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Most people think of societal collapse as something like a zombie apocalypse where everything suddenly stops working. Instead of people turning into brain eating zombies, they stop going to work. The “system” collapses, so everyone just stops doing what they normally do all of a sudden. The next day, people divide up into gangs and begin to guard their turf using what is left of modern weapons. Life quickly returns to a hunter-gatherer existence with modern clothes.
This image of collapse is a powerful one. Google the phrase “United States collapse” or some version of it and you get results going back many years. Most of them start with economics but some start with culture. Right now, the people we call the Left for some reason think America is on the verge of collapse because they cannot force people to nod along with their weird morality. Many normal people think collapse is coming because they see the food bill every week.
Of course, there is a market for taking the contrary view. This is a popular gag for internet characters on what we continue to call the Right. They counter the claims from their fellow anti-leftists with arguments for why the “founding principals” will prevail and avoid societal collapse. Maybe they will point out that the magic of the free market has conquered communism, so it will conquer whatever is happening now. It is a form of strategic gainsaying to get attention.
The thing is societal collapse is a real thing that does happen just as civil wars, revolutions, wars and social upheavals are real things. Thirty years ago, the Soviet Union collapsed and we got to watch lots of it on television. When people suddenly realized that the guards were not going to shoot them if they tried to escape to the West, it did not take long before order broke down. Once the process started, there was no way to stop it and the system collapsed.
The thing is it did not happen overnight. The collapse actually started much earlier but people did not notice it. Little things stopped working. For example, people in Hungary began to notice that the border to Austria was not always guarded. Maybe the guards were there and ignored their duty or they just abandoned their post. Over time the border was not much of a border. Similar breakdowns of small systems became common over the course of the 1980’s.
Of course, the collapse of the Soviet Union did not send these societies back to the stone age either. Politics became increasingly chaotic. Law and order broke down to the point where criminal gangs were imposing their will on whole cities, because the police no longer had the ability or desire to stop them. The people got poorer in many small ways, but mostly in the breakdown of trust. They could not rely on the system, so they slowly abandoned it for alternatives.
We do not think of social trust as a part of the poverty equation, but in realty it is the key component of social happiness. High trust societies may not have unlimited consumer goods, but the people trust the system, because they trust one another. This allows for long term planning. Africa will never be rich, despite having massive natural resources, because social trust is near zero. Finland will never be poor because the Finns can count on their fellow Finns to always be Finnish.
Social collapse, like war and revolution, will reflect the material relations of the age because those reflect the resources of society. Revolution in the 18th century was peasants with pitchforks, because that is how you can revolt in an agrarian society operating under feudal rules. In the 19th century revolution was workers hurling homemade bombs and shooting at the authorities, because that is how you can stage a revolt in an industrial urban society.
This is the information age, so revolution will reflect the weapons we choose to use in this age, which will be money and knowledge. Money in all of its forms is a type of information that says things about the general state of affairs. In completely financialized societies like the West, money is the big weapon. It is also other information, like the government hiring clowns and carnies to nudge people in the “right direction” during the Covid panic.
The great tumult in the West over the last decade has been centered on the things that are important in the information age. The rise of a new group of oligarchs was made possible by the technological revolution. Just as agrarian people measured wealth in land and industrial people measured wealth in capital, technological people measure wealth in control of information flows. The reason Mark Zuckerberg is richer than Bill Gates is he controls something more valuable than PC’s.
Societal collapse in the information age will, at least at the beginning, reflect the socioeconomic relations of the age. Trust in what we are told by the media has collapsed, because it is easier to see the lying than in prior ages. In 1985 you could think the New York Times was biased, but predictably so. Today, you cannot trust anything they say because it is false in unpredictable ways. Trust in the media has collapsed because their information is chaotically false.
The slow collapse of trust in our information is spreading. We used to think that the courts were predictable, if not always fair. Poor people might not get the same justice as rich people, but the reason was understood. If you could afford a competent lawyer, he would get the most from the system for you. Today, no one knows what the hell will happen in a courtroom. Alex Jones just got fined a billion dollars because the regime supporters are still salty about the 2016 election.
