Joyanna Adams

Nobody's Opinion

Nobody Reads

I’m reading a book called Mastery, by Robert Green. And In it, he says you have to find basically what you love to do, what your good at and go all out to do it. Many know in childhood.

When I was a child, I wanted to be a brain surgion or a doctor. I’d spend hours cutting up and making fake skeletons, disecting dead fish that washed up on shore..OR..a nun. I know. I was VERY religious at 5.

But my parents discouraged me. I was expected to grow up, get married and be quiet. My brother was the sole attention getter in the family. He was …a star. My dad gave him trumpet lessons at 6, and he grew up to be a fantastic entertainer…he played trumpet..in a popular band in Chicago….so I think that’s why at 19, since there was no money to go to college, I taught myself the drums, how to sing, and like my brother became an entertainer.

Well. I did go six months to college to…and wanted to major in Philosophy. I was a big reader…I read everything everyday that I could. But…I dropped out and became a musician, not as popular as my brother but I made a living at it for years.

When my parents both had strokes, I retired from music to take care of them. It’s then that I started writing…I wrote because I simply had to. My brain was full of the political nonsense and the daily corruption I saw all around it. It was then I realized that I HAD to write. I saw that my ancestors, the Adams wrote every single day too, and when I read their words…I was home. I saw the very same thoughts that I would have in my sorry ass brain, written down word for word in their dairies.

Anyway, what’s sad, is its too late for me to have a career in writing. FIRST I’d have to really study the subject, and find the time: Second…I have way too many book in my head: I’d have a series: Nobody’s Perfect: (wow that’s a book I could fill up) Nobody Knows (another filled with obscure facts) Nobody Cares (Funny book) Nobody Wonders (yeah, I wonder alot) Anyway a series of Nobody Books, sort of in the vien of Chicken Soup for the Soul...but…in this day and age of book stores disappearing, none of them would be published. Only the very famous write and make money: Bill O’Rielly, Glenn Beck, Mark Levin…well…they can promote their own books. And even then, try to find them in the local book stores…conservatives are not welcomed.

I have to laugh. (Not snap…) Uh… little to late there honey.

So Mr. Greene says you have to find your calling when you are young. I wrote this to advise parents to try to find the thing your kids really love, and encourage them to go for it.

And if one is quiet…talk to them. You might find out what they REALLY want to do.

I’m still reading. And I will probably when I find the time, write those books…if only to get it out of my head.

If any of my readers know what they wanted to do as kid, please comment. I’d love to hear it.

(thanks for reading.)

October 25, 2024 Posted by | Uncategorized | , , , , | 2 Comments

Will Our Libraries Disappear?

Nobody’s Opinion

Here’s a topic nobody seemed to have notice: During the Obama administration, here in St. Louis, ALL the libraires were completely transformed into internet hubs. I ought to know, all the libraries were selling all their books for 10 cents on the dollar. I spent a whole summer collecting books on sale.

Now, don’t get wrong, the internet is wonderful. As Elon Musk has pointed out, you can learn ANYTHING on the internet. Get any book you want, on the internet.

But the books disappeared. On the shelves were mostly junk stuff: Basketball hero’s and black history, and now LGBQ books for the kids. Good luck trying to find a classic like Huckleberry Finn.

And here’s what I fear: If every book is on the internet, what’s to keep them from rewriting, or censoring, or even worst, just disappearing, all the novels they DON’T want you to read? Off the internet?

Like George’s Orwell’s 1984.

Couldn’t happen?

I think that’s the long-term plan. Control what the people read. Make the books hard to get.

I remember during the Clinton administration, I tried to get a book about their corruption.

I was 90 on the waiting list. The library only had ONE copy. It’s a big city and county, and that’s all they could afford?

I waited a year, and finally just bought the book. And that was another problem

Many of the bookstores during the last decade have closed down. Only a very few are left. And when you walk in the store, you only see the new releases by mostly the left leaning authors.

BUT…turn on your TV and ALL the reporters and commentators love to sit with their libraries at their backs, as if saying “Look how smart I am!”

My friend who worked in TV, said some of those people PAY someone to put them there.

So, will books go into the dustbin of history?

Someday, books will be worth a fortune.

Ask yourself: Do you trust the library associations?

