FB has blocked my post because it "goes against our community standards on spam".
So here is the article and my comments:
A good summary of what the Left is doing to our society: "When conquering armies of the ancient world subdued an enemy, they often defaced the conquered tribe’s symbols – destroyed the statues, burned the temples, desecrated anything sacred; both Muslim and Christian conquerors were famous for this. Same thing here. The new regime is burning the cultural bridges so you can’t go back to the better world left behind, the one not ruled by them." I consider "Babylon 5" a far better series than "Star Trek". I think I understand why; B5 came and went before it could be infested and defaced by the SJWs.
Friday, May 1, 2020
Monday, April 20, 2020
The Decline Continues
We're living in a declining civilization and the slope of that decline is getting steeper. (In case you're wondering, I put the high-water mark of Industrial Civilisation at fifty one years ago, on July 20th, 1969, to be exact.) Eventually that slope, gentle at first, becomes a cliff. Just like the top of Ayres Rock. The collapse cliff is perilously near.
Dmitri Orlov opines that collapse occurs in five stages. 1 - Financial. 2 - Commercial. 3 - Political. 4 - Social. and 5 - Cultural.
I'm now convinced that the world has already passed Stage One - financial collapse. I think that event occurred in 2008; Subtract all the 'wealth' generated in the financial sectors of the worlds' industrial economies from their respective GDPs and you'll find that the physical economies of the OECD - where the production and distribution of real, tangible goods and services occurs - have been in freefall since 2005. The global financial system was only saved from collapse by converting it into a gargantuan Ponzi scheme, financed with trillions of Dollars of borrowed money.
But that was only a temporary fix.
For more than a decade now, the real economy has been rotting away behind a facade of borrowed money. Like all Ponzi schemes, those who invest earliest, get rich, while those in last, end up holding the bag. The 'elites' of our society have convinced everyone else that the financial system is the wealth-producing engine of the economy. But it isn't. True wealth is (the production of) real, tangible goods and services. The financial sector simply facilitates (and regulates) this process.
Coincidentally, 2005 is the same year that the global production of 'conventional' Crude Oil peaked. You see, the production of real, tangible goods and services is directly proportional to (and dependent upon) the availability of energy and raw materials. This is the real reason why the standard of living of most working-class people in the OECD has been declining since the nineteen seventies, while the financial markets seem to soar forever skywards. The 'inconvenient truth' behind the rosy energy outlook over the last fifteen years, is that the energy profit (aka energy return on energy invested or EROEI) has been declining steadily. Fifty years ago, it took one barrel of energy (equivalent) to extract one hundred barrels of oil. That was a 99% profit that could be (and was) used for all other economic activity in the industrialised world. That ratio now stands at about one to seven. In other words, it now takes one barrel of oil (energy equivalent) to extract seven barrels of oil. The total amount of oil extracted is irrelevant. Since 2005, the real economy has been forced to operate on an energy supply that's been steadily increasing in price relative to everything else. Inflation hides this inconvenient fact. The problem is that most of the worlds' industrial infrastructure is optimised to run on energy that's both plentiful and CHEAP.
And now, the actual quantity of oil that is being produced is beginning to decline as "unconventional" sources - deep-water, fracking, tar-sands etc - dry up.
That's the biggest Pachyderm in the room.
So, with the global financial system resembling nothing as much as a gargantuan confidence-trick, having abandoned all connections to objective reality, all it may take to trigger a failure, is a sneeze. Enter the Wuhan Flu.
The "lockdown' may serve to trigger Stage Two - Commercial Collapse - of Orlov's Five Stages. If governments keep their economies shut-down for too long, vast numbers of businesses will fail. Banks must keep money flowing as without it, the grand Ponzi scheme will collapse. Without a Financial system to enable payments, settlements and capital allocation, the real economy of goods and services freezes up. Every day the lockdown continues, increases the odds that Stage Two will occur.
Of course, governments might find a way to kick the can down the road for a while longer. They'll try regardless, because addressing the root-cause of this crisis essentially involves redeeming or forgiving a truly astronomical amount of debt, and the people who will be most impacted by that policy are societys' elites. I think the odds of that happening are comparable to the odds of a butterfly surviving a trip through an operating blast-furnace.
