Sick New World 2026, was it worth it?

(Karl Rock) What's Sick New World Music Festival? Wiki

• Sick New World Festival, Las Vegas, 2026
• Fieldy, original member of Korn

Why did Fieldy leave Korn?

(Batch 89 Studio) Fieldy finally speaks out on why he left Korn

Why did Head leave Korn?

(Rock N' Roll True Stories) Why Brian 'Head' Welch left Korn: daughter, God

High in Scotland: 'Trainspotting' turns 30

Trainspotting (1996) official trailer - old Scottish drug movie with Ewan McGregor in HD

What do you for fun around here? Drugs?

Trainspotting is a 1996 British black comedy drama film directed by Danny Boyle, starring Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, and Kelly Macdonald in her film debut. It is written in English and Scots [3]. Based on the 1993 novel by Irvine Welsh, the film was released in the United Kingdom on Feb. 23, 1996 [6].

The film follows a group of heroin addicts in an economically depressed area of Edinburgh, Scotland, and their passage through life. Beyond drug addiction, other themes in the film include an exploration of urban poverty and squalor in Edinburgh [7]. Trainspotting was released to critical acclaim and is today regarded by many critics as one of the best films of the 1990s.... More

• When Scottish people speak English 😂

(JoBlo Originals) Reliving the raw brilliance of a 1990s masterpiece from the UK

Trainspotting scene: "Born slippy"

T2: The Sequel? Lightning in a bottle?

(Sony Pictures Entertainment)

Ghoul: arrest of metal head grave robber

LYRICS: "Exhume to Consume"

Grimly I dig up the turfs/To remove the corrupted stiffs/Trying to contain my excitement/As I desecrate graveolent crypts.../Fingers claw at coffin lids/Eager festal exhumation/Hugging your wry, festered remains/With posthumous joy and elation.../Body snatched, freshly interred/Whatever takes my fancy/To satisfy my gratuitous pica/My culinary necromancy.../Scrutinized then brutalized/My forensic inquisition is fulfilled/My recipe is now your epitaph/Be it fried, boiled, or grilled...//I devour the pediculus corpse/Whetting my palate as I exhume/The festering stench of rotting flesh/Makes me drool as I consume...//CHORUS: Caskets I grate/My larder's a grave/I'm sickly obsessed (with the badly decomposed)/Rotten remains I eat/Purulent meat/What a funeral feast (putrid reek)//Weeping tissue is stripped/Pus dribbles from my lips/Pulverizing this pustular chaff/Butchering up morgue's makes me laugh...//Ulcerated flesh I munch/Rotting corpses are my lunch/On bones I love to crunch (on the badly decomposed)/Shriveled innards I lick/The corpse's head I kick/Crumbling shreds I pick (eat the stiffs)//[Guitar solo: morbid melody for the deceased with salt to taste]//Rancid flesh, slaughter the dead/--Caskets exhumed.../Corpses disinterred, graves disturbed/--To consume...//Bereaved relatives are not amused/As on their dear departed I feverishly consume...//Slavering worms, decomposure burns/Corrosion born, as bacteria gnaw//Desecrate.../Precipitate....(from the muddy grave)/Macerate.../Eviscerate...//Caskets I grate/My larder's a grave/I'm sickly obsessed (with the badly decomposed)/Rotten remains I eat/Purulent meat/What a funeral feast (putrid reek)//Saponified fats, nibbled by rats/--freshly exhumed.../Deep down six feet is where I like to eat/--Human flesh to consume...

White American pervert digs up corpses

For sale online from "deadshitdaddy" Gerlach

(BorisT.) Metalhead Jonathan Gerlach, 34, from Ephrata, Pennsylvania, arrested for stealing more than 100 human remains in repeated burglaries from a historical graveyard named Mount Moriah Cemetery in Yeadon Borough and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Yuck! Did he also listen to pop or rap or ska?

