Fun at Home
Todd Hayen
So working at home is a dream come true, eh? I’ll bet. What fun! A permanent snow day for all! Stay in your PJs all day, go at your own pace, play a few vid games here and there, take a nap once in a while, raid the fridge, have a beer. (Unless you are monitored constantly by Big Brother, which I believe in most “work at home” situations you are).
I doubt if it is as fun as all that. Wife or husband is around 24/7, kids are definitely nonstop, Big Brother, as mentioned, is breathing down your neck. But still, it’s better than dealing with traffic or the train every day and going into the brick and mortar day in and day out. Right? Right.
I’ve asked a few people in this “work at home predicament” what they think about it. Most said, “its great!”…thus the title for this article. A few said they were going crazy due to all of its drawbacks. But it seems the majority are just fine with it—for now.
I say “for now” because like most things Covid has changed in our lives, it seems some time has to pass before we start feeling the ill effects. By then most people don’t seem able to connect the dots. They get anxious, depressed, and unsure of a happy future—but seem to have no idea why.
That is always a difficult thing to nail down in any situation, the “why” of it. In mental health I would say it is probably one of the biggest difficulties—is all that misery due to a traumatic childhood? A tyrant father, a doting mother? Is it drugs or alcohol? Is it adolescent bullying? Is it the environment? Health? A mean and abusive spouse, an asshole boss? Genetics?
Is it all the insanity we have been subjected to since Covid appeared out of a Chinese clear blue sky three years ago? That last one is seldom seen as the culprit. Well, take it from me, when it comes to general anxiety and depression, it is probably more often the culprit than not.
By extension I’d say that about the work-at-home situation as well. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
I’ll tell ‘ya.
Now, this may seem like a stretch to some, and maybe it is, but you’ve got to keep in mind that all this, in my opinion, is planned. And when something this massive is planned, with a very clear intended result, then just about anything could be part of the plan.
I think shutting down the work world and forcing everyone to sit in their little domestic cubby holes isolated from just about everything all day long is definitely part of the agenda. That’s just me folks, but you know me pretty well by now. Dr. Doom.
But, as Dr. Freud once apocryphally said, “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar,” meaning: maybe the shift of the workforce into home office mode might not be anything at all nefarious. Cough, cough.
So what is important in the care and feeding of a human being? One vital thing is to avoid too much isolation. Sometimes being alone in nature is a great thing, but obviously I am not talking about that sort of isolation. I am curious to know if management has noticed a drop in creativity from their at home work force?
Of course we have Zoom, and Chat, and other forms of mingling with the cyber versions of humans. But I can’t quite wrap my head around how that sort of “cyber contact” is as healthy, and thus as conducive to good work output, than hanging out at the water cooler yakking about the project your team is working on.
Maybe I’m wrong.
But that’s just making a comment on work productivity. How about human mental health? A lot has been written about this, usually from the standpoint of “pros vs. cons.” Needless to say there certainly are advantages to working at home. I don’t need to list them here. And probably the healthiest arrangement is a little bit of both, which seems now to be the trend (for now.)
As with everything else we are experiencing in today’s movement toward the “new tomorrow,” we are at the early stages of it all. At this point in time there is not all that much that would be considered mentally or spiritually destructive. But don’t kid yourself. This movement toward leaving the workplace situated in a downtown high-rise, to your little spare bedroom, basement or garage at home, is not an organic movement due to social evolution. This phenomenon marches more to the drum of “the agenda,” and as such there is plenty to worry about.
Exactly what that looks like I can’t say, but watch the Bruce Willis film “Surrogates” to get a little taste of it. Common sense tells us that big business cannot possibly believe having all their employees at the end of a Zoom wire (well, that is an archaic metaphor) is a good idea. Look at any photograph of a big city skyline and tell yourself that all of those skyscrapers can easily be given up.
I don’t think so. Something is going on here that we don’t really see a clear picture of, and it probably isn’t pretty. Maybe, like so much else, it has something to do with control—imprisoning the work force in an electronically surveilled environment with a careful and watchful electronic eye monitoring every move. Sure, you can do that in an office building too, but there is something exceedingly sinister about the isolation.
When people are isolated from other people for huge expanses of time, things typically do not go all that well. We need socialization, interaction, and human comradeship. Read Oliver Onion’s The Beckoning Fair One to get an eerie (it is a ghost story) take on what can go wrong with an isolated psychology—pretty much all serial killers were loners. I know, I know, your kids, wife/husband, and maybe a few others are always around, eh? Well, I don’t need to tell you that that is crazy making in its own right.
We have to roll with the times, right? Well, destroying the physical work place was not a result of a natural evolution. It was implemented due to a totally fabricated “emergency” and really has no reality or basis beyond that. Yet here it is to stay. Why is that? While you ponder that one I’ll list a few more things that make this a dicey idea, especially as it evolves into something much more sinister than it is starting out as.
My list: Isolation. Tendency to work too much for too long of a stretch. No creative interaction with other employees. Lack of camaraderie. Less changing stimuli. Friends. Meeting members of the opposite sex. Too much time at home (no separation between work and home.) Image of work as prison. Big Brother watching electronically. Fewer humans to laugh with. Less opportunity to integrate with the culture.
There are a lot more…give some more in the comments.
I’ll say it again; it isn’t all that bad yet. But all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Even though you might have more of a chance to goof off if working at home, most people say the work there is much more intense than at the office.
The sort of “play” one encounters at the work place is subtle, but it is psychologically healthier: interaction with other humans on breaks, stretching your legs with a walk around the office and mingling with different stimuli, going to lunch with the gang, etc. Choosing what to wear every day. What all this will eventually evolve into is anyone’s guess, so if you think about that, be creative.
What you come up with is probably far less frightening than the reality that eventually faces us.