The more likely alternative then, is a massive economic dislocation.
What form that dislocation will take, is a matter of debate, but if history is any guide, what can be predicted is that everyone below the elites will end up a LOT poorer than they are now. It doesn't matter much to a population reduced to destitution, whether the mechanism that got them into that state was an inflationary recession or a deflationary depression. What does matter is that all trust in (and respect for) societies' institutions - government, universities, Police, media, the banks etc will be shattered. And once that trust is gone, you're at Stage Three - political collapse. This is the fertile soil in which radical ideologies germinate and grow. It's a powder-keg that can explode into revolution.
Watching the Democrats in the U.S. behaving like a proverbial wrecking-ball in the economic and political spaces, you can be forgiven for concluding that this is their grand strategy to win power. This once, history is on their side; Lennin did it in 1917. Mussolini did it in 1923. Hitler did it in 1932. The results weren't pretty, which explains why the Left is so 'enthusiastic' about revising or erasing history.
Of course, the alternative could be that present governments use this pandemic as an excuse to impose a more authoritarian rule, discarding the polite fiction that is 'democracy' altogether. This would work, if the people were convinced that their rulers were acting in their best interests and for the benefit of the country and not just the elite. This strategy has proved successful in places like Singapore but that's because their government is authoritarian, not totalitarian and is NOT parasitic. Ordinary people there have the (economic) freedom to prosper. Beyond a reasonable set of rules that apply to everyone equally, and are designed to facilitate people to live together and interact peacefully, the government stays out of its peoples' lives and pockets.
However, the Australian government is ideologically of the Left. Everyone in politics identifies our form of government as a "Liberal Democracy". Liberalism is a euphemism for Socialism. Socialism in all forms, is parasitic. They prey on the productive, to support the unproductive, with themselves at the top of that list. Once you account for Income Tax, GST and all the other taxes and fees that all three tiers of government impose, Australians work for six months out of every year to support the state. The most signifigant obstacles to establishing and running a business are all created by government. I've yet to meet a regulation that costs you nothing to comply with.
ALL signifigant Australian political parties are left of centre. Only the distance varies. And, they all march Left, ideologically, over time. Todays Liberal Party would be indistinguishable from the Communists, to someone in Robert Menzies' cabinet. The so-called 'Conservatives' haven't conserved anything in the last fifty years. They've simply consolidated the gains made by the extreme Left. So it's a fair bet that, if they had the opportunity, our existing parties would impose a parasitic totalitarian government that served the interests of the elite, only. Just watch how the authorities in Victoria and Queensland (both Labor state governments) are behaving towards their citizens in the present emergency.
What about the possibility of revolution? That's going to vary from country to country, depending on a lot of factors - culture, degree of indoctrination, how severe the deprivations are and so-on. One very important factor will be whether or not the people possess the means to revolt. That means guns. It's no accident that once it gains power, the first priority of every Socialist state is to disarm its citizens. If you can find an exception to this rule, please let me know. Revolution here in Australia? I doubt it. Australians are too fat, too lazy, too well off, too indoctrinated and too mistrustful of each other to organise a revolt.
A country, not a nation, inhabited by sheep.
Dmitri Orlov opines that collapse occurs in five stages. 1 - Financial. 2 - Commercial. 3 - Political. 4 - Social. and 5 - Cultural.
I'm now convinced that the world has already passed Stage One - financial collapse. I think that event occurred in 2008; Subtract all the 'wealth' generated in the financial sectors of the worlds' industrial economies from their respective GDPs and you'll find that the physical economies of the OECD - where the production and distribution of real, tangible goods and services occurs - have been in freefall since 2005. The global financial system was only saved from collapse by converting it into a gargantuan Ponzi scheme, financed with trillions of Dollars of borrowed money.
But that was only a temporary fix.
For more than a decade now, the real economy has been rotting away behind a facade of borrowed money. Like all Ponzi schemes, those who invest earliest, get rich, while those in last, end up holding the bag. The 'elites' of our society have convinced everyone else that the financial system is the wealth-producing engine of the economy. But it isn't. True wealth is (the production of) real, tangible goods and services. The financial sector simply facilitates (and regulates) this process.
