PS: Late reply, Mr. Smith - I looked up flugelhorn the other day. It's much like a trumpet, of course. I'd thought that it was a trumpet with one of those muting cones. (Probably made out of wood back in the day, but now they'd be plastic. How many famous trumpeters do we see now, though, on, say, TicTok?)

PS: Good afternoon, Mr. Alarmist!

https://i.ibb.co/Y7z6f28M/Florida-Sunshine.jpg

Welcome back to this side of the pond.
I hope your travels were most enjoyable.


𝐼𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙, 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑢𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒...

(Agreed. It do be that way, Mr. Alarmist...)

Mortacracy: A "government" system or regime that wants us all violently dead and is willing to commit democide and/or any other means necessary to achieve this goal. (or something like that.)

(Which isn't really new. So-called elites have always practiced ritual human sacrifice.)


𝑀𝑟𝑠. 𝐴𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑢𝑠𝑢𝑎𝑙...

Understandably so. 𝐼𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑚𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑑𝑜𝑛’𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦’𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔... Because they don't really care about what they're doing. (Which is incredibly toxic and all that, but also, who can blame them? If they work hard they will be taken advantage of. If they do the bare minimum they keep skating until it is time for some other bullshit job. It's bleak out there. I'm glad I'm pretty well insulated from it.)


https://i.ibb.co/HvjBm1f/Dear-Diary.jpg

Yeah... That Fauci sure is a creepy little bastard.
He should ride the industrial metal shredder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x34nMXpWmA

(Anyway...)

I hope you enjoy your time in Florida.
And I hope you and Mrs. Alarmist have a wonderful evening!

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PS

I know what to say, Mr. Smith (Good afternoon, BTW, from the Sunshine State), and it is clear they want to kill, incapacitate, and sterilize as many of us as possible.

Mrs. Alarmist is more apalled than usual about the continued cleanliness standars in US establishments, not to mention the level of service in some places, to which she says, “It seems like they don’t really care about what they’re doing.” These would mostly be the lesser motivated slave labor US employers have hited to force US wages down. For this they want us dead.

BTW, it was Josh Steiner, aide to T-Secy Lloyd Bentsen, who claimed in Whitewater testimony in 1994 that he embellished (lied) in his diary when he documented a number of untoward things being done by the Clinton Administration. Here is how an unrepentant liar looks at it years later.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5W6pzUldTek

Unless he is doing a lot of childrens’ adrenochrome, which he most likely is, Fauci shouldn’t have as many years to look back and defend his lies and crimes.

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PS: 𝐵𝑢𝑡... 𝐼 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦, 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝐿𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑅𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝐵𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔!

Indeed. I mean, when's the last time you heard a flugelhorn solo from Bob Venier?

When's the last time any of us even heard a flugelhorn solo?

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PS: You're right that "reminiscing" is all wrong for most of us, Adam, but I really, really like this Little River Band song!

I appreciate your looking into all the accurate terms for what we're going through. And, whaddya know, malkosmofrenía.com is not taken. Same with malkosmofrenía.org and malkosmofrenía.net. I didn't check malkosmofrenía or malkosmofrenía.ds.

PS: Hello again, gentlemen...

Malkosmofrenía (or Malcosmophrenia)
Mal (Latin for bad) + Kosmos (Greek for world/society) + Phrenia (Greek for state of mind).

Malkosmofrenía: The bitter, exhausted mental fog you experience upon waking up to the reality of an altered, hostile society. It implies that society itself has become a nightmare you cannot shake off.


Alpweltschmerz
Alptraum (Nightmare) + Weltschmerz (World-pain)

Alpweltschmerz: The paralyzing sadness and disillusionment that occurs when the nightmare of collective human malice becomes the permanent reality of the world.


Oneiroweltschmerz
Oneiro (Greek for dream/nightmare state) + Weltschmerz (German for world-weariness)

Oneiroweltschmerz: The specific state of being awake in the real world, yet feeling the heavy, lingering emotional trauma of a societal nightmare.


Malcosmophrenia: The feeling of looking at mainstream society and feeling an inescapable, waking exhaustion from the madness you witness.


It's all I have for now. Maybe someone with better language skill than I (like Messrs. Moderator, Hail and Alarmist) can come up with something better?


Anyway...

I hope you all have a great and wonderful Monday!