Todd Hayen is a registered psychotherapist practicing in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He holds a PhD in depth psychotherapy and an MA in Consciousness Studies. He specializes in Jungian, archetypal, psychology. Todd also writes for his own substack, which you can read here
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Work, what’s that? ”Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you’d care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working.” ”Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment. Conservatives support right-to-work laws. Following Karl Marx’s wayward son-in-law Paul Lafargue I support the right to be lazy. Leftists favor full employment. Like the surrealists — except that I’m not kidding — I favor full unemployment. Trotskyists agitate for permanent revolution. I agitate for permanent revelry. But if all the ideologues (as they do) advocate work — and not only because they plan to make other people do theirs — they are strangely reluctant to say so. They will carry on endlessly about wages, hours, working conditions, exploitation, productivity, profitability. They’ll gladly talk… Read more »
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Careful what you invest in, that home office chair is a wiff o’ musk satellite launch pad.
…”Come and share a smoke with me, we’ll try to make a plan…”
…- The Levellers called correct on this back in ’02:…
I retired early. Sometimes, I talk to normal people with jobs. They all say the same things. They all toe the line. Some more than others, but toe the line they do. I think I’ve worked it out. It’s all fear. Fear of losing their job, their house, their car, their friends, their social standing, their partner, the list goes on. WFH, instead of freeing you up, actually makes you MORE vulnerable. Because you are remote you don’t have those small reassurances from bosses and colleagues. It’s not until you can isolate yourself from many of these threats that you can really assess what’s going on around you. Until recently their compliance was a bit of a mystery, I’d been watching them from my little bubble. Self-sufficiently getting more and more cynical of the ‘system’. Then it hit me – the manufactured inflation was going to affect ME !! I… Read more »
Indeed, very clever.
But I like the words, “cunning” and “sly” better.
The fox is allegedly cunning, but you don’t put him in a guard’s uniform and station him at the open door of a henhouse – unless you want to reduce your hen population drastically.
I don’t know, is working for another a natural condition of human existence?. Cooperation, companionship and coexistence yes. If community work together as in hunter gatherers, planting, cropping, building up a safe and happy productive community then this is done for the betterment of all. To work for someone by giving over our time and commitment to enable them to become more productive and therefore richer. But while keeping the rest of us in a state of near poverty and by expecting us to give more and more of ourself over to this one sided arrangement, not so much. Over generations humans have been conditioned to believe in this new normal work ethic. It has come at the loss of many other human needs, commitments and expressions. Such as creativity and self relience. It has eroded our sense of family responsibilities. Duties like caring for our elderly and our children… Read more »
Hello Kathy: Excellent comment and insight. Your opening question: “I don’t know, is working for another a natural condition of human existence?”
No. And absolutely no. Working for the benefit of someone “else” is slavery, period. You’ve already specified the conditioning mechanisms, so good on ya.
Industrial slavery has been replaced by post-industrial servitude. Let’s watch the disaster unfolding on our stupid plastic cell phones and snack on genetically altered potato chips…
FWIW, after reading Kathy’s thoughtful comment, but before reading your reply, my thought was “Whether it’s performed at a workplace or at home, wage slavery is still wage slavery.”
Kathy, Huxley’s “Brave new world” offers an answer to your question.
Alphas, betas, gammas, deltas, and epsilons were literally bred for different roles with the epsilons doing any donkey work.
Of course, Huxley’s caste system was the result of eugenics but have we really achieved a society so different to that portrayed in the book ?
Not by messing around directly with hormones, DNA or genes but by a slow process of normalisation of hierarchy.
One extremely big problem is that many if not most people take their identity, their very sense of self, from their society. There may be a certain practical value to society from such a source of self-identity; but it puts the individual at a disadvantage in that it prompts him to disregard his own self for the sake of the “greater good.”
And if the values of a particular society get corrupted (as they have today), then the dynamic inevitably produces broken people as surely as the old Chinese custom of binding girls’ feet.
The greater good or the greator’s good ?
And the only thing wrong with any of this the Fraud can find is that there aren’t enough women in “the intelligence community”….
https://dumptheguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/29/gchq-chief-western-spy-agencies-must-pre-bunk-disinformation
Todd, the people you’re discussing only make up a small fraction of the total proletarian/agri-peasantry workers who actually keep all the functions of organised human life going, with all their great panoply of nitty-gritty, mucky-handed, out-on-the-job morlock work: the sort of constant daily effort that keeps society working. None of their work can be done ‘from home’. That’s strictly for that small percentage of the total work-force who are – in ‘normal’ times – office/managerial plankton. (How, for example, are the grid-maintenance workers going to repair the current widespread Winter damage to NAmerica’s power lines, ‘from home’…?) To get a clear picture of why the WEFoids’ sick fantasy of a startrekkytechietechie (sttt) dystopia has absolutely zero chance of ever happening (especially the particularly demented nightmares of the full-on harari-delusionals) you need only digest the ultra-hard facts put forward so starkly by Chris Martenson, of ‘Peak Prosperity’ and ‘The Crash Course’,… Read more »
The pollution and poisoning from the said activities will hasten the collapse.
mego: Yes. Exactly. Digging toxic poisons up from deep in the Earth, then spreading them all over the friggin’ place, is not a viable plan. The techno-idiots have no clue whatsoever. They’ll be worse off than dead, very soon…
Interesting how ‘working from home’ really rather relies on computer, digital, brave new world sort of work, which most of us have been pushed into regardless of our work type. Rural mediaeval life was pretty much all working from home, but within the context of what I would call ‘real’ life. Industrialization during the late 18th and 19th centuries saw everyone ‘going off the work’ somewhere other than their homes, and this latest iteration of the hive can only be achieved because of the digital world. Chuck your phone away, take a lump hammer to the computer and get back to real life, where working from home is a fully alive and integrated socially economically viable, ‘real’ option. Real LIfe!
