tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post3165128109123220396..comments2024-03-22T15:55:34.030-04:00Comments on Evo and Proud: Demise of the WestPeter Frosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04303172060029254340noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-83841571224534085422019-02-15T08:24:52.696-05:002019-02-15T08:24:52.696-05:00I want to use this opportunity to appreciate Dr Ek...I want to use this opportunity to appreciate Dr Ekpen for the good work that his doing around the world, many of you must have ahead of him and what his doing. The reason why I'm appreciating him on this site is because maybe someone out there is facing the same challenge and he/she don't know what to do next to fix the issue, Dr Ekpen is a great spell caster and friendly also, if you have problem in your relationship you can contact him right way and he will be clad to help you out. Contact him now via email at ekpentemple@gmail.com or on whatsaap +2347050270218.<br />Jeroldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00407059276676088427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-61755365450522995082019-01-24T11:11:24.558-05:002019-01-24T11:11:24.558-05:00I like your pieces but I must totally disagree wit...I like your pieces but I must totally disagree with your take against free market.<br />On the contrary, all XX century can be described by an increasing enlargement of the government all around the world. Often in different ways, in waves up and down.<br /><br />What make people more antisocial or asocial is government handouts. They prevent people from saving, find independent jobs, maturing, etc. <br /><br />It is not the market making people impulsive buyers, it is the lack of immediate effects on the by doing so. The government welfare is there just to delay the effects on people of their bad decisions. Or to hide the effects of government bad decisions.<br /><br />When the government is the first cause of joblessness, with taxes and regulations, with money printing and lowering interest rates, the government will have an incentive to support people going to schools longer: to be better indoctrinated and to mask the real job data. If they are in school, they can not compete with workers, they do not show in statistics. Today they support loans for university students, but they don't really care in 10 or 20 years there will be a generation with debts it cannot repay. As a bureaucrat or politician, who cares. I get today my votes, my perks, my money, my power. And tomorrow no one will blame me. And if anyone ask me why we mess it so much, the standard reply is "Who could have imagined this?" "I didn't know". <br /><br />In a <b>really</b> free market, people don't get easy credit, because in a free market the government don't guarantee someone else loans. In a free market people don't spend all their money on frivolous things, without consequences. And the consequences on one make 100s rethink their spending priorities.<br /><br />Shut down 90% of the government, reduce taxes and regulations. Allow people to defend themselves from criminals. Take away governments handout to EVERYONE.<br />Unwanted immigration goes away immediately and in less than 10 years you get women marrying earlier. <br /><br />Government employees are mainly women because they are easier to control, they don't rebel so easily and they vote for the entity paying them money. Without government money (or welfare) they would depend much more on males to support them and their children.<br /><br />Get rid of government sanctioned marriage. It is a private contract between individual, the first contract Nature developed million years ago. It is the government meddling with the terms of the contract that make thing undesiderable to many men.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />painlord2k@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04566115851088917514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-24173578819370194212019-01-23T13:24:31.258-05:002019-01-23T13:24:31.258-05:00"Available data from OKC, surveys and observa..."Available data from OKC, surveys and observation suggest that men are the ones ones pining after and pursuing a much smaller group of attractive women (2/3ds of male messages go to the top 1/3 of women according to OKC data)."<br /><br />The same is true for women. In general, both men and women aim too high on the mate market. That being said, it has become a lot tougher for men. If we look at singles in the 20 to 40 age bracket, there are more men than women at all ages. The ratio is even more unbalanced if we look only at singles without children. This is a situation that has developed since the 1980s; previously, women outnumbered men on the mate market.<br />http://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2012/09/our-brideprice-culture.html<br />http://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2015/06/young-male-and-single.html<br /><br />"I'm not entirely certain what Frost is implying about the alt-right, who qualify as representatives of some vestigial male urge to destroy if you ask me"<br /><br />I see a lot more of that "urge to destroy" on the alt-left, if you ask me. <br /><br />"but he's full of hypocrisies himself, speaking endlessly of some western adaptation towards empathy while not appearing particularly empathetic himself."