Of course, trust in government is collapsing not because they do not fix the streets or make the buses run on time. Trust is falling because they lie. It is not about politicians lying, which is expected and predictable. It is the government itself. For example, they appear to be faking key economic data. Their inflation numbers are laughable as anyone who buys food will tell you. They also like to change the meaning of words, which puts an Orwellian spin on the lying.
Getting back to the topic of collapse, what happens in the information age when no one trusts the information? In a world where your bank may close down your account because they claim you hold the wrong opinions; how can you trust them to be straight about anything else? If the government is faking economic data, how can we trust anything else they are doing? When the people responsible for 100% of disinformation claim to be fighting disinformation, who can we trust?
When the Soviet system began to collapse, it was the symbols of its power that first came under pressure. When people stopped fearing the border guard, they slowly stopped fearing the system behind it. The same will be true in this age. When people stop trusting the information that runs this world, they will slowly begin to stop trusting the system behind it. It is at that point the system begins to slowly unravel as alternative trust networks form up to fill the void.
The bottom line is those waiting for collapse are mistaken. It is not a thing that is looming over the horizon. It is a thing that is happening now. Every day there is a new reminder that the system cannot be trusted. Maybe it is ten dollar gas in Germany or skyrocketing food prices in England or demonstrably false claims from the drug makers with regards to the Covid jab. These things chip away at trust in the system and like the game of Jenga, the result is inevitable.
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I appreciate the thoughtfulness of the piece, it could be though that we are in the REVOLUTIONARY period, when Russia was TAKEN OVER by Bolsheviks though, rather than the collapse phase when they lost control. Which may come later.
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1922 rather than 1989…
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The thing about the Bolshevik revolution is that they had no role in toppling the Tsarist system. The Bolsheviks were not very strong, compared to the liberals, conservatives and other socialist groups. Lenin was shocked by the collapse of the system. What they had that other groups did not have was organization. In the chaos this is what allowed them to seize and hold power.
A good reminder that chance favors the prepared mind.
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Are you saying there may be a use for Southern frat boys after all? Who knew?
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Good point. Anarchists were much more numerous in Russia, but they hated centralist structures while Lenin established the concept of Party as revolutionary vanguard.
I agree with LGTH. In fact, it certainly is a Revolution.
What is interesting is that both Revolution and collapse could be possible at the same time. The Bolsheviks relied upon a reality of intense poverty and disgust with the aristocracy and monarchy among the people to foist their revolution. It was relatively quick. Their regime created conditions that over the course of decades created a collapse.
The Frankfurt School Revolution began about as long ago relative to our collapse as the Bolshevik’s to the Soviet’s – 73 years for the Soviets (1917-1990), 73 for the Frankfurts (1945 – 2020). It is just that the Frankfurts were in power pretending that they weren’t for the past 73 years. They staged their revolution performatively in 2020 but substantively in 1945. They simply announced their conquest at the end. However, like the Bolsheviks/Soviets, their system is one of destruction and decay. It is a project without aspiration save for usurpation and destruction.
So at the moment they herald The Revolution, the system they have been running for 75 years has already reached the collapse phase. ZMan is very perceptive that this is the information age and that the key asset is information. They are doomed because, their entire project is based on lies – the biggest ones of which are self deception. At the time that they announced control, the system they bled to death is bankrupt. At the time they have announced and assumed total institutional control, they have declared the nation and the institutions illegitimate. So, they effectively declared themselves illegitimate.
The reason they must eradicate the white man, is because he is the only thing that stands to call out their lies when they make their pronouncement of legitimacy.
They cannot shut down the Internet. We must undertake geographic separation and consolidate life under our own 230 million people. There will build the physical and digital and cultural infrastructure for ourselves. The trickiest part will be withstanding the significant financial pressure they can bring to bare on us. It will require coordination with well placed insiders in the collapsing system.
Those insiders will then be our new elite when it is time for us to announce our revolution. Of course, if they sell us out we still have the aforementioned separations but no means to cut out being bled to death by the albatross populations. That will be better than the alternatives. If they don’t, then we can cut out the subsidization of the albatross populations and they can be free to rise to the occasion going on their own.
In other words, they have destroyed the system in order to usurp it. We have decades of work to do. Then, when the time is right, we will usurp the dead system and claim it anew with legitimacy. Our posterity will be able to rule it as they see fit. I personally hope they act with the Bronze Age Mindset and see fit to conquer and fulfill that primal urge to take up and dominate space.
