As far as anarchy/chaos, Robert Higgs laid it out quite succenctly.
" “Anarchists did not try to carry out genocide against the Armenians in Turkey; they did not deliberately starve millions of Ukrainians; they did not create a system of death camps to kill Jews, gypsies, and Slavs in Europe; they did not fire-bomb scores of large German and Japanese cities and drop nuclear bombs on two of them; they did not carry out a ‘Great Leap Forward’ that killed scores of millions of Chinese; they did not attempt to kill everybody with any appreciable education in Cambodia; they did not launch one aggressive war after another; they did not implement trade sanctions that killed perhaps 500,000 Iraqi children.
In debates between anarchists and statists, the burden of proof clearly should rest on those who place their trust in the state. Anarchy’s mayhem is wholly conjectural; the state’s mayhem is undeniably, factually horrendous.”
Interesting news on the Germany front. VW and others are looking at job cuts- one factor cited is the failure of the EV transition and rising energy costs (a doubly important issue, given the contribution to manufacturing costs due to the massive green energy surcharge- nearly doubled for industrial, since 2010). Climate hysteria is killing a 150 year old manufacturing export economy.
The British media is very good at hiding the truth. ITV did a feature about increases in women being pestered on their walk home from work by male strangers. In order to frame the piece they had a woman walk through the club area of Cardiff to completely disinform the public as to the true nature of the problem, and the source of the harassment…
R Smith stole my idea for a comment!!! That's what I get for sleeping in.
Great job as always, Spiff. You could have written a book about the insanity that has taken hold of the West. And it IS insanity. As a social worker, I had a few occasions to interact with paranoid schizophrenics. After these engagements, I always had to take a few hours or days to integrate and understand what had happened. This is anecdotal; but I think insanity is contagious and the "vibes" given off by the insane infect their environment and all who have the misfortune to enter into it.
We need not be social scientists to acknowledge the wisdom of Mattias Desmet, author of THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TOTALITARIANISM, or the frightening results of John Calhoun's "rat utopia" to recognize the fact that our humanity is being scraped off day by day and replaced with unnecessary and self-defeating rules for living.
Hermann Hesse, the great Swiss/German intellectual, predicted the inevitable domination of Caucasians by people of color and more-or-less suggested to author Miguel Serrano that whites would be well advised to keep their heads down for the next century or so.
I do not believe we will become like Zimbabwe. The Rhodesians were heavily outnumbered for a start. So the situation is different. Much of the concern of the authorities is normal people waking up and realizing they do not wish to live in a society flooded with immigrants. No one does as it is too dangerous. That is a healthy sign.
I also do not see us being dominated. We are being dominated by our own elites and hammered by a compliant media pumping out propaganda. But it is now failing. And I believe that will mean the end of the current elites.
I agree our elites are in almost terminal failure mode. My concern is that there is still too much complacency and far too few vocal dissidents. As a result we risk catastrophic failure with a great deal of collateral damage to all, rather than a less destructive atrophy of elite power.
I am concerned about this too. We are complacent because it hasn't affected most people yet. Diversity quotas are an example. Most people are as yet unaffected, but that is changing as the economy contracts.
Sadly most don't care and get their news from traditional sources. So they believe the hype. But real life will sort them out. Their children will never own homes if they don't wake up.
The situation sounds grim, though I've heard about this kind of thing a lot and am beginning to wonder if it's truly that bad. My old man—who grew up in Swansea and is now visiting my family in Budapest—was in Bristol, Cardiff, and Chepstow recently, and he said he didn't notice it to be particularly bad. I visited and lived in those cities not ten years ago.
Is now so different? The riots certainly laid the regime's intentions bare, though I worry about the despairing tone contained in the posts of many Brits in the DR, and if it is psychological more than anything else.
This is a great bit from the article:
"We elevated taking the piss into an art form, always at the ready to tackle those who get too big for their boots."