Metal leads to madness and disinterring corpses? It might for some given the lyrics of such bands as Cannibal Corpse, Carcass, Exhumed, Avenged Sevenfold, Septic Flesh, and even old-time punk rockers T.S.O.L. It may start as a joke -- or hardcore fandom/fanaticism about horror movies -- but who knows who might take it literally or as a suggestion?

Gerlach, as passionate as a ghoul about death

WIKI: In January 2026, Jonathan Gerlach of Ephrata, Pennsylvania, was arrested and charged with burglary, abuse of a corpse, and the desecration and theft of venerated objects stolen from Mount Moriah Cemetery. Authorities had been investigating vandalism and theft of 26 mausoleums and underground vaults from the cemetery that began in fall 2025. Gerlach was caught leaving the cemetery at night with a sack containing the mummified remains of two children, three skulls, and various loose bones. An investigation of his house in Ephrata revealed over 100 pieces of human bones stolen from the cemetery (Source: Man stole hundreds of skulls and bones from Mount Moriah Cemetery, authorities say).

Marilyn Manson sober, married, cleared?

(Rock Feed) The Marilyn Manson lawsuit twist is insane

'Dementia Don' Trump's serious decline

This is what proves Trump’s dementia: Psychologist | The Daily Beast Podcast

(The Daily Beast) Sept. 20, 2025: The Daily Beast Podcast. Dr. John Gartner, former Johns Hopkins professor and co-host of the podcast Shrinking Trump, joins the Daily Beast’s Joanna Coles to deliver a chilling diagnosis: Pres. Donald Trump is showing signs of dementia layered on top of malignant narcissism.

Drawing on decades of clinical expertise, Dr. Gartner explains how Trump’s

• declining language,
• erratic gait, and
• disturbing anecdotes

Trump was too busy that day being forgetful

point to brain deterioration that makes him not just unpredictable but uniquely dangerous in office.

Coles presses the doctor on how Trump’s narcissism compares to King Charles’ public persona, whether his cabinet and family are retreating from his volatility, and what it means when a leader with nuclear codes also displays symptoms of mini-strokes and confabulation.

From Hitler’s psychology to Bill Clinton’s benign narcissism, this episode explores how power amplifies paranoia, cruelty, and decay—and asks the starkest question of all:

As Trump weakens physically and mentally while tightening his grip on authority, how far can Trumpism go before it breaks America?

• 00:00 - Introduction
• 01:46 - Trump's symptoms of dementia
• 05:38 - Trump's breakdown in all mental functions
• 06:20 - Trump's malignant narcissism
• 09:02 - How Trump's narcissism compares to King Charles
• 13:30 - Trump's frontotemporal dementia symptoms
• 17:20 - People around Trump managing his ill behavior
• 22:30 - Trump is incapable of love?
• 23:50 - Trump's confabulations sign of mental decline
• 26:40 - Biden admin did better job at hiding him
• 30:00 - Trump's narcissism brings paranoia
• 34:00 - Trump's cabinet copies his sick behavior
• 36:45 - Elon Musk exhibits bipolar and psychopath traits
• 38:20 - Trump meets strict criteria for psychopathy
• 40:35 - Click "join" link and become an official member of YouTube community

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Music fest cancellations due to climate?

California Roots Music and Arts Festival 2024, Monterey County Fair and Event Center (Tixr)

(Wyatt's Metal) May 4, 2024: Danny Elfman headlines Sick New World 2024 metal fest in Las Vegas

Which will it be? We'll have both. But when?

Poor rock 'n roll in all its forms. It needs music festivals to enjoy, and these fests are outside, but the climate chaos is making that impossible because of cancellations. This is what science would have us believe. Recently in LA, the big Beach Life Festival got cut short due to high winds and fear of the safety of attendees. The corporation behind it claims it will provide partial refunds. In a wet year, during the cool/cold spring, someone thought it was a good idea to go to the beach? The beach is for the summer because most days are good enough for the sand but not for the water. Only in the summer can one expect to have good weather, warm temps, low winds, few clouds, and other unpleasant symptoms of the off-season. That's why there is a "season." It's not as if a summer festival got ruined by unseasonal conditions.

