Welcome To Being An Outsider

“Now, I didn’t start it, but be sure as Hell I mean to see it through.” – Shooter

If you boil a clown you get laughing stock.

We’re Outsiders.

Well, not all of us.  But when you look at the system, most of the people reading this post are Outsiders.

I happen to live in a place filled with Outsiders.  Here in Modern Mayberry, you’re ten a hundred times as likely to see a Gadsden flag on a flagpole as a Bernie® bumper sticker.  Besides the Bernie supporters around here have now all been kicked out by their roommates, you know, “Mom and Dad”.

That’s why it’s Modern Mayberry.

It’s not paradise.  There are some thefts.  There are some drugs of the most destructive kind.  There’s even a hipster who was an outdoorsman before it was cool – you’d call him a homeless guy.

But yet . . .

People here still remember the United States that was, or at least the United States we remembered from our dreams.  One where the Constitution was the rule.  One where the dream wasn’t one of dependence on handouts.  One where you could ignore it when the government called you at home – you could let freedom ring.

A friend of mine used his stimulus check to buy baby chickens.  Money for nothing and the chicks for free.

Tonight I drove home along Main Street, and I saw people out and about.  In one block I saw six people that I personally knew, and most of them made it off the sidewalk in time.

Yet all of us in Modern Mayberry are really Outsiders, and I think that we know that.  And I think we cherish it, just like the EpiPen® my friend gave me as he was dying – I know I’ll always cherish it.

I watch the news stories of places that seem alien to me.  I know that California in 1980 was overwhelmingly what we now call a Red state.  Now?  It’s alien even to many that were born there.

The politics that created what would have been one of the most prosperous nations in the world have given way to politics that has made California one of the most impoverished states in the United States.  I know Gavin Newsom tried to fight poverty, but he kept losing.  Homeless people can be deceptively strong when you try to wrestle them.

Sure, I’d love to have California back.  I’d love to have Disneyland® back and the American Dream Vacation™, too, with bonus points for stops at the Grand Canyon and Uncle Eddie’s place.  But the beliefs that I believe most readers here have aren’t shared by most voters in California in 2021.

There was a person who saw the California ban coming:  No-Straw-Domus.

I don’t blame the native Californians – they voted against this insanity again and again, but were overruled from activist benches.  We know what sort of trash is on the benches, but what is on the table for the United States?

  • Individual Rights – these are being replaced by group rights. Reparations for crimes committed nearly two hundred years ago?  By the descendants of people who moved here from Germany in 1880?
  • Freedom of Choice – this is being replaced by coercion, explicit and implicit. Want to do business?  You can have whatever opinion you want – as long as it’s the right one.
  • Due Process – this is being replaced by guilt by inference. Red flag laws, anyone?
  • Right to Keep and Bear Arms – this is being replaced by the right of approved people to potentially be allowed to purchase a limited number of weapons and keep them locked in a safe at home. As long as we know the weapons are kitten-safe.

Propaganda for collectivism has long been in the offing.  For all of my life the programming has been in place to change attitudes to accept this – Leftists have monopolized the major networks since I was a kid.  Society has changed in ways that promote collectivism.  People move from location to location or live in monolithic cities or sterile suburbs that actively discourage people from acting together in the spirit of real community.

What is it replaced with?  City governments.  Homeowners’ Associations. Neither of those build community – those are, in larger cities, the expression of power and control.  The Mayor of Chicago holds more power than governors of many states.  That’s not any semblance of community – when is the last time you heard of anyone holding up Chicago for the face of election fairness?

What part of the mayor of Chicago weighs the most?  The scales.

That’s the downside.  But it gets better from here.

The first part of winning as an Outsider comes from knowing that you are an Outsider.  There is power in being an outsider – it only took a dozen Outsiders to eventually change the entire Roman Empire from people who worshiped Funko Pop® figurines to Christians.  Well, a dozen people and a few years.

Ideas are powerful.

