Millennial Woes

2022-08-27 16:00:11 A disturbing essay by @JimGoad about everyone's favourite "Space Jew", Yuval Noah Harari:

https://t.me/countercurrents/2994 Open / Comment

2022-08-27 13:59:59 He spotted a dollar bill on the pavement three blocks away. Open / Comment

2022-08-27 12:01:49 They're selling that Zelensky look at Target. Open / Comment

2022-08-26 23:59:59 An excellent petition text …
Question: is free expression of art and theatre worth preserving or should this show be axed?
https://citizengo.org/en-gb/ot/208854-tell-globe-theatre-joan-arc-was-woman? Open / Comment

2022-08-26 16:00:00 This tweet by Ben Shapiro is causing a bit of a stir.

It is the standard Republican line about university: everyone should stand on their own two feet, society shouldn't have systems to support people, people shouldn't expect others to pay their debts, etc. Implicit in all of this is the assumption that higher education is purely training for employment, or else is mere indulgence.

I hate all of this.

I think a sensible society understands that a lot of what could be taught at university (namely, the humanities) has little direct connection with the economy, but that it is worthwhile anyway. Yes, a good society values philosophy and wants people trained in it, not in their own time by reading web pages, but by the best and most learned minds in the country. The same goes for history, literature, theology, art history, etc. A society that does not value these things is really just a Walmart with pretensions.

Of course, this education should be limited to that small fraction of the public who can handle it, so it isn't a huge deal financially. The vast majority of people should not go to university, but the few who do, should do so for free because it is paid for by a benevolent state which values culture and civilisation above the precious GDP. There should not be a crap university every 20 miles; there should be a clutch of great institutions that give pride to the whole nation.

I cannot believe that funding Cambridge, Oxford, Durham, St Andrew's and Edinburgh universities would be a huge burden to the British economy. Meantime, the benefits in cultural health would be massive.

What's more, STEM degrees could be partly funded by the companies which benefit from the resulting graduates. Maybe similar arrangements could help fund the humanities too.

And Ben Shapiro should be in Israel, telling them to be more economically efficient and to stop relying on others. The line he is pushing among Americans is one that will make them cultureless consumers, rootless and rudderless. Open / Comment

2022-08-26 14:08:02 So, living in Europe, I guess I get to soon experience first hand and physically, the onset of the physical decline of this gay empire, as it descends into poverty, chaos, and petty wars. Surrounded by the clueless desperate, who were too stupid to see it coming and too animalistic and cowardly to stand up to its precedents. Now finally activated, as I predicted, by the price of bread or by a power outage shutting off their tv. Open / Comment

2022-08-25 18:00:00 I share Morgoth's conclusion here that what we're seeing is probably not wholly planned, but a result of both planning and incompetence. They are building 2030, but they are building it badly, with hubris, idealism and stupidity.

The loss of Russia's gas supply seems like something that our "leaders" did not intend to last very long. I think they thought it would be a short-term thing: Putin would get scared and quickly cave to their demands, they would lift the sanctions and the gas supply would be back, and then they could proceed with their controlled "Great Reset" of Europe at their own pace. This seems likely to me because, as long as the energy shortage persists, the risk of public disorder increases, and they lose ever more control over the situation.

In other words, the absence of energy means that our leaders have fewer options and less control - and I don't see why leaders would desire less control.

I think they want:
- the steady transition to a plant/synthetic-based diet for the public
- the steady transition from national government to global governance
- the steady shrinking of the public
- the steady browning of the white public
- the steady transition to a surveillance state
- the steady transition to the public using less energy

but "the public having no heat during winter and going mental" is probably not what they want, because it creates huge instability. This in turn endangers the process of browning the public, since ethnocentrism will emerge during a time of crisis. It also places them, or their national proxies, right in the crosshairs of the public's rage.

The answer to all of this, from some quarters, would be: "no, they want the energy shortage, they want the public going mental, they want chaos, because chaos provides opportunities". But I think that is too cartoonish. Ultimately, the sane course for them is a steady, controlled transition to a new order. The energy shortage radically disrupts that. Open / Comment

2022-08-25 16:46:58 'I invite the reader to trace the process of our moral decline, the sinking of the foundations as old teachings are allowed to lapse, then the rapidly increasing disintegration, then the final collapse of the whole edifice, and the dark dawning of our modern day when we can neither endure our vices nor face the remedies needed to cure them.'

- Livy writing around 27 BC, History of Rome, Book I (from Gareth Harney on twitter) Open / Comment

2022-08-25 13:42:11 My recent meditation on being English in England.

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2022-08-25 05:52:48 A concise article about how the affluent can have bad beliefs, ostensibly to help the lower classes, but which end up harming the lower classes, and that, ironically, they hold these beliefs in order to distinguish themselves from the lower classes! LOL

https://nypost.com/2019/08/17/luxury-beliefs-are-the-latest-status-symbol-for-rich-americans/ Open / Comment