Death at devil Drake and Travis Scott's TX fest

More festivals than anyone can keep up with

A new analysis suggests that changes in climate are increasingly leading to disruptions or cancellations at music festivals. What's happening?

As detailed by Inside Climate News, crowd safety researcher Milad Haghani discovered that extreme weather canceled or disrupted at least 22 music festivals in Australia between 2022 and 2023, a significant uptick from the 10 impacted from 2013 to 2019.

"I think it's very clear that it's happening at an increasing rate, and the severity of the events, the impact of the events are more tangible now," said Haghani, who began his analysis after a series of weather-caused disruptions in the United States.

Help! It's too hot by the stage!!

Why is this important? While not all severe weather at concerts is the result of a warming planet, as Inside Climate News pointed out, the scientific community agrees that rising worldwide temperatures have caused more frequent and powerful extreme weather events.

At music festivals or concerts, which often take place outdoors, these extremes can prove deadly. In November, dangerously high temperatures in Brazil led to the postponement of a Taylor Swift concert after the death of a fan during the event.

It's hot indoors, but at least there's shade.

The Associated Press (AP) later confirmed that heat exhaustion was the cause. "Extreme heat events are more extreme than ever," NOAA scientist Stephanie Herring told NPR after the American Meteorological Society released its annual report in 2023.

"Research is showing they're likely to become the new normal in the not-so-distant future."

• 'Nature' becomes an official Spotify artist (WION) A new initiative will recognize nature as an official artist

Last year it was way too hot, too! (SNW Fest)

Inside Climate News also pointed to a hailstorm in Colorado that injured nearly 100 people and a wave of heat-related illnesses at an Ed Sheeran concert in Pittsburgh as other notable instances of weather-linked safety hazards.

What can be done about this? Haghani explained to Inside Climate News that further preparation and clear communication from event staff could help attendees stay safe in extreme weather, including heat waves.

"One of the responsibilities of the organizer is to make [free] hydration accessible to people," he said. "I think that is one of the key factors and easy fixes."

2023r's Sick New World 2023 was a mega nu-metal jamboree in Vegas

(Wyatt's Metal) What happened at Sick New World 2023 in Las Vegas?

Swedish activist Greta goes vegan for the climate

Other experts pointed to the need for plenty of shade, water misting stations, and accessible areas to shelter from the elements.

Alcohol [sugar] and caffeine also impact our bodies' abilities to regulate itself in high temperatures, so avoiding these drinks in severe conditions can help keep you safe.

• Whales are ingesting up to 10 million pieces of microplastic per day: ‘Like training for a marathon and eating only jellybeans’

Join free newsletter for cool news and actionable info that makes it easy to help yourself while helping the planet. New research shows concerning cause of music festival cancellations: 'It's happening at an increasing rate' (via MSN) first appeared on The Cool Down.

• Greta Thunberg is vegan: PETA's Youth Role Model of Year
• REACT (Gen Z reacts to Nu Metal), March 2024; Wyatt at Sick New World 2024 and 2023; ABC News; Sky News, Astroworld accident 2022; The Cool Down via MSN.com, May 2024; Seth Auberon, Crystal Quintero, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Porn: Emma Stone wins 'Poor Things' Oscar

The Take, 1/30/24; Karsten Runquist; Oscar Watching Party Reviewers, Wisdom Quarterly

Emma Stone wins best actress over Lily Gladstone in Oscars’ biggest surprise (msn.com)

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Poor Things: empowering or exploitative?

(The Take) Poor Things, the new Yorgos Lanthimos film starring Emma Stone, has been racking up nominations and wins on this year’s award circuit.

But it also sparked quite a bit of controversy thanks to one major feature of its plot. So what is the film actually about, what world is it supposed to be, and is it empowerment or exploitation?

Here’s what the world needs to know about Poor Things, those offensive sex scenes, and the message the film is trying to convey between sheety sheet scenes.

