Note: There is a new Taki post, as per usual. This week the topic is the relative gap between the Cloud People and Dirt People. For podcast fans, there is a new Sunday Thoughts up behind the green door, along with some other items. Of course, you can always buy a beer for the hardest working man in dissident politics.
The boom-bust economic cycle that came with the industrial age has been a primary focus of economics for close to two centuries. Marx was the first to notice that these periodic economic crises were an inherent part of the system. He theorized that over-production was the cause, which lead to a destruction of capital. The economist Joseph Schumpeter picked up on this and gave us the term “creative destruction” to frame the busts as corrections to inefficiencies.
It is one of those truths that still haunt the modern economy. The reason the down cycle is terrifying is that economics is really about politics. When the busts come, the people get angry at the politicians. Worse yet, they can get angry at the rich people and start demanding a share of the loot. It’s why economics has evolved to prevent the bust at any cost. Seven trillion in new money was created over the last year in response to the Covid panic in order to keep people pacified.
We still have the boom-bust issue, just in small scale. A new idea goes through a familiar cycle. At first it is highly profitable for the owner. They ramp up their production to meet demand. Soon, others come up with similar products that cut into his market, thus undermining his profits. In time the profits are reduced to the barest minimum as the product becomes a commodity. In time the value to the original creator of the new product drops to zero. It is a commodity.
This is generally considered a good thing by modern economics, as it means the relative cost of goods continues to fall. It also means intellectual capital is naturally forced to innovate. The company with the hot new product knows they will have to keep coming up with hot new ideas. Otherwise, their profits will fall. On the other hand, they might seek a monopoly like we see with the tech oligarchs, which allows them to artificially maintain their profit margin.
There is another angle to this that is unique to this age. The technological revolution has created a new form of capitalism that is rooted in the creation of new ideas, particularly in the entertainment space. Like the imitators who draft on the creations of the innovators, this new process in the technological economy is dependent on the initial creative energy of an innovator. Unlike the old industrial age imitator, this new form of economic activity is highly profitable.
It works like this. The new idea for something like a movie or a type of popular music is expensive and difficult to create. It requires smart and creative people to try different things until they get a concept that works. Then they have to convince investors or an audience, often both, to give it a look. In the case of a movie, it means the risk of a box office bust. In the case of music, it means years of failure, while living on cat food. The new idea promises profit, but mostly risk.
If the new thing does well, then this is where the new entrepreneur steps into the picture and realizes the big profit. That hit movie becomes a franchise. Soon, there is a remake which is very profitable. Then subsequent remakes, reboots and spin-offs that have declining profits. Eventually, they reached a point where there is no profit in the franchise. At this point, the original concept has lost its value and often has a negative value, due to the terrible imitations that came after it.
Recent examples of this in Hollywood are legion. The Terminator franchise has become a joke due to the many sequels. So desperate to squeeze the final pennies from the idea, they have the 70-year-old Arnold Schwarzenegger playing a geriatric robot named Carl who is an interior decorator. The Alien franchise is mostly known for the idiotic reboots and spin-offs that are easily mocked. These are two ideas drained of all value, like the corpse after a vampire has drained the blood.
This happens with other things like pithy phrases. Back in the Obama years, someone used the term “crony-capitalism” to describe the tightening bonds between global corporations and the government. The phrase caught on and was in the mouth of every right-wing pundit. In time it sounded like some of them had a form of Tourette’s, in which they burped out that phrase uncontrollably. Today we have “deep state” and “globalist” getting the same treatment from the same crowd.
The thing is, these vampires who prey on new ideas are not without talent. They have a useful set of skills, in that they are able to drain every last drop of value from an intellectual property. They do so without regard to their own reputations or the reputation of the original creator. They are proud to be vampires and they are handsomely rewarded for their skill. In fact, they do better than the originators, who are often looking for the next concept or ignored by the imitators.
This is not confined to entertainment. A new bit of software can expect the same treatment, as most of Silicon Valley is now tuned to rapidly replicate and consume every new idea that comes along. The cable chat shows are festooned with ads for “apps” that are copies of some original. Facebook, in fact, is just a cheap knock-off of an original idea lost to the mists of time. It now is being cloned and copied by those looking to find some remaining profit from the idea.
