Way back when I had a real job, I was part of the hiring process for certain positions in the local branches. One of my tasks was to sort the resumes that came in through various recruiting programs. Once a week I would spend a few hours opening mail, reading the resumes, and sorting them into buckets. After a while they would start looking the same. My job was not to evaluate them at that point. I was just sorting them and then sending them on for further processing.
It was a boring task, but once in a while a wacky one would come through to make the few hours’ worth it. One time I got a resume from someone who had worked in local politics her whole life. It was very well done and had a nice cover letter. The letter explained that she had been in local politics for twenty years but wanted to transition into a private sector position. The thing that struck me about the letter is she indicated she was best qualified for a management position, given her experience.
Her experience, however, was entirely useless in the private sector. Her life had been spent working on committees, campaigns, and staffs for local pols. The titles she listed were meaningless gibberish to me. Imagine someone claiming to have been the “The Deputy Assistant Centurion of the Alpha Quadrant” in charge of “nebulizing the remulac” and you get the idea. I read the job descriptions carefully trying to figure out what the woman actually did in the listed positions. No luck.
At the time, I just thought it was a strange resume, but over the years I have come to realize that the world of politics and our world disconnected at some point. There has always been a separation of politics and regular life, but with enough movement back and forth to keep both sides tethered to one another. There was also the practical reality of politics depending on popular support. If things got bad for the people, they may try to hang the king, so the king had to keep an eye on them.
Today they are completely different worlds. I have a segment on Liz Cheney. Her life may as well have been lived in another solar system. Technically, she is supposed to be representing the interests of Wyoming in the people’s house. In reality, she is the Cloud People’s representative to the Dirt People of Wyoming. She may as well correspond with them via video link, like the alien overlords in sci-fi movies. “People of Wyoming, this is your humanoid representative. Obey and listen to instructions.”
Again, all societies, regardless of the form of government, have a ruling elite that is often at odds with and out of touch with the people. That is why there are subsystems that provide feedback to the decision makers. That is the problem that parliaments are supposed to solve. How best to keep the rulers and the ruled in communication so both sides understand the other enough to avoid conflict. Today, those feedback loops no longer exist. The political system operates in isolation from us.
The result is we have the Dirt People thinking they live in a representative democracy where their votes dictate public policy. The Cloud People think they live in a novel form of dictatorship where their decisions are applauded by the masses. It is why so many of the Cloud People are convinced there is an evil conspiracy afoot to rile up the masses against the system. Why else would they not be clapping? From their perspective, the system is running as expected, so the opposition is illogical.
The Dirt People, having been trained their whole lives to think the humanoids they choose between in elections care about their votes, are baffled by why those humanoids never following instructions. Unable to question the logic of the system itself, they come up with novel theories about why the Cloud People are doing the things they are doing. At some point, the right answer is “they are not us”. That is always the answer when the Cloud People float too far away from the Dirt People.
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- 00:00: Opening
- 02:00: Driving Home Some Points
- 22:00: Salad Bowls
- 37:00: Cloud People (Link)
- 47:00: Novel Fascism (Link) (Be Like Me)
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I thought the Z-man was notoriously single. Yet, he has a very cool wedding ring named after him. Life is full of wonderful irony.
Makes we wish I didn’t already have a cool ring, but I don’t think the wifey would approve.
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Charles Murray accurately highlighted this “Cloud vs Dirt” disconnect some years ago in his book “Coming Apart”. Back before the US fully globalized its economy in 1980-90s, your boss, his boss, and maybe even his boss all lived in the same town and maybe even in the same neighborhood. One of the more startling stats that Murray stated in a book chock full of stats was that in the 1970s, the average US CEO made about 6-7 times more than his avg employee made. By the 2010s this stat had increased to 16-17 times. I’m sure now it’s well over 20 times. And of course with such income disparity, your typical F500 CEO would not be caught dead in any neighborhood of any of his employees. There’s your major disconnect. The rich have gotten insanely richer and are no longer part of your neighborhood, your town, maybe even your planet.
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A very good book! And, decades of cultural Marxism has worked its ‘disrupting’ effect on the once stable white working class ,, the real nugget in the book.
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There is also a big divide between managerial class and the private sector. Around here, a public school teacher makes about the same as an engineer. Add in benefits and the teacher makes more and they get summers off. When you get to higher rungs, the gap is quite large. Then you have the widening cultural divide. Spend time in Northern Virginia and you quickly see that it is not America.