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There are cracks in the normy world where you can easily get them to doubt any information that they just relayed to you. Possibly, maybe, I’m not sure but I heard…
It’s painful to watch when another one gets sick for the third time in months or gets covid again and watch them mentally twist like a pretzel to explain. Then again, never underestimate the denseness of a lot of people.
A former hypnotist observed that he didn’t actually hypnotize anyone as he thought most were already conditioned in that state. When actually confronted with the fact that they did cluck like a chicken they countered that they wanted to do that. Break the spell by admitting we all have been psychologically worked on for most of our lives. Sobran lamented it took him an embarrassingly long time to shake the conditioning and disinformation.
It’s imperative now that many fully wake up and fight back in anyway possible. Looks like a few tore AOC a new one recently with her pro war/Ukraine stance at what looks like a townhall type meeting. Citizen free press has a link
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That’s the thing – getting normies to really see what’s going on. One will say I saw such and such on the news etc., and I’m like, do really believe that s***? Followed by other examples.
Another thing normie has to do is ditch the American flag – it bugs me to see people with them on their house or vehicle. It doesn’t represent this place anymore, especially with the cabal currently running the show. The conditioning is almost unbreakable.
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The flag thing is prevalent in my community. Almost like putting a rosary in a garden bush or bury a St. Joseph statue in your yard. It seems quaint nowadays. No real thought is behind it I suspect but nevertheless still good people on some level do it.
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I was never a flag and patriotism guy. I put one up in 2020 as a symbol of rebellion and a stake in the ground against tyranny. We don’t know what meaning the flag has to normy, if it has one. For me, it was that, plus a message of repudiation of the rainbow/BLM/yardsign revolutionaries.
Of course, now I agree. That flag represents something that no longer exists and is not coming back. We need a new flag or set of flags to represent our movement. I think it should incorporate pre-Enlightenment symbolism. This is a worthwhile project – most of the work is in adopting the proper symbols – perhaps each region in the European indigenous lands and diaspora can have their own but fuse in on common symbol.
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I was a flag guy until 2008.
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I threw mine away a few years ago. This country hates me and I hate it. Why would I want some bullshit flag in my yard symbolizing a land that hates me? The only thing I would use an American flag for now is to wipe my behind.
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Most of my co-workers have gotten 3 or 4 boosters. These people are constantly sick. They get covid every other week. I’ve had covid exactly once and I am constantly in bars because I play in a band on the weekends.
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Regarding the Covid shot, I’ve been thinking of Mark Twain’s quote, “It’s easier to fool people than it is to convince them that they have been fooled.”
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Trust in our financial institutions is unraveling, as well. I note that the newly released inflation figures are putting the lie to the regime’s claim that everything is fine. Futures are tanking as I write. Also, there are two stories current about B of A arbitrarily closing the accounts of Catturd and Kanye West because…reasons. Another sign of collapse.
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Catturd’s account is terrible though. “Good morning to everybody except the poopy poop DemonKKKRats!” Very original.
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I’m not a fan, either (especially of Ye). But B of A’s actions are a very bad sign of worse to come.
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Eh, there were a bunch of supposedly based Blab accounts that were embarrassing themselves over Tulsi’s flip yesterday.
I mean, I know the thirst is real, but settle down fellas.
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I remember telling friends of mine about 3 years ago that financial institutions would start closing accounts based on who you voted for. They all told me I was crazy…. And? Here we are.
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“Finland will never be poor because the Finns can count on their fellow Finns to always be Finnish.”
Well, unless their globalist elites like their party girl Prime Minister succeed in the campaign to replace the population of Finland with non-Finns.
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It is possible that if Finns suffer economically during this period, the party girls of the world will be out on their ass. We have been lethargic in changing pols and tolerating their degeneracy because the artificial boom kept people acquiring new toys and dopamine hits. When/if that worm turns, there will be no patience for degenerates of her type.
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Well if SHTF, those melanin-Finns will have to be more Finnish than native Finns, or else they are going to die of frostbite in the abandoned cities as the native Finns escape to their cozy lake cottages. I doubt there will be strength in diversity if that comes to pass.