Coincidentally, 2005 is the same year that the global production of 'conventional' Crude Oil peaked. You see, the production of real, tangible goods and services is directly proportional to (and dependent upon) the availability of energy and raw materials. This is the real reason why the standard of living of most working-class people in the OECD has been declining since the nineteen seventies, while the financial markets seem to soar forever skywards. The 'inconvenient truth' behind the rosy energy outlook over the last fifteen years, is that the energy profit (aka energy return on energy invested or EROEI) has been declining steadily. Fifty years ago, it took one barrel of energy (equivalent) to extract one hundred barrels of oil. That was a 99% profit that could be (and was) used for all other economic activity in the industrialised world. That ratio now stands at about one to seven. In other words, it now takes one barrel of oil (energy equivalent) to extract seven barrels of oil. The total amount of oil extracted is irrelevant. Since 2005, the real economy has been forced to operate on an energy supply that's been steadily increasing in price relative to everything else. Inflation hides this inconvenient fact. The problem is that most of the worlds' industrial infrastructure is optimised to run on energy that's both plentiful and CHEAP.
And now, the actual quantity of oil that is being produced is beginning to decline as "unconventional" sources - deep-water, fracking, tar-sands etc - dry up.
That's the biggest Pachyderm in the room.
So, with the global financial system resembling nothing as much as a gargantuan confidence-trick, having abandoned all connections to objective reality, all it may take to trigger a failure, is a sneeze. Enter the Wuhan Flu.
The "lockdown' may serve to trigger Stage Two - Commercial Collapse - of Orlov's Five Stages. If governments keep their economies shut-down for too long, vast numbers of businesses will fail. Banks must keep money flowing as without it, the grand Ponzi scheme will collapse. Without a Financial system to enable payments, settlements and capital allocation, the real economy of goods and services freezes up. Every day the lockdown continues, increases the odds that Stage Two will occur.
Of course, governments might find a way to kick the can down the road for a while longer. They'll try regardless, because addressing the root-cause of this crisis essentially involves redeeming or forgiving a truly astronomical amount of debt, and the people who will be most impacted by that policy are societys' elites. I think the odds of that happening are comparable to the odds of a butterfly surviving a trip through an operating blast-furnace.
The more likely alternative then, is a massive economic dislocation.
What form that dislocation will take, is a matter of debate, but if history is any guide, what can be predicted is that everyone below the elites will end up a LOT poorer than they are now. It doesn't matter much to a population reduced to destitution, whether the mechanism that got them into that state was an inflationary recession or a deflationary depression. What does matter is that all trust in (and respect for) societies' institutions - government, universities, Police, media, the banks etc will be shattered. And once that trust is gone, you're at Stage Three - political collapse. This is the fertile soil in which radical ideologies germinate and grow. It's a powder-keg that can explode into revolution.
Watching the Democrats in the U.S. behaving like a proverbial wrecking-ball in the economic and political spaces, you can be forgiven for concluding that this is their grand strategy to win power. This once, history is on their side; Lennin did it in 1917. Mussolini did it in 1923. Hitler did it in 1932. The results weren't pretty, which explains why the Left is so 'enthusiastic' about revising or erasing history.
Of course, the alternative could be that present governments use this pandemic as an excuse to impose a more authoritarian rule, discarding the polite fiction that is 'democracy' altogether. This would work, if the people were convinced that their rulers were acting in their best interests and for the benefit of the country and not just the elite. This strategy has proved successful in places like Singapore but that's because their government is authoritarian, not totalitarian and is NOT parasitic. Ordinary people there have the (economic) freedom to prosper. Beyond a reasonable set of rules that apply to everyone equally, and are designed to facilitate people to live together and interact peacefully, the government stays out of its peoples' lives and pockets.
However, the Australian government is ideologically of the Left. Everyone in politics identifies our form of government as a "Liberal Democracy". Liberalism is a euphemism for Socialism. Socialism in all forms, is parasitic. They prey on the productive, to support the unproductive, with themselves at the top of that list. Once you account for Income Tax, GST and all the other taxes and fees that all three tiers of government impose, Australians work for six months out of every year to support the state. The most signifigant obstacles to establishing and running a business are all created by government. I've yet to meet a regulation that costs you nothing to comply with.