It is almost impossible to imagine the British no longer doing this. Every Tom, Dick, and Harry has made this kind of irreverent banter a staple of the culture—has that evaporated, too? Sure, I can imagine them sliding an extra comment in here and there ("can't talk about that, innit?"), but have people just gone silent? The defiant nature of most Britts makes it seem all too hard to believe.
Perhaps it is just that I do not wish to believe my ancestral homeland has gone to utter shit; perhaps it is that I worry about the black pill selling too well in dissident spaces; or, perhaps, it simply is this bad.
I'd love to hear about it from as many Brits as reasonable.
No things are not that bad. The main change is the regime are panicking. People are still taking the piss and they aren't buying the bullshit either. That said, the scale of immigration is what is triggering the protests. People understand they are going to lose their homeland if things don't improve.
But as for ordinary people, things are much as they were. It is the educated middle classes who are the furthest gone. The working class seem almost totally immune to woke, which is why they are targeted.
Nice, that's good to hear. I do try to err on the side of hope, however delusional that might seem to some. Working class British have always had a stiff upper lip mentality that steers them away from despair. Still, it was obviously them who rioted the most—particularly the younguns. I suspect they are sick of the constant demoralization. Shifting demographics they never voted for must anger them, too.
Of course, they will always be tarred and feathered, which is a real shame, because they are some of the best, most kindhearted, witty, and hard-working people in the country. Labour used to care for them deeply.
I'm convinced the typical "bin man" is better conversation than most middle class university graduates. Pond scum, most of them.
I agree. They will be fine. It is the middle classes who are being hit by reality.
But the regime are panicking, hence the stiff sentences for posting memes. No doubt my stuff will end up on their radar too. Such is life. But the blatancy of it is not a good look. They are letting out rapists so memelords can be jailed. That is not an exaggeration.
It is not, and that is what worries me most. Keep fighting the good fight; were I still in the UK, I'd be doing the same. They can't stand up to everyone who is noticing reality, they just can't.
Also, respect for not exaggerating too much. It is easy to and it does not become a rational thinker to exaggerate and embellish for clicks or restacks. Calmer minds and hearts shall prevail.
I have read some takes on the situation in the UK from some others and, despite having nothing but disdain for the regime and its ideological tools and strategies, distasteful, incorrect, and emotional nonsense has been bandied about; we must rise above this if we can.
So many great insights in this article = and the images you used are priceless. Here's just one of the lines I loved:
"To those on the inside this is a necessary step to fight the onslaught of abuse faced by Western women, the most privileged group in history."
I've long been converted from being a libtard feminist to a feminine realist, but I've never heard it put quite this way... "the most privileged group in history." Spot on - and Western women would be so much happier if they could figure this out before they lose everything.
They will lose everything and it will probably improve their lot. The radfem initiatives have not made women happier. They don't take into account female nature and what actually satisfies women. Women are not men.
So in that sense the future should have fewer antidepressants for the ladies, and many more babies. A deep, cleansing collapse may reset everything.
We are getting there. The phenomenon is recognized. The Chinese term and its definition is less so, although works very well. Perfectly pronounceable too for English speakers.
We must spread the word, and the weakness that lies behind it.
I hope it is their last gasp. Sadly, other 'top-down' reforms in British history have had rather permanent effects. Henry VIII, and Edward VI spring to mind. The backlash of Cromwell. The treasures burned. The schisms not yet healed.
I agree. But the degree of sophistication we are now witnessing in our social masters is not what it once was. They overreacted to the protests against the immigrants after the girls were killed when more level heads would have announced an enquiry and a clampdown on illegals, which would have taken the wind out their sails. They seem to lack this sophistication.
Sorry, I made it to the Rachel Swan-image, and just couldn't. Go. On.
Remember when sniffin' glue was a thing?
If that ever needed a poster-child, well there she is.
Here, pointing out that ukrainian refugees have learned Swedish in less than a year and a half, and that they have the same unemployment rate as Swedes, is borderline hatecrime.