A few years ago, an “entrepreneur” came up with the scheme to convince people that buying shaving products was difficult. Instead you should subscribe to a mail order service for razors. There was no new product or an effort to change the demand for razors and shaving products. The whole scheme was about fooling people into thinking there was a razor conspiracy. The goal was to get them to expose their neck so the vampires could get a clear shot at the artery.
Of course, this “innovation” has come in for the same treatment. The airwaves are full of ads claiming there is an underwear conspiracy that can only be solved by bespoke undergarments from a boutique maker. Instead of coming up with a better mousetrap, genius is finding a way to trick people into paying for the same mousetrap. Once the blood has been drained from that deception, it will be onto some new scheme to provide less for more, under the guise of innovation.
This has created a world that selects for the type of person able to suck every last drop of blood from a new idea. In a world where you make as much or more money from copying the ideas of others, it makes sense that people will go into that line of work, rather than the creative end. Hollywood is now full of vampires, looking to drain the blood from the next new idea. There are no “new ideas” in the movie world, because there is no one there interested in being sucked dry by his fellow vampires.
If these selection pressures exist long enough and are widespread enough, then eventually you have a world of too many vampires and too few victims. Those vampires have to feed, so they will move onto other victims. That may be where we are now in the late stages of empire. Everywhere you look the remaining bits of the original spirit are covered with vampires, looking for a clear bit of neck into which they can sink their fangs and suck some blood. Ours is a vampire economy now.
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“[T]he tightening bonds between global corporations and the government.”
Many people don’t realize that that’s one of the textbook definitions of Fascism.
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This is something I’ve noted many times. Our current political-economy is a form of international fascism. Instead of a combination of capital, labor and the state, it is a combination of capital, the state and the cultural commissars.
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Interesting thing is, Il Duce and Mustache Man seemed to care (at least a little) about Italians and Germans. Our current rulers, like the international socialists, don’t have that problem.
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If only it was indifference for us. It’s the malevolent malice that they display that get me down.
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We really don’t have a word for this that is useful. NazBol is the opposite, in that it is Marxism and nationalist. This is fascism and internationalism. GlobFash does not have a good ring to it.
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Globohomo is the best I’ve seen.
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One could do worse than call it ‘interfa’.
In the early ’90s, when globohomo/etc. first became identifiable in its current form, some academic Marxists tried to get the descriptor “fascoid-liberal” to catch on. Of course it didn’t, because it’s weird-looking and what it means isn’t immediately obvious. Same reason “anarcho-tyranny” is a righty nerd shibboleth and normal people will never say it, no matter how much of it they experience. The one indignity the average American always refuses is talking like a dork.
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Orwell called the system “oligarchical collectivism”, others call it “corporate socialism”. The best one-word description is “corporatism”.
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I think Wild Geese said the other day, Globohomo is basically Hitler but with white gentiles as the target.
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They don’t need to care about individual peoples since we are simply fungible meatbags in their globalist matrix.
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The most important lesson an engineer can learn during his career: “In theory, theory and practice are the same; in practice they ain’t.”
Regarding the Mustachioed Man and his “caring” it is amazing how nostalgia can blind somebody to the facts that his singular historical legacy is the most efficient race mixing in Germany’s history. Not even counting the Slavic-Aryan mostly “involuntary coupling”, within ten years of the end of his earthly activities Germany started to import Mohameddans in large numbers, first Turks, then Arabs and Africans, a true first in European history followed by the current officially approved and promoted “voluntary” couplings.
Admittedly looking back 85 years is still historically a short time but what else we can discern as “legacy”? Do you think that history’s judgement, whatever that is, will be any better 85 years from now when Germany will be renamed Germbabwe?
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You’re blaming Moustache Man for what happened ten years after his death?
If you’re going to kill the king then you had better succeed. Moustache Man did not succeed but you want to blame him for what the king did after the assassination attempt.