ALL signifigant Australian political parties are left of centre. Only the distance varies. And, they all march Left, ideologically, over time. Todays Liberal Party would be indistinguishable from the Communists, to someone in Robert Menzies' cabinet. The so-called 'Conservatives' haven't conserved anything in the last fifty years. They've simply consolidated the gains made by the extreme Left. So it's a fair bet that, if they had the opportunity, our existing parties would impose a parasitic totalitarian government that served the interests of the elite, only. Just watch how the authorities in Victoria and Queensland (both Labor state governments) are behaving towards their citizens in the present emergency.
What about the possibility of revolution? That's going to vary from country to country, depending on a lot of factors - culture, degree of indoctrination, how severe the deprivations are and so-on. One very important factor will be whether or not the people possess the means to revolt. That means guns. It's no accident that once it gains power, the first priority of every Socialist state is to disarm its citizens. If you can find an exception to this rule, please let me know. Revolution here in Australia? I doubt it. Australians are too fat, too lazy, too well off, too indoctrinated and too mistrustful of each other to organise a revolt.
A country, not a nation, inhabited by sheep.
Monday, December 23, 2019
Climate Emergency Scam
If it looks like a scam, sounds like a scam, acts like a scam, it probably is a scam. The so-called "climate emergency" ticks all those boxes.
I see it like this: The (global) climate is in a constant state of flux. It always has been and always will be. Nothing we naked apes can do will change that reality, even slightly. What our (supposed) intelligence does allow us to do, is adapt to the changes in our environment or adapt our environment to better suit or needs and tastes. The prime example of this is Industrial civilisation, which gave humanity a once-in-history opportunity to ignore the climate for roughly three hundred years.
All thanks to the bonanza of fossil energy.
All thanks to the bonanza of fossil energy.
To use a well-worn metaphor, Industrial Civilisation is like the proverbial ocean liner that has struck the proverbial iceberg. The iceberg being the non-renewable nature of fossil energy. As long as the Coal held out, the pumps could expell the water as fast as it came in. Early on, when the leaks were small and the Coal bunkers full, the power plant could produce more than enough energy to meet the demands of the pumps and all the other systems. But now the Coal is almost gone and the need for power has only increased, the engines can no longer keep up with demand.
Everyone on-board believes the lifestyle the ship provides is normal. It's the only thing they or anyone they know has ever experienced. And the first-class passengers and officers want to keep it this way.
The first-class passengers aren't concerned about water in the hold. They've become used to lights and all the other luxuries. Since they're the ship's owners, they can tell the crew what they want, and expect to get it. So the pumps get triaged and the water level in the hull is rising. The first class passengers are concerned that these rising waters might adversely affect the crew, or the second and third class passengers in steerage. But only because this may cause unrest and they don't want their boat rocked (at least not in that way).
So, they've employed a scammer to tell the second and third class passengers - the ones in steerage - that the the ship is is not sinking, just taking on water. This is because it's being weighed down by all their money and that the pumps can't keep up because they're using too much light and heat. They can address the problem if they turn off their lights and heat, eat cold meals and load all their money into a lifeboat which the scammer will generously volunteer to row away. The first class passengers know the ship is sinking and plan to continue enjoying all the luxuries the ship can provide before they step aboard their own (luxurious) private lifeboats, as the ship's deck sinks level with them.
There are, of course, some passengers and crewmen, who are getting worried that the ship might actually be sinking. The scammer has convinced a majority of these people that even if this is true, building masts and sails will provide the power needed to keep the pumps working and the lights and heat on and that life can continue as normal. But a minority are pointing out that the ship was designed to run on Coal exclusively and sails can't provide even a fraction of the energy the machinery requires. It would need to be completely re-designed and rebuilt as a sailing vessel and the rescources needed to do that have all been used to build the ship as-is. They also point out that the're aren't enough lifeboats for all the passengers and crew and everyone needs to be building liferafts from the remaing available rescources.