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I strongly encourage everyone to spend some time in Cloud-Cuckooland. If you can’t get to Northern VA, any college town will do. If that’s impossible, an episode of the old tv show Portlandia will do it. This is a show all my Liberal friends assured me I’d love, “because it makes fun of Liberals.” Which it does… though, of course, the punchline of every “joke” is that Liberals are just too special, too wonderful, too caring to make it in this sick sad world.
That’s the crucial thing to grasp. In the same way primitive hunter-gatherer tribes spend some huge percentage of their day just walking around the forest looking for a few berries, so Cloud People spend their entire days looking for some tiny, obscure new way to virtue-signal. It’s unutterably exhausting to normal people, but it fills their lives with deep meaning. They don’t notice that a loaf of shade-grown, free-trade tofu costs $30, in the same way the hunter-gatherers don’t notice the trees. I’d rather chop off one of my toes than spend a second contemplating my pronouns, but to them, that’s not just living, it’s living well.
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LOL. I get all I can handle when I visit daughter #2 in the Nutmeg state. Though, as Z has observed, the lunacy of peak liberalism is perversely offset by the fact that I’m living the white nationalist dream while there.
Many years ago I read a book called “Over the Hills” by a reporter named David Lamb, who was middle-aged and rode his bike across America, from DC to Los Angeles. This was back in the mid-90’s. One thing that struck him was how vastly different the people in places like rural Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, etc were compared to those in the DC area, where he lived. The gulf is probably wider today, 25 years later, but the bigger difference is that those rural folks are not only different, but actually despised much more today by the big city elites.
Is that the same David Lamb who wrote the book The Africans? How in the world has he not been unpersoned yet? That book was supposed to be some anti-White, anti-colonial screed, but if you can find it today — good luck — it just confirms everything you ever thought about Africa, in spades.
Jonah Goldberg (of all people!!) quoted a great story from it way back in the days: Two fighters from the Zaire Air Force are approaching the base. The landing strip is covered in fog, so the tower radios that the pilots can’t land. So the pilots eject, since “you can’t land” means “you can’t land, ever.”
Africa wins again. This was sometime in the 1980s, if you want a glimpse of the near future.
“…I’m sure now it’s well over 20 times…”
“In 2019, CEOs of S&P 500 companies received, on average, $14.8 million in total compensation. The average S&P 500 company CEO-to-worker pay ratio was *264-to-1*…
What happens when America finally admits its middle class is a phantom of feel-good fantasy? We may well find out in the next four years…”
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogdec20/phantom-middle-class12-20.html
Well, I did say WELL over, didn’t I? Thanks for the link. Good stuff.
Well, I did say WELL over, didn’t I? Thanks for the link.
Talk about insane wealth: I’m an office drone living in a nice 1970 suburban home (quarter acre lot) in a leafy suburban paradise. The home was built by the CFO of Zenith, which was headquartered a 10 minute drive down the street.
Zenith is obviously long gone, but, I can tell you there are not any CFO’s of global technology/ manufacturing companies living on my block or in my neighborhood these days…
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Spot-on, the stolen car snippet as anarcho-tyranny experienced first-hand; luckily, my car was found and I was notified. Went to impound that very day, and still had to pay $250 to reclaim MY car, stolen from where it was parked, in front of my suburban home. And, lucky for me, too, as the rate was $50/day unclaimed.
Separately, on spirit of the law vs. letter of the law, I’d observe that uncivilized people respect neither; or, more precisely, are very fluid in which they observe, depending on which construction suits their needs at a given moment. Our rulers, then, are outside of the law or custom, a practices even most barbarians did not embrace. This is not a revelation to the choir to which I’m preaching, lol, but it cannot be repeated often enough.
NB: Apologies for the use of xim political science catchphrases ‘construction, and ‘fluid.’ I must be slipping, as I couldn’t work in bodies, deconstruct or disrupt, though both are the end products of progressive practices.
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I experience it regularly with burglaries of my rental properties. The police exist as nothing more than a paperwork provider for the insurance companies. No attempt is made to catch the burglars.
There is a striking difference, however, between the rural Sheriff’s department out where my ranch is and the urban police departments where my rentals are.
