Update

I haven’t been writing anything here for a month, so here’s a quick update.

That condo I’ve been living in, the one damaged in the Zagreb earthquake of 2020, has been sprouting leaks through the damaged hydro-isolation layer on the roof for the last year and a half, and it quite suddenly got so bad it flooded the boiler room, destroying the equipment inside and basically leaving us without hot water and central heating during winter. Also, the main bedroom and bathroom had so many water leaks through the ceiling and walls, with black mold forming rapidly, that we had to evacuate.

Fortunately, the backup heating (5 air conditioning units) worked, so we were not freezing at any point, but showering in cold water in December is not an experience I would recommend to friends. 🙂 We had to quickly find a reasonably suitable house, and I decided to rent and not buy, because we are still facing a major global crisis and I felt gold is better than bricks in such a scenario; I’m basically spending sacrificial cash to protect the metal before the storm. I know the plan was originally to save money in form of gold in order to buy a house, but now that I can do it, I don’t think it’s a good idea at the moment and I went for the delayed gratification route. The house I’m in now is much safer in case I need to dig in, but I’m treating it more like very fancy shelter, than a home.

This process of moving five people and tons of stuff took several weeks, from the point where I decided that we need to do it, to the point where we had all our stuff at the new location, and it was super stressful and labor-intensive, and we all came down with a flu of some kind; I don’t know if it’s of the beer variety or not, and I don’t care because it’s nothing particularly serious, just the usual snivel fest of early winter, and we all look like Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer.

So, basically, now that I’m not packing or moving, and I’m recovering from the flu, I can finally write a heads up. The interesting thing about the flu is that I’m recovering very slowly, which reminds me of the beer flu I had in 2020, but I can’t be sure. In any case, my prepping again came in handy because we couldn’t go to the store to get the groceries when we were all sick, so we actually tapped into our food storage and got the bread machine out of the box, too; Mihael is the only one who didn’t get the virus, probably because his immune system is so strong he’d have to get AIDS just to be normal. 🙂 It’s also an opportunity for him to drive now that he has a license and a car, so all is good. 🙂

 

Recent developments

From what I can see, America is scheming to cook up a scenario where China and Russia will wage pointless, fratricidal wars against their renegade provinces, both getting weaker in the process, and unable to help each other against the common enemy.

Let’s see how they respond.

The face of Lenin’s enemy

I find it nauseating when I hear the leftists planning another round of “eating the rich”, of dealing with the “class enemy”, and I particularly find it disgusting when they assume the virtuous posture.

I accidentally found an enhanced, colorized photo, processed by the modern AI, of what the communists would call “class enemy”, and what I would call a perfectly innocent girl, who was 19 years old when she, along with the rest of her family, was shot, stabbed by bayonets, shot again, and her face mashed into a bloody pulp by rifle butts so that it wouldn’t be recognizable, and then buried in the woods.

So let’s see the face of the class enemy, that had to be mashed into a pulp so that the working class could live in their communist paradise.
Let me present Maria Nikolaevna Romanova:

This is the AI enhanced photo of Maria: Let’s see what Wikipedia says about her death by Lenin’s thugs:

The Russian Imperial Romanov family (Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) were shot and bayoneted to death[1][2] by Bolshevik revolutionaries under Yakov Yurovsky on the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet in Yekaterinburg on the night of 16–17 July 1918. Also murdered that night were retainers who had accompanied them, notably Eugene Botkin, Anna Demidova, Alexei Trupp, and Ivan Kharitonov.[3] The bodies were taken to the Koptyaki forest, where they were stripped, buried, and mutilated with grenades to prevent identification.[2][4]

But it is when you see her face, that you understand why the communist murderers had to mash it into a pulp to prevent identification, and perhaps even to make it appear monstrous, to hide the magnitude of the crime.

The communists are not the virtuous ones who kill monsters in order to achieve social justice. They are the monsters who kill the virtuous and the innocent, in order to create hell on Earth. They are enemies of God.

