One of the consequences of the unfolding revelations in Washington is that we must reexamine the past in light of this new data. We now know that the political process was captured by the Blob and used to serve the Blob. That means the alleged policies of past presidents were probably not their policies at all. They were simply staying ahead of the policies put forth by the Blob.
At the same time, much of what we want government to do has gotten worse as the Blob has assumed control. Name a problem and not only has it gotten worse, but the cost of addressing it has grown out of control. One great example is the war on drugs that has tracked closely with the growth of the Blob. The cost of fighting it has spiraled out of control, while the problem has only grown worse.
It is the nature of managerialism to look for things to manage, but managing is not the same as solving or even mitigating. You cannot remain a manager if what the problem you are tasked to manage gets solved. In fact, solving the issue is exactly what you must seek to avoid, which means you become part of the problem. This is what we have seen with the drug war going back to the Reagan years.
That is the show this week. It is a dive into the rabbit hole of the drug war to try and explain how the drug menace is the result of managerialism. At every stop along the way, government either deliberately or incompetently advanced the flow of drugs into the country and the diversity of drugs available. The reason we did not have a drug epidemic a century ago is we did not have managerialism a century ago.
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This Week’s Show
Contents
- Intro
- The War On Drugs
- What Happened?
- Maxine Waters Was Right
- The Poppy Fields
- Syrian Captagon
- Purdue Pharma
- Fentanyl & Meth
- Marijuana Legalization
- Drugs, Protection & The State
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Im my libertarian days I remember Jeffery Tucker saying, the drug war is not a war against drugs but a war against the populace.
The CIA proposed to purchase the entire world supply of LSD in the early 1950s, supposedly to keep it out of the hands of the Soviets. Production was shifted to the US.
The Soviets had no problems with LSD afaik, but within about ten years the USA was awash in the stuff. The “Elite” held that only they should partake, others wanted to dose everyone. “Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out”. The “counter culture” sure had a massive corporate presence. It’s almost comical in retrospect.
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But Jeffrey Tucker is a retard and a fag. He was virulently anti-Trump for all the typical leftist reasons. He is a typical left wing libertarian despite his connections with the Rothbardian side of libertarianism.
Also, one should be willing to reexamine their beliefs when they are proven wrong. The loosening of drug war law enforcement in places around the country and in some other countries have made the drug problem worse, not better. In 2010, we had only 1 example in Amsterdam. Now we have quite a few and all of them have been total failures by any metric.
I agree but I thought his assessment was correct none-the-less. Criminalizing drugs allows them to penalize just about all human behaviour, not that I think they should be legal but, just something to think about.
When drug consumption was illegal, at least I could walk down a street in Manhattan without it smelling like a Cheech and Chong movie set. When it was illegal, you didn’t have unlicensed pop-up stores selling blunts and edibles to 13 year olds who then go on to fry their brains.
This isn’t even getting into Portland’s disastrous experiment with legalization.
The problem is always whether we can reasonably proscribe various “drugs” vs whether these drugs are dangerous to societal well being. Just about every known drug is problematic in one use or another, unfortunately most elective use cannot be prevented. Latest example is Marijuana. Oldest, alcohol.
The problem of course is the “because we can do little, we should do nothing” nihilism that arises. I fear we are forever to be in that quandary.
Our government joined the war on drugs, on the side of drugs
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Sounds interesting!
The cartels should thank us for the war on drugs.
If the cartels didn’t exist, the CIA would have had to create them (….).
Making hard drugs legal doesn’t “solve” the cartel problem. See: big pharma.
Right. We are seeing that with sports gambling now. The problem is now exponentially worse and many millions more people are in the thrall of addiction today compared to when it was illegal.
One thing I’ve learned in the past few years: American blacks are wiser than the racist right gives them credit for. They’ve been yapping about government drugs in the ghetto for decades; they don’t pay taxes or deal with banks, they act like they’re never home and unreachable, they instinctively distrust media, they didn’t fall for the Covid vax, and they pretend to like Dems because of the gibsmedats. They are irreverent and recognize Game, take advantage if they can, and most importantly: they scare people.
White people need to learn a thing or two about our AA countrymen.
Nuggras yapping about drugs in da hood is like them blathering about about peace and love. It’s a farcically hypocrical con gullible, multiculti whites fall for like Charlie Brown and the football.
And they’re not our countrymen. They’re an inimical race, partically a different species.
Good post, but I don’t agree that they didn’t fall for the covid vax. Everywhere I went I saw blacks wearing masks. It also could be that they were hiding from the law… one never knows with the criminal race.
You see this on the issue of homelessness. It seems they want better houses homeless with cleaner needles. They don’t want to actually solve the problem.
Being a Cincinnatian, I actually had the chance to meet probably the most pivotal character in the cocaine traffic. “Freeway” Ricky Ross was the main conduit between the CIA and the streets when Ollie North was trying to raise money for the Contras. Ross was very shrewd and made more than two billion dollars in today’s dollars while living in California. What was he doing in Cincy? He was obsessed with tennis from a very young age and had moved here for the ATP Masters tournament. He was a skinny guy and spoke in a gentle voice and you would… Read more »
McFerrin, not McFadden.
I am all for police actions against drugs. People do respond to incentives, including expense and fear of jail time. Recreation drugs are all bad at all times for everyone.* Allowing them is a nod to modern despair and tendencies towards hedonism. However, the “war on drugs” modernly is grift. How it’s attacked properly is to throttle the supply, which involves securing the borders and throwing the book at drug dealers. I would argue that open borders and concerns about jailing blacks over “just” drug use has created a non-war on drugs. Thus the unsurprising explosion of use, particularly in… Read more »
Ah, yes – The old alcohol is more dangerous than drugs bit. People who drink a triple after work are far more productive in the long run than people who light a joint.
And for every old person who dies at 62 of cirrhosis of the liver, there are a couple young people dead before their thirties from ODs or despair from the ruined life of a junkie.
The quandary is that there are people with low intellect out there and eventually broken minds. They can no longer make rational choices—as you and I would define. As such, incentives no longer work to entice these people into a productive way of life.
The Sacklers are evil greedy demons… not to be compared to a great man like Hitler.
I recall reading a fiction book that had a guy deliberately poison a large drug supply, and the users – including celebs, politicians’ kids, etc. – began dropping like flies. I’m fine with that. History offers minimal encouragement on means to get weak and/or despairing people to desist from using substances deleterious to their health. I don’t know that I regard illegal drugs as much different than all the ‘legal’ prescription ‘antidepressants’ people take. Life can suck – and you just have to deal with it. Those who can’t cope opt for drugs, alcohol, grift, violence, cheating, etc. No, I… Read more »
You could write an encyclopedia and make movies about Mena Arkansas and Clintons. Oh right, that has already happened. Or Air America or Iran Contra. And Fauci makes Mengela look like a piker. I thought we were Whitepilling his week!
The oxycontin epidemic was a planned and organized genocide, deliberately targeted at White Heritage Americans, by jews, waged as a front in the Great Replacement, killing off the Whites as their replacements were imported. And they pretty much got away with it. By my estimation, there would be roughly 2 million more Whites living in AINO today were it not for this monstrous crime (counting not just the direct victims, but also the children they would have otherwise had, and the children their children would have had). This has electoral consequences (which were intentional), although it seems to have failed… Read more »