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The Sun People hate the cold more than just about anything.
If the heating subsidies can be removed or turned off, I bet a substantial percentage of them would repatriate voluntarily.
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” Just as agrarian people measured wealth in land and industrial people measured wealth in capital, technological people measure wealth in control of information flows. The reason Mark Zuckerberg is richer than Bill Gates is he controls something more valuable than PC’s.”
But is this a permanent condition or an anomaly? The people who control the land can withhold the food, and Mark Zuckerberg can withhold Facebook, and we’ll see who cries uncle first.
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Farmers, in general, will never withhold food in protest of the system, or for any other reason, because farmers are not a cartel. Owning farmland but refusing to produce marketable food on it is a fast trip to bankruptcy, and will only increase the prices that other producers can charge, which them gives them extra margin that they can use to buy your land when you go bankrupt.
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I’m no farming expert, but aren’t there subsidy programs in the US that literally pay farmers not to grow crops?
I seem to remember some level of controversy a few years ago when it was discovered multiple Manhattanites were get rich from such a program.
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“because farmers are not a cartel”
Yet.
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You act as if food is never used as a weapon.
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They also have no army to back such actions up.
Such an action by farmers or whoever controls the food obviously wouldn’t happen in a vacuum. The fact remains, you can live a lot longer without Facebook than without bread. Land will always be wealth. Why do you think Bill Gates is now the largest owner of agricultural land in the US?
I “Googled”, the phrase, “United States collapse” and I got back a bunch of images of smiling blondes with dark black men.
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Lucky!
I got a bunch of ugly white supremists with swastika tats and guns…
Interesting. I only get that when I, “Google”, “typical Republican.” In fact that is the only thing I Google when I don’t get back smiling blondes with dark black men.
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Societies collapse. Have throughout history. Nothing extraordinary in that observation. Tainter wrote a book on the collapse of complex societies. More recently Orlov observed the similarities between the Soviet collapse and the impending US collapse.
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2006-12-04/closing-collapse-gap-ussr-was-better-prepared-collapse-us/
Perhaps the point is to see what should be salvaged and can be salvaged. As living organisms we are born, grow, decline, and die. Societies and civilizations are just more complex organisms that go through the same lifecycle.
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Yep, Tainter’s book has been referenced quite a bit, both by Z and the commentariat. Today’s post is useful because it reminds us that system collapse, like the collapse of any ‘living’ system, is dynamic, beginning almost from the day organisms are born. As we are temporary, mostly narcissistic creatures, remembering Dickens is useful:
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
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I have pointed out parallels between our present and the last decades of the soviet Union many times. It is a very good reference point for understanding what is happening. There are key differences between liberal democracy and communism, but both are managerial systems in practice, so they follow a similar arc.
The Soviet Union went bankrupt, much like a modern business. It took a while, but Russia reorganized out of the ruins. Something probably awaits America as our version of managerialism reaches its terminus.
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And we won’t inevitably get a furtive strongman like the Slavs get. We’ll get Scarface.
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I’ve maintained for some time that 2020 was the big turning point. Between Covid and the mostly-peaceful BLM riots, many a Joe and Jane Normie began to question the honesty of the government and overall system.
The ridiculous-looking withdrawal from Afghanistan didn’t help.
The next shoe to drop likely will be economic. As the UK showed, the days of papering over economic problems with QE or fiscal deficits is reaching an endgame. If govts are strapped by inflation and bond markets, they’ll have to actually let the economy – and all the debt – go through the ringer.
I’m not predicting some 30s depression, just that there will be pain as Powell said. When the govt can’t offer stimulus checks or if you get serious inflation if they do, the people will not be happy. Trust in the govt will fall even more.
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The issue with trust is you have to start from the same place. People need a common philosophical approach to the world. Since there is no state religion and many forms of Christianity differ wildly there is no common starting point from a Christian philosophical standpoint. Add in the diversity of other religions and the massive secular population and we have nothing in common anymore. At this point we are all ridding on the titanic and the iceberg is coming or has begun to do its damage it’s a matter of time before the whole ship sinks.
