Francis Tapon has spoken for TED so you know right off, he is one smart hombre. He has written an article on What Sucks About El Camino (i.e kind of shorthand for the Way of Saint James) along with several books.
Side-note: did you ever notice those speaking for TED rarely come from Washington
I'm not smart enough to be this discontented so I wonder endlessly what happened to the really smart ones as in the ones who still retained their balls. One thing I know for sure is hardly any are on Facebook or other social networks. Where did they go.
The conclusion from all that is simple: they are not here so go somewhere else.
(Ed: the premise is there are no smart people in America?)
No, the premise is they are extremely well-hidden. We only see the sharpies who are good with numbers on Wall Street but never have an insight of any real depth beyond separating people from their money. At one time they were called carpet baggers or snake oil salesmen. We're looking for the quality smart people with some real depth to them but we have been coming up dry for a long, long time.
Instead we get second-raters like Trump, Farage, Clinton, Johnson, etc, etc in a never-ending stream of political opportunists who bring nothing except further exacerbation of the decline and fall of the Western Empire. Example: there are not so far off two billion Muslims in the world whereas there are three hundred million Americans who hate them along with some much smaller number of Englishers. America and England already lost and the politicians are too dim to know it. The same applies with Hispanics; Americans are woefully outnumbered. All this racial hatefulness isn't just evil, it's aggressively pointless and stupid.
Returning to the top, Tapon's expectations for The Way are not the same as my own since he wants a much more challenging hike, more dramatic scenery, etc, etc. His purpose in writing was specifically not to disparage The Way but rather to make clear various aspects people may find are not satisfying. For example, the crowding can be heavy and he noted one day in which the registry handed out fifteen hundred certifications to people for completing the pilgrimage ... in one day ... how many is that per hour, li'l idealogical snowflake.
His general notes are that walking it is relatively easy as in comparison to walking the Appalachian Trail or similar. He notes the crowding is good if people are your purpose but really sucks if it is not. Frankly, we don't see what other purpose there would be for this particular hike. He further observes commercialization although he did not charge Starbucks with putting one of their hellish coffee shops along the way so we could enjoy some shallow music with ultra-sweet coffee which tastes like Thin Mints from the Girl Scouts.
(Ed: does it really?)
No idea. Starbucks is so obviously a magnet for demons who don't understand how the state beat them that I've never been inside one. My pilgrimages typically roam farther afield than that and have zero need to report on outcomes to Starbucks.
My general thinking is the road to Santiago de Compostela is too short insofar as it's completed typically within a couple of months and that's even if you're dogging it as I would be. My interest is not in speed but in The Way, what happens as it goes.
Meanwhile, as to what's in the news: the same thing as yesterday and every day before that for years. Lots of blondies are on the news although we note they are rarely featured as news. It's hilarious hearing them talking about liberation when they have almost nothing to do with it.
There is a more fundamental reason for this because it appears, without much awareness of formidable creative drives from the Far East, the fundamental sources of creativity and intellectual inspiration on the planet have arisen out of Germany and out of Africa. The Middle East never contributed much of anything and everything from the farther West has been only derivative.
The general flow is the Germanic tribes conquered significant parts of Britain and to such an extent the people have been known as Anglo/Saxons ever since (i.e. not Celts).
Note: the Germanic tribes were also Celts but that's usually omitted from the telling.
That Germanic consciousness flowed through England into America and it remains one of the largest influences in the country aesthetically and scientifically.
The same applies with Africa although an entirely different and much more brutal mechanism in importing vast numbers of Africans. That influence is profound as well, particularly within the arts due to suppression elsewhere.
Without African rhythms, American music would be nothing more than marching bands.
(Ed: that doesn't credit Germans with adding much)
Yah, it's not fair as krautrock was hardly their first contribution to Western music, by many centuries.
Sure enough there are significant influences from elsewhere but those sources provided the biggest ones. The point is America was not the origin so it's incumbent on the interested student to find the source.
(Ed: searching for the Fountain of Youth?)
Not even close as we don't see anything particularly appealing about throwing away a lifetime of experience for a bit of bone time. Yahoo, where do I sign.