You are saying that if Moustache Man had not made his assassination attempt then Germany would be white? The history of the USA after WW2 says otherwise.
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Italian fascism had the Catholic church as one of the branches in its bundle. Our academia and media fill that role in American fascism.
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Those people who think companies follow the standards profits incentive of economics should have to explain the companies who had their stores burned down by rioters then display pro-BLM propaganda in their windows once they rebuilt.
And no, it’s not a modern blood offering for appeasement, as they know that doesn’t work.
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Those stores were of two varieties.
Local small businesses that were hoping the mob would see them as organic parts of the community and leave them alone. Hell the owners may even have agreed with the protestors.
Large national chains that thought the localized losses would be more than offset by gains from positioning themselves as allies of the protests. They were wrong, but that was the reasoning.
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Standard practice for co-opting a “rebel” movement is to pretend to take their side, while defusing the energy and steering the herd back to the corporate comfort zone. Then sell Che Guevara tee shirts on Amazon.
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Yeah, I’ve tried to point that out to people, but the word Fascism has been so warped that it no longer has any meaning other than “bad white people.”
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Orwell noticed the same things all those years ago:
“The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies “something not desirable”…In the case of a word like democracy, not only is there no agreed definition, but the attempt to make one is resisted from all sides. It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it: consequently the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.”
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HIs essay, “Politics and the English Language,” used to be required reading for anyone wanting to learn how to be accurate, concise, and straightforward; now, it has become a primer on what to avoid when writing. Cf. Any gender studies or race studies paper.
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Yeah really:”Words and meanings are fluid” blah blah blah.
I once got into a debate with someone over the meaning and use of the word “literally.” He was trying to argue that it is no longer used in its “literal” sense, but as an emphasis. After all, “words are fluid, their meanings are constantly changing and evolving.” I tried to point out the layers of irony expressed in that idea as well as offered my own argument as to why we cannot accept such views and behaviors. By the end of it, he was still convinced that he was the paragon of linguistics. So I told him I am will refer to spoons as zebras from now on. Language is constantly changing after all, why not? “Hey can you please pass me the zebra?” People will catch on eventually I’m sure…
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Despite wearing all black, massing in masks, brandishing weapons, assaulting private citizens, destroying property, and doing it all with the tacit approval of the state (police protection and legal immunity), big business who won’t speak out and an educational system enthusiastically producing more of them…
“Antifa” isn’t “fascist. They’re “Anti-fascist”. Durrrr. It’s in the name. See?
Orwell wept. Language is broken.
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What’s really funny is you can find the Roman fasces all over public buildings in Occupied America’s Imperial City. Of course, that dates from when Roman Republican virtues were actually believed to be an ideal…
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What compounds it is the idiots who insist fascism means antisemitism. There are two sides to that group, but they are both irritatingly stupid in their own way.
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True. In modern America, fascism is defined as “Bad white people who hate and want to dominate other races but who really hate Jews and want to kill them in death camps.”
How our society defines fascism is a very good sign of just how childish and ahistorical that we’ve become.
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Anyone who thinks “facism means anti-semitism” has never been to Israel or studied their history, and just accepts this propaganda at face value.
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In Fascism, the state commands the economy and private businesses are subordinate. There is a grand idea around which the nation rallies and there is a unity – real or forced, usually a combination of both.
What we have now is corporatism, where the businesses rule and the politicians are puppets that pull the levers of the state purely for the benefit of business. There is no grand idea, no unity, nothing organic to rally around. Instead there is only PR and suppression.
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The USA lurches quarter to quarter like any generic widget factory.
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Il Duce had the idea of completing the creation of modern Italy, started by Garibaldi and nearly destroyed by WW I. We all understand Hitler’s ideas. The “grand idea” today is really the opposite of these historical examples – it is a negation of the nation (the actual people and their traditions).
The “grand idea” today is the apotheosis of the State. The State is no longer a vehicle for Italians, or ethnic Germans or Americans, to achieve goals and development. Instead, it’s a vehicle for global corporate hegemony and it demands total submission. There need be no state religion because the religion is the State.