Over on this side of the pond, we're but a few steps behind.
Hopefully a critical mass of people become aware in time to avoid a *serious* civil war-type crash.
People can stay blind to paying for their own demise -- for so long. There comes a point where the truth shines through, and there can be no unseeing it.
We're well passed the point of the British. This country won't have a White majority in five years (if we even have one now...census data is notoriously out of date), and our own politicians talk about our replacement as though it's a good thing.
Peace and laws are bad for a people, sadly. As you British have become utter slaves within who abjure uncivilized methods, find a better master. Yes it will get worse to get better. At present there’s however no reason to think you’ll ever be free men again. Look at what scares you into submission. Disgraceful.
“Such a state of affairs cannot last long.” No. You’ll get a competent tyrant, hopefully.
I don't believe we are any different from any other Western nation. Globalist elites have turned against us, and it takes time for that to sink in. But I believe it is happening.
All Western states are like this now. The US is no better. Its treatment of J6 protestors was a new low, and half the population were indifferent. Same with mass immigration, which no country can cope with.
What will emerge I suspect is a new clarity of purpose, and a keen sense of who we really are.
Let’s stop using the term ‘immigrant.’ It is the language of The Enemy. It is an incorrect term; they are not ‘immigrants,’ they are INVADERS.
Use the correct terms for the corresponding things, please.
Doing otherwise serves The Enemy. It lets The Enemy into your head, where The Enemy changes your thinking.
Words of The Enemy are like the One Ring; you cannot wield them. The WILL DESTROY YOU if you try. Their words are chosen to serve their evil ends and no one else’s.
I don't agree. Many are in fact legal immigrants, although we can make the kind of judgment you suggest. Indeed, the authorities make a lot of illegal immigrants to take our eye off the scale of legal immigration and the effect it is having.
But someone invited to our country to fill a job is technically not an invader, however people feel about mass immigration itself.
This inability to see clearly through the language-forest planted in your mind by The Enemy is why the people of the UK fail. Clear the invasive species choking your mind, driving out the old ways of thought!
I am not failing to see through anything. I am using terms precisely while you are using emotive substitutes. Those substitutes repel many who are still on the fence and have not yet thought through the implications of these policies.
It is important to use neutral language when discussing important topics. You don't know who may be paying attention. Our goal is to discuss, not insult anyone.
Me too. Also, it is important to note when we discuss mass immigration that there are indeed illegal aliens. But many are legal immigrants. I cannot fault some Nigerian nurse for moving to the UK to take up a job in a hospital. My beef is with the authorities for allowing it. In no technical sense is she an invader.
Same. I've noticed here in the States people using terms like "demonrats" for Democrats, "Cackles" for Harris, etc. It's pretty gay honestly and it serves no purpose other than to confuse your point and alienate anyone who might be on the fence.
From across the pond, I applaud your courage.
Thank you. We can't do nothing. And they can't jail us all.
Required viewing: The Minority Report.
As far as anarchy/chaos, Robert Higgs laid it out quite succenctly.
" “Anarchists did not try to carry out genocide against the Armenians in Turkey; they did not deliberately starve millions of Ukrainians; they did not create a system of death camps to kill Jews, gypsies, and Slavs in Europe; they did not fire-bomb scores of large German and Japanese cities and drop nuclear bombs on two of them; they did not carry out a ‘Great Leap Forward’ that killed scores of millions of Chinese; they did not attempt to kill everybody with any appreciable education in Cambodia; they did not launch one aggressive war after another; they did not implement trade sanctions that killed perhaps 500,000 Iraqi children.
In debates between anarchists and statists, the burden of proof clearly should rest on those who place their trust in the state. Anarchy’s mayhem is wholly conjectural; the state’s mayhem is undeniably, factually horrendous.”
Sorry for the typo, that should be "succinctly".