Perhaps the most chilling historical fact is that the body of the leader of the criminal gang that committed this and millions of other slaughters of the innocent, is displayed prominently in his own mausoleum in Moscow, while her remains (the parts that didn’t rot in an unmarked grave) are still poked and prodded for DNA evidence. Her AI enhanced image not only honors her memory, but also explains the true nature of communism better than any words I could muster, because you can’t really judge someone or something until you see the face of their enemy.

ps. I almost forgot; here’s what others said about her character:

Margaretta Eagar said that “Maria was born good… with the very smallest trace of original sin as possible.”[34] According to Eagar, her older sisters Olga and Tatiana once referred to Maria as their “stepsister” because she was so good and never got into trouble. When she stole biscuits from her mother’s tea table, Nicholas said that he was relieved “to see she is only a human child” because he “was always afraid of the wings growing.”

So yes, that truly is the spirit of the class enemy that had to be eradicated.

The dead end of material progress

There seems to be something very wrong with the idea of progress and progressivism, in a sense that it seems to be a Trojan horse that’s filled by an entire army of bad ideas, ever since the times of humanism and the French revolution.

The progress was obvious and clearly visible in the beginning, but the whole thing was accompanied by the undercurrent of materialistic philosophy, which basically said that nobody will need God if he has indoor plumbing, electricity, sanitation, antibiotics, vaccines, education and wealth, basically assuming that God is some sort of a poor substitute for material wellbeing that will be achieved through progress.

In the meantime, the idea of progress reached a dead end, because the stated goals were either achieved completely, or shown to be completely unachievable, so now we have a civilisation that is addicted to the idea of progress but ran out of ideas about what direction further progress should take. Some are trying to absorb themselves into some kind of a virtual existence, basically increasing the level of illusion they inhabit by 1, the others worship Elon Musk who “invents” things that are either trivial and iterative, or nonsensical, others are trying to invent the new, improved digital gold, while others are obsessed with the navel gazing idiocy of gender and identity.

In the end, it has been demonstrated that all this real and supposed progress is a poor and unsatisfactory substitute for God – the opposite of the original thesis.

True progress, as it would be measured by the saints and angels, is to be closer to God, in both essence and will. This is the only way to attain true and lasting happiness and fulfilment. Removing material problems through progress is commendable, but happiness is not a mere absence of material misery. Happiness is something that happens when you are close to God. But for a civilisation that abandoned God and tried so hard for centuries to remove Him from every aspect of our lives, happiness is always a mirage in the future, something that will eventually happen once you get the n-th dose of some vaccine, once you get a new phone or a laptop, once you get that new electric car, once you remove sources of carbon dioxide, once you kill and eat all the rich people, once you get Dogecoin to the Moon, and Bitcoin replaces gold, and you get plugged into some Matrix where you will be enslaved by those who control your physical existence.

For saints and angels, happiness and fulfilment are now, because God is here.

God is the reality, and there is no happiness possible in illusions.

America is a shithole

Evidence most eloquently presented:

Not only did America turn into a 3rd world shithole, it’s exporting it to the rest of the Western world, which will inevitably, if it keeps copying American ideas and practices, follow along this path with the usual time delay.

What are the causes? Well, some of it is cultural – educate children poorly, remove religious teachings and moral criteria, introduce the value-destroying “human rights”, be lenient and accepting to deviants and criminals, be compassionate to the incompetent, promote incompetent minorities for the sake of “diversity”, and give everybody the right to vote regardless of their personal merit, and that’s what you get. Interestingly, that’s why the founding fathers of America decided against democracy and instead went for the republic; they knew democracy inevitably means poor voting to take money from the rich and dividing it among themselves, and I would also add that unrestricted democracy means inevitable degradation of the social and cultural level to the lowest common denominator of the unwashed masses. But yeah, by all means let’s copy what America did, that’s what we need, to become a 3rd world shithole that they are. Just watch your gender pronouns and everything will be fine.