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Christians of varying denominations may have to set aside their doctrinal disputes to work together so that they can make it through the tumult that is doubtlessly coming. Hard times have a way of forcing compromises on people that they would not have entertained even in passing when the gravy was flowing. For folks to cooperate effectively in the worst of periods, they will almost certainly have to share some larger general values — and religion happens to be one of the best tools for facilitating and maintaining such a loose consensus. I use the word “loose” because I suspect there will be a need for flexibility. As far as I can tell, “dissident right” ideologies are unlikely to rally people together to get them through a harsh period. It’s probably going to requiring something deeper and more meaningful.
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You know you’re in a societal collapse when that black Supreme Court lady Ketanji, whatever her name is, says she can’t define a woman, and the whole room doesn’t bust out pointing, laughing, and ridiculing her.
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I know I won’t be around to see the insanity be corrected – if it ever is. I’m a pessimist when it comes to this. I don’t believe it will ever get better, but hopefully I am wrong. For me, I just want to live long enough to see the leftists get rounded up and “removed” from our society. I could die at peace knowing these rotten sociopaths got what they deserved.
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There will always be leftists in a civilization. Unless you live in a hunting and gathering clan, there will be progressives and there will be conservatives, and then a majority of midwits and normies who just want to grill.
If we win the war and drive the leftists to the sea, then be sure that “leftists” will appear among our ranks. It is inevitable. Political life is a Sisyphean Hegelian dialectic.
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Zman makes a very important point – one which I’ve been pondering more of late: “We do not think of social trust as a part of the poverty equation, but in realty it is the key component of social happiness. High trust societies may not have unlimited consumer goods, but the people trust the system, because they trust one another”.
This lack of trust creeps into so many different areas of life which, in the former times, would in no way have been a consideration. What the upshot of all that is remains unclear, but my family, my known & trusted friends, my tribe in that order. As for the rest – get off my lawn.
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I dunno, Z. I think Leftie is playing with fire. Things may start slow but they pick up speed exponentially, not linearly. I can’t help feeling that when Normie comes off that couch… it’s gonna be emties, cheezies, and hot lead and brass everywhere, in all directions…
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I think the over the top reaction to J6 is to scare normie enough to prevent this scenario. Will it work? I think it will for a while, but if/when it reaches the point where people realize they have nothing to lose, it may play out as you suggest.
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Normie ain’t getting off the couch until the sportsball broadcast goes dark and the grill runs cold.
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The riots of St. Floyd showed the true power dynamic of this country, where ferals were allowed to run rampant with net to zero repurcussions while the police forces were neutered from doing their jobs in fear of retaliation and show trials if they lay the law down the law on the wrong person. Then when a few whites decided to try to restore order, they ruthless hand of the law that turned a blind eye to looting brought them to their knees.
The same thing happens in the information age, where certain parts of social media can talk about genociding whites while drinking their morning coffee while right-wing accounts get banned for supposed dog-whistling.
The guards, in these cases, are not ignoring everyone, but just people ithat are favored by the ruling class. For the ruling class, the system works, even if it’s an unbelievably unjust system for the majority of heritage Americans. There’s an argument to be made that tyranny almost always precedes a collapse, but the Soviets showed how long and how deadly such tyranny can be.
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I have read some articles lately from regime sources predicting what might happen if Trump is re-elected, Trump and his Trumpists will cause major chaos in about every area of the regime is the answer from what they are writing. Which means they are projecting what THEY intend to do should the orange man win.
I honestly don’t think the orange man is a real threat to the managerial state or ever was actually but they think Trump and Trumpism is the second coming of Hitler.
Therefore we may accelerate the collapse in this decade faster than some of us realize.
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This is actually the main reason why I wanted Trump to win. It will skip the bullshit and get us right to the point where true separation from the agitators and rotten sociopaths will actually start to happen. The urban chimp out would basically destroy what’s left of the cities, but it is a necessary price to pay to eventually get to where we need to be.
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I can’t say I disagree, but you have been a real bowl of cherries lately.
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The Covid madness introduced another level of self destruction.
When our neighbor who is a card carrying member of the cult emerged from his home after hiding in fear, he had doubled in size. He must have spent the entire time chowing down while on covid death watch. He was an average size guy before but is enormously obese now.
