Monday Links

Don't have time to read all these? Try turning the TV off. It's the biggest waste of your time and the biggest purveyor of disinformation and outright lies. 


We aren't going to the stars...or the planets...or even back to the Moon. "Idiocracy" was meant to be a comedy, not a documentary.
"Because I don't know about you, but every time I try to help out a stupid person, try to prevent a young woman from majoring in something stupid, prevent a young man from going into debt, advocate fiscal discipline, or advocate freedom, I'm called a racist, a sexist, a homophobe or just plain "jerk."  And I'm getting sick of it.  I still leave one line in the water to hold out for those genuinely intelligent people who have been misled and brainwashed, but they are the rare minority.  The rest of the people are just plain stupid and arrogant on top of it.  They absolutely deserve to be enslaved.  Besides, it's what they want." (My italics)
https://captaincapitalism.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-role-stupid-people-should-play-in.html


Understand the scam. Humans are by nature, lazy and greedy. Deep-down, every one of us wants resources without having to work for them. That's not a criticism, just a statement of biological fact. A survival mechanism - firmware id you like - hardwired into every one of us from birth. Civilisation and culture channel these traits into positive, productive behaviours that benefit both the individual and the communities in which they're embedded. 

Free market Capitalism, combined with fossil-energy, is the only socio-economic arrangement in history that has enabled humans to achieve this without enslaving others. It's the only arrangement that enables more than a minority to retire - a condition where the wealth you worked for when you were able, works for you when you can't. And Western, Christian society and culture created the socio-economic conditions that allowed this arrangement to develop and flourish - rule-of-law, stable currencies, freedom of thought and expression.

Socialism only seeks to steal wealth already created by others and 'redistribute it to societys' parasites. 
"I think the true brilliance of the socialists of the world was to fool the masses into thinking they were independent-minded and not the complete tools of socialism they are.  You actually have them thinking they're smart, independent-minded, individuals, in control of their own destiny when they truly are the human batteries that power The Socialist Matrix.  And to that I tip my hat to the socialists.  That was incredibly well-played and your victims deserve precisely what you've given them."
Part 1
http://captaincapitalism.blogspot.com/2018/09/how-government-outsourced-socialism.html

Part 2
https://captaincapitalism.blogspot.com/2018/09/how-government-outsourced-socialism_24.html

This clearly illustrates the difference between the left and the non-Left.
https://captaincapitalism.blogspot.com/2018/07/how-trump-hurts-left-most.html

Do you find it ironic that one of the Socialist Lefts' biggest supporters, is a capitalist oligarch?
https://www.city-journal.org/html/connoisseur-chaos-14954.html?fbclid=IwAR3iE7dv9HvVwnU9b3L31UhyvaxxyvCrSEgtRlNR7_6hq8WusisjNHWWkQ4

Another data point, in the decline and fall of Western, Christian civilisation. The fools pushing this agenda, have no idea what will rush in to fill the vacuum. It won't be the Utopia they imagine.
http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=18250

Some activities are more resistant to convergence than others. Interestingly, the sports/activities most resistant, appear to be those requiring individual excellence against an objective, immutable standard - like the mountain. Prediction: If the Left can't converge an activity, they'll try to ban it. "All that counts in mountain biking is your skill versus the hill. There is no conceivable way in which to make it more “inclusive” for the terminally inadequate. So for now it appears to be safe from the ravages of the army of darkness. But that won’t stop them from trying and I very much expect to see future attempts to bring yet another hobby of white people to its knees. If somewhere white people are having fun by themselves then this needs to be stopped right away. Because it’s racism, don’t you know."
https://pushingrubberdownhill.com/2019/08/06/the-complete-lack-of-diversity-in-downhill-mountain-biking/

John Greer with some sobering thoughts. We won't be going to the stars. We won't be going to the planets either. We won't even be going back to the Moon. But, we won't be going back to the caves, either. The sooner we accept this, the better off we'll all be.
https://www.ecosophia.net/the-twilight-of-the-monofuture/

JHK on the mass shootings. "In a nation afflicted by fads, crazes, manias, and rages, mass murder is the jackpot for nihilists — begging the question: why does this country produce so many of them? Answer: this is exactly what you get in a culture where anything goes and nothing matters."
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/hold-the-teddy-bears-and-candles/

... and on the decline and fall of the Democratic Party. "Maybe “multiculturalism” wasn’t such a good idea after all." 
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/race-hustle/

Imagine how difficult it will be to get all that 'diversity' to agree on any coherent manifesto once they're in power. Oh wait! You don't have to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1AXReZgFxw

Because the Left cares for nothing except POWER and their grand strategy forever has been "divide-and-conquer".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcVzEJdkGEE

Mass shootings; They're the symptom, not the problem. But you can be guaranteed the Left will use these tragedies to further its' political agenda, coughcoughdisarmthepopulationcoughcough but will do nothing to address the cause. 

"The problem is not guns. The problem is not the Second Amendment, which as far as I am concerned is sacred writ. The problem is not American gun culture.

The problem is a culture in general that glorifies violence and showers attention upon people who commit terrible atrocities. The problem is the mass media, not mass shooters.

If Americans want to legislate something out of existence... they could jolly well start by banning ABCNNBCBS and the cabal of Bolsheviks who run them all." (My italics)
https://didactsreach.blogspot.com/2019/08/deadly-nerdrage.html

Some cultures are better than others. "Reality is that thing that does not go away when you stop believing in it. Biological reality is no exception. The history of man has been a struggle between people. History, geography and some good fortune made Europeans the dominant people on the globe, because they were willing and able to out-compete their rivals. That’s reality. If Europeans are unwilling to compete, then they will be overrun by their rivals. That too is reality, a realty that will not go away even if the deniers stop believing it."
http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=18276

The Left infects and corrupts everything it touches. It's a poisoned chalice.
https://captaincapitalism.blogspot.com/2019/08/revenge-of-millennials.html

And it does so by 'weaponising' every cause it can infiltrate and corrupt.

A good deal is self-evident. 

So, one has to wonder why the Left needs to use relatively unrelated socio-political movements to disguise its' agenda.  
https://www.ecosophia.net/the-next-twilight-of-environmentalism/

The "Blank Slate" theory, disproved. Two hundred years of Socialist meddling isn't going to change two million years of evolution. You can ignore reality but reality won't ignore you.  "The reflexive need for a symmetrical balance – even when there is none – is a human default. ‘Men and women are different’ is a radical statement in this era, not the least of which because it contradicts the Blank Slate religion that persists in spite of itself. When people ask me whether I believe men and women are equals and I answer ‘no’, they look as if I pulled the wings from a butterfly. I believe men and women are complements to each other and we’re better together than apart, but we are not equals. We are different, with differing motives and strategies that are part of who we are. We could achieve a far more harmonious social state by accepting and embracing these differences." (My italics)
https://therationalmale.com/2019/07/26/heirs-of-the-blank-slate/

Even the most good-natured dog will bite you, if you kick it often enough. As it turns out, this 'activist' wasn't murdered by a leftist enemy, but by a "friend" in a drunken brawl. It didn't stop the media from blaming the Lefts' favorite enemies (((white, straight males))) though. But no one should be surprised when the people leftists constantly villify and commit acts of violence against, retaliate. 
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7286265/Russian-LGBT-activist-not-murdered-anti-gay-fanatics-targeted-horror-website.html