One of the strange and unnoticed aspects of the modern age is how much time is spent debating imaginary things. In fact, most of our public debates are about things that may happen or could never possibly happen. The things that are actually happening get very little attention. In some cases, like the ongoing criminal operations of the Biden family, the only people discussing them are “conspiracy theorists”, a term that has been transformed to describe imaginary villains.
In fact, much of what passes for public debate is the shift from things that are real and observable in the present moment to things that do not exist. Crackpot libertarian congressman Thomas Massie spends most of his time warning about a highly unlikely problem with E-Verify, so that his voters do not notice the waves of migrant invaders filling up their cities and towns. He is not alone. Every politician is an illusionist now, making reality disappear behind a curtain of deceit.
What has happened to modern American society is a form of the Peter Pan syndrome, in that society prefers to live in a world of make believe, rather than face up to the tough choices that come with adulthood. Libertarian kooks would rather think about a world governed by the non-aggression principle than think about the problems that the current world is presenting to us. Ten thousand migrants a day cross the border, but libertarian guy is concerned about theoretical abuses of state power.
It is not just libertarian kooks who avoid reality. It is a system-wide phenomenon that now defines our public life. Trillions are being spent on climate change, which probably exists as a concept. We know the earth’s climate is always changing. As a real threat to humanity, however, it exists only in the imagination. Given the rampant fraud in the world of science, it is possible that everything about climate change is a lie, yet we are pretending that it is a real as a rose bush.
To fight climate change, governments are putting mandates on carmakers to force them to make electric cars. The people who produced this mandate have no idea if this makes any sense or is even possible. In fact, it is not possible. We do not have enough lithium, for example, to make the required batteries. Our power grid will have collapsed long before that is an issue. In fact, it is already happening. We are spending trillions on climate change while the power grid is failing.
Imagine a politician running on a platform of upgrading the power grid. He promises to improve reliability and toughen it against storms. Many of the lines will be put underground to improve aesthetics. This could never happen because his opponent would instead promise to use the money for “gender affirming care” or maybe combat racist road systems. She would win in a landslide because who cares about the power lines when imaginary problems need our attention?
Imagination land is so powerful, it even warps the mundane things. Here is a story about a sportsball coach who used salty language in public. It was rude and he apologized for it. In the world of real things, this would be enough, but in the world of imaginary things, he must be punished. Imaginary people were traumatized, maybe even physically harmed by his words. According to his boss, the imaginary people now have scars that cannot be seen, because they are not real.
Much has been made of the public apology in these matters. It is a weird ritual that never has the intended effect. The coach just got fined millions of dollars for harming imaginary people, despite his real groveling. What gets missed is these apologies are always directed at people who do not exist. In the material world, you apologize to a person who you can identify as a victim of your actions. In imagination land you apologize to imaginary people for imaginary crimes.
Last month, Douglas Mackey was found guilty in Federal court of violating the civil rights of people who do not exist. The government claimed that his tweets mocking Hillary Clinton voters in 2016 harmed these people. They produced no one claiming to have been harmed by these tweets. They did not establish that such a harm was even possible, but that did not matter. In imagination land, anything is possible. When anything is possible, you go to jail for imaginary crimes.
Another example of how imagination land now crowds out the world of reality is the Bud Light marketing fiasco. The people who cooked up the idea were sure that there are millions of crossdressers desperate for a beer that appeals to them, so they created a campaign around a crossdresser. The fact that in the real world there are more left-handed ginger midgets than men who wear dresses did not matter. In imagination land, the crossdresser is the future.
Everywhere you look in the modern age, the imaginary is crowding out the real, as if everyone is now terrified of reality. The media fills the zone with terrifying stories of disinformation campaigns and hate speech be imaginary actors, while ignoring the tsunami of lies that comes from the government. More time has been spent trying to pretend a brown guy is a white supremacist than looking into the very real problem of the Biden family taking bribes from foreign governments.