<br /><br />I've learned to discipline my mind. Whenever I do something I try to ask myself: "What are the consequences?"<br /><br />"How would you propose we decide who's worthy of higher education, Frost? The wealthy already have an unfair advantage over most of us"<br /><br />I agree. Legacy admissions should be banned. Admission should be merit-based. We also need to change the culture so that students don't automatically try to enter university after high school. Employers also have to stop demanding university degrees for jobs that don't really require them. If they want smart applicants, they should simply administer a skills test.Peter Frosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04303172060029254340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-31591046142620150842019-01-21T02:22:43.434-05:002019-01-21T02:22:43.434-05:00@Tyrion Lannister
I'm not going to delve too ...@Tyrion Lannister<br /><br />I'm not going to delve too deeply into the hows or whys of female infidelity or adultery because there's enough reductivist shit in this comment thread. <br /><br />Available data from OKC, surveys and observation suggest that men are the ones ones pining after and pursuing a much smaller group of attractive women (2/3ds of male messages go to the top 1/3 of women according to OKC data). Men show a marked preference for younger women, especially as they get older. The various evidence I've encountered strongly suggests that there's a huge premium on beauty with males being more shallow than females, which reflects the patriarchy: a system where men hold more power than women, with women tending to be the beneficiaries of hypergamy. <br /><br />I'm not entirely certain what Frost is implying about the alt-right, who qualify as representatives of some vestigial male urge to destroy if you ask me but he's full of hypocrisies himself, speaking endlessly of some western adaptation towards empathy while not appearing particularly empathetic himself. <br /><br />How would you propose we decide who's worthy of higher education, Frost? The wealthy already have an unfair advantage over most of us, that much is evident. And reliance on genetic essentialism is bound to lead one astray. Not to mention that IQ, beyond being an imperfect measure of "intelligence", does not necessarily remain fixed throughout life and that I have yet to see evidence suggesting otherwise. The original "marshmallow test" or the notion that "[...]Delaying gratification, delay discounting, and self-regulation are all variations on the same concept — self-control. The ability to put aside short-term gain for long-term goals makes us more successful." has been brought into question recently and decried as biased:<br /><br />"What's making delayed gratification predictive of later stuff in life are probably these other large factors that are present in these kids' lives, and other cognitive ability."<br /><br />"Watts notes that while the Temple University study is interesting, it still does not prove delayed gratification as a singular cause of higher income, just that it's an associated factor."<br /><br />>""[...]The failed replication of the marshmallow test does more than just debunk the earlier notion; it suggests other possible explanations for why poorer kids would be less motivated to wait for that second marshmallow," said McCrory Calarco.<br /><br />[...]For them, daily life holds fewer guarantees: There might be food in the pantry today, but there might not be tomorrow, so there is a risk that comes with waiting.""<br /><br />(source:https://www.buzzfeed.com/elfyscott/heres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-marshmallow-test?origin=thum)<br /><br />The multiple compounding factors affecting "intelligence" cannot be summarily attributed to either sexual/natural selection or any other select few factors. <br /><br />various sources:<br />https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/iq-myth-debunked-by-canadian-researchers-1.1264832<br />https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/be1c/2abc85a1bc4352b992f0c332988a4098267f.pdf<br />https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289611001413<br />http://web.archive.org/web/20170711130039/https://theblog.okcupid.com/your-looks-and-your-inbox-8715c0f1561e<br />https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2015/07/03/ok-cupid-data-on-sex-desirability-and-age/ tirednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-50834679378318459432019-01-21T01:06:16.438-05:002019-01-21T01:06:16.438-05:00I'm visualizing this so-called demise of the w...I'm visualizing this so-called demise of the west right now by reading a litany of self-serving dogma from a conservative, androcentric old fart.tirednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-1380457094841971362019-01-20T21:55:29.397-05:002019-01-20T21:55:29.397-05:00I loved this essay, and agreed with much of it. A...I loved this essay, and agreed with much of it. A minor point: FDR strongly admired fascism, especially Mussolini's version, and sent some of his staff to learn from him. FDR was, for all intents and purposes, an elected dictator. He even capriciously set gold prices. <br />Your description of the policies of the Fifties in the US point to a way out of the mess we're currently in. All levels of society would receive economic benefit, but there would be limits on elites' rapaciousness through the tax rates on corporations and the collective might of the proles through strong unionization. Tariffs would also help preserve the overall strength of the nation's businesses. Morality codes like Hays would strengthen community and family structures through popular culture. IMHO, of course. S. Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07340480148470864957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-54655282077464950082019-01-15T10:26:06.676-05:002019-01-15T10:26:06.676-05:00People should not be having children while they ar...<i>People should not be having children while they are on welfare, unless they can show that their welfare dependency is a temporary circumstance.</i><br /><br /><br />I can understand how you failed as a leftist. Worrying about the proles fornicating and having babies. You need to look around and see what company this puts you in.iffennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-31364819951341221442019-01-15T09:28:56.314-05:002019-01-15T09:28:56.314-05:00Stop worshipping Mammon, that is the first step. T...Stop worshipping Mammon, that is the first step. Then stop trying to 'convince' everyone of everything. Impose patriarchy and rule unapologetically. VivaDuterte!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-4451393558929447642019-01-12T15:50:17.842-05:002019-01-12T15:50:17.842-05:00Truth,
Women value relationships with other peopl...Truth,<br /><br />Women value relationships with other people and are thus more likely to think as others do. Conversely, men tend to be social retards and are more likely to think differently.<br /><br />Women used to be more traditionalist than men. Even within the Left they tended to be a conservative influence. All of that changed between the 1960s and the 1990s. My impression is that the turning point was in the late 1980s. There was a massive die-off of traditional culture around that time, and an implosion of social conservatism. Yes, I'm talking about the Reagan era.<br /><br />You're not going to turn things around by getting angry at women. You have to create culture -- music, videos, books, stuff that women love to listen to and read. And you have to talk and act like winners. There is an ugly side of defeatism on the Alt-Right.<br /><br />I agree that university admission should be merit-based and not income-based. "Legacy admissions" should be discouraged. If you want to donate money to your alma mater, don't expect to get preferential treatment for your children. That kind of "donation" should not be tax deductible.<br /><br />Again, I disagree with some of your comments about women. As I see it the problem with universities is twofold: 1) too many people go to university, especially people who lack intellectual skills; and 2) universities have become places for indoctrination and not free intellectual inquiry. I don't see women as being worse than men in either respect. Men are more likely to be intellectual mavericks, but they're also more likely to be intellectual sociopaths. <br /><br />Sean,<br /><br />People should not be having children while they are on welfare, unless they can show that their welfare dependency is a temporary circumstance.<br />Peter Frosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04303172060029254340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-32270564673218735612019-01-12T12:09:38.729-05:002019-01-12T12:09:38.729-05:00Henry Harpending suggested that the welfare benefi...Henry Harpending suggested that the welfare benefits for a child should be be paid to the father rather than the mother. <a href="https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2015/05/26/when-public-policy-meets-elementary-biology/" rel="nofollow">https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2015/05/26/when-public-policy-meets-elementary-biology/</a><br /><br /> Led by America, the West is going to meet the challenge of China, which will require exerting military pressure if not an actual war. It sounds all too likely that as the previous post pointed out, Liberalism is unbeatable in such conflicts. If we are preparing for one, immigration can be expected to increase as the Deep State gears up. '<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/29/the-great-leveller-walter-scheidel-review-paul-mason" rel="nofollow">ONLY</a> specific types of violence have consistently forced down inequality,” Scheidel writes. War has to be total; revolution has to be ultraviolent and socially pervasive; state failure has to lead to violence so intense that “it wipes the slate clean”.'<br /><br />An economic and maybe military steamrollering by China into second rate status seems the only way that the West might be persuaded to alter course, but that change could be toward open borders (borders are inequality). Things are heading that way, but I do not think the process will run on long enough for complete unraveling of the social fabric of the West in the way Peter predicts because AI, blockchain ect is going to make productive low trust economies more feasible.Seannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-55040532130370469172019-01-12T10:05:50.409-05:002019-01-12T10:05:50.409-05:00"Reduce pressure on the housing market by sto..."Reduce pressure on the housing market by stopping large-scale immigration."