They did sneak out under the cover of the night to remove the “Resist” bumper sticker shortly after the Biden insertion. The funny thing is, they left the “Vote against hate” sticker on their car.
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I know it makes me less than a moral person for saying this, but whatever horror is bestowed upon that person it is fully deserved.
Societal modeling exists, is very mature now, and is not a trivial thing. This does not mean it’s 100% accurate in prediction, but you would be foolish to ignore its analysis. Pent up rage is a real thing, and it will reach a point where explosive release is inevitable. It will be contagious and spontaneous. Most people will take to the streets in protest against government lying and failures. In the big cities, some of these protests will devolve into riots, wanton violence, looting, and casual murder and mayhem. Police will be overwhelmed in hours and the national guard will be called out to quell the violence and restore some kind of order. This will be grow to become a “fog of chaos” overlain with martial law, indiscriminate detainment, and imposition of curfews and civil rights cancellation.
All of the above will be a manifestation of government corruption and failure in which the disease cells largely remain in power and continue their cancerous destruction. Yes, there will be a few bright spots of competence arise (e.g. Desantis and his ilk), but the system will continue to be dominated by bad actors at most levels.
Because of the Comfort First Imperative, most Americans will stay on the sidelines and pray for “muddle-through” to once again save them from real hardship. As with voting harder, these ancient remedies will fail because we now lack ancestral robustness and resource reserves that could cushion the fall and enable a slow rebuild. Most importantly, this does not address the root problem. The disease cells are still rotting out our guts, our morals, and our culture.
We cannot resurrect ourselves until real hardship returns and people have no choice but to act or starve. The models predict that the fastest road to redemption is to focus on the root of the problem. In Ukraine, hundreds of thousands of good men are dying needlessly because the disease cells are still in charge and leading them into continued ruination. That is the wrong way to fix the “problem.” We can, and should, find a better way here in the USA. Just sayin’.
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A good indicator of collapse is birth rates. America’s rate is well below replacement and dropping. It takes trust, between husband and wife, but also among the extended family, to conceive and raise a child.
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That’s among every developed country too. The only white pill is the conservative ones are the people having more kids, and that trend is only going to accelerate with right-wing quiver-full type movements. We’re going to see a mass scale experiment to see how genetic one’s politics is, and how resilient it is against unprecedented social engineering.
Jack Boniface: It also requires trust in one’s health care system and belief that any child will have a chance of a decent future. I never knuckled under to doctors’ presumed expertise, but I can’t imagine being a new mother today contemplating the endless number of vaccines the medical field now requires for infants. I wouldn’t trust them not to contain mRNA or other substances at this point – same reason I almost never got the flu vaccine and would not now consider getting the shingles vaccine.
As far as trust in the future – well, there’s always normalcy bias. People still setting up college funds and spending money on shiny Chinese children’s toys, all of them marketed from woke tv programming. I shudder imagining any White child in public schools even today, let alone tomorrow, but millions of White parents seem content to consign their offspring to their WEF-designated future. That is, of course, if they’re not first slaughtered by Jontavius, at which point said parents will immediately cloak themselves in faux Christian piety and instant forgiveness.
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European fertility rates are remarkably similar across the world. They seem to range mostly between 1.4 and 1.6.
Germans are pretty low, around 1.4. On the other hand, Czechs, Danes, and French are around 1.7-1.8. Southern Brazil is between 1.4 and 1.5. Russia is probably 1.4 or 1.5.
US Whites are 1.58. UK is around 1.5 too. Canada has a low fertility rate with no ethnicity data. By proxy, it appears that our low birth rate is due to mass Asian immigration and Whites are probably right around 1.5.
Conservatives have far more children than liberals. It’s not great, and it used to be considered “low”. But as other countries are developing we see that their birth rates drop far below 1.5. I think inter-ethnic marriages are much more of an issue for us than birth rates.
Yes. That was an incredible point. That trust was exploited and used against us. Our success is going to depend upon us extending trust only to those within our group, and a major challenge is going to be to be very judicious and wise in extending trust to out groups when and only when it suits our interests and if exploited having minimal cost or even giving us strategic advantage.