Instead the search is for the Fountain of Life. Where is the inspiration to do anything at all. When it isn't here then find it, Young Wanderer.
Side-note: did you ever notice those speaking for TED rarely come from Washington
I'm not smart enough to be this discontented so I wonder endlessly what happened to the really smart ones as in the ones who still retained their balls. One thing I know for sure is hardly any are on Facebook or other social networks. Where did they go.
The conclusion from all that is simple: they are not here so go somewhere else.
(Ed: the premise is there are no smart people in America?)
No, the premise is they are extremely well-hidden. We only see the sharpies who are good with numbers on Wall Street but never have an insight of any real depth beyond separating people from their money. At one time they were called carpet baggers or snake oil salesmen. We're looking for the quality smart people with some real depth to them but we have been coming up dry for a long, long time.
Instead we get second-raters like Trump, Farage, Clinton, Johnson, etc, etc in a never-ending stream of political opportunists who bring nothing except further exacerbation of the decline and fall of the Western Empire. Example: there are not so far off two billion Muslims in the world whereas there are three hundred million Americans who hate them along with some much smaller number of Englishers. America and England already lost and the politicians are too dim to know it. The same applies with Hispanics; Americans are woefully outnumbered. All this racial hatefulness isn't just evil, it's aggressively pointless and stupid.
Returning to the top, Tapon's expectations for The Way are not the same as my own since he wants a much more challenging hike, more dramatic scenery, etc, etc. His purpose in writing was specifically not to disparage The Way but rather to make clear various aspects people may find are not satisfying. For example, the crowding can be heavy and he noted one day in which the registry handed out fifteen hundred certifications to people for completing the pilgrimage ... in one day ... how many is that per hour, li'l idealogical snowflake.
His general notes are that walking it is relatively easy as in comparison to walking the Appalachian Trail or similar. He notes the crowding is good if people are your purpose but really sucks if it is not. Frankly, we don't see what other purpose there would be for this particular hike. He further observes commercialization although he did not charge Starbucks with putting one of their hellish coffee shops along the way so we could enjoy some shallow music with ultra-sweet coffee which tastes like Thin Mints from the Girl Scouts.
(Ed: does it really?)
No idea. Starbucks is so obviously a magnet for demons who don't understand how the state beat them that I've never been inside one. My pilgrimages typically roam farther afield than that and have zero need to report on outcomes to Starbucks.
My general thinking is the road to Santiago de Compostela is too short insofar as it's completed typically within a couple of months and that's even if you're dogging it as I would be. My interest is not in speed but in The Way, what happens as it goes.
Meanwhile, as to what's in the news: the same thing as yesterday and every day before that for years. Lots of blondies are on the news although we note they are rarely featured as news. It's hilarious hearing them talking about liberation when they have almost nothing to do with it.
There is a more fundamental reason for this because it appears, without much awareness of formidable creative drives from the Far East, the fundamental sources of creativity and intellectual inspiration on the planet have arisen out of Germany and out of Africa. The Middle East never contributed much of anything and everything from the farther West has been only derivative.
The general flow is the Germanic tribes conquered significant parts of Britain and to such an extent the people have been known as Anglo/Saxons ever since (i.e. not Celts).
Note: the Germanic tribes were also Celts but that's usually omitted from the telling.
That Germanic consciousness flowed through England into America and it remains one of the largest influences in the country aesthetically and scientifically.
The same applies with Africa although an entirely different and much more brutal mechanism in importing vast numbers of Africans. That influence is profound as well, particularly within the arts due to suppression elsewhere.
Without African rhythms, American music would be nothing more than marching bands.
(Ed: that doesn't credit Germans with adding much)
Yah, it's not fair as krautrock was hardly their first contribution to Western music, by many centuries.
Sure enough there are significant influences from elsewhere but those sources provided the biggest ones. The point is America was not the origin so it's incumbent on the interested student to find the source.
(Ed: searching for the Fountain of Youth?)
Not even close as we don't see anything particularly appealing about throwing away a lifetime of experience for a bit of bone time. Yahoo, where do I sign.
Instead the search is for the Fountain of Life. Where is the inspiration to do anything at all. When it isn't here then find it, Young Wanderer.
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