An enduring question on this side of the great divide is over the motivation of the Cloud People as they go about their war on the Dirt People. Is there some grand plan behind the war or is it some weird instinctual thing? Are they motivated by base instincts like money and power or is it something spiritual? There is the “deep state versus emergent behavior” angle but also the simple question about whether these people have the self-awareness to grasp what they are doing at all.
For example, the war on Russia was launched six months ago and at the time it was clear to most people that the cost to the West would be high. The question was about the cost to the Russians. Given the dismal history of economic sanctions and the public utterances of Russian leaders, sober minded people saw the sanctions regime as a high risk and extremely low reward gamble. That quickly became an all risk and no reward strategy that was doomed to fail.
Despite the obviousness of it all, the West kept doubling down on the program as if they were on the right side of history. Now people are getting gas bills in Europe that are five and ten times normal. Europeans are posting their utility bills on-line as a desperate effort to get attention to the issue. For reasons no one has bothered to explain, Western media is not treating this as an important story. They are not grilling Western leaders on the situation or even asking them questions.
Are these people just so cut off from reality that they simply do not know what is happening in their countries? Is someone like Liz Truss so insulated from reality that she is unaware of things called electric bills? Since no one has bothered to ask her about the issue, it is possible she does not know. It seems crazy but staggering ignorance would explain why this is happening. The Cloud People do live vastly different lives from the Dirt People.
That does not explain the media silence. Scan the British media and you would come away with the impression that there is no economic crisis. It is all stories about the royals, local celebrities and childish political drama. The German media has bland stories about the latest ten point plan from the party. Those are stuffed in between press releases from the Gaia cult like this one. They worry that people freezing to death in their homes this winter could anger Gaia.
What in the world is going on here? The worst economic catastrophe to befall Europe in generations is being ignored. Is this a strategy by the Cloud People or are they just so cut off from reality they do not see this as a big deal? This lunatic from the German Church of Gaia wants to tax meat at a time of soaring food costs. Is this nut so ideologically blinkered that he does not see how this looks? Normal people will be forgiven for thinking he is a deranged sadist.
This is where another motivation creeps into the picture. Maybe what lies behind all of this is a seething hatred of the Dirt People. The reason they are not focusing on the crisis is they are showing restraint. In private they are laughing at the prospect of Dirt People heating their homes with candles this winter. Those shop owners going out of business gives them a sexual thrill. This crisis is the revenge of the Cloud People on the Dirt People for not dying off during Covid.
That last bit is further proof that vengeance may be the real motivation behind these abusive polices we see in the West. It was clear from the start that the Covid polices were something of a tantrum by the Cloud People. They made people humiliate themselves with masks and social distancing out of spite. The vaccine mandates now look like an attempted genocide. Deaths among the young and healthy are at frighteningly high levels across the West.
There have been times in history when the people concluded that their rulers were corrupt, stupid or tyrannical. In the furor leading up to the revolt the rabble-rousers would caricature the rulers as ruthless and vindictive. In reality, the rulers were either incompetent or simply unlucky. In order to properly revolt, the people needed to be convinced that their rulers were more than just stupid. They were bad people who deserved what was coming to them.
We may be experiencing the first example where a ruling class is evil, but the rabble rousers among the ruled cannot bring themselves to accept it. It is the mirror image of the revolutionary model where all restraint is lost among the ruling class while the people desperately try to maintain the status quo. The people at the top have all the money and power, which for some reason has led them to revolt against the system that makes their status as elites possible.
The other side of this revolution in the clouds is the placidity of the Dirt People in the face of this war of extinction. Perhaps this is what has driven the ruling class into a murderous rage. No matter how hard they try, they cannot rouse the people to defend themselves or their culture. The rage is not exactly at the people, but at the ruddy sunset of the West. Modernity has made the people so feeble; they can no longer defend themselves from predators.
Regardless of the reasons, the revolution in the clouds will continue until the Dirt People can be roused from their stupor or they simply succumb. One way or the other, the revolution can only end with the death of the Cloud People. Surely, they must see this, which means that is the ultimate aim. Self-abnegation is the highest virtue of the new religion and one way or another, they will achieve it. The only question that really matters is if they will take Western civilization with them.
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That was a really good post. You really tapped into something there with the questions, why this is happening? Why the placidity of the dirt people?
I’m looking in horror at Jackson Mississippi. Their infrastructure was poorly maintained and staffed and now they have no water to even flush their toilets for an unknown length of time. I know they still have electricity but with the lack of proper sewage disposal they are being returned to a pre-industrial situation. I’m sure they will call a diverse team of engineers to fix everything and they’ll be taken care of in no time. Maybe we all have to get into the nothing Left to lose territory
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Many of the usual suspects are blaming it on white flight, which honestly is true, just not for the reasons they think.
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I seem to remember something about Jackson but trying to remember what about it makes it so. Reminds me of the time I was in Flint Michigan.