Cheers! ☮️

PS: Good morning, again, Mr. Moderator, Mr. Hail...

𝑅𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔

Is too kind, too gentle a word. Rumination is closer, but still not right.

Bitter retrospection, misanthropic brooding, and/or jaundiced remembering fit better, kind of, but I don't know a word that means all three of those wrapped up into one tidy little word.

Malneirophrenia and Weltschmerz are kind of what I'm looking for... So I guess I am looking for a single, established word that combines malneirophrenia (the lingering emotional fog after a nightmare) and weltschmerz (weariness or sadness over the evils of the world).

But I don't know what this word is.
Perhaps I'll have to make one up?

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PS: Good morning, Mr. Moderator!

Yes. I can't even.
Even after all this time.

I still can't even...

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PS: Good morning, Mr. Smith, can you still not even ...? ;-}

PS: "China is more to blame for starting the Panic, not necessarily through any lab-leak theory but simply with their crazy over-reaction, a series of things lifted from a killer-virus zombie movie script. The chain reaction leading to the triumph of the Covid Panic by March 2020 starts with the People's Republic and Xi Jinping and his circle, and ultimately is an implication of how dangerous their system is; the lockdowns being all so easy for them, and, of course, all top-down and imposed by force without meaningful effective resistance for almost 3 years!"

Indeed, it was those images of people (supposedly) dropping dead in the streets of Wuhan or wherever else, that got the Panic into gear here. That was in late January, at least the first time I saw anything of that. Then, a couple of years later, China had a re-Panic, which may have been even more Totalitarian and evil than their '20 version. I covered that here quite a bit - I know you know this, Mr. Hail, but for others, this coverage has the Kung Flu Stupidity topic key and starts around the Feb/March ('22).

We have a better chance of putting Fauci, the scarf lady, and thousands of Mayors and Governors in jail than we do finding out all that went on in China and how well they "stopped the spread" and all that crap over those 3 years there. Yet, there are the Ron Unz's - he's definitely one of them - who praise China for its Covid Panic, errr, response and use China as a role model even.

PS: Donald J Trump and the Kung Flu?:

He really doesn't have any technical knowledge. That's why he's listened to people and been steered wrong as President. In this case, he may have figured that this thing - at least early on, Feb-April of '20 - that he'd better be on the side that "wiped out this virus like nobody ever did in all history".

He's got no principles. "Oh, you people complaining about being locked in your own houses for a month - you're a bunch of losers!" It didn't get to all that, and I'll give Trump credit for at least changing as the situation looked very obviously not like the Black Death 2.0. Trump DOES have some common sense.

Then, he had his reputation on the line with that moon-shot vax, yet another thing his ego had him claiming would be "like what nobody else had ever done!" There WERE some boos and hisses during the '24 campaign when he stupidly brought that up, so he shut up about it from there on.

Yes, boredom too - I agree with your last paragraph.

There is an even lower chance that Trump would apologize than Steve Sailer. He's admitted he's been wrong before, rarely, but I've seen it. No way would he bring anything up about the PanicFest unless it put him in a favorable light.

PS: Mr. Hail, about Steve Sailer first:

Along with being pretty freaked out himself by the Kung Flu, my impression from reading the stuff I could stand back in Spring '20 (not so much that each post was bad but that they'd keep on rolling, one after another) is that Mr. Sailer was trying to become the guy with the best advice because he noticed things better. That is his usual way.

So, skiers spread the virus in Italy on the slopes, and this type of seating arrangement in restaurants is logically better to prevent airborne spread, and so on, and so on, FOR THE WHOLE SPRING. It was fun for him, I dare say. He wanted to be "the most reasonable guy".

Steve Sailer also IS good at putting some seemingly unrelated things together that most people miss.( I had an example in my head from one of his substack posts - the part I could read - recently.) He was sucked into the madness, and because he's not a particularly stick-to-principles guy, he kinda missed the egregious rights violations and all that...

As for admitting he was wrong, nope, in the world of X and other anti-Social Media, he might lose a lot of liker and followers, so maybe just his Marketing education tells him "don't do that." Then too, he wasn't wrong for nearly as long as some, but then some of the Panickers were not in it for fear, and it wasn't about logic. They loved the power, and would have kept it as long as people would let them.

PS: I mean,

I just don't know what to say...
I can't hardly believe that even happened.

