One TV in the house. One computer in a family area and everyone socializes together every night instead of retreating to a screen.
Jaq said...
I do not believe that it is possible for a person with a normal moral understanding to be cynical enough to get to the truth of what is going on, and labeling the people sniffing around their BS illogical narratives as "conspiracy theorists" is day to day maintenance of their narrative power.
Illegitimate Regimes have followed this pattern for millennia.
They have always consolidated power in a shrinking number of hands as they progress because their natural foundation is greed.
And they always fall once a critical mass of the population no longer feels like they are a part of the social contract.
What phones have done in current times is transfer the conflict from physical force to information force.
But Elon buying X has created a new paradigm much like the Gutenberg Press did.
If the narratives from the New York Times, for example, weren't so laughably illogical, and obviously aimed at manipulating people that they must consider either deluded or moronic, if they printed news that mapped better to the real world, you know, things like it's possible that certain men take advantage of their gender rules to commit rape or exhibitionism, or just peeping tomery; that they pretend that this is not possible? Well, there you have fertile ground for people to look elsewhere for some ground truth.
And he is as much a target as thd owner of telegram which transmits samizdat some of it foolish
Back when dorsey and zuckerberg held the reins
So the best friend was entranced by lesbian porn only to return from the threshold and soon she and Katya Ungerman will be scissoring as the toddler looks on. Did I get that right?
https://open.substack.com/pub/boriquagato/p/backing-up-the-shark-truck?
Achilles at 11/28/25, 9:12 AM appears to be advocating that men should lose their right to vote. Or is he advocating that women should lose their right to vote so that men will be better men?
In other words, the phone lets you get around the lefty gatekeeping of school and the press.
Its such a gaseous effusion anyone can make anything from it
Kids these days!
What’s the matter with kids these days?
You know right
of course pink floyd was wrong 'they wanted thought control'
That song was so much self indulgent tripe
Just as with python they poured acid into the institutions and then there was no foundation
The NYT is a portal to an otherworld where boys disappear into their rooms and return as girls.
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