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You are looking at the Jackson Mississippi issue all wrong. They have finally freed the water system of white supremacy culture, so it really is a triumph of diversity.
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That is so funny and I plan on repeating that line to any one that brings it up to me irl
There’s no sense in having sympathy for people that insist on living on a riverine flood plain. There are floods somewhere in the country every year, in some places almost regularly. Yet it is treated as some kind of unforseeable tragedy. It’s not. The residents are stupid. Sleeping on the freeway means that you’ll be flattened by a semi. Living by the river means your belongings will get wet. It’s that simple.
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The comment of the placid working class reminds me of the meme of a guy poking something with a stick saying “come on, do something”
The Dirt people might not be a much placid as knowing the game that is being played. It’s clear from the rhetoric coming from Biden and the federal bureaucracies they are actively trying to goad working class people into some sort of violent confrontation that will give justification for a massive, sweeping crackdown.
What is being seen, however, are the masses starting to shed the illusion of a republic for the people, and a disdain for institutions that were once bulwarks of right-wing loyalty like the police, military, and intelligence agencies. Once the trust gets eroded to a certain point, you start to get people with no moral qualms about bucking the system, whether that is lying on forms in a plausibly deniable way to get loot, segregating to ad-hoc communities that know the situation without saying a word to each-other, and generally being an apathetic citizen.
Once that’s reached, we then start to get into people becoming wreckers in a way that is very hard to pinpoint, as projects just start to randomly break down. I read somewhere that something like 20% of a large corporation is people who actively work against the company for their own benefit, and our guys need to be that 20%. Then come the secret infiltrators following the same strategies that allowed the current elite to get where they are.
We are still in the early stages.
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I dunno, Z. Your guess is as good as mine.
Meanwhile, up in Canada, deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland has the sads because some impudent Albertan told her where to go and how to get there:
https://bittercenturion.blogspot.com/2022/08/im-shocked-shocked-i-say.html
If you follow the links, one is a video where the odious cankle blossom says, “Canadians saved up too much money during the Covid scam, and the gubbimint needs that money to drive an economic recovery…”.
Whatever it is, it’s getting ridiculous. If they think people are going to quietly and obediently starve to death, I think they have another thing coming.
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Look at Macron abusive plans for the next decade on his people. What happened to the yellow vests shouldn’t it hit defcon 1 now?
There are many media people even in Europe who aren’t all that well heeled to endure the outrageous high energy prices and would be pretty much affected as others. Why aren’t they coming out against or allowing some truth to be said on this. Does ideologic adherence know no bounds?
The hatred of dirt people explanation goes only so far. Many of the looney Left’s adherents are dirt people also, you know like useful minions. As far as the humiliation of the masses with covid restrictions and vaxxes I’m not sure what to make of that. Our leaders humiliated themselves just as much and still do and I believe they do get boosted as they say they do.
Maybe a mixture of all explains it. Class hatred, ideological insanity, and lemming like behavior walking off the cliff.
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I read this last night:
“Compounding the problem, such people influence those around them, who might still be genetically healthy, to behave in similarly maladaptive ways. These are the “Spiteful Mutants” of Dutton’s title. Their behavior is “spiteful” because it damages others without bringing any advantage to themselves.”
https://www.unz.com/article/the-politics-of-dysgenic-fertility-edward-duttons-spiteful-mutants/
I may be that spite is the best/highest form of leadership they have to offer at this point.
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“The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.” – George Orwell
Really smart people like Zman and others here spend a lot of time looking for a plot or explanation regarding the ongoing sh*tshow. I’m inclined to give up looking. The actions speak for themselves and the motivations, while intriguing, are somewhat irrelevant to our plight.
The question of the day is, as Lenin put it: What is to be Done? I’ve been saying here for awhile that it’s going to take a General Strike by normies/Dirts to slow down the sh*tshow. It may not stop it, but it will at least delay the “evil day”.
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The torpor of the overall population is something to behold. Joggers are going bonkers, politicians are going bonkers – and nothing happens. People protest and march for the right to kill babies, mutilate kids who think they’re something other than what they are, or allow drag queens into kid’s classrooms. People believed covid to be an extinction level bug and then frantically lined up to be jabbed with an unknown and untested elixir.
The media won’t report on things they don’t like (such as insanely high energy bills) and lie about everything else. Fake and gay dollars and euros flood the landscape, but mostly in one direction and one group’s pockets.
The inconsistencies and insanity seem to be ramping up. Will this be the winter of everyone’s discontent? Is there any outrage that will waken the sleeping chump…
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Most of things you mentioned, indifference to soaring energy prices and trying to tax meat are all about pushing the “save the planet” agenda. It will be easier to get people to accept green energy that is unreliable and expensive once you have made traditional energy use we take for granted unreliable and expensive.
A surprising number of elites are true believers in this. Sure a certain number have also setup ways to make obscene profits once these schemes get implemented, but they really believe they are saving humanity. They of course don’t notice an impact from rising prices and will continue to eat meat after they have banned it for the masses.