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PS

Did you fall asleep mid-sentence, Adam?

PS: Evening, Mr. Hail,

It seems almost too absurd to be real.
The whole panicfest, fluhoax thing...

I...

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PS

Related to the point about China, you may find these articles of interst:

https://jamesgmartin.center/2026/03/how-china-corrupts-academic-research/

https://jamesgmartin.center/2026/03/world-university-rankings-are-a-scam/

Read these articles while keeping the origin of the Covid-Panic of 2020 in mind.

PS

There's been a conspiracy of silence on the Covid Panic for several years now. The scolding Covid-Fanatics you'd see in 2020-21 are basically long gone, but they've never come to terms with how wrong they were.

I mean, the Panickers of 2020 never mention it anymore but neither do the Neutrals. Anti-Panickers will still occasionally mention it but, the most offensive of the Covid measures being long gone (for example, no mask mandate has ever returned even during a peak flu-period, or at large gatherings even including older people). It seems unproductive to bring it up too much or too forcefully.

The silence from the pro-Panic side I take as an implicit recognition, on their part ,that they were wrong, that the whole thing was a disastrous mania which somehow got hold of things.

(China is more to blame for starting the Panic, not necessarily through any lab-leak theory but simply with their crazy over-reaction, a series of things lifted from a killer-virus zombie movie script. The chain reaction leading to the triumph of the Covid Panic by March 2020 starts with the People's Republic and Xi Jinping and his circle, and ultimately is an implication of how dangerous their system is; the lockdowns being all so easy for them, and, of course, all top-down and imposed by force without meaningful effective resistance for almost 3 years!)

The huge share of Western people who, in the mid-2020s have cautiously avoided the topic, will also not admit openly that it was all a fraud.

Steve Sailer (I always end up mentioning him in this context) lost interest in the Covid topic and almost never wrote about it again after a certain point. That after being one of the people responsible for the success of the Panic. Not that his influence is so big. But he bandwagon'ed with the Panickers and earnestly and fervently endorsed their ideas. So he is guilty. Those guilty of a collective mania or mass psychosis leading to bad results have a hard time admitting it, and the rest of people don't have the wherewithal or will or motive to push them on it, once the storm is cleared.

How can a man (Steve) who believed in a horrific Covid Apocalypse, the fever-dream of piles of bodies everywhere unless extreme measures were taken, abruptly stop talking about it and never mention it again?

Here's what I'd propose to make sense of it: Sailer is ahead of the curve on most things of public interest. He is not infallible. He let us all down with his giant missed call on Covid (and there seems to be a consensus that it hurt his legacy). But he also was ahead of the curve on the implicit mass strategy of "Never mention the C-word again."

By the way, there's another famous person I recall going silent on the Covid controversy. That person has the initials DJT. The man flaps his lips on any matter that drifts across his mental radar, but he almost never talks about the crime against culture and humanity that was the Lockdowns and related Covid disruptions. Is it the same thing on why Sailer went silent, and so many others: The embarrassment covering over an implicit admission of guilt? Is Trump capable of this?

Trump benefitted from anti-Lockdown dissent, even already during 2020 but more importantly in a general way in the early 2020s as he was contemplating the 2024 run. The lockdowns and everything became associated with the Democrats, but Trump actually was president when they came in and he was largely supportive at the critical times. He never waged the kind of war on the Panic that he could have, or that some governors did (DeSantis), or Sweden (granted, Trump is incapable of being a "Sweden"). At the critical period, the man didn't care, or thought he could demagogue off the panic. Trump, too, failed in 2020 on the Panic.

The relation of anti-Lockdownism with the Trump political force in the early-mid 2020s is classic Trump. The Anti-Panickers, many of them, projected their own views onto Trump as a blank screen. But Trump was never a committed Anti-Panicker himself.

(By the way, I've always sought to capitalize "Anti-Panic and Pro-Panic camps due designate them full coherent groupings on their own. We give capital letters to "Federalist" and "Anti-Federalist" for the same reason. To lower-case the "anti" would be say only the Panic/Lockdown position was legitimate and had only scattered opposition from malcontents.)

Trump dropping the Covid topic is not surprising to me. He gets bored, and he never believed in the core principles of the Anti-Panic side. I mean to say, he never bothered to study into those principles. I'm sure people explained them to him, but he doesn't care that much.