CHAPTERS

• 00:00 Poor Things
• 00:37 How Bella takes control
• 01:37 Poor Things = Weird Barbie?
• 03:20 Expanding her mind in more ways than one
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• 06:13 Story through cinematography and costume
• 07:18 The truth about those scenes
• 10:29 Wild, but still has a relatable side

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WQ Review

I'm a producer, like Barb's Barbie

While one may be deceived into thinking this is a gorgeous film with bright colors, it is really, dark, dingy, and uber steam punk for a lot of the beginning. When colors enter, one realizes this is not even this world unless it represents Tartaria (mudflood Tartary), which would make a lot of sense. But it's supposed to be same old same late 1800s Mary Poppins' London.

What a ride 14+ years since Easy A

We went to see Poor Things because Mr. Skin said Emma Stone was naked in it, a first for an A-listed Hollywood starlet in her prime or even at the tail end of it. We wanted to see action. We were not expecting grotesque gore, so many close ups of Willem Dafoe's disfigured face.

He's ugly enough, but here he is unsightly (nearly impossible to look at for very long), although his voice is warm, Irish, and inviting. He's cuddly, which is a feat for the character of Dr. Frankenstein. What is bothersome about the film is Frankenstein's monster ("Bella Baxter" played by Emma Stone), unlike the nice Herman Munster character Hollywood has always given us even in the original adaptation of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's short story competition winner that became a book about the Jewish menace.

• Oppenheimer crowned best picture, with best actor and best director, at 2024 Oscars

Optioned books are just starting points for films.

Shelley almost certainly never imagined Oppenheimer, the winner of this year's Best Picture Oscar from the Academy, when she combined the common Jewish surnames Franken and Stein overtaking Europe in her youthful estimation.

Emma Stone is a stonehearted brute, a callous child pursuing her hedonistic pleasure without knowing what it is or that other people are being hurt. That should have been a good story, but she's too naive and self-centered with a physical age far exceeding her infantile mental age.

It's really the story of the sexual exploitation of a child's brain but made "okay" because that brain has been transferred into her dead mother's body. Which is odd.

The film might have crossed the line at some point, when incest and child rape loom large as the original husband returns to claim his wife/daughter, have sex with her, and imprison her in his castle. He's an imperial European warrior, "the General," after all. Those sex scenes must have been left on the cutting room floor when previewers objected; one would have to check the text.

Tartaria explains missing antecedents tochievements seen in the World

Fair, old photos, advanced technology and architecture, China's Great Wall...

Willem Dafoe in Planet of the Apes Poor Things

This general is not the first man to try to control Bella or imprison her. The audience is supposed to applaud that she's so willful and not mind that she's so childish. But does anyone applaud her suicide, utilitarian choice to undertake prostitution, or how she breaks the hearts of her "God" (not the tribal god of the Bible but "Dr. Godwin 'God' Baxter," her creator, Willem Dafoe's role as the Dr. Frankenstein) and her betrothed, just about the only two men in the movie she doesn't have sexual relations with, though it's not for lack of trying, her lesbian experimentation, philosophical dabbling, her stealing one man's fortune for a good cause then squandering it so that it doesn't even fulfill that good function... monster, demoness, dummy, child.

• Frankenstein author Mary Shelley was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin in London in 1797. She was the second child of the feminist philosopher, educator, and writer Mary Wollstonecraft and the first child of the philosopher, novelist, and journalist William Godwin (eerily the character of Willem's Godwin). Mary Wollstonecraft died (just like in Poor Things) around the time of her famous daughter's birth. Godwin was left to bring up Mary, just as Dr. Godwin raises Bella like a doting father and caring creator god, in spite of character which is to be scientifically distant and professionally detached just as his medical doctor father was with him.

Great actors age badly: Mark Ruffalo

One then realizes how well Mark Ruffalo is playing his role. His character is interesting, almost making him the real protagonist of the movie, which probably explains why they have to disappear him and leave him unexplained. What happened to him? When he shows up by surprise to present the great volta at another very pivotal moment for her betrothed, he doesn't look at her, calls her a demon (and it's hard to disagree), exacts his revenge, and bam, that's it for him. The most enjoyable performance in the whole movie, and he's gone. Was he eliciting too much sympathy and approval from the test audiences? Did Ruffalo win an Oscar best supporting actor?