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According to Mussolini himself, who invented the concept of “fascism” as a successor to liberal “socialism”:
“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power…
The Fascist State is an inwardly accepted standard and rule of conduct, a discipline of the whole person; it permeates the will no less than the intellect…”
http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Germany/mussolini.htm
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I may be a bit of a crank on the definition of “fascism,” but hear me out. Right wing thinkers like Z and Maniac define fascism as “a bond between corporations and government.” This definition mistakes a secondary feature as the defining essence.
Fascism as practiced by Mussolini and Moustache Man was about organizing a society to serve its founding people. That is the defining essence. The fact that realizing this goal required taming corporations is just a secondary feature.
I don’t imagine that the fascists sat down and said, “Our main goal is to enmesh corporations and government.” No, they probably said, “Our main goal is to serve our people and that may entail forcing corporations to serve the common good.”
I know that I am just arguing semantics, which is usually pointless, but it bothers me that fascists are being slandered.
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Yes, well stated. You can read about Hitler’s “corporation-taming” in Adam Tooze’s excellent book on the economic policy of the Third Reich (Wages of Destruction). Hitler forced a lot of mergers, consolidation and price-fixing. His tactics are debatable, but the early results were good. I think he was much more pragmatic and less ideological on this subject than Il Duce.
Il Duce began his public life as a Socialist journalist and agitator. He was a lot more rooted ideologically in taming corporate power than Hitler. His problem was that he needed the big Northern Italian industrialists to achieve his political aims. He never got them under control the way Hitler did with his guys.
So I think your point is excellent. These guys were nationalists first, economists second.
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“These guys were nationalists first, economists second.”
Which is one of the reasons they ended up losing the total, industrial war they initiated.
But fascism needs a charismatic leader to be complete
We have fascism by committee. Or something
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It’s worth pondering the idea that distributed surveillance, network technology and private censorship has empowered thousands of cat-lady Fascists to enforce the new State religion of St. George Floyd on all of us without requiring a charismatic leader.
The Fascism of the future may end up being as dull as it is oppressive: No rousing balcony speeches or torch-lit rallies may be needed. We may just get the quotidian, gray oppression of millions of unseen tyrants.
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China has the Politburo and the Standing Committee to manage the corporate-socialist state. The USA has the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Trilateral Commission.
I was waiting to see if you ‘went there’ with the cliche opportunity near the end of another great essay. Well reasoned. Tightly, thoughtfully written.
Vampire Economy. Empire…
VEmpire of Dreams…..
I think I just vampired your essay….. I’ll show myself out…..
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Good essay! I have a personal story which fits with the premise. For a few years, in conjunction with some doctors at a medical university, we developed an app to track disease in a community–it took a lot of thought and was clever–and, most importantly it was gaining customers and users. Then Covid hit. We quickly adapted the app for the new landscape (which wasn’t too difficult as all the basic work and research was done) and we figured we’d have a hit as a result of preparation hitting opportunity. But then, the App stores took weeks and weeks to approve the new version. By the time they approved it, both App store giants had their own disease tracking App launch and up on their App marketplace and it looked, amazingly, like ours. We shut the App down, knowing it is not prudent to continue to innovate in a rigged system.
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When you look back at the technological advancement of the first two decades of the twentieth century vs the last twenty years, it’s an absolute joke. Nothing really new is happening other than our collective society is going insane. At this point, an implosion would almost be a blessing.
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You should read a book called the rise and fall of modern medicine. The first fifty years of the twentieth century was one Miracle after another and the second 50 years why is it being populated by grifters and bureaucrats and largely explains how we are in our position right now.
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Not only grifters and bureaucrats, but lots and lots of people and future freaks who should have never survived birth.
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I’ve heard, and think it plausible, that the “major improvement in life and life span” attributed to modern medicine is almost entirely due to public heath measures (sewers, etc.) from the early 20th century, which massively cut down on urban plagues. Since then, it’s all itty-bitty cuts here and there. Remember when they cured cancer and heart disease? Nah, still around. And guess what’s number 3 in morality? Deaths from hospital infections and medicine side effects. Nice racket.