Likewise, Outsiders are powerful.  Once a person realizes that they’re an Outsider, entire routes open to them.  This is a special type of freedom:

  • Freedom from the system. The system was built not to reward me, but to keep me in line, to keep me fearful.  To keep me compliant.  Recognizing that is everything.
  • Freedom from caring about the opinions of the world. Do I care about what France thinks about me?  Do I care about what Google® thinks about me?  Most (not all, but most) of the people whose opinions matter to me know it, and they all have excellent posture and dental hygiene.
  • Freedom to set my own goals. What is it that I value?  What is it that I want to accomplish?  This is mine, and mine alone.  Oh, wait, except for trash day.  I have to remember trash day.
  • Freedom to not apologize. When I make a mistake and I agree I’ve made a mistake, I own up to it, proudly.  When I don’t, I don’t apologize.  And I won’t.  Especially not for the bad jokes.
  • Freedom to change the world. And I will.  I’m going to keep going so I can inject my ideas so deeply into the Outsider psyche that the mRNA shot from Pfizer® will seem like a non-invasive procedure.

Kamala Harris is very concerned about COVID.  She heard that super-spreaders were the problem.

One piece of the puzzle, interestingly enough, came to me from crappy Star Wars® movie, The Force Awakens™.  The movie was horrible.  One thing that I couldn’t figure out was why, after killing the Emperor®, that the Rebels™ were . . . the Resistance©?

The movie was awful, partially because it was poorly written and choked with social justice.  But it revealed the mind of the Left in ways that I hadn’t realized before:

  • The Left wanted to identify with the Resistance© because they rely on powerlessness. Powerlessness is necessary to recruit Leftists – the core of Leftism is self-hate.
  • The Left is about power, but it refuses to admit it has it. That’s why Leftist professors from Leftist colleges complain about insufficient Leftism from Leftist politicians and Leftist media.  And vice versa – it becomes self-reinforcing.

Leftists rely on powerlessness as a route to power.  It is their foundational myth; it is their unifying element.  They are downtrodden, even as they control every major corporation.  They are disenfranchised, even though they control nearly every major media outlet – if there’s a cure for that, it’s unTweetable.

Twitter® is like a Leftist bank account – after you enter the wrong opinion five times, you’re locked out.

Given all of that, why am I so happy?

Because I’m free.  I’m free of my illusions.  I’m free to be an Outsider.

I’ll enjoy seeing the Gadsden flag tomorrow.  After all, there were another group of Outsiders a few years ago who seemed to like that flag.

And you remember where the Gadsden flag first flew?

On a pole.

Author: John

Nobel-Prize Winning, MacArthur Genius Grant Near Recipient writing to you regularly about Fitness, Wealth, and Wisdom - How to be happy and how to be healthy. Oh, and rich.

32 thoughts on “Welcome To Being An Outsider”

  1. Recognizing that we are dissidents in an occupied nation can be blackpilling at first but it becomes incredibly liberating.

  3. What you refer to as the outsider is just that indomitable, independent, freedom-embracing American spirit that was all the rage in the early centuries of this country’s existence. We were all ‘outsiders’ before the modern era, before being overrun by people who are easily herded and know of no other way. Freedom to live as you like is also freedom to fail catastrophically, and a good many people fear that much freedom. A whole lifetime on the plantation has led to Stockholm syndrome. People cannot seem to act without being told how.

  4. Mayor Lightfin isn’t the only Leftist to sport “the Innsmouth Look,” it seems to be quite common amongst many white female activists as well.

    https://img.memecdn.com/nature-is-fascinating_o_7250146.webp

    She seems to be an example of the Left taking their love of immigrants to the next level, not just illegal aliens but actual aliens. She looks almost exactly like Admiral Ackbar from Star Wars. Another example is Connecticut’s Rosa Delauro who looks just like Admiral Jarok from Star Trek.

    Many people saw Jarok as a tragic figure, but I always thought he got what he deserved. He was a traitor to his people, and even back in the 90s when I was watching the show I identified far more with the Romulans than the sissy Federation.

    If we haven’t already, it’s time to move to a white right state and begin organizing at the local and state level to fend off federal overreach.

  6. “You should move to a small town, somewhere the rule of law still exists. You will not survive here. You are not a clown, and this is a land of clowns now.”

  7. Even these days, if you were to take a two hour drive away from the coast, most Californians in the rural counties are still Outsiders. It’s only the useless Woke shitlibs in San Fran, Silicon Valley and L.A. who are voting for these retarded, dystopian policies.

