There has been a lot written and said about the decline of intelligence in the Western world, mostly focused on the Idiocracy side of it. Everyday life is getting dumber, compounded by the demographic collapse. Basic processes can easily turn into an ordeal due to stupid people tasked with operating systems that were designed for operators a standard deviation smarter than the current crop. What no one thinks too much about is how this collapse in IQ is impacting the elites.
The dream of the managerial class is to establish themselves as an unassailable aristocracy that rules over a docile population of workers. It is why they favor open borders and mass migration as it provides an unlimited supply of what they imagine to be their ideal helot class. Even if there are pockets of smart challengers out there among the teaming masses, they will be too busy dealing with diversity to organize an opposition to the managerial elite.
This is a good place to start with the decline of elite intelligence. It is not as if we lack data on this sort of arrangement. The end of colonialism in Africa, for example, is a great example of how quantity has a quality of its own. Millions of 80-IQ Africans were able to overthrow thousands of high-IQ Europeans. Today we see something similar as the Mizrahi slowly push aside the Ashkenazim in Israel. They are not as smart as their European tribesman, but they have numbers.
Israel is another good example of what happens to a society when the intelligence of the ruling elite begins to fade. For a couple of generations Israel has skillfully manipulated regional politics and controlled Washington so as to dictate results throughout the Middle East. With the Gaza operation they have shown themselves to be suddenly thumbless. The Israeli government has turned a tragic event into a crisis that threatens its existence.
Of course, we see the other side of this in America. The people running foreign policy used to know how to keep Israel on a leash. The Israeli lobby was constrained by the Jewish economic elite that largely controls the imperial economy and the neocons who control imperial foreign policy. The former cared primarily about controlling the global economy from their perch in New York and the latter cared primarily about their ancient blood feud with Russia from their perch in Washington.
The Biden administration has managed to make Israeli incompetence and obstreperousness worse by failing to deal firmly with Netanyahu. The result is the pathetic scene of the American military building a dock to supply Gaza with food and water while the IDF blows up schools and hospitals. Add in the bungling of diplomacy in the region, primarily with the Saudis, and the American empire is on the cusp of losing all of its influence in the region.
The clueless bungling with regards to Israel is not confined to the realm of geopolitics, but also turns up domestically. The Jewish lobby used to operate in the shadows, nudging key figures behind the scenes to influence policy. Now it sends out simpletons like Ben Shapiro to demand the genocide of Palestinians. The actors hired to play the role of office holders are marched out to read ham-fisted scripts about Israel and propose laws that manage to offend decent Americans.
It is not just with regards to Israel where things are going sideways. There used to be a time when the Anglo side of the imperial ruling class understood the reality of the neocons and kept them under control. The last gasp of this, ironically, was during the Obama years. Maybe it was that Anglo blood running through the veins of the mulatto mafia that ran the Obama White House, but they did manage to broker a deal with Iran and avoid getting sucked into any new wars.
That barrier to neocon excess has collapsed, along with whatever intelligence that remained within the neocon cult. The result is foreign policy is now run by a pair of slovenly imbeciles who sit atop the Kagan cult. One reason for the Israel debacle is the commitment to Project Ukraine, which itself is becoming a catastrophe that promises to overwhelm the European part of the American empire. It is impossible to overstate the stupidity required to think Project Ukraine was a good idea.
The people who think open borders and mass migration are going to lock in their position also think Project Ukraine is a winner and marching the political actors out on stage to swear allegiance to Israel is a good idea. They also thought it was a good idea to fling open the prisons so black criminals can run wild in the streets. They thought the proper response to general unrest among the white population was to unleash demographic hell on the white middle-class.
It is debatable as to just how much of the general decline in intelligence is attributable to the decline in the European population and how much of it is a consequence of the demographic collapse. This is a big, complicated subject, but what matters most is the general intelligence of the ruling class. If the ruling class is dominated by and controlled by the smart fraction and that smart fraction is rooted in the overall population then society can survive a drop in IQ.
If on the other hand, as we are seeing, the ruling class prides itself on being alien and hostile to the population and begins to exclude the smart fraction, even its own smart fraction, then the consequences for society will be catastrophic. It turns out that the real idiocracy is not with the general population but among the people who control the institutions of society. When the people in charge hire people like this to play the role of elected representative, the end is near.
