Re: SF writers in the work force JD Vance.

On Sat, 9 Nov 2024 16:15:37 -0000 (UTC), Don <g@crcomp.net> wrote:
 

Titus G wrote:

William Hyde wrote:
snip

Vance was born to money, but the money vanished due to divorce and
prohibition. So he dropped out of school and took all kinds of tough
jobs from his mid-teens until he began to write.
>
A common theme in his books is that of a protagonist who starts life
comfortably, experiences disaster, and climbs his way back.  Vance
lived it.

>
I think that JD, now VP, Vance has written only one book, Hill Billy
Elegy, which tells of his own life before his association with
billionaire Trump supporter Peter Thiel. It is an interesting read and I
recommend it: 3 stars.
His mother was an alcoholic and opioid dependent prostitute when not
married. He had too many stepfathers to count, some of which married his
mother but never for long. He was saved by his grandmother, who had
shifted from some hill billy state, (I don't remember which), to escape
poverty to work in a steel factory in Ohio where his grandparents became
financially comfortable but not rich. It was his once hill billy
grandmother who financed his education. After graduating from high
school, he had a cushy job as an unarmed public relations liar for the
US army in Iraq before completing Arts and Law degrees.
He had no male role models growing up and seems to have based his
behaviour imitating strong personalities beginning with his grandmother,
continuing with a best friend from high school, the army. his law
professor, Peter Thiel, (who spent $15 million on Vance's senate
election campaign), and now Donald Trump.
There are some strange anomalies in his book. For example, I don't
recall him mentioning any non-white people though he is now married to
an Indian woman. In the book, he blamed poverty on laziness and cultural
backwardness and not on economic inequality due to the shrinking steel
industry in his hometown. Now as a Trump echo chamber, he blames poverty
because the salt of the earth have been ignored by the (Democrat?)
political elite. He is also now associated with people and organisations
funded by the Jewish Sackler brothers who are largely responsible for
opioid availability through the Purdue Company.
A better book is Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver which is about
similar people, a USA version of David Copperfield.

>
    Purdue Pharma's founder Arthur Sackler along with his brothers
    grew up in Brooklyn during the Depression as the child of Jewish
    immigrants from Galicia and Poland. His genius lay not so much in
    the chemistry of the brain as in the chemistry of modern
    advertising. "In 1997, Arthur was posthumously inducted into the
    Medical Advertising Hall of Fame, and a citation praised his
    achievement in 'bringing the full power of advertising and
    promotion to pharmaceutical marketing.'" Sackler was, in other
    words, a drug dealer who knew how to change the system to
    accommodate what was previously known as either unethical or
    illegal activity. In this, he was no different from other Jews
    of his generation-like Meyer Lansky or Moe Dalitz, for instance-
    who accomplished the same feat by bringing about the
    decriminalization of gambling and usury. The Sackler family
    epitomizes in our day the perfect marriage of science and
    capitalism which Hariri celebrates in Sapiens. Like the English
    involvement in the opium trade in the 19th century, Arthur Sackler
    provided the imperial project with practical knowledge, ideological
    justification, and pharmaceutical gadgets which turned Americans
    into Harari's idea of the ideal citizen, which is to say, into a
    mass of drugged out zombies who made the Jews rich by becoming their
    docile chemical slaves. Without the collaboration of the Jewish
    pharmaceutical industry, "it is highly questionable whether Europeans
    [i.e., the Anglo-American empire] could have conquered the world."
    Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (New York:
    HarperCollins, 2015)
>
    JEWISH FABLES (Jones)
>
# # #
>
In the clip below, Tucker Carlson calls out Pompeo as a sinister criminal
who attempted to murder Julian Assange. Then Carlson goes on to question
how in spite this behavior, Republicans treat Pompeo as a pillar of the
party.
>
<https://x.com/LegendaryEnergy/status/1854409482425753845>
>
Former Director of the CIA, Catholic Colby made a lot of Deep State
enemies during the Church Committee hearings. There's a Conspiracy (eg
Reality) Theory about how Colby was about to expose an Omaha pedophilia
ring when he mysteriously met his demise while canoeing back East.

 Back in the 80s, one of the "banks" I had money in went belly-up in
Lincoln, NE.
 For news, I ended up with a /very/ right-wing newsletter. This did
cover what I was interested in, but it also pursued other theories.
 One of which was, indeed, an Omaha pedophile ring (of rich Democrats).
 I have often wondered if pursuing this fantasy caused the conspiracy
to be expanded as each level of government looked into it and found
(surprise, surprise) -- nothing. Until we had a guy firing into the
ceiling of a pizza parlor in Florida because he was convinced it was
part of a world-wide pedophile ring (of rich Democrats).
 If so, then from a little acorn a mighty oak did grow indeed. "Mighty"
here meaning "very large and elaborate".