In feudal society, the masses worked for the owner they could not deny. Now, they believe they are free.
But pre the enclosure system’s total erosion of common laws at the birthing of the industrial revolution. The people still held certain land rights. These ancient rights enabled an existence that was not totally beholden to the landowners. This made food, clothing and accommodation possible without the need to give all ones time and energy to the overlords.
Spot on Todd. I started a company and worked from home. I was lucky as once I had my orders via the ‘voice recorder’, I was able to get out of the ‘office’ see customers and do deliveries. As the company grew, and the staff compliment got larger, I felt my space at home being invaded – coming home to finally put ones feet up and have a lager just was not happening. Always something to do, like spending your vacation at home – never really rest as the darn house/garden always needs attention. Was ever so happy that the staff got too big to be accommodated at home and invested in office premises where I now had to travel. Having worked in the corporate world for a few years, this was not a problem (always left for work very early). I was to all intents my own time keeper… Read more »
But the other side of that, of course, is that isolation empowers the independent-minded, resourceful and thoughtful. Not a good plan for any government given their reliance on group-think to perpetuate their lies.
WFH reinforces dependence. If you go to work it’s a nearly tangible thing. If you WFH you feel more at the mercy of a remote power who may decide to switch you off at any time.
Working from home all the time is generally not a good thing for the individual or society. In a way work remained one of those areas that resisted the destruction of community which has taken place over the past 40 years. In fact it seemed to replace it for a lot of people but that too now is under threat. It’s important not to look at things just from your own short term perspective. I know I have a weakness for that too. I personally hate working from home all the time as I am now, although it does allow me to care for my mum which might be difficult if I was going into an office every day, although perhaps some time away from my mum and talking to other humans during the day might do me good. I think it probably would and I would make some other… Read more »
Agree, except for the last sentence. I was (and employed) people to make the company a success.
Worked hard and played hard!
You need others to enjoy the being of a cooperative slave
not sure what that means but whatever
I would add transfer of skills, good for staff and the org.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-64037867
Hot Ukrainian babe “becomes Tik Tok star” through posting about “the war”.
I’ve never known “the news” to be presented by so many juicy “showgirls”.
Speaking of which, all that ridiculous propaganda from WW1 that everyone laughed at not only returned with the Ukraine thing but it all jumped into the media so fast and so efficiently that the machine which produced it was clearly there all along and just waiting.
Wasn’t brexit suppose to help stop immigrant. Take back control.
Now the same people are selling hot Ukrainian babes for adoption.
One of the most important reasons this is being implemented is that companies get away more easily with pay cuts, burdening employees with extra work and even unlawful activities if the employees are more isolated and sometimes even don’t know each other at all. I’ll put it like this: If these things are being implemented, it is much more likely that employees will organize and resist if they are in physical contact. Someone will be pissed or know labour laws and speak up in the meeting, or the word will spread through chatter. In a “zoom” meeting? Not so much. And even if someone speaks up and says no, he can always be muted by the manager
Hmm, there ought to be a name for this devious, reprehensible strategy.
You know, something like… well, “divide”, and then… “overcome”, or something like that.
I’ve got it! “Divide and conquer”. Yeah, that’s it! Hey, maybe I should copyright this phrase before someone else thinks of it. 😉
There have been a couple of odd deaths around our workplace. Both involved young folk. A woman working in residential care lost her son to a heart attack and one of my colleagues had a similarly bereaved friend.
Meanwhile I note the ongoing saga of celebrities whose health is failing or who have died where the reason for the illness/ death is not given.
It is terrifying how the media can just so casually throw this stuff out and few are concerned. Few even notice. Each celebrity death feels like another farewell to the old “happy time”.
Perhaps there is a truth in that Chitty Chitty Bang Bang bit about the child catcher? We are all imprisoned children who have been kept entertained up till now. But the show is winding down now.
In March 2020 I started a new job. Despite the lockdown, I had the option to come into the office, which I jumped at. Commuting brought mostly enjoyable random social interactions, but in the office there were only a handful of coworkers for the first year or so. When neawrly everyone came back,it was lmost festive for a minute. But soon came harsh mask enforcement,and a mandatory jab rule. I managed to wriggle a medical exemption but became a pariah,banned to attend meetings by video and earning insults and condemnation from previously friendly colleagues. I questioned whether working “together” in the face of such hostility could really be considered collaborative, or desirable. A month ago, I quit to go freelance. I now work at home and we’ll see how that goes. I am incredibly sad that I will never go back to a “normal” workplace again but it’s worse to… Read more »
Their loss. May you make a fortune and rub their masks in your success.
Did you all hear about the anti-covid-regulations terrorists who were going to kidnap Governor Whitmer of Michigan? Guess who was behind it? Undercover Intell who enticed them into the plan, the surveillance of Whitmer’s vacation home, etc. Poor dummies were going to try her for treason at a secret location.
Typical entrapment.
https://apnews.com/article/whitmer-kidnap-plot-trial-crime-michigan-gretchen-whitmer-grand-rapids-5b91f52d9933810f7187ea1d0afa983f
…FBI:…
…- Full-Blown Insurrectionists…
…- Fitting-up Bumbling Idjits…
…- Fundamentally Bullshit Intrigues…
…- FaceBook Infested… (- *Mission Accomplished*…)
…- Fullminating Bloviators Incorporated…
…- Fun-and-games Bending Institutions…
…- Fear Biden’s Inquisition… (OK, OK, we all know he ain’t ‘The Man’…)
…- For Banksters Implicitly…
…- FuBar Index…
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Yes, and those who still cling to the belief that the (Western) judiciary and the “Rule of Law” is the last, best hope for achieving (or restoring) justice should take notice of the dismal trend of triers of fact– mostly judges, but sometimes juries– routinely convicting such entrapment victims and imposing draconian sentences.