<br /><br />While this is true, house prices have also been pushed up by the hundreds of billions of new money that banks created in the years before the financial crisis.<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4WmDoYJhnkAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-14889098423868761562019-01-12T09:50:49.866-05:002019-01-12T09:50:49.866-05:00"Increase the tax burden on single people&quo..."Increase the tax burden on single people"<br /><br />Why put the burden of guilt on involuntary single men? I am referring to the marginalized/ mate-deprived men (average looking men) ... of course I agree on tax those free-riders selfish polygynous men (sexy strategic opportunists) who can (and usually manage) to mate with a multitude of women and are not interested in monogamy / exclusive relationship (i.e they are voluntary singles since they have a harem).Tyrion Lannisternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-9361747043403516552019-01-12T09:43:09.949-05:002019-01-12T09:43:09.949-05:00"Reduce funding for colleges and universities..."Reduce funding for colleges and universities. Higher education should be only for people who have the intelligence and motivation for it. On the other hand, we should continue to support continuing education (night school and 1-year sabbaticals) for people who are already in the work force."<br /><br />I would disagree partially on this proposal.I believe that the supply-demand of university qualification positions should be readjusted. That is to say, being for example T = absorption rate = R (retirement replacement) + (creation or destruction rate of new annual jobs). And being U = ratio of academic enrollments taught annually (number of new graduates in the market per year). You should make T = U as possible as possible. Since it does not make sense that a country has, for example, 70% of higher graduates when the jobs for higher graduates are 40%. In the end, you get 30% of graduates stuck in limbo without being able to access a job within their qualification: they have wasted money and years of their life to academic training for nothing. They have to emigrate to another country, remain unemployed (pockets of poverty or work in garbage jobs (competing with immigrants) below their expectations.<br /><br />Respect to allow only the smartest to access. It would be a meritocratic measure that seems fairly fair, but I disagree when trying to link intelligence with economic status of the parents. There are some pretty stupid kids who could study and smart but poor people who would stay out. Honestly I do not think the kids of wealthy families are smarter. It seems to me a very elitist measure.<br /><br /><br />": ... and motivation for it"<br /><br />Women are, on average, many more motivated than men to strive in higher degrees. Which would take us back to the same place we started from. If women dedicate all their youth to study and get a good job, they will not be interested in motherhood or hinder their desire for professional fulfillment. Education and work gives them more economic independence, and this dynamic erase male direct / material benefits as a determining factor in female sexual choice (which is all that is<br />relevant to male evolutionary concerns).<br /><br />Higher education/best incomes/best life quality gives females wings to pursue their hypergamous biological instincts; the same ideal they have always wanted (and<br />will always want at any age) - a young, physically attractive male (sexy hunks) to<br />give them their oxytocin fix.<br />Tyrion Lannisternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-66152959518505508992019-01-11T18:36:36.877-05:002019-01-11T18:36:36.877-05:00At the root of the problem is today's white wo...At the root of the problem is today's white women. We have to be clear on where the degeneracy is coming from. I deal with them on dating sites (Tinder/Match/etc) and I can tell you the following: (1) They've stopped caring about their biological clocks, which is a new thing; (2) They no longer want to start a family; (3) They've become ugly and have stopped grooming themselves properly; (4) There's a new statistical shortage of them, so they've become spoiled brats with outrageous behavior. Solving this crisis requires applying pressure on white women. Make them more dependent on men. Turn off the spigot on some of their freedoms, such as abortion rights. Generate conditions of poverty for them. You can't scare them with childlessness because they don't care about kids anymore, so it has to be some new wake-up call for them, but with enough bite. Truth Seekernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-26149072688839427752019-01-11T13:21:07.533-05:002019-01-11T13:21:07.533-05:00"Do you mean marriages arranged by family&quo..."Do you mean marriages arranged by family"<br /><br />No, that wouldn't be necessary. In any case, arranged marriages aren't part of the Western tradition. I do believe it's necessary to create incentives for young people to get married earlier and have their families earlier. That way, they'll be able to benefit from grandparenting and avoid the pitfalls of reduced fertility in their 30s. <br /><br />The demographic situation is bad but not hopeless. We've been through worse. During the Black Death, Europe lost a third of its population. There was also a "baby bust" during the Great Depression. I remember hearing "early baby boomers" (born in the late 1940s) talk about how there used to be almost nothing but old people in workplaces, particularly in senior positions.