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What’s amazing is while the top elites have become more and more insulated from general society, the insulation is reaching lower and lower layers to the point where your basic middle manager who went to a state school now looks at working class people like they’re aliens. It’s not even that they have very different mindsets, but they can’t even process that other people have motivations outside of your basic corporate striverism. A society could always deal with a few ignoramuses on op as long as you had practical people close-by to nudge them in the right direction, but now… Read more »
Yes, the amount of money necessary to avoid the “Thunderdome” is increasing at a rapid pace. A generation ago you would avoid it with top 50% income; a decade ago you could avoid it with top 10% income; now you need top 1-2% income to avoid it. It will continue to get worse as the world descends into the hell of neoliberal feudalism. This 4chan comment from 2013 described the situation accurately.
That’s for sure. I remember when being a millionaire was a dream for the common person. It was the “I’ve made it” moment. Hell they even made a successful TV show called, “The Millionaire” about such an achievement. Now I talk to people of that ilk—top 10%, several million in assets—and they are resting *uneasy*. It’s back to the past with the Nobility vs the Peasants.
I remember in the late ’80s early ’90s when Forbes had their wealthiest families issue, and said that if you wanted to be among the really wealthy, you had to shoot for $10 mil. Those days are gone forever. I should just let them go…
“The worst thing about being poor in America in the 21st Century is not lacking stuff, it’s not being able to afford to move away from other poor people.” — Steve Sailer
No, Stevie. It’s not being able to move away from negroes.
Yes. I am not convinced that the issue is entirely IQ. I think it is corruption and ignorance. When you don’t study the arts and letters and then go through significant trials and tests to prove you are an elite there is no selection mechanism and the ones who pass through (through nepotism and signaling your (im)moral propers), have not been formed. They are highly formed in the moral signaling mechanisms, but unformed on the cognitive civilizational forms. Go to Wikipedia and look at the bio of every single one of these fools. They all get the same degrees from… Read more »
Maybe it boils down to this: you either have skin in the game or you don’t. Skin in the game doesn’t survive stupid.
Remember what some of the most legendary football coaches have said in the past: STATISTICS ARE FOR LOSERS. IQ is like athletic ability. If you don’t train it and use it, you don’t maximize it and then it atrophies. We’re not putting enough people through the rigor necessary to maximize hone their God-given intelligence. In fact, when I was growing up in my middle-class suburban school, it was discouraged. That’s why “IQ” is falling.
“working class people like they’re aliens” In many respects they are aliens. Just look at the lifestyles they lead these days. (See: Charles Murray’s Belmont and Fishtown.) When I was growing up, there were a lot of normal people. Nowadays it seems like you are marrying into a lot of social dysfunction of you have too much to do with that crowd. Mind you, my dad was a union carpenter and he didn’t want us to have those social circles. Not because he looked down on those people (well, maybe a little), but because he didn’t want us to have… Read more »
I cannot understand why a simple ‘Thank you’ isn’t enough to tell AIPAC or other donors. This over the top Israel _ss-kissing is really disgusting. Netanyahu addressed the U.S. Congress once and it looked like an early 60’s Beatles concert, with U.S. Congresspeople screaming, crying and throwing their panties at him.
This gross behavior of showing who can kiss Israeli _ss more reminds me of prostitutes getting into a catfight over who their pimp favors the most.
And we mock North Koreans for doing the same thing with their leaders
The decline of the elite – especially the Jewish elite – is one of the reasons why the old guard won’t let go. There’s just not much behind them, and they know it. There’s definitely an interregnum feel to our time. We can’t go back for a variety of reasons, but no one wants to move forward either, mainly because the people fear what the future will look like and/or who will run it. The Jews are obviously losing some of their grip. The Indians are on the march. Whites are demoralized but waking up to some degree. Hispanic will… Read more »
I saw a video of Jane Fonda urging ‘pussy boycotts’ to spur action on climate change, remembered Republican (including Trump) flip-flopping on abortion, and it reinforced this vague notion I have that the relative asexuality of young people could have a big silver lining. Demographic forces indeed!