Besides isolated entrapment operations like the Whitmer affair, the Stalinesque show trials of the “January 6th Insurrectionists” feature a string of appropriately abjectly repentant “convicted criminals” expressing fervent remorse as they’re led down the latest Trail of Tears to serve their harsh sentences. 😡
I think it depends on what kind of person you are whether work from home is good for you or not. More than being able to raid the fridge, take a nap?! (only babies take day-time naps), avoid traffic stop-and-gos and wear PJs, you can do your domestic chores and errands during the working week and have the weekend truly free. Plus you don’t have a boss breathing down your neck – worth a million dollars! You can exercise at whatever time you want and don’t have to get up at 5am to get it done before work. Your mobile connectivity allows you the freedom to talk to co-workers or customers from whatever location, including a cafe or the local park. Moreover, from years ago, I learned that I can get the same work load done at home as previously in an office setting but in half the time. If… Read more »
Yes, it is the type of person you are. It suited me quite well when I worked 2 days before I retired. Back then my employer, like control freaks were doing everything to limit it – now I hear many work home 5 days. Ridiculous situation and the author makes some good points about the bigger picture. One thing I do remember is I often hated going into the office because it got so woke and days were spent in pointless meetings.
I’ve met a lot of beautiful people in my life but none so than the Christian faith. I wrote something earlier it didn’t get put up so everyone else your not allowed to say anything against but everyone can mock our faith clap clap.
I’ve put a long comment in which is now in pending which is a shame since this is meant as a supplement. Lockdown was essential to the covid psy-op. It meant the forcible isolation of everyone from everyone else so that everyone could be separately programmed. And once we had all been permitted out of our pens to reform community, the nature of the public psyche had been irrevocably altered. It’s as if we had adopted the outlook of the traumatised child. The spring of 2020 now appears as the last gasp of that confident consumerist society where everyone could feel certainty that the basic functions would be attended to and that it could all continue. Now we have been terrorised into an ever threatening instability where we have been made to feel that our only option if we want to survive is to keep our heads down and do… Read more »
Yes, I agree. I was just thinking about that today. Ah the blissful naivety before 2020! I had absolutely no concerns (besides financial) that I’d have any issues with regularly being allowed to travel to see my family back in Oz (I live in Europe) and had lots of ideas and hopes for my life…but now I’m feeling very tentative and am genuinely concerned that things will clamp down again within these next few years. This doesn’t alleviate my homesickness and I’m not sure what to do. Bastards!
Lockdowns helped immensely with divide and conquer as well. Now we hear the chorus of those poor, poor souls who must return to the office – no lunchtime yoga, no mid day walk, no working in their pajamas anymore, no one home to receive the latest Amazon delivery…. They’ll bitch and moan about having to return, without taking one second to realize just how many people had to be “out in it” the entire time they were sitting at home collecting a paycheck. The very definition of privilege IMHO. They’ll scream bloody murder at those who refuse the shot, not even bothering to listen to the MSM stooges they revere that the damned thing does not “protect them” one iota. Programmed behavior indeed. When you remind them that our world DOES NOT WORK without people actually going to work and leaving their homes, they look at you like you’re from… Read more »
They used to play in our local village hall before they were famous. I was 10 years old in 1963.. It was just normal for me we had a Radio We got a Black and White Television for Christmas (and could invite our friends round to see the Telly) Not only The Beatles (then our local band – up north Lancashire) But also The Rolling Stones “The Rolling Stones – Dead Flowers (Live) – OFFICIAL” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS_yyRk_dj8 and when I got to 16, I was allowed to go out and see the Groundhogs on my motorbike… We didn’t have any mobiles phones, and I was too shy to ask, the most beautiful girl in my class… But it wasn’t that bad. Most of us found a Girlfriend, even if I was a bit slow. Life is There To Go We’ve got 3 Grandchildren now and we haven’t been jabbed. Still Up… Read more »
i remember when you could go from free festival to free festival all summer long with free park up/camping inc music and stage. the criminal justice act put paid to that early 90’s
Great video of Mick and Keith sharing the mic, thanks for sharing 🎶
This phenomenon marches more to the drum of “the agenda,” and as such there is plenty to worry about. Exactly what that looks like I can’t say, but watch the Bruce Willis film “Surrogates” to get a little taste of it. Well phrased. Surrogates is not far from reality. The technology is already there, they just need people to accept it, and someone to lead them into it. Its easy to see how they are pushing for the people to line up behind Musk as some sort of champion. They act like he’s a champion of free speech, like he’s cleaning out Twitter and attacking Fauci. He is, however, imaged and advertised to the people. It is Musk who was chosen to put Star-Link (the grid) into space, and it is Musk who runs NeuraLink. He is all in with the Internet of Bodies, which will connect people’s brains with… Read more »
Talk of working from home brought back the whole beginning of this covid coup. And how deviously effective it was. In my own work it happened so fast. I had been warned about the covid crap in advance from OffG and I will always be grateful for the fact that this site prepared me – though, to be sure, I doubt if I would have fell for the bull anyway. So I was ready for a lockdown though even then the speed at which it all developed was remarkable. There was a few rumblings from the boss, some sage noddings from the staff, one who muttered that it may be a load of crap and then, all in the space of perhaps three days, we were out. The boss made sure we all had our little packs of hand wash, gloves, masks etc. There was even some rumblings about how… Read more »
“And this is the brilliance of the lockdown manoeuvre. When face-to-face communication is removed, almost everything is lost.”
