Surrogate activities: a plague of modernity

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A “surrogate activity”, according to uncle Ted, is a species of artificial or simulated goal that has nothing to do with one’s survival or betterment. It could really be anything, and I hesitate to give any examples due to my own culpability in pursuing them. They’re activities that drain you of precious time, and distract from broader or more fundamental matters concerning your own survival, or civilizational survival. I think he paints with too broad a brush, branding political activism as one example. I get his meaning, though. Entire generations have made political activism their identity, and their naive, schizoid pursuits are spiralling society towards an oblivion that they, if they could see it, would look at in horror. Aside from the Lockean ‘Appeal to Heaven’, it is clear that never-ending political agitation is a black hole of our precious time. On the Right, a flood of articles, tweets, blog posts (ahem), podcasts, and other media, create an Augean stable for millions of people to wade into, and get caught in a riptide that they never leave. The politics of the day, the scandals, et cetera, become a hypnotizing distraction from the real goal of building a better world.

Extreme technological progression of the past two decades has converted convenience into the most powerful opiate ever to have existed. Our phones, computers, televisions, all have become the surrogate activity summum bonum, pushing out almost everything else. Even activities that Ted looked down on seem deeply meaningful in the face of this new artificial pursuit.

Kirk’s security team changed into scrubs shortly after arriving at hospital

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I have it on good authority that it is unusual, bordering on impossible, that a hospital would give scrubs to anyone arriving at a hospital. So where did Kirk’s security team get the scrubs, and why change at all? There was very little blood in the suburban that drove Kirk’s body, and there was very little visible blood on anyone who carried him. What happened to their clothes, and why would they feel the need to get rid of them?

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Lost history: Between 1944-1948, 750 British soldiers killed in Palestine by Israeli terrorist groups

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Kind of amazing that this tidbit has been so utterly erased from the historical record. England operated in Palestine between 1920 and 1947 as part of the British Mandate to control what had been the Ottoman Empire, as well as ensure a Jewish State while protecting the large Palestinian population that had lived there for centuries. The 750 British soldiers and police were murdered at the hands of the Irgun, Lehi, and ‘Stern Gang’ Jewish terrorist groups over the course of 11 years, who became active towards the end of World War 2, and were intent on expelling the Palestinians and saw the British as an obstacle to that goal. Unfortunately, the seemingly unending terrorist attacks by the Jewish terrorist groups accomplished their goal, and the British left Palestine. It is no exaggeration to say that terrorism was first brought to the Middle East by the Zionist fanatics.

In one monstrous incident known as The Sergeant’s Affair, two British sergeants were kidnapped by the Irgun terrorist group and subsequently hanged from a eucalyptus tree as retribution for the executions of Lehi terrorists by the British.

Many of the worst terrorists went on to serve as the first Prime Ministers of the newly-created Jewish State, including Menachim Begin, who oversaw the Deir Yassin massacre.

To this day, England refuses to allow the 750 deaths to be officially commemorated.