Singer Ariana Grande closed out her Manchester benefit concert by performing the song “Over the Rainbow” on June 4. Grande pledged to return to the city after 22 people were killed in a terrorist attack following her concert on May 22. (AP)
After all the musicians — including Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, Coldplay and Pharrell Williams — left the stage Sunday night at One Love Manchester, Ariana Grande walked back out, blowing kisses to the crowd.
She began to sing “Over the Rainbow,” an optimistic coda for a tribute concert to the 22 killed and more than 55 injured by a terrorist attack at her May 22 show in Manchester. Halfway through, her voice faltered with emotion…
The rabbits are still trying to slip into a cognitive false reality to escape the amygdala stimulation of reality, so that song was perfect from a rabbit perspective. Basically, this is a natural human tendency, even among many K’s. How many reading this could win the lottery tomorrow, and not use the money to change the amygdala-stimulating things about their lives? Escaping amygdala stimulation is a fundamental programming code in most people’s brains. It is not bad, if you confine yourself to reality, as that is how your brain guides you to success, and how the world advances – but it only works if you force yourself into a rigid adherence to reality.
The moment your brain learns to use the cognitive workaround of denying a reality, you are on a slippery slope, both from a reality perspective, and a cognitive perspective.
It mimics substance abuse in some regards. The heroin addict has a terrific way to quiet their amygdala. They stick a needle in their arm, and their amygdala is completely shut off, and their brain rewards them. But the reward is not a reality-based reward, earned for tangibly improving their reality. In fact, the reward shuts off the entire reward system, and absent that the addict’s life gradually becomes more and more painful, which requires ever more of the material they are using to short circuit the mechanism, until they are either dead, or their entire life is wasted. The destruction is both, to their reality, and to the cognitive mechanism designed to improve it. The heroin is just too easy a fix, and thus the slippery slope.
Leftist reality denial is exactly the same. For millennia the Muslims have wrought havoc and horror on the non-Muslim world. We run marathons, because eons ago the horror of the Muslim world was so great that one man was said to have run 26 miles after fighting a battle, to tell others that the horror of Islam had been defeated. He did tell them, and promptly dropped dead where he stood from the exhaustion. Imagine the amygdala that would drive that.
But today, that horror is too much for many, so they would rather light lighters and wave at a singer imagining a world over a rainbow, where every dream effortlessly comes true, as they claim Islam is wonderful. It will last until they are killed, or the pain of reality is so bad they finally decide to confront it.
Prolific American composer Harold Arlen wrote the music. And Yip Harburg — a liberal so outspoken on issues of gender, race and workers’ rights he earned the nickname “Broadway’s social conscience” — penned its brief but everlasting lyrics…
He began writing song lyrics, and most of them, especially “Over the Rainbow,” carried political messages speaking to what he perceived of as a better world…
“We worked for in our songs a sort of better world, a rainbow world,” Harburg once said. “Now, my generation unfortunately never succeed in making that rainbow world, so we can’t hand it down to you. But we could hand down our songs
There is a lesson in his failure to produce that world, but he will never learn it unless he becomes a conservative.
Notice also, leftists talk to each other in a code generated by their leftist, r-selected programming. They see the same images, feel the same emotions, and desire the same things. They are really like programmed robots that rolled off an assembly line, and they are that way because they are the standardized product of a natural design, as if constructed from blueprints. That is why a composer comes along, and all the rabbits extol his virtues. He is speaking their language.
“It expressed “a poignant yearning for escape,” as the Library of Congress said when it selected the song for preservation in the National Recording Registry…”
As Garland herself said in 1967, after all, “It represents everyone’s wondering why things can’t be a little better.”
It is OK to wonder why things can’t be a little better. But it is not OK to embrace a thought which leads to innocent people lying dead in the streets with throats slashed open, and then cling to the thought, despite the fact it will kill still more people.
If you want the better world, you first have to be willing to look honestly at the world you want to escape, and figure out what you have done wrong to make it so bad.
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AC, Sorry can’t let you make that mistake… the Battle of Marathon was fought against Persia in 490BC….. about 1000 years before Islam existed. While these were the same Persians who would be decisively defeated in 480BC with the Battle of Thermopylae and the battle of Salamis.
One could argue that the soul crushing r of Persia is the same in 480 BC as in Arabia in AD 650. Frankly it is the same all over the world until the West grows K begining in part with ancient Greece. The Marathon is not about running to tell of a victory over Islam. It is a victory over a dictator however.
What Islam did inspire, and granted it was only after 500 years, was the first Crusade. An amygdala releive found by sending over 100,000 men over 3000 miles from home to retake the holy lands. It wasn’t done by the landless. Going on crusade was as expensive. The persons who went were first sons, and they leveraged their holding for it. This is the origin of the “death pledge”, or mortgage as we call it. The movement of men over this distance would not be repeated by Europeans until the first world war, possibly the second, when factoring distance not just numbers.
Good point.
You took most of the words right out of my mouth. Well done.
Excellent post. The comparison of heroine to liberal ideology is an interesting one. My friend works in a methadone clinic and she’s observed that there aren’t many right-wing church-going family men coming into the clinic. There is a strong correlation between heroine addiction and liberal ideology because these people are trying to self-medicate.
One thing to note: the battle of Marathon took place over a thousand years before the advent of Islam.
The battle of marathon preceded Islam by over 1000 years.
When Islam comes over the rainbow, they are going to behead Glenda for sorcery, rape the Lollipop Guild to death, and tear down Emerald City as a temple to idolaters.
Watch her fake emotion and then sing a song about riding a badboy so hard she walks “side to side” afterwards:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHOo-oyiEHE
Class act, here.
“Here’s a touching story about love and hope. Now here’s a song about getting fucked so hard you can’t walk straight.”
AC was right comparing these people to deer who will happily graze next to their dead children.
Great article, as always, but the Battle of Marathon was 490BC, while Muhammed lived AD 570-632 or so. Xerxes was probably Zoroastrian.
A nitpick, AC: The Muslims have been creating havoc for only a millennium and a half. The Battle of Marathon was fought against the Persians a thousand years before Mohammed.
Having said that, it does seem that the Persians converted fairly easily to Islam, and I was recently reading that they were the dominant culture within that movement, from early times, so Persian culture may have been proto-muslim. I find that plausible: it would seem unlikely that the original Arabs were of sufficient quality and numbers to establish what became the Muslim empire. For instance, Saladin was a Kurd, and it was the Seljuk Turks who finally created the Ottoman empire and gave us Europeans so much trouble through the Balkans.
Rambling on, I have read assertions that Islam is less a religion and more an ideology. I suspect that ideology empowers rabbit people: Wolf people don’t need it to function effectively.
“Rambling on, I have read assertions that Islam is less a religion and more an ideology. ”
Well sure. The Quran is a war manual. Read it. Read Sura 9 verse 5. It is a war sect and a suicide cult.
AC, thanks for your insights. I found your book to be startling, slightly horrifying (in peeling back the mask on what I couldn’t understand about the left) and edifying.
While you could be wrong, your take on r/K theory elegantly and simply fits the facts and and has not inconsiderable predictive power as well. That makes it very persuasive.
Others above have made the point I’d have made on Marathon and Islam.
On Over the Rainbow? I don’t know. I commend to your attention Mark Steyn’s recent post on this very song.
https://www.steynonline.com/6545/over-the-rainbow
(If links are not permitted, just google Over the Rainbow Mark Steyn)
Regards,
-Holmwood