The usual suspects rush in at this point and claim it is all a plot by the “deep state” or some other catchphrase to get money and power. As ridiculous as this age has become, one has to leave open the possibility that we live in a simulation controlled by men living in a hollowed-out volcano. Alternatively, maybe Wells was right when he noted “It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.”
Generations of easy living, living outside the world “change, danger, and trouble” has turned us into Eloi. Our triumphs over the material problems of human existence have left us incapable of dealing with the reality of human existence. If we just wish hard enough, they will go away. If not, then we just fill our minds with the pleasing conflicts that exist only in imagination land. We are a society of helpless children determined to remain children regardless of the demands of reality.
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Reality is hard, better to live in the illusion
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Yes, and it is about to get harder as we slide down the right hand side of the peak oil curve and the carrying capacity of the planet goes from 8B to 1B. Have a nice day.
We are Eloi and Morlocks early on in the timeline. Soon some of us will go underground and abandon the weak woke people above. Underground in this example would be the hinterlands.
As far as Budweiser screwing up by thinking there is a big market for cross dressers and trannies, I don’t think that was their target. Like all of these public embarrassments it just a big signal to the woke zombies. Pavlovian responses to follow.
I have some The Machine Stops references here but I suppose enough here understand that already.
Oh, one more thing. The Catholic phag slur by the coach was interesting but not in the outrage or his groveling. No one noticed the slurring of Catholics was not the main focus but the phag part was? Of course we know.
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I thought it was very interesting in the case of Bob Huggins that West Virginia said the $1 million in lost salary would go to alphabet soup charities, but said nothing about giving any money to Catholic groups and no one said a thing about it. If Huggins comments are so beyond the pale then how are Catholics not also harmed by them? It shows how beaten down they are by those who rule over us that a Catholic group wouldn’t even bring this up.
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For me it’s a matter of the limousine elite versus the helicopter elite. I think I actually got the idea from Chomsky (apparently another habitue of Epstein Island.) A rich man who travels via helicopter doesn’t ever have to be disturbed by what’s going on down there in the world, as the favelas only look like little model buildings from the sky. The man who takes the limo to work has to deal with the homeless squeegee wielder hopping out in front of his car and smearing the window with dirty water. And even the best suspension system can’t quite hide the effect of trying to navigate a potholed road.
Trump (with the usual caveat “for all his faults”) is a limousine elite, and wants to remain one. He wants to be able to sit ringside at a fight without worrying about being kidnapped. This is a real problem in Mexico by the way, as Floyd Mayweather’s fight against Canelo Alvarez was actually scheduled to take place there, until some Sinoloans made it clear they would kill Floyd if he won.
Of course, a “helicopter elite” can pretend they’re a limousine elite, if they literally live within walled cities where the dangerous and desperate dirt people can’t reach them. Regardless, though, I’m not as sanguine as Z Man on the idea that the rich people will stop this if an when it affects them. Abbott and De Santis could send a convoy of biblical proportions of nothing but face-tatted gangbangers to the Vineyard and Chappaqua and all it will do is make the elite hate normal nonelite whites even more, for having the temerity to be right about immigration, and to point out the hypocrisy of their betters.
Besides, it really is too late, now. What do you want them to do? Admit they’re wrong? Even the bourgeoise whites and Jews who read the New York Times have filled the comment section on the Texas shooter with Breitbartian outrage. But again, it’s too late. We need to worry about surviving, not winning arguments or converts anymore. If we make it, maybe we can have our own autonomous nation. If not, we end up tied to the grille of some souped-up Mexican warlord’s Cutlass Supreme, Mad Max-style. It’d almost be worth it to see the skull of someone like Adam Schiff used as a piece of fretwork on some warlord’s throne after the Fall, but, alas, I think he’ll bugout to Israel before it happens.
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” … Of course, a “helicopter elite” can pretend they’re a limousine elite, if they literally live within walled cities where the dangerous and desperate dirt people can’t reach them. […]”
Why can’t you just say ” … can pretend *he is* … if *he* literally *lives* … can’t reach *him*”?
Why?
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Because there is more than one person in the elite. A pedant is insufferable enough. When they’re wrong, it’s ten times worse. Especially when they’re as histrionic as you.
