'The reality of climate is different from the narrative. It is resilient, as many things are. Our obsession is arrogance. A belief we matter more than we do. Intellectuals are prone to get lost in their theories of how the world ought to work. Activists then latch on to their utopian ideas to gain some sense of meaning in their lives. Society also has people lacking conscience who will profit from anything no matter how much damage it causes. Combining these two, dreamers with schemers, is often lethal.'
A pretty good nutshell, right there. Ideologues plus opportunists.
You are a hopeless optimist. However, the (sane) world needs such optimism. As usual, an excellently written missive. Now for the pessimist view from myself.
No disagreement with your premises, but my fear is that the realization that is upon us may come too late to make much of a difference in the final outcome. How many generations have come into existence since this madness has taken hold? I count three plus—including “Boomers”, of which I am one. Soon there will be no generations left to educate and inform those remaining of how things once were in our society—much less lead. It’s not for nothing that the ancient Chinese developed “execution of the three generations” as a form of extreme punishment.
The importing of non-Western, third world peoples as well as genetically induced “spiteful mutants” will soon represent the majority of the populace, at least here in the U.S. (if not already). These people have little ability to understand, nor thrive in a first world technological, capitalistic society as we once aspired to as a nation. This seems the fate of Western democracies as I now view them—to decline to a level of their (new) population’s innate ability and behavior proclivities.
I would agree. And the goal among our leadership class is to manage this new feudal system. I believe this will fail. I think they will be like India's elites. Totally surrounded by squalor. Had they any sense rigid closed borders and zero immigration would have been the sensible choice to maintain their way of life.
I cannot fathom why elites want open borders as I don't believe it will be survivable for them either.
I was listening recently to the Bulgarian economist Grigor Sariiski, who was talking precisely how the western world is currently moving towards a feudal system in which there will be little opportunity for peoples for social mobility. Your comment is a similar observation. Made me wonder what are the best ways to deal with and prepare ourselves for such scenario, hopefully unrealistic and distopian.
Top of the list is to try to prevent it. This may be impossible of course. The alternative is to find useful communities. Ideally build your own. Don't rely on our overlords. Easier said than done of course.
I am not sure there is an easy answer although there will be much destruction I fear. Plus we are flooded with people who possess tribal outlooks and maintain tribal connections we lack. So that is probably another factor. The emergence of ethnic or even tribal affiliations which seems to be happening. You are always safer with your own, although we have not thought this way for a long time.
I don't have good advice for this. All I would add is our current Western elites would probably be poor at running a feudal system. If you've seen Alex Soros in action you will know what I mean. They are a product of affluence and comfort. Many inherited their positions, like Alex Soros. I doubt they are quite prepared for the ruthlessness they will need to survive in the world they are creating. That is why I believe they are unhinged.
Ah, such wisdom does serve you well. From Plato: “I am wiser than this man; for neither of us appears to know anything great and good, but he thinks he knows something when he does not, whereas I, as I do not know, do not think I know.”
Often attributed to Socrates as: “I know that I know nothing.”
As with any discussion of the whys and wherefores of political agendas, it always comes down to the question “cui bono”? Answer that question and you’ll see, it is actually that simple.
Oh I agree. People are arch conformists. They seek leaders and will vote for anyone who promises to fix things. The programming is strong. A tragedy really. That is why democracies ultimately collapse.
It's really hard to compete with free stuff. Especially when a people's ethical heritage has been extinguished. It is no longer considered shameful to steal from your neighbor.
After the Berlin Wall came down, there was lots of talk in the pol-sci circles over here, over who would be the New Big Bad for the coming USAmerican hegemony. Most suspected islam, and a lot of printer-ink was spent arguing why this would be a Bad Thing.
And here we are. It's no longer 1991, it's 2025.
Do you dare turn your back on paki teens in England?
Do you dare allow your wife to work for a moslem employer?
And... what do you feel when you see moslems wearing your nation's police uniform, military uniforms, judge's clothes, and hold offices and elected positions?