I think there will be a huge mess to clean up, which is nothing to look forward to, but I don’t think the future is to be dreaded. Like a lot of the covid fear, I imagine it’s more about paying the piper, or an inflated sense of self.
Isn’t Jane Fonda like 147 years old by now? Who cares about her p-ssy it is already boycotted for being a commie lefty dusty old hag. Likewise, it shows how totally out of step Boomer (and older) women are with the zeitgeist. Young men would barely feel a “pussy boycott” because the vast majority are not getting it anyways. 2/3rds of them are sexless because the feral nature of women has been completely unleashed and unrestrained now. We are back to the “warlord / harem culture” that all societies will revert back to without social controls. Chad, Tyrone, and the… Read more »
A lot of these young women look frumpy. Maybe they’re getting the message? Idk, I’m too old to be asking people these questions.
My God, is that dinosaur still alive?
Jane Fonda was like 94 last I saw her. She is fairly sharp and not addled of the mind. Leftist as ever in her views. Her plastic surgery of the face is a bit offsetting given her age, but not as extreme as most all others we see. She is thin and of good proportion. Her exercise lifetime routine has paid off. She is a good example of the reason we need a just God and a heaven and a hell. She will pass on to that anti-aircraft gun in the sky having never received her “just deserts” in this… Read more »
“I saw a video of Jane Fonda urging ‘pussy boycotts’”
Oh, how original. Gee, it’s not as if the white man Aristophanes didn’t come up with that idea as a comic spoof 2,500 years ago..
She mentioned Lysistrata! 🤣
Of course she did…whoever coached her HAD TO namedrop…!
No doubt Jane’s convinced Aristophenes ripped off the idea from a negroid Egyptian playwright whose name has been expunged from the historical record because raycissm.
I hate to point out the obvious: Fonda was right.The 93% of the years of its existence that the US has been at war has resulted in a $34 trillion national debt and an economy that makes over-priced, over-complicated, under-performing weapons systems and a third world infrastructure.
https://washingtonsblog.com/how-many-years-has-the-u-s-been-at-war/
My 18-year old nephew came over to spend a few minutes with me last night. He went to one of the local fancy private schools. We were talking about this stuff and I was teaching him the meaning of the word “Schadenfreude” and how it applies to the small hats since they were leading the charge for white replacement. But then I gave them credit for pushing their kids to study. He said, nah. The ones he went to school with are just as big of a bunch of “losers” (relatively speaking) as the white kids. Gone are the intellectually… Read more »
Coasc – Reminds me of that Eddie money song “I wanna go back”
There are plenty of competent folks at any randomly selected cow college’s STEM departments or STEM industry company who are just as smart and capable as those currently pulling the levers of power. But these are folks who know htings and can get things done.
No time to unpack this comment but let me just say dissidents should refocus their attention away from the super-highbrow and super-lowbrow. For a variety of reasons, Bill Smith in the engineering department at Purdue is their man.
The colonial powers in Africa lost the will to fight more than they were overthrown. So lacking the will to fight, they concocted a new colonialism built on debt. This correlates with our own present day managerial class, which is deathly afraid of being seen getting dirty, but hopes and plans for new financial control mechanisms (CBDC) to make their tyranny look clean.
Yes, the Africans didn’t defeat the Europeans in Africa. It was the egalitarian ratchet effect, ultimately derived from Christianity, that sapped the European desire to conquer the continent and suppress the natives…
Whites never should have gone into Africa, except perhaps to explore. Empire inevitably brings agony both to the subjects and the rulers.
If our people survive the trying times ahead, I hope that they learn the lesson that you describe. The non-white world is a tar baby. Once you touch it, you can never be free of it. Empire is not worth it.
Our people who are adventurous or greedy venture out and then, due to our pathological compassion, we become entangled with the non-whites we encounter.
True of subsaharan Africa but not north Africa west of Egypt. It had been lost to adherents of a less ovine sect of Abrahamism. That territory could have been recovered but in a prudent way, not in the Cuckian-liberal way of, say, the French* in Algeria. The sands and their subsaharan slaves ought to have been driven south into the desert or across the Red Sea into Arabia. Most of the sands, being thieves like most Jews, could have been compelled to leave behind one hand and one foot each as relics to commemorate their defeat and eviction. As we… Read more »
And if they did, not deluded themselves with the white man’s burden.