<br /><br />To turn things around, we should:<br /><br />1. Reduce funding for colleges and universities. Higher education should be only for people who have the intelligence and motivation for it. On the other hand, we should continue to support continuing education (night school and 1-year sabbaticals) for people who are already in the work force.<br /><br />2. Provide tax credits for infertility treatment, including surrogacy. <br /><br />3. Increase the tax burden on single people and on people (both men and women) who have children out of wedlock. People who have children out of wedlock will, in fact, be fined (as is the case in China).<br /><br />4. If a prisoner is let out on parole and has a child out of wedlock, he will lose parole and go back to prison to serve out his full term.<br /><br />5. In cases of no-fault divorce, the person initiating the divorce will be ineligible for alimony. There should be no monetary incentives for divorce.<br /><br />6. Reduce pressure on the housing market by stopping large-scale immigration. We need to get away from the idea that your house is some kind of pension plan that will inevitably increase in value as you get older. A lot of pressure for immigration comes from this source, i.e., homeowners and real estate agents.Peter Frosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04303172060029254340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-8369657975097240372019-01-11T11:32:49.503-05:002019-01-11T11:32:49.503-05:00This would imply mitigating the hyperselectivity o...This would imply mitigating the hyperselectivity of women by indirect methods ( e.g. limiting female welfare state/access to labor market, encourage early marriage, anti-feminist social engineering, prohibition of divorce, abortion, contraceptives, discourage female eagerness for emancipation, university education and sexual libertarianism/searching for sexy men for short-term mating) promote housewife life, and motherhood as the greatest exponents of women's realization, etc) or directly by means of the precise allocation of 1: 1 long-term pairings type Gale-Sharpley algorithm (e.g. arranged marriages). <br /><br />A whole fantasy-fiction exercise on my part!<br /><br />What human political-economic system do you think would be better and worse to achieve ideal monogamy? liberalism, socio-liberalism, socialism, libertarianism, minarchism, anarchocapitalism, anarchosocialism, communism ..? and regarding the distribution of wealth? What is your opinion?.<br /><br />As question within a chimeric/mental experiment (since as things are in the West, it seems that nobody is going to be able to weaken the prevailing dominating forces)<br /><br />I think State intervention would be thus incumbant upon systematic regulation of reproductive fitness, through policies in stable population replacement (which, again, must necessarily infringe upon 'floating' options in female choice).Tyrion Lannisternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-5858854695547539042019-01-11T11:32:03.562-05:002019-01-11T11:32:03.562-05:00@Peter,
Bright trilogy of posts!
I understand f...@Peter, <br /><br />Bright trilogy of posts!<br /><br />I understand from your writings that you are, like me, a strong supporter of marriage (based upon ideal monogamy), the extended family as the backbone of society.<br /><br />Leaving for a moment the economics systems aside, I think most serious/profound problem of human society is sexual conflict: since reproduction and survival (subordinated to the previous one, i.e. survival to guarantee genetic replication), are the two most primordial issues of human beings.<br /><br />Reproductive fitness ultimately reduces to an initial, limiting condition of female choice (passive: where outcomes in male competition are more strongly indicated, or active: where outcomes in sexual conflict are more strongly indicated).<br /><br />The second existential basic objective would be acquisition of resources to survive at least until reproduction.<br /><br />How would the market economy and liberalism fit into this whole mating landscape?<br /><br />It is clear that globalization and free market, as well as urbanization and the increase of population densities are an enhancer of female mating skew (propitiating floating polygyny).<br /><br />For what you comment, it affects the social atomization, destructuring of family clans and extended networks, community.<br /><br />To what extent would the strengthening of extended family structures would provide ideal monogamy for their offsprings? Do you mean marriages arranged by family (or marriage between cousins) assuring that youngs, whether male or female, can access to a partner for life?