I think that no-fault divorce, favoring women in the divorce settlement and #IBelieveHer undermined trust between men and women in a major way. It also ruined incentives to couple and create families. Why build a home and a family together when in the years when you should be enjoying the fruits of your labor, you have to start almost over again in building your life?
Of course, it made finding a good woman to even take that chance with much more difficult. Women filled with disgust for a chivalrous man was common in my teens and 20s. I never had problems attracting women – but had great difficulty finding a true lady; a woman worthy of partnership. At a certain point the transactional nature of modern women coupled with their anti-chivalrous attitudes and the stinging memory of my parent’s no-fault divorce, led me to just turn to womanizing. While fun, it is soul destroying, not to mention a disaster for carrying forward our culture and our genes.
I am not a big Jordan Peterson fan, but he hit the nail on the head about how destructive thrusting men into competition with women has been to men. Men are biologically wired to compete with men for women; not to compete with women but to be of service to them and win their favor and approval through conquest, competitive success, demonstrated competence and ability to cooperate with other men in that process. Men are not wired to be deferential in competition but to embrace those competitive instincts – the werewolf. Now, they are told to be deferential and hand women and non-white men the opportunities and power. Moreover, women are wired to love a competitive man who is bent upon winning. Women love it when we compete and they loathe us when we accept defeat and humiliation – yet they champion a system that asked and now coerces us into that. Feminism and diversity are fatal to white men. We must reject it.
Feminism is an experiment that has been catastrophic for the entire building block of society – male and female pair bonds. It has been most catastrophic for men. Our people will do well to reject it and make a core part of our project the restoration of the natural biological order where men and women cooperate and complement each other in building pair bonds, families and immediate communities. That one step alone will give our people a huge advantage in the tribal war that is being waged and that will only intensify.
If we can restore male/female trust and cooperation, we can restore our individual and group greatness.
It’s strange to me how many people expect mad max. London was bombed every night for months. People went to the tube and slept and got up in the morning and went to work or helped with the cleanup. Outside of the hood in major cities, we see something very similar when natural disasters strike in America. Every time there is a flood, you see people filling sandbags first and then later you see random White guys driving around in their boats checking on houses to make sure nobody is trapped. Even right now in Ukraine, we don’t see mass rioting or anything like that. Granted, they are all temporary, but I just don’t see mad max as very likely. Even the hyperinflation in Venezuela didn’t produce anything near as bad as mad max.
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Brings to mind your questioning of the murder rate in Baltimore.
We had a friend visit from Cincinnati and he was exclaiming abut the horrible murder rate there but…that the numbers didn’t look quite right for reasons I don’t recall. This guy is like a normie of normies who was very interested in your take (as I related it) in regards to Baltimore’s number rigging.
Not a great sign for the regime when even someone like this who only consumes regime propaganda is scratching their head. The disparity between their claims and reality is getting to be too much for even those who want to believe.
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The elites seem to be incapable of moderation which speeds up the crash.
For instance, Alex Jones’ $1 billion defamation decision. It’s obviously a ridiculous, punitive, and unreasonable amount that will never be paid. As a smarter leader, I would have just fined him 10-20 million, enough to put him and his company underwater, but not enough to make it obvious that it was a sham trial against him with a sum so ridiculous that everyone knows it’s not justice.
They can’t help themselves though. They have a blinding hatred of Americans (and all Westerners). Racial problems never went away, and their progressive utopia has never materialized. This causes them even more rage at the plebs who are not giving them the sufficient respect, and increasingly ignoring them.
The good news is that more and more people just aren’t listening. The bad news is that the ruling class is going more and more crazy. I think we just have to white knuckle it for a while (while doing all the usual stuff) until they burn themselves out.
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The fascinating thing about the Alex Jones situation is that, almost word for word, concept for concept, “conspiracy theory for conspiracy theory”, the system that he has railed against for 20+ years and characterized as tyrannical, globalist, etc, has completely destroyed the man by using all of the power and tyrannical mechanisms that he so criticized. It’s kinda like the Kanye West situation. He says something in a tweet that criticizes certain power structures, and then the ADL conspires with social media to remove his platform while screaming about their victimization.
They do EXACTLY what they are being accused of, openly, and nobody with any real power every challenges it. Why? Because those people derive their power from those same power structures. It would be biting the hand that feeds them.
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