Yup, we should have picked our own cotton. We have been paying reparations ever since and soon to make the final payment. We will have mortgaged away our country.
It’s looking like not blowing our own leaves is a bigger mistake than not picking our own cotton.
The problem with Africa wasn’t going there; it was that the earliest exploitation of the continent focus on acquiring slaves when the real value was the abundance of natural resources like gold and oil. Eventually, European guilt over the slave trade and the growing cost of dealing with intractable Africans meant that European colonization would end. The South African whites, with their apartheid policies, held out longer than most others; but they too bowed to international pressure and surrendered their sovereignty. It’s ironic that their Dutch forebears were able to purchase Manhattan island from the American natives for the equivalent… Read more »
Africa always wins. And its final victory will be going back to bush and a subsistence competition for survival with the continent’s megafauna.
The African normal is everybody is supressed and everybody is supressing somebody else. Removing supression in Africa is not a noble act, but stirring the cannibal pot. It’s hard to miss seeing the same thing onging inside our own borders.
It was the egalitarian ratchet effect Or: It was the Saulianity ratchet effect. The point of this name, of course, is to stigmatize “Western” egalitarianism at its probable source while drawing our attention to a plausible interpretation of Christianity, viz, it’s a Heeb hustle to subvert enemies of Zion. Originally this was Hellenes and Romans, but now it’s all nations not called Israel. “Paul” was not the given name of the apostle of the heart set free, as F.F. Bruce called him in the US title of one of his crazy books. It’s derived from a nomen or cognomen. (In… Read more »
I’m a little surprised that Torba would be on the side of Israel. He’s probably the most “Jew-aware” born-again I can think of.
He’s a zombie, and he’s trying to wear Israel’s own nationalist religion as skin suit for his own nation.
Read the piece at Substack by Neoliberal Feudalism.
The colonial powers in Africa lost the will to fight more than they were overthrown.
It wasn’t so much the lack of a will to fight; it was the realization that their empires were money losing operations. So, they liberated their colonies, thereby stopping losses and looking virtuous at the same time.
The simple fact that a black retard like Crockett can be elected to Congress shows that this former country has been conquered. Worshipping black savages has consequences. Who knew?
The erudite and wise liberals of Pennsylvania sent a braindead hobo to Congress, one who literally cannot understand the spoken word. I’ll never forget it and it, to me, marks the clearest example of election-as-humiliation-ritual that we have yet seen.
The Pennsylvanians at least had the sense to reject a Turkish con artist who had nothing to say except “pick me, pick me”, who was endorsed by Trump, thereby revealing his one weakness (and it’s a big one) – the shameless desire to be admired by people with money.
Naw- PA was stolen. It was easy to watch, as all the swing states closed their polls in the middle of election night, reopening the next day with whole different sets of “winners.”
Israel’s neighbors will not allow the Palestinians to flee by land. The newly-constructed dock, and the ones to come, were conceived so the Palestinians can board the ships that will arrive to move them west into societies conditioned to accept foreigners. Supply while the Palestinians are deported is mere pretext and why they are being starved to incentivize them with food.
Yes, the IDF is using rolling thunder to drive the remaining Palestinians toward the ports. First they drop leaflets in designated areas announcing a bombing campaign on a particular block. When they evacuate that sector, every building is leveled making it uninhabitable. Repeat block by block until all are driven to the ports and evacuated. It’s systematic and relentless. Once the Israelis have forced this exportation overseas, they become someone else’s problem (hello USA and EU). Our government is committing actual treason and getting away with it. Real hatred is building like a pressure cooker.
Don’t panic, Tom, about where the Pali trash will live. Your big idea for dissidents is to flee the coasts and cities for the rural interior. Such movement makes room for the replacements and relieves the pressure that worries you. The regime would waste a lot of time looking for a more helpful dissident.