C'est la vie. You can't win them all any.

That Emma [Sad]Stone beat Lily Gladstone, the first Native American to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar -- by the way, why does Hollywood insist we say "actor" for both males and females everywhere except at the Academy Awards? -- is understandable.

Hollywood loves Stone (remembering her charming Academy Award-winning performance in Lalaland with Ryan "Ken" Gosling), and the role was a supporting role that should have been in that category up against The Holdovers' Black winner. Either way, it was up to Scorsese to accentuate her and downplay bad guy Leonardo DiCaprio, who makes atrocious killers of flower moons seem sympathetic with his acting.

See for yourself: Poor Things promises sex but delivers grotesque

Poor Things is insane (review)

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On being a girl, now a woman: MTV's Daria

The Take, 6/21/22; Kelly Ani, Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

What Daria says about the 1990s (and today)

(The Take) Mike Judge's "Daria Morgendorffer" made it cool to be a wry and cynical loner. This teen girl who didn’t care about popularity or trends was the picture-perfect example of ‘90s alienation. She was a surprising character for a channel that often sold brash, extroverted, or overtly sexualized versions of womanhood during that same period.

What if Daria were around today, might she be just like Drugstore June?

• 00:00 Daria IS the 90s
• 01:57 How Daria views the world
• 08:24 MUBI
• 09:03 Why Daria perfectly captures the 90s
• 16:20 Daria's influences both past and present
• 18:25 Why Daria is still beloved today

Years later, Daria still resonates with anyone who’s ever questioned whether the problem is you or the system you’re living in – and it can help us understand cultural changes that were happening back in the 1990s.

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Sicko Mode: Scott collab conquers charts

Ken Partridge (@kpartridge), Genius, 9/29/23; Sheldon S., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

What's the sickest, rap or rock?

How Travis Scott and a small army of collaborators conquered the charts. In honor of hip-hop’s 50th anniversary year, Genius.com is looking back at the top artists, songs, albums, and producers of “The Genius Era,” 2009 to the present. Chances are readers or someone reader know worked on Travis Scott’s “SICKO MODE.”

The top hip-hop song of 2018 on Genius according to pageviews boasts six producers and a whopping 30 credited songwriters. Seven different voices are heard on the track, counting samples. The whole thing runs 5:12, and it features two jarring beat switches — three if we include the one that happens around 5:00 and teases a fourth section that never materializes. It’s probably the most unwieldy song to ever reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and that may be what makes it great.

“SICKO MODE” is ostensibly a collaboration between Travis and Drake, who grabs the first and fourth verses. Drizzy — who’d worked with Scott twice before — apparently submitted his contributions at 2:00 am on August 3, 2018, the day Travis’s ASTROWORLD album came out.

This may account for the song’s abrupt first beat switch, as Drake begins rapping over an organ-driven groove by Hit-Boy and Rogét Chahayed before quickly flipping the mic to Travis, who goes hard over a tense, throbbing trap instrumental cooked up by OZ and the duo CuBeatz.

Hit-Boy and Chahayed composed their section of the song all the way back in 2016, and there’s apparently a full version of the song featuring Travis and Drake over just that beat. OZ has said that he thought the finished song’s bizarre structure would prevent it from becoming a hit.

But “SICKO MODE” is basically three songs for the price of one, and thanks to Drake’s fourth verse, there was enough intrigue to keep people talking for the rest of the year.

[Dissin the most important man alive]

This b*tch Drizzy is talking about you, Honey. - Did you just call him Drizzy? Don't do dat.

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This MoFo right here be talkin'bout Me!

In a series of December 2018 tweets, Kanye West accused Drake — with whom he’d already been beefing — of slipping “sneak disses” into “SICKO MODE.”