I have an unoccupied mobile home on the ranch that I was using for storage. It was burglarized and the Sheriff’s dept. went whole hog. They actually caught the guys and sent them to jail.
However, what really kicked into gear out here was the local grapevine. As soon as I told friends about the burglary, reports started to roll in from friends not only who did it, but where a bunch of my stolen stuff was! The two boys who did it were in deep shit in no time. One of their parents showed up at my place with a pickup truck of stolen goods, begging me to take it back. Another carful of stolen goods was pointed out to me at a mobile home in a nearby village.
I didn’t get everything back, but I got a lot back. and the grapevine was actually more effective than the cops.
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That’s a great story. Short and to the point. Very handy for convincing people about the value of strong, trusting, local communities and the benefits they confer. Glad to hear some things still work as they ought to!
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Has anyone heard of Mike Stathis? Interesting read…..
The “grass is always greener” means that the cloud people never have to acknowledge that they are the cloud people, because they all know someone much richer. It’s how Pelosi can bitch about Trump’s state and local deduction cap hurting the “middle class” with a straight face. If the people who give you orders have billions, your one-hundred million doesn’t seem obscene, even though your salary is only in the low six-figures (Nancy Pelosi must be one sound investor). There was an article in one of those New York based culture papers saying, with a straight face, “You try living in this town on only $500,000 a year.”
Then you have the cloud people who are just totally delusional, like Anderson Cooper tearing up when Trump called Haiti a “sh*t hole,” and lecturing him for his privilege. Cooper literally does look like some sort of alien, a perplexed sapient, grey-headed humanoid (sort of) trying to understand this illogical emotion called “racism” that the primitive Caucasians of the lower orders harbor against their dusky brethren. Extremely illogical, all this talk about borders.
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I’ve used Lizzy Warren as an example of this in the past. Her mansion looks humble compared to those of her patrons, so she thinks she is working class. She has no idea how ridiculous she look standing on the step of her mansion doing the William Jennings Bryant routine, because everyone she knows thinks it sounds great.
The one exception is Tucker Carlson. He knows he has no idea how the rest of us live and he is careful to say it. He runs into normal people on fishing trips and talks to them. I give him a lot of credit for being honest with himself and his audience on that score.
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I wonder what Churchill would have thought about were we are now. Would he lament our failure to learn from history so as to manage “the awful unfolding scene of the future.” ? Since it appears all the pieces are almost in place for the next big game would he be thinking our finest hour is approaching, or perhaps it’s better to let it all burn?
We do indeed live in interesting times.
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He did, in many of his writings allude to – and perhaps even explicitly call for – a ‘United States of Europe’. So who knows, he may be ecstatic to see it fully realized. That said, he probably envisioned it run by people who were not quite the same as those that are indeed there. I am not so much opposed to centralization and standardization of things when it seems sensible; but please let it not fall to the hands of anti-whites. For all his faults, and there were plenty, ol’ Winston did call a wog a wog.
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After the war in Europe was over he (Churchill) saw the almost immediate migration into the UK and wanted to stop it with the slogan (from memory) which was ‘keep Britain white’. It didn’t work as he was voted out after the war and well momentum. He got back in later, but as I say, momentum.
He did lament that he was so focused on Germany that he didn’t see the rise of Russia – which had been on a war footing since the early 1920’s. To be honest though, he was such a drunkard I’m surprised he saw anything.
But we Brits and Yanks have to accept that not only did we deliberately murder German civilians in our terror bombings of Dresden and Hamburg, we destroyed nationalism in Europe and made it a sin. There are no refunds, and so we are destined to suffer.
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About the closest thing we have at the moment to ‘Keep Britain White’ is what the Patriotic Alternative offers:
https://www.patrioticalternative.org.uk/our_plan
It’s a very good start. But I find it more encouraging than actually something that will happen. These boys will never get near the halls of power.
Why would we care what that utter failure would think of us now? He was himself a fat drunk who failed upward his entire life (thanks to his connections to certain international banking types). His colossal mistake at Tripoli should have ended him forever. But through the (((Focus group))) he was able to become politically relevant.
Then once again he roused for war, not because it was necessary or noble but politically expedient. He played a large part in forcing the hands of parliament into declarations of war, was named admiralty of the navy where he immediately set about failing (check out the invasion of Norway–inexcusable!). Of course he was named PM, and many of his decisions thereafter led to the the fall of the British Empire.