Drive-By, I’d like to address you directly re a comment yesterday. (I’m your one upvote, as I understand all too well your wrath.) Yes, Christianity is an imperfect vehicle, the camel’s dangerous Big Nose under the tent. But you do a great disservice to your people. You forget that ANY Aryan vehicle will be targeted, to be turned to serve the broken branch that strives to replace us. But! Our people take back what was stolen and corrupted, to serve another’s evil ends… And we, retaking it, strive to turn it back again to serve the good. This is our… Read more »
Yep. It’s a twofer: Israel gets rid of the Palestinians; Biden and Co. get a few more million indigestible illegals to help destroy the demographic.
Good article. However, if there’s “general unrest among the white population,” I haven’t seen it. Seems to me we’re still a pitiably docile and ovine lot, certain rebellious agitators at the margins excepted.
“ovine lot”
You adhere to a religion which construes its masses as sheep and regards its leaders (the shepherds) as virtuous for encouraging ovine simplicity.
Agreed, and there unfortunately are more than a few people who actually support the current corrupt, venal and stupid US government regardless – oh and get frothy on their lips if the topic of Trump happens to come up. We’re on a long slide down and nothing is going to stop it – however, acceleration of some sort is always a possibility. It’s all ultimately going to have to be rebuilt from scratch anyway…
I agree. That’s why I use the term ‘Factory Farm USA’ — Americans have been bred over the last few generations for docility. Just as the pigs, cows, and sheep don’t rebel on a farm (though a few may dimly sense their fate is going to be a tragic one), the denizens of Factory Farm USA don’t rebel either. The rebellious genes have been bred out.
I can’t claim to know the genetic story behind white timidity, but I do know we have been psychologically cowed–so to speak–by a relentless deluge of anti-white propaganda for the last 60 years. The reconfiguration of white consciousness has been both comprehensive and profound. Difficult to know how likely it is we will break out of the programming, but I don’t think it’s impossible. Soviet subjects endured something similar and look what happened to the USSR.
I can’t help either thinking that we’ve become so much more stupid and docile since the clotshots. If it isn’t a direct result of vaxx injuries, it seems that the whole plandemic fiasco knocked the stuffing out of people. As for the former Soviets, it’s true, they came back from the abyss, and what Putin has achieved is truly remarkable. However, the Russians in 1990 were very different from us today. Firstly, they were far, far tougher after all they’d been through, and secondly, despite all the Soviet propaganda, they still had a reasonably shared national identity.
Just a minor point but I don’t think millions of Africans overthrew thousands of Europeans. The overt colonialism ended but a new era of subtler and more cost-effective economic exploitation — AKA ‘neo-colonialism’ — dawned. Puppet leaders were installed or ‘elected’, and the instruments of control became the World Bank, the IMF, multinationals, Western banks, NGOs, and a local comprador class of kleptocrats. This was an American innovation. More efficient. Allow the locals to think they’re governing themselves but make sure the flow of resources continues from south to north and let the local bandits have a small share of… Read more »
The cost effectiveness of (paleo) colonialism did indeed decline. WWII did much to exhaust the colonial powers as well.
I was thinking about the growing idiocracy and browsing around for information about the Biden cabinet when I came across this article about Avril Haines, the current Director of National Intelligence.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160119111534/http://www.newsweek.com/2013/06/26/avril-haines-least-likely-spy-237616.html
The story is unbelievable. Literally. It reads like the plot summary of a bad girl power romance, complete with ridiculous plot holes and improbable series’ of events. Worth checking out for a chuckle.
Vizzini, you really should give a barf-bag warning before posting articles like that.
In all fairness to Vizzini, every article published by the MSM should be required to provide a complimentary barf-bag, digital or otherwise.
Barfing builds character!
Make Barfing Great Again!
Barfing, it’s back, and better than ever!
Return of the Barfing Panther–one of Blake Edwards’ more obscure films.
Only looked at a the first few paragraphs of the article but it seems like a spellbinding tale. On one hand she is described as the nicest person in DC with a sweet personality and on the other hand she was regularly called to the Obama White House in the middle of the night to give legal authorization to obliterate terror suspects on the other side of the World with drone strikes. Just the kind of woman you want to take home to Mama.