I didn't even notice, lol 🤓
Interesting news on the Germany front. VW and others are looking at job cuts- one factor cited is the failure of the EV transition and rising energy costs (a doubly important issue, given the contribution to manufacturing costs due to the massive green energy surcharge- nearly doubled for industrial, since 2010). Climate hysteria is killing a 150 year old manufacturing export economy.
https://fortune.com/europe/2023/09/14/vw-cutting-jobs-german-ev-factory-because-demand-plunging-china-tesla/
And killing an ancient nation. They outlived the Romans but perhaps not the liberals.
We are all committing suicide. Although I sense people are now waking up a little.
The British media is very good at hiding the truth. ITV did a feature about increases in women being pestered on their walk home from work by male strangers. In order to frame the piece they had a woman walk through the club area of Cardiff to completely disinform the public as to the true nature of the problem, and the source of the harassment…
Even that is becoming so blatant they are almost beyond parody. All those "hooded youths".
But not enough i fear.
That is my worry.
Germany isn’t an ancient nation. Sorry for the nitpick.
Well the Germanics as a people are ancient even if their current configuration is new.
R Smith stole my idea for a comment!!! That's what I get for sleeping in.
Great job as always, Spiff. You could have written a book about the insanity that has taken hold of the West. And it IS insanity. As a social worker, I had a few occasions to interact with paranoid schizophrenics. After these engagements, I always had to take a few hours or days to integrate and understand what had happened. This is anecdotal; but I think insanity is contagious and the "vibes" given off by the insane infect their environment and all who have the misfortune to enter into it.
We need not be social scientists to acknowledge the wisdom of Mattias Desmet, author of THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TOTALITARIANISM, or the frightening results of John Calhoun's "rat utopia" to recognize the fact that our humanity is being scraped off day by day and replaced with unnecessary and self-defeating rules for living.
Hermann Hesse, the great Swiss/German intellectual, predicted the inevitable domination of Caucasians by people of color and more-or-less suggested to author Miguel Serrano that whites would be well advised to keep their heads down for the next century or so.
Zimbabwe, here we come!
I do not believe we will become like Zimbabwe. The Rhodesians were heavily outnumbered for a start. So the situation is different. Much of the concern of the authorities is normal people waking up and realizing they do not wish to live in a society flooded with immigrants. No one does as it is too dangerous. That is a healthy sign.
I also do not see us being dominated. We are being dominated by our own elites and hammered by a compliant media pumping out propaganda. But it is now failing. And I believe that will mean the end of the current elites.
There is a sense, despite the constant drum beat of the Left, that the world has lost its infatuation with psychotic trannies.
I agree our elites are in almost terminal failure mode. My concern is that there is still too much complacency and far too few vocal dissidents. As a result we risk catastrophic failure with a great deal of collateral damage to all, rather than a less destructive atrophy of elite power.
I am concerned about this too. We are complacent because it hasn't affected most people yet. Diversity quotas are an example. Most people are as yet unaffected, but that is changing as the economy contracts.
Sadly most don't care and get their news from traditional sources. So they believe the hype. But real life will sort them out. Their children will never own homes if they don't wake up.
The situation sounds grim, though I've heard about this kind of thing a lot and am beginning to wonder if it's truly that bad. My old man—who grew up in Swansea and is now visiting my family in Budapest—was in Bristol, Cardiff, and Chepstow recently, and he said he didn't notice it to be particularly bad. I visited and lived in those cities not ten years ago.
Is now so different? The riots certainly laid the regime's intentions bare, though I worry about the despairing tone contained in the posts of many Brits in the DR, and if it is psychological more than anything else.
This is a great bit from the article:
"We elevated taking the piss into an art form, always at the ready to tackle those who get too big for their boots."
It is almost impossible to imagine the British no longer doing this. Every Tom, Dick, and Harry has made this kind of irreverent banter a staple of the culture—has that evaporated, too? Sure, I can imagine them sliding an extra comment in here and there ("can't talk about that, innit?"), but have people just gone silent? The defiant nature of most Britts makes it seem all too hard to believe.