Maybe Elon Musk will have to take over our libraries and try to preserve them. Or not. He’s got enough on his plate.

But I do wish, somebody would…preserve them..or they will end up as fuel for the winter fire, once the grid starts being controlled or worse yet, destroyed.

One cold winter, and everybody will be running to the libraries for fuel.

Maybe I’m being too pessimistic about the internet. But then again…I am still collecting books.

JOHN ADAMS LIBRARY

March 25, 2024 Posted by | Uncategorized | , , , , | 2 Comments

Henry Adams Describes Elon Musk Perfectly

Nobody Remembers

I have missed reading. Lately, I’ve been preoccupied with other endeavors, and last night I finally got to “read.” I’ve been obsessively reading books since I learned how to read, which took some patient training from my second-grade teacher, bless her heart. She spent an hour with me and once I got WHY I was so far behind, (dyslexia) I never stopped reading. She cured my confusion in one hour.

I was the Forest Gump of never having a day go by without running, I didn’t let a day go by without reading a book…or 8. I will literally go numb if I don’t read something that day.

And I read the words of my distant ancestors a lot. The Adams came over on the boat with Thomas Hooker from Braintree, Wales, and founded Braintree, Massachusetts. In the early 1600’s.

John Adams

 I find comfort in their thoughts, because they seem so very close to my own. And last night I was reading The Education of Henry Adams.  Henry was the son of Charles Francis Adams, who was the son of John Quincy Adams, (Preisdent) who was the of John Adams. (President) Sam Adams a distant cousin. (Starter of the Revolution)

Sam Adams

They were all part of our founding.

John Quincy Adams

Charles Francis Adams

Henry Adams went on to become a journalists and historian. He was cantankerous, biting, critical, much like Tucker Carlson of our time. While reading in Wiki, I came upon this:

Henry Adams

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Henry “We are in the hands of the Jews”, Adams lamented. “They can do what they please with our values.” He advised against investment except in the form of gold locked in a safe deposit box. “There you have no risk but the burglar. In any other form you have the burglar, the Jew, the Czar, the socialist, and, above all, the total irremediable, radical rottenness of our whole social, industrial, financial and political system.”

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While you might be surprised at the anti-Semitics, you can’t deny that not much has changed.  

Here he writes of what we call the NEOCONS of today:

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In his 1909 manuscript The Rule of Phase Applied to History, Adams attempted to use Maxwell’s demon as a historical metaphor, though he seems to have misunderstood and misapplied the principle.[44] Adams interpreted history as a process moving towards “equilibrium”, but he saw militaristic nations (he felt Germany pre-eminent in this class) as tending to reverse this process, a “Maxwell’s Demon of history.”

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His views on population

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In 1910, Adams printed and distributed to university libraries and history professors the small volume A Letter to American Teachers of History proposing a “theory of history” based on the second law of thermodynamics and the principle of entropy.[42][43] This, essentially, states that all energy dissipates, order becomes disorder, and the earth will eventually become uninhabitable. (Elon?)  In short, he applied the physics of dynamical systems of Rudolf Clausius, Hermann von Helmholtz, and William Thomson to the modeling of human history.

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After the war was over, Henry went to the White House to meet President Grant. He believed Grant to be pre-intellectual, archaic, and would have seems so even to the cave dwellers.

But the one-page last night in his book, which stuck with me was this one…

Quote:

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“In time one came to recognize the type in other men, with differences and variations, as normal: men whose energies were the greater, the less they wasted on thought: men who sprang from the soil to power: apt to be distrustful of themselves and of others: shy: jealous: sometimes vindictive, more or less dull in outward appearance: always needing stimulants, but for whom action was the highest stimulant, –the instinct of fight. Such men were forces of nature, energies of the prime like the Pteraspis, but they made short work of scholars. They had commanded thousands of such and saw no more in them than in others. The fact was certain: it crushed arguments and intellect at once.”

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Tell me, is that not a good description of our very own Tony Stark: Elon Musk?

Yeah…Henry had Elon pitched perfectly, and like this descendant, now in 2024, I’d say:

Henry, you still got it! And this Nobody Wonders: What Elon would think of Henry’s description?

February 18, 2024 Posted by | Uncategorized | , , , , | Leave a comment