Do you feel ease, goodness and confidence that they in no way will favour their race, their clan and their religion?
Or do you feel something else, something so true and obvious it has had to be made a crime?
Because that feeling - that is the same feeling you'd have if you entered your home and found strangers squatting on your sofa, emptying out your fridge and making rude and lewd remarks towards your children.
I brought it up as a matter of feelings, because in this sphere - or whatever were to call it - of free thinkers able to reason and look ahead, we mostly concern ourselves with facts, causality and such.
But most people run on feelings (emotions) almost all the time, when they form opinions or make decisions.
And so, I felt (heh!) that we might start to add the feelings-angle. Also, I'd wager almost everyone - even woke - feel unease at the sight of (f.e.) two huge Negro policemen shoving a small White girl into the back of a police van.
And that unease is a crack in their armour of intelectual conceit/deceit.
Yes I suspect you are correct. Virtue signalling only works if it is cheap. Retweeting costs very little and harvests some social approval. Actually attending a rally is more expensive. Changing one's lifestyle to achieve a social good is even more expensive.
I suspect the views of many on the Left are like this. Fine if they can avoid the consequences.
I’d argue that they hold their beliefs precisely BECAUSE they can avoid the consequences. As you say, reality will out. The roof of affluence and status allows some to assert it is not raining.
A valid point. From personal experience I'd guess at at most 5% being True Believers willing to go the distance (but they also count on being among the nomenklatura in any new regime and thus in part insulated from the downsides).
About 1/3 are simply opportunisitic in outlook: virtue signalling gives benefits and avoids unpleasantness and so they signal. If it's wearing an armband with a symbol - any symbol - then they'll wear it. But they don't believe beyond lip services, although they insulate their own mind against that self-realisation so that it all seems genuine both to themselves and to others.
Another 1/3 are manipulators more than anything; they recognise the value of signalling and appearing as a believer but are aware of it being a charade. These are typically the ones who rise to important positions - how succesful rests on to what extent they can curb their baser desires: a former chief of police in Sweden is a good example; he won awards for his DEI-work and was later revealed to beat and rape prostituted women that he kept locked up in cages in his home.
And the remainder are the rest of us: floundering about trying to find purchase and something solid to stand on, while making sense of it all, and trying to apply reason, logic and whatever knowledge we posses in as objective a manner as we can manage.
It’s all status games. Simple primate behavior. It’s easy to fake material wealth at any distance except face to face, so the would be elite have found a different means to signal their status.
A poll among the British public showed a large majority approved of various green policies. But when they were asked if they'd give up meat to save the planet it dropped to 12 percent. Only about 3 percent I think would deprive their kids of meat.
As we all wring our hands and wonder how the scourge of Islam can be removed without hurting any Muslim's feelings, Major Hassan is still waiting, after 16 years, to be punished for murdering his fellow soldiers.
America ran on Autopen for four years with no leadership and, of course, the nation was ruined by it. I find it hard to imagine that the Ship of State will ever be righted. The barbarians were allowed in the gate and now those who hate America is proving they support the criminals more than the government. Happily, I live in the Great Smoky Mountains and the Volunteers know how to protect themselves and their families. My neighborhood and county will remain safe and free at least until I'm gone.
Freedoms are always under threat. But the threats are on two sides. One side is those benefitting elites who manipulate the masses into cultish ideologies like climate and vaccines. But on their own they would have little effect. The problem is that those manipulators are supported, on the other side, by the trusting mass of gullible people who have no spare energy to be vigilant. Only a small proportion of the population has the energy to remain vigilant and to oppose bad laws and bad initiatives when they arise.
The covid vaccine (and lockdown) ideology is failing not just because the vaccines were useless and dangerous. After all, the climate ideology was no less useless and dangerous and that survived for a few decades. The vaccine ideology is failing because enough people took action, together, in time. The climate ideology is falling as the next domino.
This small proportion is successful when it acts quickly and in sufficient numbers.
