Elon Musk (mining magnate) & his other ‘illusionists’ “none of whom value anything human”
“And that the earth is one of those things, and it screams as they mine it again—for contrived currency and artificial intelligence. For replacements of human beings as the work toward global depopulation.”🥺
"Lead spread from the heartland, made in America, and when we were poisoned, we were poisoned together." One of Kendzior's best lines among what is exceptionally good writing and acute observation.
Thank you for this. I grew up within spitting distance of Schoolcraft Road, the service drive of I-96 to Detroit. There’s a county in Michigan named for him, too, and I never knew a thing about him.
He's such a strange and interesting guy. He made up names for a lot of places in Michigan -- and I mean made up out of a weird etymology he devised combining multiple languages for reasons only he understood. Some names got changed for being nonsensical, but many of the names are still there!
Now I’m even more intrigued. Thank you, again—for all your writing and warning. I’ve been a devoted reader of your books since I learned of you through Gaslit Nation. I am grateful for your generosity, scholarship, and commitment to us all.
I live in MI now, but grew up in Galena, MO and had no idea it was named for the mineral form of lead. Schoolcraft apparently noted the Galena during a trip on the James River. Sarah’s out here making connections for all of us.
No you're better because you're currently trying to fix the world and we don't need a prologue of historical context to read your work. It's topical and poignant and written as painful art.
"Things are symbols of themselves" - Allen Ginsberg. Your beautiful article made me think back to the Ginsberg obsession of my youth. His "The Fall of America" book is still amazing. Our civilization is being crushed. We need to assemble non-digital writings and hide them away in secret crevices.
beautifully written. all of it resonates. thank you.
heart-rending. "I am worn from warning. What is a warning, anyway, but a declaration of what you love and want to protect?
It's not that my heart's not in it. It's that my heart is in everything."
This is so good, I love your writing and would like to support you but I do not want to give money to Substack. Do you same another way and/or have you considered switching platforms?
"He made a powerful illusion of himself" struck me, like it was written in red ink. I always said trump was the greatest con artist the world had ever known. You saying it about his boss is alarming. It's like two cult leaders & followers joining forces.
"There is nothing I can write to derail this catastrophe that I haven’t written already. I am worn from warning. What is a warning, anyway, but a declaration of what you love and want to protect?"
Thank you, Sarah! Many of us have heeded your warnings.
Mining comes in many forms. The did the same thing to Copperhill TN.
I now worry for WNC, it has the only source for pure quartz. The hills r full of rare earth minerals. Corundum and lithium
They’ve put crypto mining warehouses in Murphy NC, the noise 24/7 is driving them nuts
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and the oligarchs are building mechanical eyes. What are algorithms but mechanical eyes, controlling everything you see, tailoring reality to a fake version of yourself, making it impossible to share a serendipitous sighting with another human being?"
"There are new miners in America now, mining yr social security # & yr privacy & yr rights & freedom. Mining the Treasury, which they will pocket. Mining institutions for the last few patriots but those resources were already scarce.
Mining Congress & coming up empty because they already bought it"
I’ve been following you since your Globe and Mail pieces and am a paid subscriber to your Substack. Just want to thank you for the work you do, and for helping me feel sane. As depressing as our reality is at present it helps to see at least some people are still willing to report the truth.
Sarah, I watched you years ago when you'd be on MSNBC on shows like Joy Reid's. And then I didn't see you on there anymore. Were they uncomfortable with your message? You tried to warn us. I've read your books. You tried to warn us.
Great read as always. I find myself visiting the past more frequently too. Memory being the final, most personal, act of defiance against the destruction of reality.
This is a beautiful piece. I learned a little more about Missouri, ironically in a way redolent of a no longer extant America save for vestiges. Given the lion's share of The Miners, I think you could have a second career as a nature writer. One could say you were born too late, but evidently not.
I told her once on Twitter that she reminds me of Annie Dillard because she writes so much about nature. Yet to this day if you mentioned Sarah Kendzior's name they'd say SARAH who. That needs to change. Sarah is one of THE BEST "non fiction horror" writers of our day.
To your point, I walked into a notable independent bookstore's new location in North Hollywood (they also have one in downtown Los Angeles + a couple more stores) and the staff was very nice and solicitous to any question, but surprisingly, it was clear they weren't familiar with the author's name!
Seriously. One would think wouldn't one. But nooooo......In the mean time SARAH KENDZIOR rings a loud bell in my head. Especially her book THEY KNEW.....I think they ALL Knew and she is such a "whistleblower" on them for lack of a better word, she been labelled a trouble maker. That's why.
“We used to live on borrowed time, but now we live on stolen time, because the oligarchs are taking that too. They are deleting our data and records and history. The final step is deleting people
No official stops it. No one explains how such distant predators got in or how to keep them out.”
“Thievery has moved beyond the concrete schemes of past centuries and into a digital void that ordinary people do not know how to navigate — other than to identify what plutocrats stole from them.
And that our country is one of those things.
And that the earth is one of those things”
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“And that the earth is one of those things, and it screams as they mine it again—for contrived currency and artificial intelligence. For replacements of human beings as the work toward global depopulation.”🥺
is pretty funny
An authentic voice in the middle of America.
"There are new miners in America now, mining your social security number and your privacy and your rights and freedom."
Such a thoughtful, heartfelt, beautiful writer, matched only by a deeper intellect.
heart-rending. "I am worn from warning. What is a warning, anyway, but a declaration of what you love and want to protect?
It's not that my heart's not in it. It's that my heart is in everything."
"He made a powerful illusion of himself" struck me, like it was written in red ink. I always said trump was the greatest con artist the world had ever known. You saying it about his boss is alarming. It's like two cult leaders & followers joining forces.
Thank you for this.
Thank you, Sarah! Many of us have heeded your warnings.
I now worry for WNC, it has the only source for pure quartz. The hills r full of rare earth minerals. Corundum and lithium
They’ve put crypto mining warehouses in Murphy NC, the noise 24/7 is driving them nuts
Mining Congress & coming up empty because they already bought it"
I especially like this photograph .. the lamp .. affixed to the brick.
For me it captures the useless pessimism of the moment.
Thank you Sarah
Is Elon an unexpected, renegade who just showed up in the Heritage Foundation's script of "How to End the World"?
https://youtu.be/gSvUqhZcbVg
No official stops it. No one explains how such distant predators got in or how to keep them out.”
And that our country is one of those things.
And that the earth is one of those things”
Gorgeous.