  8. Being an outlaw isn’t so bad. Doing whatever you want is very liberating and the modern safety über alles normie just can’t handle that.
    The best thing about control freaks is that they end up controlling nothing, not even few blocks in Berlin under a berserk artillery barrage.
    Modern lefties are just a stale reheated half baked Jacobin Bolshevik hybrid.
    Mediocre midwits prattling on about muh racism, muh oppression, muh resistance from a profoundly sick society of overabundance on the verge of collapse.
    What are they resisting as they own everything in the fading laughingstock Chiquitastan.
    Words really are violence to these pampered pajama boys and girls who have never been told NO

    2. Are you referring to the BabylonBee article:
      * Student Aces Finals By Answering ‘Racism!’ To Every Question

  10. The shift from being a patriot to an outsider is just the progression of the tyrant monarch wannabes over the plebes. The USA was a blip on the international timeline that is being corrected. The globalists never went away when the monarchies were overthrown or collapsed. They just changed their costumes and mantras and got right back at it. They implement their controls insidiously and take over without anyone really seeing it happen.

    We booted the crown out in 1776 and managed to keep to ourselves and keep them (the globalists central controllers) out until the 20th century. Then we ‘joined’ the ‘world powers’ community and opened pandora’s box of corruption and bureaucracy. Now in the 21st century we are seeing the return of central authority and control in our own nation….I wonder how that happened?. The fools of BLM Antifa and the activist politicians will all end up in the same gulag with us if the controllers get their way.

    The way I see it, we ‘outsiders’ will either form up our ranks and start repelling the hordes and driving the elements of globalism out or we will be eliminated one or two at a time. The globalists are playing the long game and only those who can see the events of our last 100 years in terms of the rest of the world and its history understand that we are being conquered from both without and within. Our time to rise and start the revolt is upon us and we should not wait for politics to lead the way because politics in its present form is not going to do it. Politics in today’s society consists for the most part of globalists and if you do not see the danger in allowing big central control leadership into any part of our nation you might as well give up your guns and conform.

    1. Nope. BLM and Antifa will be in the Gulag while they have you and me trying to run the place.

      Or we can opt out.

  11. Then there’s the bit where the US gummint arrests political activists and tortures them. That metric needs to be on your Civil War clock.

    Sorry to be a downer. The puns were excellent! Laughing stock~!

    Umm… All the teens I saw outside today were in happy mask-free clumps, enjoying the day and each other.

  12. Perfesser Wilder,

    Although I am constitutionally unable to be anything other than an Outsider, I try to understand the motivations of hive-members.

    As I see it, the hive offers:
    * the safety of hiding in the center of the herd-hive, hoping to avoid circling predators picking-off the fringe gimps/useless
    * the safety of mutual-admiration, so hive-assumptions don’t need to be examined
    * the safety of degrees from hive-schools, the safety of hive-certs from hive-accredited hive-institutions… giving instant acceptance by other hive-members

    Somehow — and I cannot explain the mechanism nor teach it — somehow, I know there exists an energy pendulum.
    Based on my experience, Outsiders live in the ‘at-rest’ position of the pendulum.

    Any effort by hive-members to upset the equilibrium requires greater and greater force as the pendulum moves further off-center.

    As an Outsider, I certainly marvel at the industrious intentions of hive-members, but all their gnashing and rending is for naught.
    The pendulum always inevitably returns to center.

    This’s the nature of our physical/spiritual universe.
    I don’t have to counter the hive for nature to prevail.
    Indeed, any act on my part to fight the hive merely furnishes the illusion of off-center momentum to the hive… as if the hive is accomplishing something of value instead of blowing a lot of ‘hot-air’ and running in circles waving signs and pointing fingers at imagined transgressions.

    As I see it.

  13. If this doesn’t apply to anyone, let it roll off you like water off a duck’s back. But if the shoe fits…

    Let’s be fair: Califrutopia didn’t go all loopy just because of liberal judges appointed by people Californians never voted for.
    47 other states (at least) have been shipping their toothless banjo-playing kinfolk here for decades too.

    (I’ll triple-dog dare you to look and see where the likes of recalled Gov. Gray Davis, formerly Stupidest Senator In History Barbara Boxer, and Nancy Wine and Alzheimer’s Pelosi came from. I’ll wait. [Hint: Not Fresno. Not Bakersfield. Not San Diego. Not even Berkeley nor even Hollywood.])