…- Why Lockdown and Maskup went hand in hand, right there…
‘The Hijacking of Green’: From Beauty and Biodiversity to Fakery and Fascism
Lockdown has been applied shock doctrine for global economic warfare, strategy previously practiced on lesser scales by disaster capitalism to create opportune crisis for restructuring forces and relations of production. Laptop professionals may burrow into their work from home to consider consequences for themselves, while forgetting varied effects for others, amid general effect of destroying work for vast numbers to facilitate the largest-ever transfer of wealth, or theft of resources, to the owning class. Human labor is largely irrelevant in the post-industrial digital (c)age of techofeudalism into which we’re being engineered with catch-22 ‘choices’, such as being replaced by a robot or becoming one, if not simply disposed of as a useless eater. The death march of capital rule in the new abnormal world order is taking us into control grids of a prison planet in permanent lockdown. Un(der)employment to UBI to credit scores and so on for some. Home offices hooked into the… Read more »
It isn’t just “home life.” Human civilization is on its last leg. Humans have continued doing what they have always done and even though it has never worked, they kept trying. First they put all their eggs in the God/King basket; then they took their eggs out and put them in the King basket; then, sensing a drift from overt hierarchy, they stuck all their eggs in the Mercantile basket – which is where they’ve been ever since. Now the Mercantile is about to go bust. Problem is, it’s been so successful that there’s nothing else waiting in the wings; no basket to put their eggs in. So their eggs will sit there gathering greenback dust till they all rot. No system should ever be so successful that there’s nowhere else to go should it fail. And make no mistake: it is failing, big time. When those who run the… Read more »
Nice metaphor Howard.
Ironically, we don’t need to place any ‘eggs’ anywhere.
We are born with all we need.
Diminishing and/or dropping learned ignorance is all that’s required.
What’s left is Life, and Love grows organically.
It’s a tangent, but relevant; I can’t resist repeating the old joke cited by Woody Allen in “Annie Hall”:
A man mentions to his psychiatrist that he has a brother at home who thinks he’s a chicken.
The psychiatrist suggests that the man bring his brother in for treatment.
The man replies, “Well, I would… but we need the eggs.” 😎 🥚 🥚
” ‘choices’, such as being replaced by a robot or becoming one,” So true, Niko. I don’t know why it made me laugh. Great comment.
That’s a good point — but often overlooked. After the implosion of the economy, the eradication of cultures and social norms and the ever growing threats of war and conflicts, what’s the likelihood that the rulers would feel obliged to keep so many of us alive and entertained? Look no further than Canada, where euthanasia is popularised and offered as an economical medical option for the downtrodden.
“So working at home is a dream come true, eh?” I got lucky.I Practiced the new interview techniques, and got the job at the age of 45, only a few miles from my home (Computer Techy stuff) The first thing they did, was too install all this ISDN comms stuff in my home and a pc and gave me this pager thing and a laptop and a new analogue mobile phone..(digital not quite ready) And told me – this bit of the system is your job – and all these contractors are reporting to you….they are doing the mobile bit… So I said Hi Guys, and introduced myself…Apparently I am doing the UNIX stuff, but didn’t have a clue. They slung me a book UNIX101 for dummies. We got on well. But I was allowed to work from home when my bleeper went off. It was only computer shit… and… Read more »
Meeting members of the opposite sex was already difficult before Operation “Pandemic” commenced, be it my aging, the general idiotizing of the populace via digital culture, the extreme manifestations of the MeToo movement,….After it commenced, i quickly realized the vast majority of the fairly few women i found at least somewhat interesting were gullible Covidians. Oh well, probably not a good time to be coupled unless the relationship was already cemented before things went crazy. Dating? Forget it.
happened decades ago dude, how many rockets can you handle? how much baggage can you juggle . . .
then everything else toooooo, then a covid…. online…
ffs
let those rockets fly.
am sure a lot of good women see it something like that too,
and to be entirely fair, what a fukt up society… : /
i miss the pre yuppie/version pubs we used to have, … ochone
I miss all sorts of things yuppies have ruined, including music shows. Last two decades, i’ve seen people standing in the audience by the stage, people listening to the show or dancing, and they be there chatting loudly into their StupodPhones.
How about the emerging “unvaxxed dating” sites?
Thanks for the thought, but i find online dating disgusting, have thought so since trying it 15 years ago. As bad as the personal ads in weekly local papers in the SF Bay Area (or wherever) which preceded the online era. People totally lie about who they are. People using such services are overwhelmingly yuppies. Online ones you can’t even be sure you’re not gonna encounter a guy trying to pass as a woman and then pestering you if you get to the stage of regular contact, telling you that male/female makes no difference, “we’re all bisexual, admit it.”
Yes, there are risks. But being a smart guy you could surely pick a more genuine person. And, what are you really risking? A cup of coffee at a busy place where gut feeling tells you in an instant whether to finish your coffee or not.
…- Howabout “spook data harvesting” platforms?…
mobile infantryperson, you are thinking above your pay grade!!! ; )
…- 321st Armored Division, ‘heid, baby… – M4 Sherman’s my chariot – Ride in style, baby, an’ ain’t *Never* have to walk, unlike those po’ ass ground-pounders you mentioned…
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Todd Hayen, Its you again. Thanks How come you read and reviewed Mattias Desmet book 6 months, before its realease date? I do notice these things… Anyhow CJ Hopkins is My Journalist of The Year 2022 And Dr. Mike Yeadon Man of The Year since 2020 “Dear everyone, who is nervously looking around and is asking “What the hell is going on?” I hope this isn’t too controversial. It’s certainly frightening, but I believe we are still on the right side of disaster & if enough of us become aware of what is happening here & everywhere in the democratic world, we can recover the situation. We really don’t have long. I believe it’s likely things will change irretrievably over this coming winter. Hence this urgent and unusual request. Everything that’s happened and is happening becomes much simpler and it all makes sense, only when you force yourself to think… Read more »
My woman of the year is Dr Sam Bailey.