It is truly amazing that we admire the man as some kind of mythic hero today. He could write a good turn of phrase every once in a while, I’ll give him that. But those were few and far between his bloated, hyperbolic, adolescent grumblings.
I know we need our heroes, but by God, not that fat toad!
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Sorry for that unprovoked rant 😳 The other day I heard there was some poll or other years ago in which he was named Best Briton in history. I just think there are a host of better candidates for that title.
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Heh. You are very much correct, close examination of his record shows that he was flawed in all sorts of ways. Furthermore, it looks like he pushed for the sorts of globalist empire that is the ‘de facto’ standard of today. Not to mention the friends he kept and his creditors.
Yet the myth is so strong, you could bad mouth him, even in a very tepid way, in many public places in the UK and get sharply rebuked. You may even get into some physical bother. People of a certain age love him. Many of the working class whites that I know, all over 50, also feel the same way. That myth is something that binds a certain set of Englishman and if I had to find a single word for it, it would be ‘tenacity’. From the myriad conversations I have had with people about him, this is the image it seems the myth has conveyed to them.
It would appear that, as usual, the picture of the ‘fat toad’ in a suit with a Tommy Gun is worth far more than all the scholarly material available about his life an times. I agree with every word you’ve said. But the myth is important. I know that when I meet a man defending Churchill, he be a good man; perhaps a man for our side.
“It is truly amazing that we admire the man as some kind of mythic hero today.”
All our best heroes are surrounded by myth. Let the truth be for the handful of seekers, and let those who wish to be guided by the myth and look no further that it do so. Providing it is a good myth, and a myth that honours tenacity is a decent start. However shaky the facts may be.
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Seems apt: “This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”
“But the myth is important. I know that when I meet a man defending Churchill, he be a good man; perhaps a man for our side.”
In this I agree with you. A few years ago at my favorite cafe I had a conversation with an older Boomer who was reading a book about Churchill. I kept my reservations to myself and had a lively discussion with him on Churchill, WW2 in general. He is a kindly salt of the earth type, and I go out of my way to catch up with him whenever I see him around.
I very much respect and revere myth as essential as well. The mythic import of WW2 is one of those topics I struggle with. I think it definitely had a positive utility as a unifying myth up to a point. For the most part, the myth has turned for the worse unfortunately ( holocaust worship, obsessions with racism etc.). I will admit, when they were tearing down Churchill’s statue last year, there was a certain tension/dissonance within me.
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Churchill does provoke strong reactions in a lot of people. As a man of his age he was better than most, worse than a few. I think he recognized the dynamics of human societies ( better to be the boot than the face), but like all “Great Men” he thought he was smarter than he really was. I try to avoid that trap by realizing I’m not that bright.
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OrangeFrog: You are absolutely correct that people need their myths, while the actual record shows they were extremely flawed. My husband had a positive military/political view of Churchill; I was more in favor of his purported bon mots. But his banker entanglements appear to have been far more extensive than I ever realized, per this link I posted yesterday (https://thuletide.wordpress.com/2021/05/06/world-war-world-government-and-international-finance/).
I’m to the point that I now automatically assume anyone who’s been involved in politics and/or world affairs for the past 75-100 years has been coopted by the vampire squid of money and power.
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As a British ex-Army Officer I have to say that I feel extremely strongly about your rant and must reply with…………
I second your statement and could not agree more! I’m glad to come across someone with the same views about that vile man that I do.
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It was Gallipoli, not Tripoli, which are not even on the same continent and the British Empire was already well into decline by the time he became Prime Minister. Thanks for giving us great examples why people on this side so often get dismissed as ignorant cranks when we try to convince people the cartoon character version of history they have fed their whole lives is mostly a pack of lies.
One of the many things Churchill envisioned was a global Union of the English Speaking People. Since he was the best known public figure in the English speaking world I think I know who he had in mind to run the show.
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Oddly enough, this push for greater centralization from the Cloud will probably result in a vastly increased localism. Our Imperial Overlords in Tubman, Distrito Federal, make their decisions, but their on-the-spot impact is determined by the DMV lady, the “doctor” at your local Doc-in-the-Box, the county sheriff… all of whom are, in this best of all possible worlds, easily-bribable foreigners. Absent total economic collapse — and it seems that, despite all reason, the money printer can in fact go brrrr indefinitely — you’ve got, in effect, a bunch of medieval peasants with laptops. Most medieval peasants had no idea who the “king” was at any given time…
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“…Most medieval peasants had no idea who the “king” was at any given time…”
Today’s peasants with their “cell-phones” and their cat videos are no better. The rulers are shielded from view by layers of frontmen and a maze of obscure, interlocking organizations (corporations, foundations, think tanks, etc). The high-profile clown shows in DC, at the UN, etc are just a made-for-TV distraction.