WHY GOD WHY?!?!
I thought the other side was filled with lunatics quibbling about pronouns. I guess we’ve got our problem here.
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The illusion of equality is what seems to be driving most of this insanity. As soon as we get enough low IQ minorities ensconced in the crucial professions, we’ll soon get all the democracy we deserve.
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Plus UN Agenda 2030.
It’ll be grrrrreat!
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Epaminondas…all the democracy we deserve…and get it good and hard.
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One of the best memes is a photo of a ghetto with the caption “when are whites going to receive reparations?”
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The question is when will reality hit upper middle-class whites. In my neighborhood, it’s not even close. Sure, surrounding areas have gone from working class white to Hispanics. Sure, the Home Depot and Costco are starting to look like a UN session.
So, yes, you can see the brown tide rising ever closer, but these whites can retreat back to their neighborhoods and ignore reality. It’s the same in many Northern Virginia areas. Upper middle class white (well, mostly white, the Indians and Asians are arriving) neighborhoods are too expensive for the brown horde so whites are safe. This has been true for decades and will likely remain true.
I’m not sure how these enclaves of imagination get penetrated. Their money is a shield. And these are insanely rich areas, just rich enough to keep out the Hispanics and Africans. But, again, not rich enough to keep out the Indians and Asians, but, for now, the Indians and Asians play by white rules. That may change in the future.
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Sorry, meant to say that these areas “aren’t” insanely rich, but their expensive enough.
Change doesn’t come when the working class gets hit. It comes when the upper middle class and rich get hit. The white working class was hammered first, then the white middle class, but the upper middle class remains mostly untouched. The rich are definitely untouched.
Until they feel the pain, nothing will change.
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Heading out to work In Ktown today, Ginger left-handed midgets are few and far inbetween, I would be surprised if I see one gray hair though. 40 % are still wearing face diapers. I even saw on driving a convertible with a mask on last week. I never see one with a tool or broom in hand, they must be just pushing money around skimming 2.0% , monkey see monkey do ?
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Now that the “emergency is over”, may we please start telling these people (in a nasally, school-marm tone) “Take off your mask!!!”.
If they don’t, can we ask to speak with the manager?
Mow Noname: Just publicly snigger at them, and be glad you don’t have to breath in their noxious fumes.
This was a nice piece. This parallels with my view that, in our era, inductive reasoning is dead. Deductive reasoning is inherently abstract; inductive is inherently grounded in the material. When the imaginary/ abstract is the truth, you can only use deductive reasoning; e.g. Climate change affects everything and is the biggest threat in the world (major premise); this is a thing (minor premise); therefore, this is climate change (conclusion). Substitute any of the isms and good/ bad and you can see the same pattern.
To be clear, I am not saying these people are logical. I am saying that this is intuitively the process that goes on in their heads. The beauty of all this imagination/ abstraction is that the beliefs (major premise) can be effortlessly swapped for a new one; e.g. Anything that disagrees with trannies is hate. This disagrees with trannies. Therefore, I can hate this, because it is hate.
The only check for this is grounded in experience, the realm of the inductive, that would lead to a new general premise that is less imaginary and more a response to the situation on the ground. Of course, this does not happen anymore (for most); thus, we have the current situation.
But as one last point. We are the Eloi – I chose my name years ago after I read Wells because his books prodded my thoughts. But the Eloi had their tenders. Never forget the Morlocks. They are the ones that can swap the beliefs, I would contend.
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Here is another example of the world of make-believe a lot of people choose to live in.
‘Fleeing bloodshed, poverty and despair, immigrant asylum seekers line up in the desert.’
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-05-10/fleeing-bloodshed-poverty-and-despair-immigrant-asylum-seekers-line-up-in-the-desert
What is always, ALWAYS missing from these articles are the important questions that are never asked:
Where will they live? Who’s gonna pay for the healthcare, public services, education? Are there that many jobs waiting in agriculture/slaughterhouses/restaurants to support millions more? No concern for the environmental impact on natural resources? Culture changes? Crime?