I was talking on the phone the other day to an old pal/workmate who I only speak to a couple of times a year these days and rarely see as we live in different countries. But it brought home to me that people like me, red-pilled for ever by the last few years, really need to lighten up on the normies (of which I would say my mate is one) and don't waste our breath and effort in proselytising to them, about things they don't want to hear. Because it's not worth severing relationships over, especially less close friends and acquaintances.
The point I am circling round, I guess, is that your piece might at first seem overly optimistic in its take on human nature. But really it seems as if you are only saying that people of all (or most) shades along the credulous-to-blackpilled cynical scale must come to the moment of crystalline clarity in their own time and in the trigger circumstances that do it for them.
I know full well that I was pretty much a comfortable liberal type until 2020. I have to be brutally honest with myself about that. It's the only way to move forward and deal with things in a level headed way, for me anyway. Another punchy and thought-provoking essay!
Probably the most woke nation on the planet now is Canada. I haven't been there since 1998 but even so, it comes through loud & clear.
First, the current Liberal Party regime is obsessed with demon carbon & CO2, thus keeping our resource economy mostly shut down: oil & gas, agriculture, mining, fisheries, lumber and pulp & paper.
Second, Canada's Liberals have pursued the same aggressive illegal immigration policies as other failing Western nations, presumably to 'replace' the current less-than-amenable population.
And third, a globalist socialism is clearly the main driver of the Liberal Party, & Canada is seeing the same public pullback from endless far left policies freezing the economy.
A fourth shared item is the new phenomenon of election cheating being practiced in most Western nations now. The Liberals clearly employed this in last year's Canadian federal election. The new PM, Mark Carney, is a globalist, a socialist, a supporter of increased illegal migration-in, and an advocate for keeping Canada's resource economy shut down b/c of 'CO2' (yes, seriously).
I agree, Canada seems to on the same suicidal path as the rest. But the narratives are failing among the people. I would also argue they are demonstrating how out of touch our elites really are. They do have a global socialist vision which cannot possibly work. Bondi Beach is just one example of what that failure will look like. They do not seem to be able to assess reality any more.
I suspect the carnage they are creating could bring people together. We seem defeated now but only because we hope to salvage the political systems along with the rest. Once people truly accept they have rigged the elections that loss of faith will trigger a reconsideration I think.
It's a White pill to realise that the public control systems have been manipulating people for a long time, but they've gotten much worse recently.
This shows the people who have inherited the systems have not inherited the genius that created them.
They don't understand their own incompetence, or have a realistic idea of what is possible.
Partly this is because the elites let their own children be raised by the manipulated system they created, they did not maintain the distance from manipulated reality needed to operate the manipulation.
This happened in the CIA, they had several branches altering the news, and other branches making reports out the news. But because of fear of infiltration, the news readers did not know which stories they were reading were CIA-created.
Much like an LLM trained on LLM outputs, this creates a slop effect.
How much of elite incompetence comes from new elites believing the manipulated reality created by old elites? Failing to catch the winks with the white lies.
This is a great point. I have written elsewhere about this effect, especially the less capable minions unaware some great cause is a manipulation. The ladies in HR who imagine they really are there to root out racism or sexism. The further down the hierarchy you go the more gullible the people.
But I agree the elites have become a tired aristocracy. They are the ultimate DEI hires, chosen for all the wrong criteria. I have believed them to be incompetent for a long time. Their endorsement of mass immigration is a key example. Whatever they thought they would get from it is not happening. They too will be destroyed by it.
But they seem to have embraced the hedonism they sold to everyone else. Ultimately that will be their downfall.
ust popped in at random while having coffee, and saw Bob's comment which is spot-on.
"But they seem to have embraced the hedonism they sold to everyone else. Ultimately that will be their downfall."
I've never met a drug-dealer that didn't use his own product - either they started dealing to finance using, or they eventually started using anyway. Same thing but on national and global scales with our supposed elites.