    I’ll take the heat for homegrown idiots like DiFi and Moonbeam, and the shiftless spawn of Hollywood icons and second-raters. But all y’all need to own your own jackholes foisted upon us too. Fair is fair. And then repatriate them back to your local underbridge housing developments.

    Simultaneously, 98 senators and 390 or so congressweasels we didn’t elect turned a blind eye to illegal aliens invading this state for 60 years, by the trainload, without a peep. Helped along by Teddy the Swimmer Kennedy. Marco ScrewYoubio. Lindsay Grahamnesty. And a cast of thousands more.

    Every day this state turns into a bigger steaming sh*thole, I get happier, because all volcanoes eventually blow, and all communist regimes run out of other people’s money, then they crash and burn, and the mobs tear down the statutes of Lenin.

    Say, anybody looked at the first thing Gropey Dopey has done to Texas? And at least 46 other states where they’re bussing the new arrivals?

    But cheer up. When things crash here, our not-Californian Bernie bro imports – everyone else’s toothless banjo-playing kinfolk cheerfully inflicted upon us from hundreds of places Not Here – will be going back home, moving back into mom’s basement. And they’ll be bringing their housekeepers and gardeners and their 47 relatives with them. And why not? Half their cousins already have jobs at the hog and chicken plants, or the local construction sites and restaurants.

    And best of all, the people who helped flip this state faster, because “voting with their feet”? Living Somewhere Else?

    Google the phrase “chickens coming home to roost”.

    Gonna be fun to sit back and watch everyone Out There deal with what they laughed about when it was Out Here.
    My epicaricacy needle seems to be pegged in the Hilarious range, and like Col. Slade, I’m just gettin’ warmed up.

    Let me know how that works out for y’all, hear? I promise to try and keep a straight face.

    1. You are 100% correct.

      I had a boss that said “breakdowns lead to breakthroughs” and he was right.

      Will California be the breakdown state?

  14. If this doesn’t apply to anyone, let it roll of you like water off a duck’s back. But if the shoe fits…

    Let’s be fair: Califrutopia didn’t go all loopy just because of liberal judges appointed by people Californians never voted for.
    47 other states (at least) have been shipping their toothless banjo-playing kinfolk here for decades too.

    (I’ll triple-dog dare you to look and see where the likes of recalled Gov. Gray Davis, formerly Stupidest Senator In History Barbara Boxer, and Nancy Wine and Alzheimer’s Pelosi came from. I’ll wait. [Hint: Not Fresno. Not Bakersfield. Not San Diego. Not even Berkeley nor even Hollywood.])

    I’ll take the heat for homegrown idiots like DiFi and Moonbeam, and the shiftless spawn of Hollywood icons and second-raters. But all y’all need to own your own jackholes foisted upon us too. Fair is fair. And then repatriate them back to your local underbridge housing developments.

    Simultaneously, 98 senators and 390 or so congressweasels we didn’t elect turned a blind eye to illegal aliens invading this state for 60 years, by the trainload, without a peep. Helped along by Teddy the Swimmer Kennedy. Marco ScrewYoubio. Lindsay Grahamnesty. And a cast of thousands more.

    Every day this state turns into a bigger steaming sh*thole, I get happier, because all volcanoes eventually blow, and all communist regimes run out of other people’s money, then they crash and burn, and the mobs tear down the statutes of Lenin.

    Say, anybody looked at the first thing Gropey Dopey has done to Texas? And at least 46 other states where they’re bussing the new arrivals?

    But cheer up. When things crash here, our not-Californian Bernie bro imports – everyone else’s toothless banjo-playing kinfolk cheerfully inflicted upon us from hundreds of places Not Here – will be going back home, moving back into mom’s basement. And they’ll be bringing their housekeepers and gardeners and their 47 relatives with them. And why not? Half their cousins already have jobs at the hog and chicken plants, or the local construction sites and restaurants.

    And best of all, the people who helped flip this state faster, because “voting with their feet”? Living Somewhere Else?

    Google the phrase “chickens coming home to roost”.

    Gonna be fun to sit back and watch everyone Out There deal with what they laughed about when it was Out Here.
    My epicaricacy needle seems to be pegged in the Hilarious range, and like Col. Slade, I’m just gettin’ warmed up.

    Let me know how that works out for y’all, hear? I promise to try and keep a straight face.

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