Ye also blasted Travis Scott, who had a baby with his (Kanye’s) sister-in-law, Kylie Jenner, for letting it happen. There’s nothing super overt in the song, but West was likely miffed about this section:

"I still got scores to settle, man/ I crept down the block (Down the block)/ Made a right (Yeah, right)/ Cut the lights (Yeah, what?), paid the price (Yeah)/ Niggas think it’s sweet (Nah, never), it’s on sight (Yeah, what?)"

As explained in a popular tweet thread, Drake and Kanye lived in the same Calabasas neighborhood [with Justin Bieber and the Kardashians, in the suburbs of the Valley], and in order for Drizzy to roll up on West at home, he’d only need to go “down the block” and bang a right.

And then there’s the section a few seconds later, where Drake implies that his footwear partner, Nike, is better than Ye’s, Adidas (“checks over stripes”).

Drizzy then essentially calls West a has-been.

"Jesus Christ (Yeah), checks over stripes (Yeah)/ That’s what I like (Yeah), that’s what we like (Yeah)/ Lost my respect, you not a threat."

So were those lines really about Kanye? “I can’t lie to you; of course they were,” Drake told Rap Radar. “Like I said, this is a sport at the end of the day. You know from a very early point, I’ve never shied away from defending myself. And I’m also sometimes eager to engage; if I feel you want to be slick or offensive behind the scenes, I might choose to address it in music.”

So what does Travis Scott bring to “SICKO MODE”? “Who put this shit together?” he raps at the end of the song’s third verse. “I’m the glue.”

That proclamation is very much in keeping with Scott’s reputation as more of a “curator” than a traditional rapper or producer. Though the song’s refrain, which features vocals from both Swae Lee of Rae Sremmurd and late Houston rapper Big Hawk, suggests that Travis doesn’t want to be mistaken for a lightweight.

"Some-Some-Some-Someone said/ To win the retreat, we all in too deep/ Play-play-playin’ for keeps, don’t play us for weak/ (Someone said) To win the retreat, we all in too deep/ Play-play-playin’ for keeps, don’t play us for weak"

“SICKO MODE” took four months to hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and it finally reached the summit due to some savvy maneuvering from Scott’s team. According to Billboard, the combination of a Skrillex remix, a “69-cent strategy” on iTunes, and the song’s availability on Travis’s web store in the form of a vinyl record and a bonus add-on to limited-edition tie-dyed shirts all helped to push “SICKO MODE” ahead of Ariana Grande’s “thank u, next.”

“Me and Drake been working to make something so crazy for the kids,” Travis told Billboard just after the song reached its chart peak. “It’s dope that one of our illest collaborations just went No. 1. The whole idea when we made the song was to go ‘sicko mode’…and what’s more sicko mode than going No. 1?!”

Here are the Top 10 hip-hop songs of 2018 on Genius:

1. “SICKO MODE,” Travis Scott

2. “God’s Plan,” Drake

3. “SAD!” XXXTENTACION

4. “In My Feelings,” Drake

5. “Killshot,” Eminem

6. “This Is America,” Childish Gambino

7. “FEFE,” 6ix9ine

8. “Lucky You,” Eminem

9. “The Ringer,” Eminem

10. “iLOVEFRiDAY,” Mia Khalifa.

I'm not autistic, the world is! (video)

Neurodivergent Doctor, 3/8/22, 9/14/21; Sheldon S., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

"Autism Imposter Syndrome" - The smartest have it, and how to stop it

(Neurodivergent Doctor) Why do the smartest people get imposter syndrome? What is "transient sensory sensitivity"? Was there really room for Leo on Rose's floating door over the Atlantic from the film Titanic? These and other topics are discussed as well as what to do about imposter syndrome.

DISCLAIMER: This is the personal opinion of Dr. Anson Service, Psy.D., LMHC and is for informational purposes only. This is not therapy. No therapeutic relationship between Dr. Service and any viewer is asserted or implied. If you have questions, please seek a qualified professional. Photos and videos are licensed to Dr. Service and any other photos are used for educational purposes.