Coming up: individual pricing when shopping online, and media corpos owning your likeness in perpetuity to do with as they please, simply because you once were filmed by a camera they sold or a device using software they own. The inspiration comes from geneology-corpos; they dig up your family-tree, look for diseases and defects and then sell that info to insurance and medical corpos.
Meanwhile, so-called conservatives and red pilled and what not online keep harping on about how Good capitalism is, and that "it's not real capitalism".
"Pill" or rather pillock is indeed the right word.
All of us will outlast it. It has no plan. At this point the shitshow is being directed by an elite who seem to be drunk perverts rather than a capable aristocracy.
"Diversity is our strength" being B.S. isn't just "our common sense" - the "but ackshually" types have academic pushback too. See the Putnam study. I know John Ringo referenced it, I believe in the Last Centurion, and at that time it was an initial release, but it conclusively demonstrated that diversity actually broke down neighborhood trust. So much so the author sat on the entirety for most of a decade after that to find a way out, and ended up releasing the final version with "but I'm sure we can find a way to fix that"
Showing both that he had integrity in the end, and sufficient capture to not want to believe his own results.
It makes no sense if you value competency. Achieving this is already challenging. Choosing based on the basis of other characteristics obviously makes very little sense.
I am not close to it and I followed him during Covid and found his work useful. I drifted away after that. I am not accusing him of anything, but I am aware many think him some kind of plant or controlled opposition.
I had a family event to attend so I didn't have time to reply but here's my take on this topic, First, I have no delusion that I am in any way an 'influencer' so while I might post an observation, I don't expect anyone to go ooooh ahhhh. What I am is observant and intuitive and I am pretty good at spotting fake. I pay more attention to what people do than what they say. Over time, the liars and those with hidden agenda out themselves.
I was following another substacker a year or so ago and she was tossing out negative words about Dr, Malone and, as I usually do, I decided to see for myself. I searched him and found his substack and subscribed. Over time, I could see a huge gap in the perceived opinions and rumors. I can tell you that if Dr. Malone is as the rumors claim, he is way better at it than any others. There is always a line that won't be crossed when someone is pretending to be what they are not.
I don't do human hero worship - no one is perfect, least of all me. But I have learned and agree with most of what Dr. Malone and his wife Jill stand for and share.
In the end, my advice to anyone - do your own research.
BTW, the other substacker I followed revealed herself as being seriously bias as usually those finally do so I don't pay her any mind any more.
I remember reading quite a bit of his stuff during Covid. If he was a plant it is not clear to me what his message was given how critical he was of lockdowns and the rest.
I made a conscious decision to step away from all Covid related material eventually as it was driving me crazy.
'The reality of climate is different from the narrative. It is resilient, as many things are. Our obsession is arrogance. A belief we matter more than we do. Intellectuals are prone to get lost in their theories of how the world ought to work. Activists then latch on to their utopian ideas to gain some sense of meaning in their lives. Society also has people lacking conscience who will profit from anything no matter how much damage it causes. Combining these two, dreamers with schemers, is often lethal.'
A pretty good nutshell, right there. Ideologues plus opportunists.
We see it everywhere. Open borders lunatics + human rights lawyers being an example.
Let's not forget the NGOs.
Yes indeed. The scourge of our times. Funding our destruction.
That has always been the case. The grift was not invented by AlGore.
Of course. Gore was just another opportunist.
“And yet we sense a change in the air.”
You are a hopeless optimist. However, the (sane) world needs such optimism. As usual, an excellently written missive. Now for the pessimist view from myself.
No disagreement with your premises, but my fear is that the realization that is upon us may come too late to make much of a difference in the final outcome. How many generations have come into existence since this madness has taken hold? I count three plus—including “Boomers”, of which I am one. Soon there will be no generations left to educate and inform those remaining of how things once were in our society—much less lead. It’s not for nothing that the ancient Chinese developed “execution of the three generations” as a form of extreme punishment.