The mainstream media apparatus frames this as if we are still in the early 20th century industrial era, with numerous factories and farms needing physical labor.
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ArthurinCali: They ‘flee’ the travails imposed by their own nature and bring the same with them to enrich the White man – along with TB, scabies, lice, etc. Childless women will be touched by the photos of brown-eyed brown-skinned children, and even the White women who are natural mothers will willingly hand over their own progeny’s sustenance. “It’s for the Children!” they will cry. And yes, those alien, diseased, and inherently violent and and stupid ‘children’ are the future. And that future is now . . . in real time . . . and most Whites are too pathologically subjugated to even whimper any dissent.
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I enjoyed this essay. Thinking of things in terms of imagined versus real is a good basis. I’m sure a lot of the issues dominating the imaginary public square are imagined.
I disagree on the Bud Light example. I don’t think those marketers were targeting trannies. They were signaling virtue to their in-group members. The mistake is their product is consumed by out-group members. Had this been a weird luxury good or fruity beer, this never would have made a single headline.
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The Bud Light campaign was really off putting to normie men. The experiment Clay Travis just did throwing out a cooler of free beer at a concert with three brands in it and coming back at the end to see almost all the Bud Light still floating in the water was telling. Bud Light was a product that had low brand loyalty to begin with and now normies would be embarrassed to be seen drinking it. They will have to spend a ton on money just to get to a stabilization point.
A few weeks ago a presentation was held at a public high school in Arlington, VA. The presenter was the exorbitantly overpaid Chief of DIE. He’s a black guy who took the opportunity to advise the teachers and staff that the reason the students of color were underperforming is due to the white teachers, particularly white male teachers. The students need teachers of color to inspire them. Once that change occurs, the test scores and behavior will magically improve.
The black AP history classes are gripe sessions about the evil ways of the whites.
Their DIE budget is over $1.2 million this year.
Maybe they can appropriate funds from the rapidly declining tennis, golf and swim teams and the math, science and chess clubs.
This is all old news but it really does seem like the perfect time for separation.
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I live in red state Idaho. If I had school age children I would no more put them in public school that I would stick my head in a fire. No public school can be considered safe anymore.
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‘The people who cooked up the idea were sure that there are millions of crossdressers desperate for a beer that appeals to them, so they created a campaign around a crossdresser.’
No. The Bud Light campaign was designed to ‘put us in our place’, just like the rest of modern culture. To denigrate, mock, and vex us, showing us once again that we are powerless, that if the Woke-Fem Politburo and its minions want to turn another symbol of masculinity (beer) into crossdressing anti-masculinity, they will do so and there is nothing we can do about it.
Sure we can boycott Bud Light, but it won’t change anything. The corporations are not responsive to market pressure, only to ideological pressure.
We have long been in the In Your Face phase of intentional national destruction. It is not enough for my enemies to have total power, they must see me and mine degraded and mocked and belittled constantly, because what fun is endless empowerment if your enemies aren’t suffering?
There was never even the slightest intention on the part of Anheuser-Busch to open a new market (transvestites). That is not to understand what is going on here.
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When most of the stock market is owned by a handful of companies, the free market does not exist. Like everything else, our free market is imagination land. At least the Soviets explicitly said what their economic model was.
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ray: Agree. It’s all about the subjugation and public humiliation of heterosexual White people. Your erasure from history, fiction, and the modern public square is not enough – you must thoroughly grovel before being consigned to the the dungheap.
Hammer hits nail dead of center.
It is also designed to get the hordes who will replace you to dehumanize you so whenever Radio Rwanda makes the call … …
The issue is the degradation of our society is moving slow enough where people aren’t putting 2 and 2 together. Add this to the zombies on their phone who are addicted to their dopamine shots and we’re going to be a long ways from the bottom.
Our food is already over-processed slop, our communities are completely deracinated, Health care is now run by psychopaths, 30% of our young girls say they’re gay, and fertility is falling off a cliff. The acceleration over the last five years is dizzying, and more people just watch like they’re spectators whom it won’t affect.