I really cannot be alone in wincing when I read about the striped-pants spymaster “Avril” (no offense to Ms. Lavigne, who I’m sure probably would be more capable in the job). It just guts me like a humiliating rerun of Hillary-for-President movies n’ TV shows that were routine during the W. Bush years. We have this elite now raised on the then-prevailing glam/gay image of government. Steve Sailer used to remark, apropos of Pride Month, that he remembered adult Halloween parties with slutty costumes inhabiting a fetish niche for Wall Street in the “conservative” 80s but which seems to have… Read more »
Wow, Averil is clearly a Very Clever Girl. I bet Kamala just hate, hate, hates her. Too bad she wasted her life serving libtards. Born in 1969; so eggs now shriveled. Wikipedia doesn’t mention any children. The GAE war machine has ground her up and will spit her out. I see wine, cats and small press erotica in her future.
” I see wine, cats and small press erotica in her future.” Did you notice that one of her stints as adventure girl was owning a quirky independent book store that held erotic literature readings? BTW, a key thing to think about when analyzing the article is the cost of her various adventures. For example, a 1961 Cessna 310 in close to flying condition runs about $100k. That’s one that needs some work, as hers supposedly did. Other stuff: Upper West Side girl from academic family is suddenly a Subaru mechanic while going to school fulltime, because being a Subaru mechanic… Read more »
Well the flynn effect was a massive hoax since it didn’t even measure intelligence going up over the 20th century but merely people getting better at analytical thinking & now even that has been “reversing” isn’t a good sign. That’s only part of the equation though, personality traits are heritable & there was a measurable drop in what I would consider “good” personality traits from the early to mid 20th century. People love to blame the boomers for everything but they were the degenerative offspring of the adults who allowed the 60s sexual revolution to happen, among other things. Despite… Read more »
I keep wondering what’s making people so stupid. Vaccines, fluoride in the water, soybean oil, or just the elimination of natural selection on breeding?
Or do smart people sense the coming trainwreck and avoiding the whole mess?
The standard HBD response I tend to buy is that of an interruption of strict Darwinian “selection” due to the Industrial Revolution and a rise as Woodley has termed of “spiteful mutants”. We breed—and allow to survive—more and more individuals with high mutation loads.
That’s a very good explanation for the ascent of a specific class of sociopath, I think first identified at 4chan and dubbed the “tranny janny”—the powermad (even in the smallest things) pervert. Deviate enforcers are a new kind of white people, and they rose to dominance very quickly. When I was young they only controlled certain slumming-rich-kid fringe scenes. Now they run the CIA. But normal white people are messed up too. Almost all men are testosterone deficient—visibly, audibly, and measurably. Women consider themselves failures if they’re *not* prescribed psych meds. Etc. It could be a long list. We’re overwhelmed… Read more »
Testosterone deficiency. A national plague. Can’t tell you how many couples wife tells me about having trouble conceiving. OK, so back in my childhood folks did not speak so openly, however we seem to be having a real birth rate decline don’t we? This aspect of male sperm production is only one problem—sperm counts are lower than ever recorded and the damn sperm is weak and immobile in many cases. Genetics or environmental pollution or whatever, it’s bad news.
High time we send those swimmers to the Charles Atlas School of Sperm Enhancement.
Illegal immigration.
I think they have completely lost control of the system. If sane people were running Israel they would tell Reps. Mast and Miller to stuff their bill trying to extend employment protection to Americans serving in the IDF. It should be a source of embarrassment to them and they should be worried about the backlash it will further provoke.
Barnard-
I disagree slightly.
I think their control has frayed a bit, but they still have domain over large, important parts of the system.
The more I look at their digital control grid, the more I think they won’t be able to meet its electricity demand. That would require a crash program of coal and nuclear plant construction beginning 10-15 years ago. There is nothing like that in the West.
A large part of their control program will be based on AI. And AI uses 20x as much electricity as ordinary internet. What with their plans for EVs, I wonder how they’ll get all the necessary kilowatts from solar panels and unicorn farts?
AI does seem to be at the center of a lot of wishful thinking. The tech world is patting itself on the back because they think AI will allow them to hire rainbow-hued morons to sit at computers and look busy while AI writes the code and solves the technical problems. It’s their ace-in-the-hole that will allow them to fire all those icky White males who still clutter up the company photos in even the most pozzed little startups. Then of course, AI will figure out how to greenify the electric grid and drive all the EVs for us.