The importing of non-Western, third world peoples as well as genetically induced “spiteful mutants” will soon represent the majority of the populace, at least here in the U.S. (if not already). These people have little ability to understand, nor thrive in a first world technological, capitalistic society as we once aspired to as a nation. This seems the fate of Western democracies as I now view them—to decline to a level of their (new) population’s innate ability and behavior proclivities.
I would agree. And the goal among our leadership class is to manage this new feudal system. I believe this will fail. I think they will be like India's elites. Totally surrounded by squalor. Had they any sense rigid closed borders and zero immigration would have been the sensible choice to maintain their way of life.
I cannot fathom why elites want open borders as I don't believe it will be survivable for them either.
I was listening recently to the Bulgarian economist Grigor Sariiski, who was talking precisely how the western world is currently moving towards a feudal system in which there will be little opportunity for peoples for social mobility. Your comment is a similar observation. Made me wonder what are the best ways to deal with and prepare ourselves for such scenario, hopefully unrealistic and distopian.
Top of the list is to try to prevent it. This may be impossible of course. The alternative is to find useful communities. Ideally build your own. Don't rely on our overlords. Easier said than done of course.
I am not sure there is an easy answer although there will be much destruction I fear. Plus we are flooded with people who possess tribal outlooks and maintain tribal connections we lack. So that is probably another factor. The emergence of ethnic or even tribal affiliations which seems to be happening. You are always safer with your own, although we have not thought this way for a long time.
I don't have good advice for this. All I would add is our current Western elites would probably be poor at running a feudal system. If you've seen Alex Soros in action you will know what I mean. They are a product of affluence and comfort. Many inherited their positions, like Alex Soros. I doubt they are quite prepared for the ruthlessness they will need to survive in the world they are creating. That is why I believe they are unhinged.
“I don't have good advice for this.”
Ah, such wisdom does serve you well. From Plato: “I am wiser than this man; for neither of us appears to know anything great and good, but he thinks he knows something when he does not, whereas I, as I do not know, do not think I know.”
Often attributed to Socrates as: “I know that I know nothing.”
If Socrates knew nothing, I know even less. We cannot predict the future. So it is hard to judge.
I do think looking after yourself is a priority mind you.
My complete and total agreement.
As with any discussion of the whys and wherefores of political agendas, it always comes down to the question “cui bono”? Answer that question and you’ll see, it is actually that simple.
I think most are just noticing the policies don't work. Few people follow the money but it does provide insight I agree.
And yet, it still doesn’t change the way people vote. We are likely to find out the “death of the Dem party” was greatly exaggerated.
Oh I agree. People are arch conformists. They seek leaders and will vote for anyone who promises to fix things. The programming is strong. A tragedy really. That is why democracies ultimately collapse.
It's really hard to compete with free stuff. Especially when a people's ethical heritage has been extinguished. It is no longer considered shameful to steal from your neighbor.
Yes I agree. They are willingly dependant on the system too.
The System is stealing from your neighbor.
Excellent article.
I fear the solution to Western control by the elites will require physical effort, not electoral.
I too think this. Between narratives and newly imported voters representative democracy is being killed.
After the Berlin Wall came down, there was lots of talk in the pol-sci circles over here, over who would be the New Big Bad for the coming USAmerican hegemony. Most suspected islam, and a lot of printer-ink was spent arguing why this would be a Bad Thing.
And here we are. It's no longer 1991, it's 2025.
Do you dare turn your back on paki teens in England?
Do you dare allow your wife to work for a moslem employer?
And... what do you feel when you see moslems wearing your nation's police uniform, military uniforms, judge's clothes, and hold offices and elected positions?
Do you feel ease, goodness and confidence that they in no way will favour their race, their clan and their religion?
Or do you feel something else, something so true and obvious it has had to be made a crime?
Because that feeling - that is the same feeling you'd have if you entered your home and found strangers squatting on your sofa, emptying out your fridge and making rude and lewd remarks towards your children.
I think many feel those things. But our establishment thinks differently. But people are noticing, which is a start.