Autism: The new view. The world is disordered

(Neurodivergent Doctor) VANCOUVER Hello, Neurodivergent Nation! It's always been about the bad, the way "autistic" people have a hard time in life. Is that the truth, or have we been looking at it all wrong?

Yes, many autistic people have a very difficult time. And it has caused trauma and so much heartache for them and often their families, too. But let's take a closer look at why there is so much difficulty.

Let's look more closely at the disordered world autistic people are forced to live in. Like so many other people who are differently abled on this planet, it is not set up to accommodate, accept, or even acknowledge differences.

• [EDITORIAL NOTE: It may be taken as making autism look like a positive label. Or it may point the finger at us, saying that although autism is certainly bad and not something we would want to have, the world we live in sucks -- and we have ceased to notice. But autistic children and young adults do notice and say so; therefore, we don't like them and blame them and their illness or try, because of cognitive dissonance and guilt at living in a toxic polluted environment that surely cannot be helping, to put all the blame on sensitive individuals harmed by the toxicity far more than the rest of us.]

This video challenges the idea that the neurodivergent are the disordered ones. All media is original content or licensed and used with permission. Copyright 2021 Dr. Anson Service, PsyD.

COMMENTS

(from previous upload on Imposter Syndrome that was deleted it replaced with this better version)

(buttercxp draws) This video was fantastic. I was late diagnosed 2 years ago after a mental breakdown. I’ve felt imposter syndrome several times whilst coming to terms with my diagnosis. Your words really hit home with me. Much appreciated 💕

(Judi Marr) Thank you for this. I’ll probably still keep taking all the tests every couple of weeks until my neuropsych testing in June just to make sure, but it’s good to know why I feel this way and I’m not alone.

(Wynne Whitten-Holmes) Oh, this was such a balm to my autistic soul. Thank you. I'm saving it for later. ✨

(buttercxp draws) Great job with the script and editing on this one. Made me laugh and made me cry. I’ll be watching this again next time I think I’m an imposter ✌️💕

(rahxrahster) This is the one! I have an upcoming assessment and this video was so helpful. Thank you!

(Loowe) Thank u so much. Can I ask u to talk about the PDA Type of autism? It really gives me more imposter Syndrome since my experience is in some way very different than other more high-regulating autistic people. Thank u for ur work so much!!! 🌸🌸🌸

(skiz) The best defense against impostor syndrome is paying the electricity bill to keep your rare model train collection running on time throughout your house.

Sick Sad World: The Jimmy Dore Show

J. Dore, Mike MacRae (TJDS); Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S., Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly

What's "suffering"? A lonely Valentine's Day

Ashley Wells, Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly; Global Tiny World; Lana Del Rey; Ven. Nyantiloka

No, ugh, get off me! You're not what I want!

If one listens closely, one might notice the tragic melody playing in the background as this guy gets stuck inside a makeout sandwich between two happy couples. Somewhere there's a match. Quick, look, to your right! We can only keep our fingers crossed in the hope that this photo was snapped in jest. If not, this guy’s social life could be more depressing than one might first assume. Viewers who feel sad for this guy, line up. May he get a partner soon to accompany him on Valentine's Day, to the beach, and goodness only knows where he wants to go.

Wait, I can't compete with all the other beauties craving limited resources on the beach.

What did the Buddha say?

I'd date him and cling to him and lose him.

Q: How in the world could the Buddha say, "All life is suffering"?! That's preposterous. I'm not suffering right now...right?

A: It's true, but only in English. In English we're not "suffering" right now. There's no sadness, no nothing that would fall in the range of agitation to agony. What word could we better translate what the Buddha said? He used the word dukkha. All states of existence (not just this life in this relatively nice human plane world, one world of countless human worlds) are unsatisfactory. That is, they are all incapable of fulfilling us. There is no freedom from craving, from aversion, from boredom.

What the Buddha taught is more shocking than "all life is suffering," which is very misleading. It's not all suffering, as he himself pointed out, or else no one would stay. It's all disappointing, it's all unsatisfactory, it's all beset by woe and ill.