Perhaps it is just that I do not wish to believe my ancestral homeland has gone to utter shit; perhaps it is that I worry about the black pill selling too well in dissident spaces; or, perhaps, it simply is this bad.
I'd love to hear about it from as many Brits as reasonable.
No things are not that bad. The main change is the regime are panicking. People are still taking the piss and they aren't buying the bullshit either. That said, the scale of immigration is what is triggering the protests. People understand they are going to lose their homeland if things don't improve.
But as for ordinary people, things are much as they were. It is the educated middle classes who are the furthest gone. The working class seem almost totally immune to woke, which is why they are targeted.
Nice, that's good to hear. I do try to err on the side of hope, however delusional that might seem to some. Working class British have always had a stiff upper lip mentality that steers them away from despair. Still, it was obviously them who rioted the most—particularly the younguns. I suspect they are sick of the constant demoralization. Shifting demographics they never voted for must anger them, too.
Of course, they will always be tarred and feathered, which is a real shame, because they are some of the best, most kindhearted, witty, and hard-working people in the country. Labour used to care for them deeply.
I'm convinced the typical "bin man" is better conversation than most middle class university graduates. Pond scum, most of them.
I agree. They will be fine. It is the middle classes who are being hit by reality.
But the regime are panicking, hence the stiff sentences for posting memes. No doubt my stuff will end up on their radar too. Such is life. But the blatancy of it is not a good look. They are letting out rapists so memelords can be jailed. That is not an exaggeration.
It is not, and that is what worries me most. Keep fighting the good fight; were I still in the UK, I'd be doing the same. They can't stand up to everyone who is noticing reality, they just can't.
Also, respect for not exaggerating too much. It is easy to and it does not become a rational thinker to exaggerate and embellish for clicks or restacks. Calmer minds and hearts shall prevail.
I have read some takes on the situation in the UK from some others and, despite having nothing but disdain for the regime and its ideological tools and strategies, distasteful, incorrect, and emotional nonsense has been bandied about; we must rise above this if we can.
Keep plugging away, Spiff. Cheers!
Yes I agree. The facts themselves are damning anyway, so no need to exaggerate. Thanks for reading.
Absolutely loving your work Spaceman.
Cheers 🍻
"This unprecedented legal descent into clairvoyance, hate speech and arrogance is relatively new. It will not age well..."
👍
Some of their written judgments are beyond parody. They make no legal sense, and I suspect they will be judged harshly by history.
So many great insights in this article = and the images you used are priceless. Here's just one of the lines I loved:
"To those on the inside this is a necessary step to fight the onslaught of abuse faced by Western women, the most privileged group in history."
I've long been converted from being a libtard feminist to a feminine realist, but I've never heard it put quite this way... "the most privileged group in history." Spot on - and Western women would be so much happier if they could figure this out before they lose everything.
They will lose everything and it will probably improve their lot. The radfem initiatives have not made women happier. They don't take into account female nature and what actually satisfies women. Women are not men.
So in that sense the future should have fewer antidepressants for the ladies, and many more babies. A deep, cleansing collapse may reset everything.
Thanks for reading.
Baizou! What a gift from the CCP! We need to normalise this term here. I’m sure it’ll cancel out any perceived virtue they wish to signal
We are getting there. The phenomenon is recognized. The Chinese term and its definition is less so, although works very well. Perfectly pronounceable too for English speakers.
We must spread the word, and the weakness that lies behind it.
I hope it is their last gasp. Sadly, other 'top-down' reforms in British history have had rather permanent effects. Henry VIII, and Edward VI spring to mind. The backlash of Cromwell. The treasures burned. The schisms not yet healed.
I agree. But the degree of sophistication we are now witnessing in our social masters is not what it once was. They overreacted to the protests against the immigrants after the girls were killed when more level heads would have announced an enquiry and a clampdown on illegals, which would have taken the wind out their sails. They seem to lack this sophistication.