The ones who favor sails are tolerated (even encouraged) by the officers and first-class passengers as they're all wind (if you'll excuse the pun) and are angry at the people advocating liferafts because it disrupts their comforting belief that everything is (or can be) OK. Angry enough to support the scammer and ship's officers to shout them down and lock them up in the Brig.
Does this sound familiar? As I said, if it looks like a scam...
Monday, August 26, 2019
Monday Links 26th August
FB loves diversity. As long as it's anything but opinion.
What can I say? If recycling made any kind of economic sense, it'd be profitable and people would be making a living from it. Instead, it's just a "subsidy-dumpster" creating make-work for societys' parasites.
https://pushingrubberdownhill.com/2019/08/21/the-recycling-scam-exposed/
The wholly preventable disaster that is renewable energy rolls on:
http://catallaxyfiles.com/2019/08/22/roundup-august-22/
Democracy is far from perfect. But it's still far better for more people than all the alternatives. This is why every 'centrally planned' economy and 'utopian dream' in history has failed. To succeed, a society and economy has to be built on the reality of the human condition.
https://www.ecosophia.net/the-dream-of-a-managed-society/
Actually, a better way to implement a debt Jubilee is to gift every registered taxpayer $300k (that being the mean debt across the population) with the stipulation that it must be used to pay off debt. The recipients can spend whatever is left over on whatever they like. Some will be left with a reduced debt, some with no debt, some with a modest windfall and a few will get a large bonus.
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2019/08/debt-jubilee-step-one.html
Staked In The Heart doesn't post often, but quality over quantity. Like every other 'cause', Environmentalism is a leftist stalking horse, disguising yet another attempt to transfer wealth from societys' producers to societys' parasites. It works, but only until they run out of other peoples' money. Taking the wealth people produce without compensation, for whatever reason, is called slavery.
http://stakedintheheart.com/2019/08/23/everything-wrong-with-bernie-sanders-crazy-green-new-deal/
Here's what the Green New Deal is a gateway to:
http://stakedintheheart.com/2018/09/20/12-reasons-why-communism-sucks/
The wholly preventable disaster that is renewable energy rolls on:
http://catallaxyfiles.com/2019/08/22/roundup-august-22/
Democracy is far from perfect. But it's still far better for more people than all the alternatives. This is why every 'centrally planned' economy and 'utopian dream' in history has failed. To succeed, a society and economy has to be built on the reality of the human condition.
https://www.ecosophia.net/the-dream-of-a-managed-society/
Actually, a better way to implement a debt Jubilee is to gift every registered taxpayer $300k (that being the mean debt across the population) with the stipulation that it must be used to pay off debt. The recipients can spend whatever is left over on whatever they like. Some will be left with a reduced debt, some with no debt, some with a modest windfall and a few will get a large bonus.
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2019/08/debt-jubilee-step-one.html
Staked In The Heart doesn't post often, but quality over quantity. Like every other 'cause', Environmentalism is a leftist stalking horse, disguising yet another attempt to transfer wealth from societys' producers to societys' parasites. It works, but only until they run out of other peoples' money. Taking the wealth people produce without compensation, for whatever reason, is called slavery.
http://stakedintheheart.com/2019/08/23/everything-wrong-with-bernie-sanders-crazy-green-new-deal/
Here's what the Green New Deal is a gateway to:
http://stakedintheheart.com/2018/09/20/12-reasons-why-communism-sucks/
Monday, August 19, 2019
Monday Links
Trawling the Interwebs to find thoughtful essays on important topics. There are always two sides in every debate. These represent the side that FB et-al don't want you to see.
A quiet week.
Culture is downstream from race. "Every society is under threat from monsters, often ones they created or allowed to develop in their ranks. The people who survive are those who figure it out and either find a hero to slay the monster or do the job themselves."
http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=18328
You don't even get a say in who comes here, anymore.
https://pushingrubberdownhill.com/2019/08/15/the-great-australian-replacement/
There's more to this story than the media wanted to report.
https://pushingrubberdownhill.com/2019/08/17/youre-not-a-sex-worker-youre-a-whore/
There are two important points the media ignored in this (preventable) tragedy.
