I miss New York.  The summer I spent there 20 years ago remains one of the best times of my life.  It's an amazing city.

My last trip there wasn't so great, and to my own surprise NYC seemed small.  It was weird.  I wrote about it in the article NYC Drug Train & The VHS Massacre; the good times are documented in NYC the place to be, a compilation of all my journal entries from the summer of '06, with some added commentary.  I miss NYC, and will be surprised if I ever see it again.  You never know, but I will be surprised.

It blows my mind that there are people walking around, driving, joining the military, and buying alcohol legally who don't remember 9/11.  Aging is a trip.  But I am dismayed by the amount of comments on videos about NYC and Zohran Mamdani that claim that NY defied its own mandate to "never forget," that it "forgot" (9/11, presumably), and elected an Islamic mayor.  It occurs to me that significant portions of these comments might be coming from people for whom 9/11 is a purely historical event, with no personal memory of it whatsoever.  Like the JFK assassination and fake moon landing, in my case.  It also might be bots.

Whatever the case, I would like to suggest that NYC absolutely did NOT forget, and that, like 9/11, Mamdani is an inside job.

What that means, exactly, in practical terms, I'm not sure.  It's just a thought.  But the holy war has been raging in NYC for awhile.  Not only do the 5 boroughs resemble both the geography and cultural division of the Middle East, but, as I observed in the article The Proxy Hipster War of Williamsburg:

"The astute observer will notice that the practitioners of Judyism which make up the nation of Israel are surrounded by infidels on all sides and that the proxy hipster war in Williamsburg closely mirrors the proxy war against the Russians in Syria.  Manhattanoids must be diligent in repelling the invasion of hipster infidels, like the Israelites must defend themselves against the radical elements that comprise Hamas, Hezbollah, and other famous ethnic grocers.  The stability of our culture demands it."

The war has been raging in NYC for decades.  The hipster Taliban has long-since infiltrated the cultural institutions of the West; the election of Zohran Mamdani is just another step on the path toward globalization.  One of his purposes is to cause NYC to forget itself, and lose its soul.  Shariah law and old-school NYers are completely incompatible, of course.  But let's vote for him anyway, says the hipster Taliban.  And let's flood comment sections with the appearance of an unfortunate paradox which is actually totally consistent.  That way, no one will ever see the truth.

Zohran Mamdani is an inside job.