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Severian,
“Tubman, Distrito Federal” is both hilarious and depressing.
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Not mine, let me hasten to add. It was coined by MBlanc46, who I’m pretty sure comments here regularly. I shamelessly stole it…. errr… nationalized it, in the name of the people, from him.
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You example of traffic cameras and the like is very interesting. This is an area that almost every person would probably like to see reformed. Here in The Isles, we have cameras all over the place and many don’t need to be there. In a world where we did things for the people, most of these would not have even been erected in the first place. But as you say, they are a good way to extract wealth. It’s also a nice PR coup for the state who spin it as ‘look how much we care’; a symbol that that has limited practicality… like the Covid mask business.
Usually, such cameras are erected after a crash, and maybe even small campaigns can begin to build a couple down one street because a mother loses her child. They have a cause, and see know harm in it, so support a measure of dubious effectiveness… of course, the state is only too happy to oblige. I am unsure that they really ‘help to prevent accidents’ as is often claimed. But because it is done ‘to save lives’, one knows not to question it.
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Apologies. I forgot to actually make the point of my post. This was that traffic camera reform and a whole host of other mundane policies really are useful and helpful. So people focus on them. Instead, people choose to champion BLM, Climate Change, Covid or some other grand-in-scale thingy with no immediate benefit.
Thanks for yet another great podcast.
The weather where I live is absolutely perfect and my kids and I are getting out to enjoy it as much as possible. This morning, as we jogged past our leftist neighbor’s home, we saw their young children peering out at us through windows. They’ve been locked down for over a year now. I mentioned how sad it is for those poor kids and my son said “yeah, but the real problem is it seems like they want to make life miserable for everyone else, too.”
He’s right. They are hell-bent on it and it’s disgraceful that this is the world they will inherit.
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The other day I had to remedy an error in my health insurance. A policy I purchase from the State exchange.
Apparently one of the vibrant paper processors, probably “working from home” to avoid sudden wuhan death syndrome, updated my address but failed to change the county of residence.
This one field in the database caused a cascade of errors that had me in the phone with three different departments and a supervisor to resolve who’s on first.
Apparently two county admins were claiming me on their rolls but neither actually had assigned me to a provider because the “system” didn’t recognize me as a resident in that county. This error persisted for almost a year while the two sets of automated e-mails each demanded my attention to non-issues. Except for the “free” vax of course!
The best part: “would you like us to include voter registration when we mail you your new paperwork?”
“Yes please! I will take three.” The lady and I shared a laugh. A rare bit of humanity in the machine.
The divides are so stark and the bureaucracy so absurd that even the automatons keeping the systems in motion have become detached from any meaning. Its all on autopilot and the database is full of errors.
Us humans will be getting to know each other again soon, best to get ahead of that terrain up ahead.
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Did you get the three registrations?
Of course, but two of them were sent to DNC headquarters which will vote them as a service to Screwtape.
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Not far off. My old provider network was also the primary medicaid provider. Going into that hospital and clinic network was like going into a Los Angeles DMV.
All of these automatic voter roll stuffing programs are straight up invader/POC/assistance program Democrat vote harvesting.
I saw the same thing when I was volunteering through some NGOs. Lutheran and Catholic “refugee” rackets.
Priorities are: capture State bennies, register democrat, vote democrat.
During Orange Man Bad’s run I saw vote harvesting programs in person.
Young, homely single white girls with masters degrees in “inter-cultural communications” filling out ballots for newly printed “citizens”.
“You know it OMB gets elected you wont get this money anymore and your sisters family wont be able to come here…”.
The kids were terrified. Their teachers were telling them OMB would send them back to the blue helmet camps.
We were way past voting before the whole midnight dumps.
A classic example of letter of the law vs. spirit of the law is second amendment jurisprudence where anti-gun lunatics are forever trying to convince people that “the right of the people, to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed” really means the people have no right to keep or bear arms whatsoever.