Our state of health is beset by ill. What does that mean. We are liable to get sick. Our youth is beset by aging and breaking down. Our beauty is beset by fading and loss of beauty. We don't always look our best, AND one day our best will be downright ugly and unsightly. More than that, it's already that way. Only our minds are trained not to pay attention to that. We are taken with beauty, youthfulness, health, and all the things we like. These things disappoint us.

• Moreover, it isn't just that they're disappointing, they're illusory as well. They seem permanent when in fact they're impermanent (passing away at every moment) and impersonal (seemingly me and mine but actually not under my control, not doing as I wish, not behaving as I would have them behave). These the Buddha called the Three Universal Marks of Existence.

In the better worlds, do they suffer, too?

In these things we cannot find fulfillment and satisfaction and rest. There are better worlds, better states, better planes of existence, and the Buddha does NOT advocate them. He taught that these exalted worlds, too, will disappoint, are beset by loss and decline, that we will meet with the results of our deeds (karma) even there, which will bring us back here and worse. Many of our unskillful deeds will drags to worse states of existence. Who's got time for that? We're living it up right now. I don't want to know that, I don't want to think about that, I don't want that to be true. Who's the stick in the mud bringing that up? Killjoy!

The Buddha offered something that wouldn't disappoint, wouldn't depend on rebirth -- in any world, on any plane of existence. Because, you see, once one knows the cause of the problem, one can do something about it. But even more fundamental is to know the problem. What's the problem?

• Who is free from this problem? First stage

Suffering (dukkha, disappointment, unsatifactoriness, woe, ill) is the problem! That is mentioned first just as a good doctor in diagnosing a patient would point out, "You see, you got this big mass killing you. What caused it was [insert cause, probably bad eating]. What can be done about is we can remove the cause and cure you. What being cured would mean is this state of health. Can anyone guess what that state of freedom from suffering, freedom from disease, freedom from liability to future suffering is called?

• Hint: Kurt Cobain, who suffered a lot heard about it, became a Buddhist in his head, and thought it would be a cool name for his new grunge group. Then Courtney Love ruined his life, allegedly, not that he was helping himself much with the quick fixes trying to patch up all his suffering, depression, and woe.

It's not clear why people jump the gun and get upset with the Buddha, an ancient teacher who lived about 30 centuries ago. A little investigation would clear things up immediately. Let's see if we can't dig up his own words because, after all, he defined suffering/dukkha so everyone would know what problem he was talking about exactly:

There's a problem and there's a solution.

As the first of the Four Truths that lead to awakening/enlightenment and the second of the Three Universal Characteristics of Existence, the term "suffering" or dukkha is not limited to painful experience but refers to the unsatisfactory nature and the general insecurity of all conditioned phenomena [things that depend on supports for their existence] which, on account of their impermanence, are ALL liable to suffering.

This includes also pleasurable experience, what we cling to, what we temporarily have or possess, what we are trying to extract pleasure, satisfaction, and fulfillment from.

So "unsatisfactoriness" or "liability to suffering" or "incapable of fulfilling" would be better translations of dukkha. Therefore, the first ennobling truth does not deny the existence of pleasurable experiences, as is sometimes wrongly assumed by Westerners. This is illustrated by the following sutra texts: 

"Seeking satisfaction [fulfillment, pleasure] in the world [the world here means all states of becoming, rebirth, rearising, being], meditators, I pursued my way. Such satisfaction in the world I found. Insofar as satisfaction exists in the world, I have well perceived it by wisdom.

"Seeking misery in the world, meditators, I pursued my way. Such misery in the world I found. Insofar as misery exists in the world, I have well perceived it by wisdom.

This is better than clinging, release by wisdom

"Seeking ESCAPE [release, freedom] from the world, meditators, I pursued my way. Such escape from the world I found. Insofar as an escape from the world exists, I have well perceived it by wisdom" (A.iii.105).

*"If there were no satisfaction to be found in the world, beings would not be attached [cling] to the world....

"If there were no misery to be found in the world, beings would not be repelled by the world....

"If there were no escape from the world, beings could never escape from it" (A.iii.106).