I know it’s only going on 2023, and most likely I won’t be around in 77 years (I’m 67).
Be that as it may, Dr. Sam is my early choice for Woman of the Century. 😍
As the saying goes Todd these are first world problems. Or in our culture middle class problems. For those who actually ‘do the work’ the luxury of wfh passed them by. And the managers were playing exactly the same game as their staff. They lost the ‘authority’ to manage because they were equally idle. Its enjoyable listening to the things these people did over lockdown including building extensions. This is the entitled generation. The group who will generally not look beyond their selfish interests to concern about things may effect others, particularly when it was this group implementing all the rules. So I’m a little short on sympathy. The delivery drivers, the builders, the railway workers etc were simply left to get on with servicing the entitled class while their jobs along with all the small business’ etc remained at peril? Covering the mental health ‘angle’ I would much prefer… Read more »
‘ How do you then engage with ‘everyday folk’ when you know pretty much everything on offer is fake?’ This is problematic. I try every once in a while to make people see, but what usually happens when I try is… literally nothing (like to taking to comatose people), or simply: panic (people who can’t handle the truth). Nevertheless, I have seen some breakthrough cases, showing me that people know more than they express and are not as stupid as I thought. Those cases make my day (so I keep on trying). The ultimate weapon to set people free, is the vaxx. It is a sword that has two blades (Dutch expression, not sure if it’s English). The killing and maiming from vaxx is definitely there. This truth is exposed in the lengthy ways the government wants to prevent people from seeing the event through data… but who needs data… Read more »
I read somewhere a couple years ago that when coronavirus vaccines were initially tested on cats, and this was long before the clot shots by may have used mRNA, most if not all of the cats died in two years. Considering one human year equals roughly 5 cat years, we may have 10 years or so before the deaths become impossible to ignore.
Although, that said, I find most normies can ignore anything they choose not to see. Many have honed that skill over the last 2 years so even IF that happens in another 8 years or so, who knows if that will make a dent.
As pointed out by the likes of Parkinson and Orwell, there aren’t enough jobs in the modern world to keep everybody occupied. It’s therefore necessary to be both creative and destructive. But whereas the traditional solution has involved cataclysmic war, the modern approach is to create legions of damaged children. Of course, the established churches have a long history of creating damaged children and should rightly be considered experts in the matter. However, modern science makes the process vastly more efficient. What’s more, lots of adults now seem to be doing their bit!
Job Creation
Ah yes. Life as a medial specimen. All those dancing nurses and quackery doctors “practicing” medicine. Makes the world go round…
restriction of movement, confined to a designated enclosure, experience influenced through a virtually managed implant.
the answer is simple, noncompliance, refusal without feeling naughty.
One should look to rid themselves of such low pathetic positions. If you sit in a dog kennel all day answering calls from angry customers who are being short changed by the vile corporation you pledge your time to, perhaps it’s time to look for a different career. Stop supporting these companies. Don’t purchase from them and don’t work for them. Personally, I would rather work a manual job being productive for my local community, rather than work for one of these corporations who rule over you via a hierarchy system. This is how they have managed to roll over most of us recently. All the corporations who sport the masonic logos are now infiltrated and run by the globalists. This is not to say the whole organisation is in on it, it just means the top echelons are in control. The hierarchy system takes care of the rest of… Read more »
Since the Industrial Revolution, a great deal of effort went into eliminating such jobs, vocations and independence. Urbanisation was a major strategy.
The CIA had a seat at all UK & European government internal meetings during Covid, via their hacked zoom, to ensure that all its servants were doing as instructed. Making people work remotely, hands power to the US monopoly meeting platforms.
CIA aren’t at the top; they’re hired & paid by the trillionaire monsters at the top.
CIA doesn’t make policy. I doubt they enforce it at internal govt meetings in UK & EU. WEF disciples and the bankers’ disciples & Rhodes Scholarship graduates don’t need the CIA to compel them.
You say that without a single piece if evidence.
…- Indeed she did not… – It is fundamentally and entirely *Self-Evident* at this point… – *Pay Attention*…
…- ‘Less, of course, you’re still *Fully* bought-in to Clown World and its absurdist supporting ‘narratives’, that is…
Not one piece of evidence, which is why you resort to insulting me.
…- Where *exactly* was it that I insulted you?… – Don’t cite the “Clown World” bit: – I put “you’re” there as a general pronoun – as akin to “one”, for example, and at any rate, certainly there is nothing insulting contained therein – it is the statement of a general fact…
I disagree. It’s all a club. And we’re not in it…
you are getting confused with national elites.
