How Famin Ambium got into everything.

November 13th, 2024.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practiced to deceive.

Sir Walter Scott.

Introduction.

This famous summary of what frequently happens to people who start telling lies is most

usually applied at the level of little boys who got it into the pantry to get into the potato chips.

It is certainly true there, of course, but we make a grave mistake when we limit it to that level.

One of the more important things we need to realize about deception is that it is something that scales.

If little lies can create the kind of web that can catch flies, it is important to note that the biggest lies can

create a kind of web that can ensnare empires and civilizations. And the great dragon was cast out,

that old serpent called the devil and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world. He was cast out into the earth,

and his angels were cast out with him. Revelation 12-9, Deceiveth the whole world. Of course, it is possible

for a line of scale. And speaking of which, if you would, I would like to write for a little bit

about feminism. And by feminism, of course, I mean the ideology that is advocated by the ardent and self-described

feminists. But I'm also seeking to include almost everyone else. The toxic mix made up of the

assumptions of all such, both the true believers and the go-alongers, is something which we may,

for the sake of convenience, call Feminumbulum. This is a noun that refers to the accumulated

consequences of all the nonsense

that has piled up in our culture since the first feminist conference in Seneca Falls, New York,

in the year of Our Lord 1848. These consequences, like so many bricks in the hold, have gotten

the whole Western world pretty much gunwls under. First, the tangle. The sexual act is a metaphor,

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