That said, I really wish I’d bought NVDA in 2015.
Or thrown on a few calls for today’s earnings report.
Haven’t seen any real AI…does it exist? All I’ve seen is stuff called AI, which has to be pre-coded and ends up with far-left/globalist opinion/thought because of that — yet it is seen by many/most as “AI”—which it’s not.
Compare Kissinger to Blinken.
Kissinger’s dead. Blinken should be.
Haha, that last video from the Congress reminds me of The View. So sassy!
…and classy.
From ‘The Fate of Empires’ by Sir John Glubb
XXXIV A variety of falls
It has been shown that, normally, the rise
and fall of great nations are due to internal reasons alone. Ten generations of human beings suffice to transform the hardy and enterprising pioneer into the captious citizen of the welfare state. But whereas the life histories of great nations show an unexpected uniformity, the nature of their falls depends largely on outside circumstances and thus shows a high degree of diversity.
“and avoid getting sucked into any new wars”
Gaddafi of Libya disagrees.
Indeed. Who can forget Crooked Hillary cackling “We came, we saw, he died!” on some simp corporate “news” show?
Kind of like what they hoped (and are failing) to do in Ukraine, Libya was the textbook case of starting and “winning” a war without getting “sucked in.”
True. Instead the “quick victory” resulted in Africans flooding Europe. Some people might argue that it was part of the plan.
Indeed, the same people start the wars to drive the immigrant drone swarms into the target zone. The same networks run the wars, the immigration, and more horribly, the slave and child trafficking.
All of a piece. Slavery is their system, their overriding theme.
This tells us where to start: capture the teaching colleges and the credentialing institutions. From there, one can create a new priesthood to shape the mores and incentives of society.
We need to tell our kids — and mid-life career changers, too — to go into education, as that’s the only way — till gov schools are stopped for good — to recapture them.
When the people in charge hire people like this to play the role of elected representative
…it makes the DMV look like a beacon of efficiency.
Today’s Z-man missive is persuasive, but to me not compelling. Something is missing. I wonder if the decline in elite “intellect”, as judged by their inability to be effective in controlling the society, is solely a result of general IQ decline as we currently witness around the Western world and in general, HBD science predicts. One concept totally overlooked in today’s posting is that of “assortive mating”. The elite, or upper classes if you will, dwell in their own world—one that is quite separate from the dirt people. Yalies go to Yale, meet, work with, marry, and have children with… Read more »
Yeah I agree with you. I have offered up complexity and hubris as possible explanations (see my comment). There are plenty of smart people out there, but they tend to avoid government for some reason. I think the sheer boredom and cat-fighting is part of it.
Why would any high IQ, successful person go into politics. They would soon give up as they would not be able to dwell amongst the mediocrities.
Her in UKland they are paid shite money and have to make it up with graft.
For decent inteligent people having to become a sycophantic grifter would be a life wasted.
You’re right. And that’s why one of my favorite adages is, everybody who attempts to get elected, shouldn’t. Spose that makes me a pretty sorry democrat.
But that’s the thing. They aren’t marrying anymore, and especially not having children anymore. So the total number of “elites” is declining, meaning there aren’t as many smart ones to go around. That’s before we get into the dumbing down of their “elite” educational institutions.
That indeed may be true. In there lies the mention of the elite “smart fraction” made by Z-man. That’s however a numbers game more than a cognitive failure game. As to the dumbing down of the elite institutions, that may be, but I’m talking where elites meet other elites, not so much what they “learn”. I’m a strong genetic persuasion person wrt intelligence.
Perhaps the root cause of all of this mess is all the microplastics in everyone’s testicles.
Microplastics in testicles is a cope for those that don’t want to admit that America has been turned into a nation of landwhales. Adipose tissue produces a lot of estrogen.
I had my testicles checked for microplastics and was told that they currently have no way of checking for microplastics in stone.
I understand. I was told something similar by my doctor about steel.
Btw, be careful, stone can be brittle.
Steel is magnetic, plastic is not, right? I think your doctor was lying!
Hey now! Brass isn’t magnetic, either.