One - The victim wasn't some 'innocent'. Ms Dunn wasn't prostituting herself to pay her way through uni. She was funding a lifestyle.
Two - In all probability, Ms Dunn would be alive today, if she'd been able to defend herself effectively. So where's the feminist outrage?
The media never lets a good tragedy go to waste, but in this case, no guns were involved so there's nothing for them to hang their narrative on. therefore, the story gets the "memory-hole" treatment.
Once again, understanding how the scam works, will help those willing to learn how to navigate the coming storm. The biggest part of the scam, is the idea, instilled from kindergarten onwards, that money fulfills three roles - a medium of exchange, a measure of (comparative) worth and a store of value. It's this last role that's false.
Money is the ultimate intermediary. Change the way money works, and the whole world will change to accommodate it. This is why people like Baron Rothchild say "Give me control of a countrys' money and I care not who governs it."
http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=18332
Sadly, most people will simply go along with the scam, because that's the path of least resistance.
https://didactsreach.blogspot.com/2019/08/domain-query-do-electric-sheep-dream-of.html
A quiet week.
Culture is downstream from race. "Every society is under threat from monsters, often ones they created or allowed to develop in their ranks. The people who survive are those who figure it out and either find a hero to slay the monster or do the job themselves."
http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=18328
You don't even get a say in who comes here, anymore.
https://pushingrubberdownhill.com/2019/08/15/the-great-australian-replacement/
There's more to this story than the media wanted to report.
https://pushingrubberdownhill.com/2019/08/17/youre-not-a-sex-worker-youre-a-whore/
There are two important points the media ignored in this (preventable) tragedy.
One - The victim wasn't some 'innocent'. Ms Dunn wasn't prostituting herself to pay her way through uni. She was funding a lifestyle.
Two - In all probability, Ms Dunn would be alive today, if she'd been able to defend herself effectively. So where's the feminist outrage?
The media never lets a good tragedy go to waste, but in this case, no guns were involved so there's nothing for them to hang their narrative on. therefore, the story gets the "memory-hole" treatment.
Once again, understanding how the scam works, will help those willing to learn how to navigate the coming storm. The biggest part of the scam, is the idea, instilled from kindergarten onwards, that money fulfills three roles - a medium of exchange, a measure of (comparative) worth and a store of value. It's this last role that's false.
Money is the ultimate intermediary. Change the way money works, and the whole world will change to accommodate it. This is why people like Baron Rothchild say "Give me control of a countrys' money and I care not who governs it."
http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=18332
Sadly, most people will simply go along with the scam, because that's the path of least resistance.
https://didactsreach.blogspot.com/2019/08/domain-query-do-electric-sheep-dream-of.html
Sunday, August 11, 2019
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
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
Monday, August 5, 2019
Monday links too incorrect for FB
Another Monday collection of essays too politically incorrect for the FB censors
I need to put all links to https://didactsreach.blogspot.com here, because FB blocks all links to that blog. That makes it worth reading.
The lunatics are running the saylum...
"... You have to draw a line somewhere, friends. And this loathsome piece of shit is as good a point as any in which to begin." That description also fits the people people who support and encourage him and all the other freaks. It occurs to me, that these freaks deliberately target people who have moral or religious reasons not to do business with them. Maybe this could be grounds for counter-suits for deliberate, targeted intimidation?
https://pushingrubberdownhill.com/2019/07/30/giving-power-to-the-deviants/
#mediabias Notice how this article carefully avoids identifying the ethnicity or religious affiliation of the attackers and is worded to lead the reader to conclude that the attackers are native Frenchmen, when it's all to obvious who the offenders really are.
https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/07/france-gay-couple-hospitalized-after-being-beaten-by-a-mob-of-20/
Even the poorest, most backward nations understand the importance of protecting their borders.
https://didactsreach.blogspot.com/2019/08/a-hard-lesson-from-dirt-world.html
From this essay; Twelve ALTERNATIVE rules for life:
https://didactsreach.blogspot.com/2019/06/domain-query-insufficiency-inequation.html
Socialism doesn't work. Socialism never worked. Socialism will never work.
https://captaincapitalism.blogspot.com/2019/07/price-controls-do-not-compensate-for.html
I need to put all links to https://didactsreach.blogspot.com here, because FB blocks all links to that blog. That makes it worth reading.