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A lot of the technological advancements of the last two decades feel like ever smaller incremental advancements.
The other thing that has occurred is the atomization of popular culture due to all the online streaming options.
That atomization is not all bad given the political bent of most celebrities.
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Our rulers also despise economic downturns because they are about the only mechanism to reduce income and wealth inequality. Yes, poor people get hurt by downturns, but they have little to nothing to lose. The rich, on the other hand, have a lot to lose.
Outside of the unusual post-WWII period from 1945 to mid 1970s, good economic times always increase wealth inequality and wealth concentration. Like the game Monopoly, money increasingly flows to asset owners.
Downturns reduce the value of business assets and wipe out a lot of debt (and one man’s debt is another man’s asset). Poor people may lose their job, but their net worth doesn’t really change. It might even improve if some of their debt is wiped away. Rich people’s net worth falls dramatically.
Downturns act a bit like the old debt jubilees – which, of course, is why TPTB aren’t so keen on them anymore.
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The manufactured “downturns” is when the billionaire parasites fleece the sheep that were lured into the casino, then buy up the assets at deep discount. Read the history of the 1929 stock market crash or the 1907 panic. Same as it ever was.
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True. Downturns can be opportunities as well, especially when certain groups know that they’re coming.
But, historically, it’s a fact that wealth concentration and wealth inequality fall during downturns. And generally, it’s the only time that happens – again, with the exception of ~30 years after WWII>
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Interesting concept.
We have to be careful. Using that argument on someone like Torba over at Gab, for example – would be unfair. There was a crushing need for a free speech social media platform and he provided it … and almost got crushed in the process. Last I heard he was firing a torpedo at OyTube with Gab TV. I hope it takes them square amidships.
Yannow, the Dissidents should do the same thing to Hollywood. Cornelius Rye would make an excellent director. You’d probably be a fair screenwriter. That horrible green frog would make a capital counterpart to MGM’s roaring lion.
I think we should run with it!
Don’t any of you deplorable reprobates and racists steal my idea.
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Errrrmmmm… none a you guys molest children, do ya? Or wear funny small hats?
Guy’s gotta be careful these days.
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Gab is a actually real innovation. There is a need for open platforms, so he is creating one that is hard to knock off-line. Note that Parler is a vampire coming along to suck on that artery though. The pillow guy is doing the same thing. These sites offering nothing new. They are just drafting off Gab and other open platforms trying to keep the internet open to dissidents.
Conservative Inc. is a great example of institutional vampirism.
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This is what we should support IMO. Unless you want your kids indoctrinated in trans, anti-white propaganda, we need pro-white or at least christian versions of every product out there, especially social media, entertainment, and politics.
The mail-order razor companies are a great example.
These days they are all woke with a retail presence, just like Gillette.
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It has to said, though, that no matter how pozzed a company like Harry’s is, they did act as a relief valve on the price of disposable razors, which had reached insane levels when Gillette had a hammerlock on the market.
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I noticed while traveling through some small midwestern towns this weekend that Dollar Generals and Dollar Tree stores are in about every small town now.
Sucking the local money right to Wall Street.
The locals don’t even have to drive 30 miles to the Wal Mart Super Center anymore.
The local general store owner of the past whom financed the local softball team and sat on local community boards is now replaced by a Dollar General manager whose focus is being a vampire and sucking money out of small towns.
It’s everywhere in the modern age.
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When taking road trips, I always drive along back highways and stop at little country restaurants. I’ve had some great conversations, some great food, (and some very bad food/coffee, but variety is the spice of life lol). You even run into some white owned gas stations, which I make sure to fill up at as much as I can.
In the city I try and buy local where possible too. It’s a shame that the townspeople often seem to prefer the chains over their own local stores. Most Indian/Filipino owned franchises are just money laundering schemes, send remittances back home, or drug trafficking rings.
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it’s the weirdest thing. Small towns used to have the intellectual capital to generate enough people to run small retail operations. Are they still around?