I brought it up as a matter of feelings, because in this sphere - or whatever were to call it - of free thinkers able to reason and look ahead, we mostly concern ourselves with facts, causality and such.
But most people run on feelings (emotions) almost all the time, when they form opinions or make decisions.
And so, I felt (heh!) that we might start to add the feelings-angle. Also, I'd wager almost everyone - even woke - feel unease at the sight of (f.e.) two huge Negro policemen shoving a small White girl into the back of a police van.
And that unease is a crack in their armour of intelectual conceit/deceit.
Yes I suspect you are correct. Virtue signalling only works if it is cheap. Retweeting costs very little and harvests some social approval. Actually attending a rally is more expensive. Changing one's lifestyle to achieve a social good is even more expensive.
I suspect the views of many on the Left are like this. Fine if they can avoid the consequences.
I’d argue that they hold their beliefs precisely BECAUSE they can avoid the consequences. As you say, reality will out. The roof of affluence and status allows some to assert it is not raining.
A valid point. From personal experience I'd guess at at most 5% being True Believers willing to go the distance (but they also count on being among the nomenklatura in any new regime and thus in part insulated from the downsides).
About 1/3 are simply opportunisitic in outlook: virtue signalling gives benefits and avoids unpleasantness and so they signal. If it's wearing an armband with a symbol - any symbol - then they'll wear it. But they don't believe beyond lip services, although they insulate their own mind against that self-realisation so that it all seems genuine both to themselves and to others.
Another 1/3 are manipulators more than anything; they recognise the value of signalling and appearing as a believer but are aware of it being a charade. These are typically the ones who rise to important positions - how succesful rests on to what extent they can curb their baser desires: a former chief of police in Sweden is a good example; he won awards for his DEI-work and was later revealed to beat and rape prostituted women that he kept locked up in cages in his home.
And the remainder are the rest of us: floundering about trying to find purchase and something solid to stand on, while making sense of it all, and trying to apply reason, logic and whatever knowledge we posses in as objective a manner as we can manage.
It’s all status games. Simple primate behavior. It’s easy to fake material wealth at any distance except face to face, so the would be elite have found a different means to signal their status.
A poll among the British public showed a large majority approved of various green policies. But when they were asked if they'd give up meat to save the planet it dropped to 12 percent. Only about 3 percent I think would deprive their kids of meat.
It is all talk.
Indeed.
Leadership can only be practiced from the front, but it gets rather inconvenient up there.
As we all wring our hands and wonder how the scourge of Islam can be removed without hurting any Muslim's feelings, Major Hassan is still waiting, after 16 years, to be punished for murdering his fellow soldiers.
Islam is a deadly virus.
I think things are coming to a head in European nations.
A few people are daring to see and report the truth.
There is no other way. We cannot run societies on lies.
America ran on Autopen for four years with no leadership and, of course, the nation was ruined by it. I find it hard to imagine that the Ship of State will ever be righted. The barbarians were allowed in the gate and now those who hate America is proving they support the criminals more than the government. Happily, I live in the Great Smoky Mountains and the Volunteers know how to protect themselves and their families. My neighborhood and county will remain safe and free at least until I'm gone.
I suspect a backlash is coming.
Great writing, Spaceman Spiff!
Thank you, Stephen.
Freedoms are always under threat. But the threats are on two sides. One side is those benefitting elites who manipulate the masses into cultish ideologies like climate and vaccines. But on their own they would have little effect. The problem is that those manipulators are supported, on the other side, by the trusting mass of gullible people who have no spare energy to be vigilant. Only a small proportion of the population has the energy to remain vigilant and to oppose bad laws and bad initiatives when they arise.
The covid vaccine (and lockdown) ideology is failing not just because the vaccines were useless and dangerous. After all, the climate ideology was no less useless and dangerous and that survived for a few decades. The vaccine ideology is failing because enough people took action, together, in time. The climate ideology is falling as the next domino.
This small proportion is successful when it acts quickly and in sufficient numbers.