There was another strange video I saw recently featuring a comment from Jared Kuschner claiming that thanks to advances in technology, his generation would be the last to die. It was short and I didn’t find the longer version for full context, but these people also could be experiencing some sort of mass insanity which is reinforced by not ever socializing with normal people.
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I see this insanity creeping into those around me. Many minds were broken in the last few years. Some go nuts, others just create a useless cope. Nothing will be the same anymore but I do hope people like us are part of a pushback and return to a more traditional order.
That said, this nation along with western Europe is irrevocably changed.
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When the smoke clears in Ukraine, Russia will have won and the disease in Kiev will have been eradicated. But the price paid by the Ukrainian people will have been enormous. Likely upwards of a million good men (all age ranges) will have perished or been permanently disabled. And this loss of alphas will take generations to replace. The widows and orphans will likewise be permanently impacted by this loss. And of this happened because most of these men simply allowed themselves to be conscripted and sent to the front as cannon fodder in service to a deranged US foreign policy.
Now imagine a world in which a small cadre of these same men possessed the intellectual capacity to foresee this future back in 2015 in the aftermath of the Maidan coup. Rather than bury their heads in the sand and let history take it’s course, they instead chose to focus on the root of the problem, which at the time was quite small in numbers relative to the population as a whole. They properly recognized the disease for what it is and then accurately forecast that this cancer would soon spread and grow into a malignant tumor leading to an early death of Ukraine. And they decided to act then, and they did so smarter, not harder. And in this alternative scenario there was no talk of NATO expansion or poking the bear in the eye repeatedly. And there was no future wave of widows and orphans because the Russians had no need to confront the US neocon stooges in their backyard.
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A lot of us Dirt People are well aware of the degeneracy and recklessness of the Cloud People. We’re just not sure if there’s much we can do to effectively foil such destructive lunatics. We’re also far too cognizant of what tends to happen to those who violate the secular dogmas of our time; the rewards of unabashed nonconformity will be paltry at best, nonexistent in most cases, and therefore rarely justify the considerable risks.
Plenty of other Dirt People, however, remain blissfully oblivious to the maniacal farce all around them. Bread and circuses have them hornswoggled to a degree that seems irreversible. Many of them will not wake up until the knife is at their throats.
By the way, Zman, today’s essay is among your classics!
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I think technology more than decency has been the cause of inaction by the dirt people. This society is almost totally reliant on somebody else for all necessities, and those someone else’s are usually on other continents. The learned helplessness is an understanding that we cannot survive on our own, no matter how much boot strapping we do. It appears to me nothing extreme will happen until the complete collapse of the system.
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I’m sitting here in Croatia, and there is zero preparation or action taking place. I think this is the Slavic way, shrug the shoulders and react to stimuli but never take preemptive action. Oh well. My own Ohio Boomer relatives keep squawking about “soon” some line will be crossed. They will be lined up at the gas chambers someday saying the same thing about “soon”. Personally, I am following old Fred Reed’s admonition (is he still alive?) and just laughing at the world collapsing all around because there’s nothing to be done anyhow. Jan 6 was the day that something could have happened, but that was squandered by Buffalo Man and The Boys. If you’re going to insurrect, then they should damn well have insurrected right.
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WEF lickspittle Yuval Harari explained what is going on. The “dirt people” (as you call them) are useless, ie. no longer have value to the Owners, and will now be exterminated.
We’re all kulaks now.
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And the (P)resident is set to deliver a speech tomorrow in which he demonizes almost half the country. Perilous times.
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Are they evil, stupid, or greedy – the answer is always “yes”.
I continue to look on in amazement as Congress and the Administration pour vast amounts of money into the Ukraine. They all must be getting huge kickbacks. If they are evil and smart, they are using the ill-gotten fortunes to stock up a hideaway somewhere to ride out the coming collapse. More likely they are just storing it in offshore banks until it can be properly laundered for a ritzy retirement.
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Western civilization is trannies fighting lesbians at pride events.
Long may it live
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“The other side of this revolution in the clouds is the placidity of the Dirt People in the face of this war of extinction.”
I’m at a loss here. Europe and the USA have had different historical trajectories. Radical populism with real bite has historically been present in Europe — Italian fascism, German national socialism. Go back a little further and the tumult of 1848. A bit further back and the French Revolution. Because of this history European political leaders have usually been more circumspect in their policies and actions. They haven’t wanted to rouse the populist beast. From history they know their heads can be lopped off. Very different from the history of the USA. I just don’t understand the current passivity of the European population. Where is the Hitler (or the Lenin, for that matter) to galvanise the European masses? Why are not the European masses themselves being more vociferous in their dissatisfaction? Have three generations of being brainwashed into docility accomplished their nefarious purpose? Are the Europeans now caged birds who can’t fly if their lives depend on it. I am flummoxed.