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Friday, July 27, 2012

Are You Loving Your Servitude Yet?

Anyone who has not yet seen the brilliant - and we do mean brilliant - writings of Charles Hugh Smith needs to check out his blog, Of Two Minds and his books.  Here is an extract from his blog post of 25 July 2012 entitled, Are You Loving Your Servitude Yet?  It absolutely sums up what is going wrong in society and the societal mindset of unquestioning obedience aided and abetted by technological diversions - akin to drugs.

The sentences in bold print appear in the original post by the author.


Aldous Huxley foresaw a Central State that persuaded its people to “love their servitude” via propaganda, drugs, entertainment and information-overload. In his view, the energy required to force compliance exceeded the "cost" of persuasion, and thus the Powers That Be would opt for the power of suggestion.

He outlined this in a letter to George Orwell:
"My own belief is that the ruling oligarchy will find less arduous and wasteful ways of governing and of satisfying its lust for power, and these ways will resemble those which I described in Brave New World.
Within the next generation I believe that the world’s rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience."
As prescient as he was, Huxley could not have foreseen the power of electronic media hypnosis/addiction as a conditioning mechanism for passivity and self-absorption. We are only beginning to understand the immense addictive/conditioning powers of 24/7 social and "news" media. What would we say about a drug that caused people to forego sex to check their Facebook page? What would we say about a drug that caused young men to stay glued to a computer for 40+ hours straight, an obsession so acute that some actually die? We would declare that drug to be far too powerful and dangerous to be widely available, yet the Web is now ubiquitous. 

Servitude comes in many gradations and forms. Relying on the Federal Reserve to constantly prop up our pension and mutual funds lest reality cause them to collapse is a form of servitude; we end up worshipping the Fed's every word and act as mendicants worship their financial saviors.

That the Fed is unelected and impervious to democracy or the will of the people is forgotten; all that matters is that we love our servitude to it.

I have discussed the atomizing nature of social media and the way it conditions self-absorption in 800 Million Channels of Me (February 21, 2011), and the way that the consumerist ethos generates insecurity, alienation and social defeat. The only "cure" for social defeat is to love the servitude of consumption, convenience and the resulting debt-serfdom: The Last Refuge of Wall Street: Marketing To Increasingly Insolvent Consumers (December 12, 2011).

I have covered these topics in depth in my books Resistance, Revolution, Liberation: A Model for Positive Change and Survival+: Structuring Prosperity for Yourself and the Nation.

The Central State has the power via welfare (individual and corporate) and bailouts to buy complicity. Since the human mind rebels against hypocrisy and insincerity--we can all spot a phony--we subconsciously persuade ourselves of the rightness and inevitability of servitude and self-absorption.

And that is how we come to love our servitude; we persuade ourselves to believe it's acceptable and normal rather than deranged and destructive.

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Club Houzz Sauna 16

4/F Canton Plaza
1125 – 1127 Canton Road
Mong Kok
Kowloon
Hong Kong
MTR:  Mong Kok Station, Exit A 2

Tel: 3484 2770 (Staff speak good English)

NOT open 24 hours;
Open daily from 3pm to 3am
Nude Nite after 8pm  
Friday night party from 7:30pm - all private rooms locked 

Received from a reader: 

Hiya FuelMix

After I read your reviews, I went to Club Houzz sauna several times and became a big fan of the place. You were right in the things that you said about the premises and I also felt it had great potential - especially the Friday Nite parties.  

Then I took a break from the place for a couple of months and dropped in last Tuesday afternoon [17 July 2012] about 4: 30pm.  Boy! what a shock and disappointment!.......

The premises looked grubby and unclean particularly near the shower area where there is a wall with towel racks.  The wall was filthy.  Near the ceiling was some  cement that had recently been put on.  It looked awful.  Before, the shower area looked trendy and minimalist, now it looked yucky thanks to the filthy wall.

When I went into the Steam Room I was disgusted.  It was smelly.  I had never experienced this in Club Houzz before.  I was very puzzled as there were only a few people there and plenty of time to clean and disinfect the Steam Room properly.

I then walked through the Dark Area.  At first it looked clean but when I looked into the private cabins I was disappointed to see that several of them had peeling wall paper and grubby mirrors.  Also, some of the cabin lights didn't work and in one of them, the bulb had been removed and there was just a piece of glow stick cellotaped into the light !  

I was very disappointed at the shabby state of the premises.  Also, the TV volume and music volume was so loud both could be heard all over the Dark Area.  This did not happen before. 

I thought you would like to know what I found when I went there.  Apparently the management is still the same so I don't know why the premises were looking so bad.   

FuelMix says:  

Brilliant........that is the whole point of these gay sauna review series.  They are intended to be dynamic and fluid as readers send in their latest assessments.  

Club Houzz has been in business about a year and a half.  If their premises, for which FuelMix had earlier given rave reviews, are looking grubby, then customers should confront the management - even if one is paying HK$65.00 instead of HK$108.00 for entry before 5pm.  Go to their website and e-mail them.

The fact is there's no excuse for it.  If Club Houzz wants to trash itself, so be it.  But why should the customer have to pay to be a disgusted witness?  

Thanks for the update. 

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Central Escalator 17

2nd Floor, Cheung Hing Commercial Building, 
37 Cochrane Street,
Central, 
Hong Kong
MTR: Central or Hong Kong Station
 
Tel: 2581 9951 (Staff speak very good English)

Easy way to find it: above 7 Eleven and opposite Park N Shop supermarket.
Note: NOT open 24 hours
Opening Hours: 2pm - 11pm.   

Received from a reader today:

Central Escalator Pricing Policy?

Hey

..........I just got into Hong Kong and I know that at the sauna CE, there is a membership card with a letter code on it. Do you know what these codes mean? Do foreigners get in cheaper than locals? Just curious. Thanks!

FuelMix says:

The membership card policy is not consistent i.e. not everyone gets one. Guess they only give it to those who show up frequently.

As a result, the pricing policy is not consistent either.  The quoted entry price is HK$120.00 but some customers (those with membership cards?) get in cheaper.  See the post Central Escalator 16

No idea what the codes on the card mean.

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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Too Big To Fail

Man Claims " World's Largest Penis" Got Him Frisked At SFO

-----CBS San Francisco, 17 July 2012