I was talking on the phone the other day to an old pal/workmate who I only speak to a couple of times a year these days and rarely see as we live in different countries. But it brought home to me that people like me, red-pilled for ever by the last few years, really need to lighten up on the normies (of which I would say my mate is one) and don't waste our breath and effort in proselytising to them, about things they don't want to hear. Because it's not worth severing relationships over, especially less close friends and acquaintances.
The point I am circling round, I guess, is that your piece might at first seem overly optimistic in its take on human nature. But really it seems as if you are only saying that people of all (or most) shades along the credulous-to-blackpilled cynical scale must come to the moment of crystalline clarity in their own time and in the trigger circumstances that do it for them.
I know full well that I was pretty much a comfortable liberal type until 2020. I have to be brutally honest with myself about that. It's the only way to move forward and deal with things in a level headed way, for me anyway. Another punchy and thought-provoking essay!
I agree hassling normal people about things they rarely think about doesn't help. You look like a crank.
I think reality will do the job just fine. Their ideas are terrible. That's why we oppose them. Many will be forced to catch up.
Being there to assist when they ask for help is about all I would do.
Probably the most woke nation on the planet now is Canada. I haven't been there since 1998 but even so, it comes through loud & clear.
First, the current Liberal Party regime is obsessed with demon carbon & CO2, thus keeping our resource economy mostly shut down: oil & gas, agriculture, mining, fisheries, lumber and pulp & paper.
Second, Canada's Liberals have pursued the same aggressive illegal immigration policies as other failing Western nations, presumably to 'replace' the current less-than-amenable population.
And third, a globalist socialism is clearly the main driver of the Liberal Party, & Canada is seeing the same public pullback from endless far left policies freezing the economy.
A fourth shared item is the new phenomenon of election cheating being practiced in most Western nations now. The Liberals clearly employed this in last year's Canadian federal election. The new PM, Mark Carney, is a globalist, a socialist, a supporter of increased illegal migration-in, and an advocate for keeping Canada's resource economy shut down b/c of 'CO2' (yes, seriously).
I agree, Canada seems to on the same suicidal path as the rest. But the narratives are failing among the people. I would also argue they are demonstrating how out of touch our elites really are. They do have a global socialist vision which cannot possibly work. Bondi Beach is just one example of what that failure will look like. They do not seem to be able to assess reality any more.
I suspect the carnage they are creating could bring people together. We seem defeated now but only because we hope to salvage the political systems along with the rest. Once people truly accept they have rigged the elections that loss of faith will trigger a reconsideration I think.
It's a White pill to realise that the public control systems have been manipulating people for a long time, but they've gotten much worse recently.
This shows the people who have inherited the systems have not inherited the genius that created them.
They don't understand their own incompetence, or have a realistic idea of what is possible.
Partly this is because the elites let their own children be raised by the manipulated system they created, they did not maintain the distance from manipulated reality needed to operate the manipulation.
This happened in the CIA, they had several branches altering the news, and other branches making reports out the news. But because of fear of infiltration, the news readers did not know which stories they were reading were CIA-created.
Much like an LLM trained on LLM outputs, this creates a slop effect.
How much of elite incompetence comes from new elites believing the manipulated reality created by old elites? Failing to catch the winks with the white lies.
This is a great point. I have written elsewhere about this effect, especially the less capable minions unaware some great cause is a manipulation. The ladies in HR who imagine they really are there to root out racism or sexism. The further down the hierarchy you go the more gullible the people.
But I agree the elites have become a tired aristocracy. They are the ultimate DEI hires, chosen for all the wrong criteria. I have believed them to be incompetent for a long time. Their endorsement of mass immigration is a key example. Whatever they thought they would get from it is not happening. They too will be destroyed by it.
But they seem to have embraced the hedonism they sold to everyone else. Ultimately that will be their downfall.
ust popped in at random while having coffee, and saw Bob's comment which is spot-on.
"But they seem to have embraced the hedonism they sold to everyone else. Ultimately that will be their downfall."