Similar thing with suburban dining. Everything in the suburbs is chains restaurants, as if nobody knows how to open a diner, let alone some cool and expensive place – those are all in the gentrifying parts of the city.
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I took a road trip with my dad last month and he made very clear that we are not trying anything new. He wanted no surprises. So motel 6 and chain restaurants was all we experienced. Most of this arose during the boomer’s generation. It’s amazing how picky the boomers are. They’re nowhere near as resilient as my grandparents’ generation.
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Ironically, as AINO becomes more diverse, we are seeing the death of dining diversity. The bland and dull food mills known as chains are a big part of the problem. Another one is that independent restauranteurs are all creating identical restaurants. Not so terribly long ago, even in mid-sized cities, one saw true French, Italian, Chinese, German, Japanese, Indian etc. restaurants. Nowadays, every independent upscale restaurant menu is a predictable melange of Chinese, Thai, Indian, Mexican and American concepts. The menus are chaotic food jumbles rather than carefully curated ensembles representing a specific cuisine. So, unless you live in a large metro area–which I have no interest in doing–your best bet is to cook your own food.
Good example of how homogenized and “non-diverse” things are actually becoming. The population itself is a “chaotic jumble” that no longer represents unique and diverse cultures. Corporatism requires “globo-homo” for efficient management.
Note that the major shareholders of Dollar General include the “big three” vampires: BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street.
Larry Fink, billionaire chairman of BlackRock, is a director of the CFR and a trustee at the Davos WEF, promoting the fascist “great reset” agenda. BlackRock also owns $15B in Pfizer shares.
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Dollar general i believe is a franchise, so the owner might be right around the corner. They probably wont be sponsoring the local softball team any time soon, but they’re not sending money directly to some corporate office in NY
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Unfortunately, not. The DG investor website says that all the stores are corporate, none are franchised. BlackRock and the other major NY vampires reap the profits.
We talked last week about how most of the people getting rich right now have added absolutely no value to the economy. One of my brother’s in-laws made $70k on Doge bitcoin a couple weeks ago. He immediately cashed out and used his unearned winnings to buy consumer products manufactured abroad. It kind of feels like I’m living inside of a video game where the rules are just based on arbitrary programming rather than value and logic.
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” I create nothing. I own”. – Godon Gekko, “Wall Street”
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We have to recognize that enormous sectors of the economy – government, health care and education – are de facto State cartels. Therefore, they are impervious to innovation and productivity enhancement.
A great example during the “pandemic” was Zoom school teaching. In this case, technological innovation (Zoom) was, for the first time in US history, employed to make a product worse, as actual in-person education went “on-line”.
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Zoom is the ideal offshoot of the drive for “technology in the classroom,” which has been an educational imperative since ca. 2010. And, outside of the catastrophic destruction of academic standards to make way for diversity, nothing is more deleterious to teaching and learning than technology in the classroom.
Are there any trends in the Western world that are not ominous and harmful?
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Nothing could be better to freeze technology than to put it in the classroom. Had there been such a push for technology in the late 70s, we’d all be using basic.
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“the creation of new ideas” has unfortunately devolved into… there must be something new to look at today, and every day in the future, and it needs to be more valuable in this moment than anything else the audience could be doing at all times. Hence, youtube.
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This also helps to erase the past, and to prevent the current generation from learning any valuable lessons about how the grifters run their scams — economic, political and otherwise — century after century. “There is nothing new under the sun”.
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The online razor schtick reminds of the online nut purchasing site that I see many ads for lately. I have no difficulties in buying pistachios and cashews at a real store.
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you know, j*uws are at the main inspiration for the vampire myth. Surely just a coincidence, has nothing to do with the current state of western society.
http://www.gotmedieval.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Simon_of_Trent.png
http://www.peterdanpsychology.ro/ro/pagina/26/files/pages/vampires1.jpg
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael-Wintroub/publication/283853164/figure/fig4/AS:812839820328962@1570807523620/Ritual-Murder-of-Simon-of-Trent-1475-From-Hartmann-Schedels-Liber-Chronicarum.png
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I actually like the recent Alien prequels. The Engineers are interesting characters. Sort of a sci-fi treatment of gnostic themes. Alien vs Predator is a different story.