Indeed each generation has been getting dumber than the last one.
Stupidity is an invisible disease as stupid people are too stupid to recognise their own stupidity.
Sorry, I made it to the Rachel Swan-image, and just couldn't. Go. On.
Remember when sniffin' glue was a thing?
If that ever needed a poster-child, well there she is.
Here, pointing out that ukrainian refugees have learned Swedish in less than a year and a half, and that they have the same unemployment rate as Swedes, is borderline hatecrime.
One guess why.
Excellent take!
Thank you.
Over on this side of the pond, we're but a few steps behind.
Hopefully a critical mass of people become aware in time to avoid a *serious* civil war-type crash.
People can stay blind to paying for their own demise -- for so long. There comes a point where the truth shines through, and there can be no unseeing it.
I agree that it has to hit people personally before they act. Virtue signaling only works if it is cheap.
We're well passed the point of the British. This country won't have a White majority in five years (if we even have one now...census data is notoriously out of date), and our own politicians talk about our replacement as though it's a good thing.
Yes, but who can maintain a first world nation? Not everyone. What it will likely do is harden attitudes, which seems to be happening.
Peace and laws are bad for a people, sadly. As you British have become utter slaves within who abjure uncivilized methods, find a better master. Yes it will get worse to get better. At present there’s however no reason to think you’ll ever be free men again. Look at what scares you into submission. Disgraceful.
“Such a state of affairs cannot last long.” No. You’ll get a competent tyrant, hopefully.
You are too cowardly to be free.
Sorry.
I don't believe we are any different from any other Western nation. Globalist elites have turned against us, and it takes time for that to sink in. But I believe it is happening.
All Western states are like this now. The US is no better. Its treatment of J6 protestors was a new low, and half the population were indifferent. Same with mass immigration, which no country can cope with.
What will emerge I suspect is a new clarity of purpose, and a keen sense of who we really are.
Brilliant article.
Thank you.
You’re most welcome.
Let’s stop using the term ‘immigrant.’ It is the language of The Enemy. It is an incorrect term; they are not ‘immigrants,’ they are INVADERS.
Use the correct terms for the corresponding things, please.
Doing otherwise serves The Enemy. It lets The Enemy into your head, where The Enemy changes your thinking.
Words of The Enemy are like the One Ring; you cannot wield them. The WILL DESTROY YOU if you try. Their words are chosen to serve their evil ends and no one else’s.
I don't agree. Many are in fact legal immigrants, although we can make the kind of judgment you suggest. Indeed, the authorities make a lot of illegal immigrants to take our eye off the scale of legal immigration and the effect it is having.
But someone invited to our country to fill a job is technically not an invader, however people feel about mass immigration itself.
This inability to see clearly through the language-forest planted in your mind by The Enemy is why the people of the UK fail. Clear the invasive species choking your mind, driving out the old ways of thought!
I am not failing to see through anything. I am using terms precisely while you are using emotive substitutes. Those substitutes repel many who are still on the fence and have not yet thought through the implications of these policies.
It is important to use neutral language when discussing important topics. You don't know who may be paying attention. Our goal is to discuss, not insult anyone.
This is an important point. Emotive language is venting, and only those who already agree will be receptive, i.e. preaching to the choir.
If you want somebody to listen, putting them on the defensive is counterproductive.
I usually stop reading what someone's written when the name-calling starts.
Me too. Also, it is important to note when we discuss mass immigration that there are indeed illegal aliens. But many are legal immigrants. I cannot fault some Nigerian nurse for moving to the UK to take up a job in a hospital. My beef is with the authorities for allowing it. In no technical sense is she an invader.
Same. I've noticed here in the States people using terms like "demonrats" for Democrats, "Cackles" for Harris, etc. It's pretty gay honestly and it serves no purpose other than to confuse your point and alienate anyone who might be on the fence.
Agree. Ur is counterproductive. Better to use proper names and reason.