I've never met a drug-dealer that didn't use his own product - either they started dealing to finance using, or they eventually started using anyway. Same thing but on national and global scales with our supposed elites.
Coming up: individual pricing when shopping online, and media corpos owning your likeness in perpetuity to do with as they please, simply because you once were filmed by a camera they sold or a device using software they own. The inspiration comes from geneology-corpos; they dig up your family-tree, look for diseases and defects and then sell that info to insurance and medical corpos.
Meanwhile, so-called conservatives and red pilled and what not online keep harping on about how Good capitalism is, and that "it's not real capitalism".
"Pill" or rather pillock is indeed the right word.
I think our elite layers are hedonistic. There certainly seems to be some evidence for this.
And that is a nightmare idea. Others owning your likeness. Surveillance is everywhere now.
I appreciate the optimism, as well as the attempt at clarifying the prioritization of implausible narrative incineration.
It is all bullshit, even if depressing to live through. Diversity is our strength etc. Full-spectrum cope we will soon sweep away and laugh at.
This is what we need to be telling the Zoomers. That they can outlast it.
All of us will outlast it. It has no plan. At this point the shitshow is being directed by an elite who seem to be drunk perverts rather than a capable aristocracy.
Testify brother, Testify!
"Diversity is our strength" being B.S. isn't just "our common sense" - the "but ackshually" types have academic pushback too. See the Putnam study. I know John Ringo referenced it, I believe in the Last Centurion, and at that time it was an initial release, but it conclusively demonstrated that diversity actually broke down neighborhood trust. So much so the author sat on the entirety for most of a decade after that to find a way out, and ended up releasing the final version with "but I'm sure we can find a way to fix that"
Showing both that he had integrity in the end, and sufficient capture to not want to believe his own results.
It makes no sense if you value competency. Achieving this is already challenging. Choosing based on the basis of other characteristics obviously makes very little sense.
Anyway, the results are all around us.
Well said - interesting Dr. Malone did a deep dive into this subject today.
Long read but worth the time.
https://www.malone.news/p/fourth-industrial-revolution-and
Yes interesting. It is hard to say where it is going. Although western populations are slow to wake up I must say.
Dr Malone is a self-serving modern-day Elmer Gantry.
I am not sure what to make of him myself. I've read a few rumours.
Rumors? I am taken aback. I didn't peg you as one to let rumors slant your view. I say, do the research first. The rumors nearly destroyed Dr. Malone.
I am not close to it and I followed him during Covid and found his work useful. I drifted away after that. I am not accusing him of anything, but I am aware many think him some kind of plant or controlled opposition.
They seem to be more than rumors.
I am not close to it. I am aware some think him controlled opposition or a grifter of some sort.
I had a family event to attend so I didn't have time to reply but here's my take on this topic, First, I have no delusion that I am in any way an 'influencer' so while I might post an observation, I don't expect anyone to go ooooh ahhhh. What I am is observant and intuitive and I am pretty good at spotting fake. I pay more attention to what people do than what they say. Over time, the liars and those with hidden agenda out themselves.
I was following another substacker a year or so ago and she was tossing out negative words about Dr, Malone and, as I usually do, I decided to see for myself. I searched him and found his substack and subscribed. Over time, I could see a huge gap in the perceived opinions and rumors. I can tell you that if Dr. Malone is as the rumors claim, he is way better at it than any others. There is always a line that won't be crossed when someone is pretending to be what they are not.
I don't do human hero worship - no one is perfect, least of all me. But I have learned and agree with most of what Dr. Malone and his wife Jill stand for and share.
In the end, my advice to anyone - do your own research.
BTW, the other substacker I followed revealed herself as being seriously bias as usually those finally do so I don't pay her any mind any more.
I remember reading quite a bit of his stuff during Covid. If he was a plant it is not clear to me what his message was given how critical he was of lockdowns and the rest.
I made a conscious decision to step away from all Covid related material eventually as it was driving me crazy.
Love it!