“In a world where you make as much or more money from copying the ideas of others…”
Read that and first thing that came to mind was the Chicom Knockoff Century. Fits the vampire motif for sure.
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Prometheus is one of the dumbest movies ever made.
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I admit to being easy to entertain.
I thought the idea was good, anyway. Certainly as good as walking vaginas that stick their penises down their victim’s throat to lay eggs. Maybe not even as subversive.
I took the android-centric Alien prequels as a sign Scott would have much rather been making Blade Runner movies.
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The money men prefer the feminist stuff no doubt.
I’ve long maintained, living in Hollywood as it were, that the push for homosexuality acceptance was merely so Hollywood could insert gays into the roles of straights and make it seem as if they were creating new material when in fact it was the sitcom from the past with a new cast. They could save lots of money, paper over the fact of a dearth of creative energy in the community and that Hollywood had become a spent force, and get brownie work points from the critics. The icing in the cake was their own sexual degeneracy became more normalized.
Race is playing the same role. No need to invent a new franchise or new plot. Just take the white guy and make him black, or gay, or a tranny.
If anyone remembers the instant soup? It works similarly, Just add water and voila.
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Ah. So AINO is the Vampire Empire.
As for film franchises, not all of them lapse into laughable and increasingly unprofitable self parody. Take for example, the James Bond franchise, which has been around for 59 years, and, the Kovid Kaptivity notwithstanding, is still going strong. Up until very recently the most profitable Bond film was Thunderball (1965), which was finally eclipsed by Skyfall (2012), which netted over a billion dollars. Of course, it now seems likely that James Bond, under the onslaught of the AWRs, will soon be converted to Afro-Bond, which, of course, is not James Bond at all. That demarche may well put paid to 007 as Ernst Stavro Blofeld never could.
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Bond has been self parody for a long time. At least since Roger Moore. Self parody doesn’t always mean unprofitability.
The last Bond movie was pretty much a complete deconstruction of original Bond.
There were moments of self parody during the Moore years, but, with the possible exception of Moonraker, none of Moore’s films were entirely self parodic. And, say what you will about the Daniel Craig films, there’s very little self parody in them, and in terms of their seriousness–arguably too serious–they hark back to Dr. No and From Russia with Love. The only Bond film that made a true mockery of the Bond mythos was Die Another Day, which is unwatchable.
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I grew a beard and maintain it with a cheap usb chargeable trimmer. Shaving annoying and beards have benefits against sunlight exposure for the face.
With regards to plagiarism, it would seem that Poland’s national treasure and author of The Witcher series, Andrzej Sapkowski got his ideas from Michael Moorcock’s Elric books. YouTuber Razorfist does a lengthy critique and expose in this video: https://youtu.be/TkiP64adGjY
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Are people who love the Cloud people (I actually had a dot-head customer from India who’s idol was Zuckerberg if you can believe that) Cloud people themselves? Or are they Dirt people who THINK they are Cloud people
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I bet that Subcontinental was making money off Facebook somehow.
See also Jacques Ellul/”La technique”
NPC herding is the last frontier of business efficiency. They’re improving at it by the day.
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The Star Wars and Star Trek series of movies are examples of a good idea run into the ground by endless prequels and sequels. I lost interest in both series after about the second movie of the endless serieses.
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A New Tomorrow (cont)
Why antibodies matter.
Once upon a time in the history of the evolution of our species, the natural environment of our ancestral era provided the primary mechanism of culling dysfunctional members from each tribe. This culling was most often driven by the forces of natural fitness selection, in that those individuals who were not well suited to survive & thrive in the local environment typically died young thereby failing to pass on their genes via reproduction. And we grew smarter & stronger with each passing generation spanning back in time at least 100,000 years. Then civilization happened and everything changed. Natural culling is now extinct. And it is the pathogens (read vampires/parasites) who now grow stronger with each passing generation. In a healthy organism, it is the antibodies that must cull these pathogens when nature cannot.
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I was expecting way more (((. ))) in the comments.