“Namak Mandi Shinwari” (Part Twenty-Four of the Review)

On an individual level, the worst decision one can make is to take the bait from the deep state and high finance. It’s the worst decision someone can ever make. My flirtation with the deep state and high finance began when I was just 16 or 17 years old as a senior in high school, when the military called my house and offered to pay for my education if I joined the military. I decided to go to college instead and not end up maimed or killed or on the street or in any other condition a military veteran usually finds himself or herself in. And when I was in college, I was one out of just twenty students out of a student body of about 35 to 40 thousand to get invited to a CIA simulation with actual CIA agents. I got to meet actual CIA agents and they got to know me. When I was in grad school, they then put forward a friend and classmate of mine to offer me an unpaid internship at the “Institute for the Study of War.” Which I rejected for a number of reasons, one of which is that it was unpaid. Soon after grad school, I was going to have an interview with the CIA, but I decided to party in Europe and ruin the opportunity instead. After that, I assisted the right-hand man of the Afghan President and the Afghan Ambassador to the United States, but I decided to speak my mind instead and he went fleeing for his life soon after. Finally, there was an opportunity at Johns Hopkins to partake in “Strategy and Intelligence” but I decided to wrestle in the mud with everyone instead. And here we are. The moral of the story is, don’t take the bait from the deep state and high finance. As enticing and tempting as it is. It’s just a stingy rip-off behind it. A complete con job and scam. Nothing else. The government shutdown and everything else that is going on is proof of it.