I was interested to know whether there had been any noticeable uptick in searches for “the cask of amontillado” since this meme began and while there has, it’s the exact same uptick which has occurred every fall in recent memory as high school teachers have geared up for their spooky october literature units
it looks very similar to a reading of a heartbeat…..a specific heart…..that won’t stop beating……..from under the floorboards………
Ever wonder how poachers make a living? Fielding questions from patrons at the Canadian National Exhibition answered that quite clearly for me.
Without exaggeration, we were seriously asked somewhere around 100 times for tiger claws, rhino horns and elephant tusks. Almost the entirety (if not the entirety) of requests were from Asian and Southeast Asian individuals, including a uniformed police officer! Every time we asked why, we’d be greeted with sheepish smiles and replies such as “luck” or “energy”.
For the first half of the show I’d try to rationally explain why these shouldn’t be purchased based on the principles of conservation. Every time their eyes would glaze over and they’d either walk away mid-explanation or wait for me to shut up before saying “so, how much money would it take to get one?”
Needless to say, I got fed up and it was time for a NEW STRATEGY!
Whenever people asked for one, I’d get all wide-eyed and exclaim, “OH NO!! BAD ENERGY!! You don’t want to bring that danger into your life and around your family!!”
Every time it caught the person completely by surprise and they’d beg for more information.
“They used to be considered lucky but the energy has now shifted! Too much **insert endangered animal** blood has been spilled into the Earth and it has angered the spirit world! THEY ARE NOW CURSED!”
When they asked what brings good luck, I told them Inuit and First Nation products when collected with permits.
“If you want your claws and tusks to have balance and good energy, you must only buy from those who live in harmony and balance with nature”.
You’d be damn surprised how often that worked. I hate providing unscientific information but sometimes you have to fight superstitious bullsh*t with superstitious bullsh*t!
“You gots to tell people a story they’re willing to understand.” —Granny Weatherwax, Witch (paraphrased because I can’t remember the exact wording).
Though Mr. McInnes describes himself as a champion of Western values, many of his statements have been racist and have echoed white nationalist philosophies
what does the word “Though” think it’s doing in that sentence
TerenceMcKenna: “What the psychedelic experience can be seen as is a return to Gaia and an immersion in the feminine. I’ve always felt that Buddhism, ecological thinking, psychedelic thinking, and feminism are the four parts of a social solution. An honoring of the feminine, the planet, and a stress on compassion and dematerialism. So you know what we have to do is stop looking for leadership from the top, because the least among us make their way into those positions of power. Capitalism is a moloch that demands human sacrifice, and its alienation is killing us.”
jORDAN bEE pETERSONNY bOY: “The West and the masculine spirit are under assault. Order is masculine, chaos is feminine — so we need to suppress the feminine in a competence-based patriarchy in order to maintain civilization. The cure for shooting rampages is enforced monogamy. Attempts to equalize society are pathological or evil. Hierarchy is natural and we should trust the people at the top. Clean your room and be like the hierarchical capitalist lobster boy.”
Neoliberal psychedelic guy: *lists McKenna and Peterson as his two major philosophical influences on his tinder profile/flow instagram*
Steven Wright: “I got a humidifier and a dehumidifier, so I put them in the same rooom and let them fight it out.”
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