<br /><br />And it does not seem feasible that in the next eons no conventional political movement promulgates the implementation of measures such as promoting an equitable distribution of human sexuality/love (forced monoandry) providing the opportunity for each male in the population to be provided with a female partner.<br /><br />Which would solve in a cascade process many other collateral problems that underlie this issue: male suicides, vagrants, sexual deprivation (TFLs / Incels), loneliness / chronic bachelors, masculine violence / resentment (criminality, rapes, coercive sex, terrorism), unemployed bags for existential angst/depression). <br /><br />It has discouraged the male competitive effort for the acquisition of resources, since many men have realized that they can only access heavy/precarious jobs of low class blue-collar (building, industry, agriculture, workers and laborers) with low salaries and sacrificed life, without the incentive of having a woman/wife when they arrive at home at night (assuming they could buy a home, according to the modern price of housing).<br /><br />I see that the majority of white-collars jobs in the state bureaucracy/public administration are filled by women, as well as office, health, education and more comfortable/rewarding jobs.<br /><br />Morevoer given nascent trends of sub replacement fertility(where unbeholden/ active female choice confounds all other explanations), the instability of occidental populations will become increasingly evident at a rate of population momentum, and strategic displacement in frequency dependent selection.<br /><br />The demographic winter is coming, less and less births and population pyramid invested: fewer contributing young workers to the welfare state, more retired pensioners to maintain, aging population less consumption internod-degrowth of aggregate demand ...)Tyrion Lannisternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-33429494967849348552019-01-10T14:35:37.375-05:002019-01-10T14:35:37.375-05:00"The size of the smart fraction available to ..."The size of the smart fraction available to the largest corporations, finance organisations, state and military apparatuses looks fairly stable going forwards."<br /><br /><br />The size of the smart fraction won't be a serious constraint for the core Western countries, particularly the U.S. (which can still attract such people from rest of the world). I'm less optimistic for the peripheral Western world, particularly the former Soviet bloc countries. Some of them, like Moldova, have lost too many of their youngest and brightest to be sustainable.<br /><br />In any case, the real problem is not so much the smart fraction as the general population. If the general population gets replaced, the situation will be like South Africa without a steady inflow of money from external markets. The high cost of insecurity, theft, and graft will wreak the market economy.<br /><br />"My view is that the liquidation of the family is caused by the Africanization of Western society"<br /><br />Canada had relatively few Africans until the 1970s, and Australia had relatively few until much later, yet both countries went through the same cultural changes as the U.S.: falling birth rates; rising divorce rates; rising age of marriage; increase in births out of wedlock, increase in common-law relationships; increase in people living alone, etc. <br /><br />"Female economic independence has been recreating an African social environment in the West."<br /><br />That's part of the story. Rising affluence opened a Pandora's box, but I would also include male economic independence as part of the problem. Economically, it's easier for most of us to live alone today. That wasn't the case in the past. <br /><br />On the other hand, we are poorer today than we were in the 1970s, yet I see little sign that families are coming back together. In fact, my impression is that we have, if anything, become more obsessed with personal autonomy, especially since the 1990s. Part of the problem is that there are few community organizations at the grassroots to lead the way back to traditionalism.<br /><br />Luke,<br /><br />Most people understand that something is going terribly wrong. Unfortunately, people need leaders, and the traditional sources of leadership -- academia, churches, media, and politicians -- have become part of the problem, either because of intellectual inertia or because they worry about their sources of funding (ultimately the top 1%). In fact, the prevailing discourse on both the right and the left is that we need more personal autonomy and more freedom from the terrible ogres of the family, the community, and the nation state.