They called it “telecommuting” where i worked. For people who had long commutes (some 1 – 2.5 hrs each way), to reduce transportation congestion, to allow more family time and as convenience benefit to employees. But this was 1-2 days a week max. People mostly worked offline as the internet was just getting robust and took their workload home with them and worked on a computer and drafting tables. We also had the option of 4-10’s, four ten hour days, three days off. That was the best for me. As remote working started managers did not like not seeing employees work and did not trust productivity as honest. This to me is why it stopped. I found it to be just “out of the workflow” that changed daily, and only used it by request for personal needs for a day here and there. I had a section at the office… Read more »
https://theintercept.com/2022/12/13/climate-protest-private-jets-schiphol-airport/ “The Shutdown of “Luxury Emissions” Should Be at the Center of Climate Revolt Climate disorder won’t be remedied through an orderly march of green energy. The world must also rein in consumption. Seven hundred self-described “climate rebels” breached the chain-link fence surrounding Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, the world’s third-busiest hub for international passenger traffic, on November 5. With bolt cutters they opened holes in the fence and poured in, some of them on bicycles, and raced across the tarmac. Others laid ladders against the 9-foot-high fence and topped it on foot. They had to move quickly before military police, tasked with securing the airport, saw what was happening. …..” Etc etc. 13 private jets were the target in “a perfectly tailored climate action…. the Schiphol action went for climate change’s jugular: self-indulgent carbon-spewing. It did so balletically, in the democratic and fuel-efficient motion of humans racing on foot or whirling… Read more »
Home working is covered in a few of the following points, a list fo who won from Covid. The CIA can make the WEF say what they want but the evidence points at the US and the CIA as being behind the Covid scam. To understand who did this, just ask WHO GAINS? …….The CIA rolled out and accelerated the same Corporate fascist agenda that they have been running for the past 60 years. This is NOT new. Covid was a CIA run operation for the US Corporate fascist state to: Shut down small business, to increase Corporate market share.Shift all activities to US big tech, surveillance. state platforms: Meetings, communications etc..Shift education onto google (CIA) platforms.Kill as many old & sick as possible for Insurance companies profits. Incentivise hospital murder.Provide justification for massive Increase in QE. Dollar protection/Dollar debasement.Increase size of surveillance state. Introduce Social credit score system, via… Read more »
I agree that that is the agenda. But where do the “employees” and operatives come from? The civilian public needs to quit blindly blaming “corporations” and State sponsored extortionists. Anyone here personally know someone employed by the CIA? Who are the players? Where do they come from? What’s their address? Are they invisible?
US state department
The US State Department, also known as the Department of State, has been refitted numerous times since 1789. Each modification only served to employ more and more departments and “services”. All these alleged “services” only solidified executive control over international trade, the creation of a domestic census, and expanded surveillance mechanisms.
These “services” are all franchised corporate entities, and the fools rush in…
I’ve concluded a while ago that most if not all inter-country wars are fake – real wars are just too inefficient; it would be much easier to infiltrate a country, rouse the people to start a civil war, then install someone as the new government, instead of manufacturing weapons,ships, tanks and planes, as well as training, feeding, housing soldiers etc etc. “Wars” are then started between two(or more) countries under control, so that the outcome is predetermined, and is simply a racket to extort money, and subsequently serve as the justification for the transfer of wealth.
I don’t think they are fake. I think that is stretching our elites ability to cooperate with rival elites a bit too far.
I think some deals are done, like Russia and the Nazis carve up of Poland in 39, Perhaps the US and Russia are carving up Europe today, but well need to see.
We are being forced to work from home for two main reasons. Firstly it is akin to the gig economy, where costs for ‘office space’, computer equipment, heating, lighting etc is being shifted onto the employee. Like the gig economy shifted the costs of down time onto the Uber or delivery employee.
Secondly, it ensures that the US has access to all your internal meetings and discussions via their internet platforms. This applies more than anything else to competitor corporations, banks, governments, who the US want to take down. It makes the looting of vassal states easier.
Maybe all those sinister serial killer loaners: The Dregs. The Outcasts. The odd ones. The bullied ones. You know; the ones being elevated to the tops of pedestals in order to garner their votes. The oddballs being enveloped by the leftists in order to save the world. Maybe the thoughts of killing their oppressors will go away now that they are being recognized for being who they are. DREGS. Pedophiles. Transvestites. Weirdos. Etc.. That leaves the “normals” working at home while raising a family. They will be the new pool of the oppressed producing the new serial killers. It that what this means? I could see that. All the “normals” being punished just for being normal will get their fill. Paying the brunt of the taxes to cover the costs of worshiping the dregs. I could see that getting out of hand. Rule of thumb: Don’s piss off those paying… Read more »
In the late 80s we’d often go to the pub for Friday lunchtimes. Have a couple of pints of bitter. Smoke some fags. Play some pool. In the 2010s I felt out of place with my pint of bitter-shandy – surrounded by everyone else drinking their diet toxins. The world is long overdue a reset!
Before working remote full time starting with “2 weeks to slow the spread” I had to drive into downtown Austin to sit at a desk in an office building and remote into Houston. I interacted with zero people face to face. It made no sense. Now I avoid the commute entirely and my work situation hasn’t changed but I am much more at ease in my personal life.
Its a fact that a lot of jobs involve sitting in a cube working on a computer for the entire work day, give or take a meeting or two. There’s also a whole lot of jobs that have to be done in person, the difference being that if you’re out driving a bus or digging a hole or working on an assembly line, something like that, you’re not available to write stuff on the Internet. The one thing that’s going to derail working for home is likely to be that jurisdictions and businesses like to earn money from other businesses. In many parts of the US, for example, you’d need a permit to run a business (“work”) from home from the local authority and service providers like to charge business rates for data service. There’s nothing that be done about this for small scale informal work but once it gets… Read more »
‘ the “why” of it’ To me: not so much the commuting or staying at home, but the content of the work is what work makes miserable. Before 2020, I commuted a lot. Took a lot of time, but I didn’t care so much as I was doing useful work (I thought, bear with me..). The job I was in: clinical epidemiology… Well, 2020 came along which was a BIG eye opener to me of how I was wasting my time. Now I am no longer doing clinical epidemiology but… something else. I work from home, but still find it pretty difficult since the eye opening event of BS19 told me a lot. It’s this matrix kind of thing of red pilling, but then without a choice (I still don’t know exactly what made me see what BS19 really was. I remember some other commenters here at the days who… Read more »
I left the aust public service in 1982 for about the same reason….most of what was said to be work was nonsense…..just kept the unemployment numbers a little lower….soul destroying rubbish.,,,
have had a happy life and maybe having seen through that bullshit situation helped a lot to see through through the current nonsense,,
I don’t like zooms either. From the first I stuck a tiny piece yellow cloth tape over the camera. Other zoomerati protested my faceless voice for a short while but now they appreciate my identity as a green-yellow coloured voice. The best part is I can look as unkempt as suits me and eat and drink without caring how it looks to an audience. Inscrutable me!