The lunatics are running the saylum...
"... You have to draw a line somewhere, friends. And this loathsome piece of shit is as good a point as any in which to begin." That description also fits the people people who support and encourage him and all the other freaks. It occurs to me, that these freaks deliberately target people who have moral or religious reasons not to do business with them. Maybe this could be grounds for counter-suits for deliberate, targeted intimidation?
https://pushingrubberdownhill.com/2019/07/30/giving-power-to-the-deviants/
#mediabias Notice how this article carefully avoids identifying the ethnicity or religious affiliation of the attackers and is worded to lead the reader to conclude that the attackers are native Frenchmen, when it's all to obvious who the offenders really are.
https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/07/france-gay-couple-hospitalized-after-being-beaten-by-a-mob-of-20/
Even the poorest, most backward nations understand the importance of protecting their borders.
https://didactsreach.blogspot.com/2019/08/a-hard-lesson-from-dirt-world.html
From this essay; Twelve ALTERNATIVE rules for life:
- Embrace the iron. Lifting weights will not only help you stand up straight, it will make you stronger, healthier, and more confident. The iron teaches the weak to be strong and it teaches the strong to be humble.
- Take the wheel. You are the ultimate architect of your own decisions and actions. Even if you were dealt a bad card by life, even if your genetics are inferior, your upbringing was terrible, and your instincts are suboptimal, you are the only one who can improve yourself. You are driving and only you can determine the destination.
- Be the friend that you want to have. Smiles are contagious. Loyalty inspires loyalty. Stand by those who stand by you. Give every friend who fails you a second chance. Only abandon those who have repeatedly proven they cannot be trusted and do not wish you well.
- Envision perfection and pursue excellence. You will never achieve perfection. But if you envision it and you strive for it, you may well achieve success, and perhaps even excellence.
- Put a ring on it. Marriage is the manifestation of love. Children are the manifestation of hope. Raising a family to serve as the foundation of future generations is how Man rebels against an uncaring universe, a fallen world, and the spirits of despair and destruction. Yes, there are real risks, especially in the current social and legal environment. But they are well worth taking nevertheless.
- Set your face against evil. You will encounter evil within and evil without on a daily basis. Stand against all of it, without fear, without hesitation, and without remorse. And when you fail, when you give into temptation, when you are defeated, regroup, repent, and rise again.
- Do what is right. Learn to listen to the still, small voice of conscience. Do what you know to be right, not what you can rationalize, justify, or excuse. If you have to talk yourself into something, then you probably already know in your heart of hearts that you are doing the wrong thing.
- Tell the truth in kindness. It is too hard and too exhausting to spend all your mental energies trying to keep track of an ever-growing multitude of exaggerations, false narratives, self-serving spins, and outright lies. Just tell the truth, as you best understand it, without taking pride in it or using it to hurt others.
- Learn the easy way. You will always encounter those who are stronger, smarter, and more successful than you are. Rather than envying them or attempting to tear them down to make yourself feel better, do your best to learn from them and apply those lessons to your own life. It is considerably easier and more efficient to learn from the mistakes of others than it is to make all of those same mistakes yourself.
- Believe the mirror. The most reliably self-destructive mistake you can make is to lie to yourself about who, what, and where you are, because doing so precludes any real self-improvement. Be ruthless with your self-assessments, without wallowing in self-pity or despair.
- Get back on the horse. Perseverance is one of the most important skills a man can develop. There is absolutely no substitute for the confidence and the courage that comes from the certain knowledge that you will get up again after an opponent, or life, knocks you down.
- Find a best friend. Dogs teach us many things, perhaps the most important of which is what unconditional love is. No matter how rich and successful a man may be, there is no life that the addition of a dog would not considerably improve. And yes, all dogs go to Heaven, obviously, because Heaven would not be paradise without them.
https://didactsreach.blogspot.com/2019/06/domain-query-insufficiency-inequation.html
Socialism doesn't work. Socialism never worked. Socialism will never work.
https://captaincapitalism.blogspot.com/2019/07/price-controls-do-not-compensate-for.html
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