<br /><br />"The universalist trend pushes toward open borders and medicare for all"<br /><br />You cannot have a welfare state and open borders. People understood this in the past, and most still do. Unfortunately, a lot of money is being channeled into the hands of people who don't understand this elementary point. Why? Some people are just naïve. Others, especially libertarians, see open borders as a means to destroy the welfare state. Still other people have a grudge against Western society.Peter Frosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04303172060029254340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-6379220134248585822019-01-10T09:18:13.780-05:002019-01-10T09:18:13.780-05:00iffen, Only the dead have seen the end of war, or ...iffen, Only the dead have seen the end of war, or the nation state.Seannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-76365970065941121992019-01-09T11:25:52.886-05:002019-01-09T11:25:52.886-05:00A great piece and also extremely depressing at the...A great piece and also extremely depressing at the same time.de Ruyterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16166248385423714662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-29410136175472489112019-01-08T10:26:50.151-05:002019-01-08T10:26:50.151-05:00If you believe in free universal medicare, then I&...<i>If you believe in free universal medicare, then I'm with you 100%. Let me shake your hand. If you believe in open borders, then turn around and let me give you a swift kick in the butt. You're no friend of working people.</i><br /><br />The universalist trend has been with us much longer than the bourgeois trend. The universalist trend pushes toward open borders <b>and</b> medicare for all; see leftist Democrats in the U.S. The communitarian impulse is hard-wired as the in-group/out-group instinct. The conflict between the communitarian and the universalist is playing out. Most people will not be able to separate the medicare for all and open borders as you have. iffennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-11042346809652896722019-01-08T07:57:56.415-05:002019-01-08T07:57:56.415-05:00but the latter lack any credible strategy, effecti...<i>but the latter lack any credible strategy, effective organisation, or critically, force-projection capability</i><br /><br /><br />Yeah, well, the guillotine will cover a multitude of sins and limitations.iffennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-63116751935387594282019-01-08T03:47:56.920-05:002019-01-08T03:47:56.920-05:00Superb analysis The ultimate post.Superb analysis The ultimate post.Seannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-66409317132347291302019-01-07T23:36:43.397-05:002019-01-07T23:36:43.397-05:00And now for something optimistic, namely, the forw...And now for something optimistic, namely, the forward to my new book, An American Eutopia, which you can find on Kindle:<br /><br />"The ideal of a simple life on the land, the vision of a new day “when every man will sit under his own vine, and nation shall not vex nation anymore”—these are, perhaps, as old as history and as broad as humankind. Yet seldom if ever, I suspect, has the ideal been so apt, or the vision more compelling, than they are today, when thanks to the great Tree of Capital we have for the first time not only the means to realize the dream in substance if we choose, but also the means to destroy ourselves in the event we should fail. In a sense, then, we may already be living in the judgment day. The only question is, shall we try to go on living the way we do now in a world divided between the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor, the educated and the ignorant; a foolish, dangerously imbalanced world whose symptoms are technological unemployment on an unprecedented scale, social and cultural disinter-gration, and the mass migrations of peoples, and which can only end in violence and decay? Or shall we strive to seek a fairer and more permanent form of civilization based on a just division of the world’s desserts, with equitable portions of liberty, leisure, and the good things of this earth for all people everywhere?<br /><br /><br />It is against the background of this question that I have assembled these notes, in the hope that they will prove useful in the period ahead."<br /><br />Here is a preview: https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B07L7W5GKZ&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_zjcnCbFNBFTCR<br />Luke Leahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11290760894780619646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-49575260918421955822019-01-07T20:56:42.776-05:002019-01-07T20:56:42.776-05:00This liquidation of kinship is driven by the expan...<i>This liquidation of kinship is driven by the expansion of the market economy and its accompanying ideology of liberalism. </i><br /><br />My view is that the liquidation of the family is caused by the Africanization of Western society, and that the market economy and liberalism are ultimately rationalizations of this Africanization. Female economic independence has been recreating an African social environment in the West.<br /><br />This is the culmination of 500 years of contact between the West and Africa. Globalization and the West's rise at its early stages involved contact with Africa and the transport of Africans around the world. We have been unable to extricate ourselves from Africans since then, and now we stand at the precipice of skyrocketing African fertility and the prospect of an African population boom enabled by the West swamping and inundating the West and the entire world. As we take a wider historical view, a monstrous horror is gradually being revealed to us: that the West has been a giant extended phenotype of Africans. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com