Yes. And all those billions of square feet of skyscrapers, office parks, and business districts will self-maintain (for free), heat and cool themselves, and mutely stand there waiting for Godot… It’s a good thing we’ve maintained all our freeways and public roads, so we can cruise by all our empty factories and feel really safe…
Make perfect subhuman settlement zones with 9 ft square digital room -Energy efficient.
Empty office buildings – perfect prisons or the many landless, homeless peasants who have had their property stolen, own nothing and are not happy.
Geofencing will keep them “safe” in the “smart” cities. Whether they like it or not.
One reason for working from home is decreased costs. You need less office space, fewer floors, less Wi-Fi hot spots, fewer cleaners. These costs matter for some companies. As for the bigger picture, it seems that middle class Western society consists of university educated people selling services to each other. Their work is only sideways related to reality, and so if the quality of their work drops, it has little effect. The feeling of “getting paid to do nothing” is widespread. Arnold Toynbee called the “middle class” the “internal proletariat”. Like the citizens of Rome during the Roman empire. The internal proletariat is still integrated in the social structure of the imperial society, but its functions are mostly virtual, and have no real part. The ruling class needs to feed and entertain them (bread and games, or malls and consoles.) The Romans extended citizenship to more and more people, our… Read more »
Working at home could precipitate a “drop in creativity?” Really? “Creativity?” In the workplace? Never gonna happen for most workers. The drones are not allowed to be creative or come up with alternate ways of doing things – that’s the exclusive prerogative of the Corporate Office: top down hierarchy. On the other hand, working in a little cubicle in a big office gives one glorious advantage over working from home: the thought that “one day” the grind will finally be over and the drones won’t have to get up at dawn and worm their way through rush hour traffic. As an afterthought, after having been retired for over ten years, I’m still amazed that the company I worked for (a private education conglomerate which had a virtual teaching set up all those years ago) regularly had to fire teachers for tardiness and absenteeism. Teachers who WORKED FROM HOME were fired… Read more »
I reckon you’ve pointed to another important human attribute that’s lost in a “home working” environment, discipline.
The blueprint is UN Agenda2030 SDG’s.
Our way out of this labyrinth has always been to work together, especially locally, and create alternatives.
Too reach those goals they need a global population of less than a billion…
The best part of working from home for me was that I could hang up the departmental or ‘town hall’ meetings when they started preaching diversity bullshit.
Your not addressing the slave tax work system.
your actually sticking up for it.
never the less
Work from home theme has been building up before covid.
Work days at home become very very popular mainly within the city and civil service sector.
When trains and bus;s where regularly fuckd. You had to work from home.
This isnt new.
They love grabbing things and inverting it.
This is the environment- new alt media is telling you people are missing 😂
sheep pen heading to the slaughter house repackaged as a work station and a really healthy work environment. 😂
Yes, sitting alone in your box bedroom is much better, especially for singletons, who can avoid meeting potential partners, which might lead to new families being created, can’t have that.
Are you telling me people actually go out and meet people.? that is how you find a partner to start a possible family( sounds kind of creepy).
Silly me, I thought people used dating apps or internet.
Actually, I have a nice office setup with a window overlooking a pasture and a view of Mt. St. Helens, which I can sit and enjoy while my grandkids are home schooled in another part of the house. People have met partners and created families for thousands of years and almost all of it was not because of working in corporate cubicles.
You raise a good point:
The home office setting and its surrounds make or break the nicety of having a home office.
I’ve never met anyone in my office days who I had wanted to get a closer feel for.
Ah, I remember when the state agency that employed me installed modular “cubicle” work stations in our field offices, c. 1995. BTW, all of those offices are now long-extinct, as the state transitioned to call center and Internet based “service delivery”.
I was on the Regional staff, and accompanied groups of supervisory staff on visits to pilot offices displaying the new furnishings.
One manager was thrilled, even radiant, when she saw the Brave New World setup. It was much like this photo, which is what prompted the memory.
I still remember her ecstatically exclaiming with delight that, at last, “her” office’s physical layout would sensibly promote diligence and efficiency by discouraging, if not altogether preventing, office staff from relaxing and “talking to each other” all day instead of working.
If there was a down side, she didn’t see it!
Some of these death-cult offices have ghastly “music” emanating from speakers in the ceiling. Some even have commercial radio playing non-stop. To me, a lover of tuneful music, this is a real nightmare. Even earplugs don’t help.
To make the peasants even more uncomfortable, the air conditioning and emf frequencies from lights and digital stuff affects their health and wellbeing.
Thank goodness I’m retired and can do my own, chosen work at home when and how I want.
One way or another it’s all economic slavery for wealthy elites. Escape ? Try a lottery ticket.
I was bullied by management, received a number of bogus gross misconduct charges and was threatened with the sack at Cheshire West and Chester Council. Then came my final disciplinary hearing on my 50th birthday in August 2009. I won the case, retired and collected my pension. The next year I started working for myself at home and my company is still up and running 13 years later. The only boss who can report me for lounging about is, er… me. Topsy turvy world, looming glibal tyranny and broken society aside, I’ve never been happier.
Congratulations! You broke free.
Now it appears those people who have worked from home for decades are going to be painted as acquiescing to the globalist conspiracy to separate us and destroy our workplaces and societies by making us work from home during lockdowns, even though they have worked from home for decades. So, working from home, and liking it, makes you one of them or something.
Yea I think people are conflating the technocratic dystopia that the global elite clearly want with technology in general – the tool and its user. The internet in inseparable from military intelligence but look at all us freaks who have used it to educate ourselves against them.
Exactly, it’s becoming like the woke left only different.