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“As ridiculous as this age has become, one has to leave open the possibility that we live in a simulation”
That was Baudrillard’s argument — that we live in a “fake reality”:
“Baudrillard claims that our current society has replaced all reality and meaning with symbols and signs, and that human experience is a simulation of reality.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation#
Of course it’s just a restatement of Plato’s parable of the Cave.
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Or you can take a few steps deeper into the cave and say there’s no reality beyond the symbols and signs.
We know that CO2 levels sometimes correlate with warming and that they sometimes have an inverse correlation with warming. We know that there are cosmic, orbital, volcanic, oceanic, solar and other effects on the earth’s temperature. We know that we are at a very low level of atmospheric CO2 compared to the typical mean of the preceding eons. We know that CO2 has a logarithmic warming effect despite the lying linear extrapolations. We know that when CO2 levels were 5 times higher than today’s for periods of hundreds of thousands of years, there was far more life on planet earth than there is today. In short, we know that CAGW is a lie.
We also know that we have a very real debt crisis brought about by the welfare state, albatross populations abusing handouts and a debt ponzi scheme dubbed “perpetual, sustainable growth.” We had a very real economist, Paul Krugman, with a Nobel prize propose that the way out of debt was to pretend that we were going to be invaded by space aliens and so we should spend gazillions preparing to fight off this imaginary invader. Once we spent enough, he said, we would be free of our debts because we had, “grown the economy”, through government spending. He posited this with a straight face in the newspaper of record of the Global Hegamon. No person in the so called elite, offered a criticism or shamed him into forfeiting his awards, titles and prestige for being so unhinged and irrational. Of course, he and his denizon of economic worm tongues whisper in ears at palaces across the West that more people will solve the debt problem. So blessed is the entry of the hordes.
Of course, you can also see videos of Krugman in a more serious light. These are the videos where with the dead eyes of a Gulag henchman, he says white middle Americans are going to have their power taken away. Nobody flinched when he said that in 2018 either. He is the angel and those who protest being targeted by their race for having their power taken away are the devils.
Speaking of sinister and vile people who need a neck size taken, I saw Jen Psaki yesterday. She was interviewing some BA Cult congress-pseudoman and they were gloating about how they have prosecuted and purged all of the most overt symbols of MAGA rebellion against the global elite. Above them hovered a ghost, and I saw the sanpaku eyes of Alejandro Mayorkas.
It used to be that a king or a noble would fall and often by rumor spread by clever political enemies. One thing about this day and age, is that you can see the conspirators and what they say. As hard as they try to scrub the distributed digital record of who they are and what they have said, they can’t. Some no doubt are untouchable, and unknown, but who will want to be the face of the regime in this construction?
I think that the world they are constructing will most closely resemble The Hunger Games over 1984 or Brave New World. Perhaps, the people who will be rounded up for the death spectacle will not be the representatives of the Dirt People, but representatives of the many disposable Cloud People. For they inspire a deserved contempt. Perhaps they’ll vote each other off of the cloud and offer up sacrifices through a death spectacle as a release valve for the dirts. The dirts can take a break from the abuses of a cartel run police force and military and countless other degradations.
Psaki vs. Jean-Pierre vs. Lloyd Austin vs. Mulvaney vs. Bankman-Fried vs. The Nuclear Transvestite vs. Chief Diversity Officer of UNC vs. Kinziger vs. Adam Schiff vs. Massie vs. Huggins. I think it may just be diverse and inclusive enough to boot! Do you think that Gates, Soros, Mayorkas, Page/Brin/Schmidt, Kagan, Kristol … … wouldn’t gladly offer them up as a distraction and relief valve?
I do think that eventually the wizards behind the curtain will have harmed so many people across so many generations, with an accessible digital record as proof that they will inspire retribution. Somebody has to feed and guard them and their offspring. And if, by chance, robots do it, well software and firmware can be reprogrammed and models retrained.
The problems that must be solved may be imaginary, but the crimes and transgressions committed in order to solve them are and will be very real and extremely severe. They will not go unnoticed or unpunished.
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