You got me there lol
My doctor said the same thing of brass.
Rather than a “cope,” I see it as a search for answers by those who don’t believe simple calorie math provides a sufficient explanation for the phenomenon
Talking about “simple calorie math” is also a cope. People are fat because they are not moving enough and eating too much. Check out the calories of the usual goyslop in the average restaurant. Even a “salad” can be 1k calories.
Nah. I’m with Zoar and Lindsey on petroleum plastics pollution.
We are fouling the nest in many ways, including the food supply, thus accelerating the rate of spiteful mutations.
My evidence? A surplus of calories used to create big, husky farmboys, not morbid obesity.
Those big husky farmboys did physical work on farms. The landwhales of today just eat and scroll.
C’mon, this isn’t that difficult.
One hole is bigger than the other. Who knew?
I used to think this, but now not so much. We are fat not just because of exercise, but because of processed food, which in the amounts consumed is toxic. Toxic in this case meaning the food creates havoc with our metabolism, especially wrt insulin. Why the change of mind? Simple observations of recent developments in drug treatment, i.e. “Ozempic” and derivatives. I’ve witnessed this personally in my family. Every damn one—male or female—who takes these shots has lost weight faster than a stay in a WWII concentration camp. It’s breath taking. Of course, the best—and recommended—results come from watching… Read more »
Ozempic literally paralyzes your digestive system. It doesn’t disprove CICO.
Why just yesterday I pissed out a toy soldier. Hurt like a bugger, lemme tell ya’…
The Graduate was prescient. The future truly was going to be “plastics.”
You can imagine the testicles of Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) as you like, but all I can see is a brown muffin in lingerie.
I am SO not clicking that link.
You have learned well, young Skywalker…
Nah, take a look. Consider such a sociological “experiment/validation” of the adage: “The darker the black, the dumber the person.” Makes sense to me.
Too clever by half. Which is always the result when you get a ruling class that thinks so highly of themselves. They have managed to convince themselves that by importing an invasive species and allowing it to metastasize they won’t collapse the ecosystem and can thus manage it. We are finding out that is not the case. However, they will continue to attempt to manage the collapse by more and more desperate measures. You think the Ukraine and the approach to the Israeli mess is bad? They’re thinking right now of new and improved fixes that will make the phrase… Read more »
Israel was jammed into the side of the Arab world, much like Taiwan and South Korea with China and Pakistan with India, to further longterm elite’s goals using divide-and-conquer, balance-of-power strategies. The goal is not to “solve” these conflicts but to manage them which gives our elites greater control over the region, as argued by the wonderful Guido Preparata in his excellent “Conjuring Hitler”. To clarify on this point further, there are two very long-term trends impacting the world (especially the western world): (1) the privately owned nature of the world’s central banks, owned by the Rothschilds, Warburgs, Milners, etc.,… Read more »
The irony with Africans conquering the world would be that they would mostly die out within 1-2 generations. They would not capable of sustaining themselves.
>All one has to do is look at a long-term map of Islam’s expansion, which has never experienced any pushback except in Spain.
Ottomans didn’t defeat themselves. Thank the Poles and Germans.
Yes, the Islamic world was easily conquered by the west technologically in the 19th and 20th centuries and did secularize for a time as seen in Ataturk Turkey, but this was an economic and military conquest, not a religious one.
And I agree, Africa as a continent is completely unable to support itself and relies on endless foreign aid, especially food foreign aid, to survive. It’s fertility rates are not declining at nearly the rate that globohomo has expected them to. And they are being imported en masse into the west as quickly as possible…
The Ottomans were defeated by the Polish and German forces near Vienna in 1683.
The Ottomans were broken by the British in WW1.
What’s with the downvotes?
Setes is right. The Sykes-Picot division and the British Mandate (Palestine) were the final death knell of the Ottoman Empire.
Yes, but the empire was on life support prior. Ottomans were the sick man of Europe.
What? The multiple knives you’ve mentioned are all held by the same hand.
This is full-spectrum warfare.
Perhaps there is a new selection pressure on the elite. Seems to me that it’s selecting for the most malicious and most vulgar.
It’s exhausting being exposed to endless examples of extreme dysfunction in our modern society, and the Crazy is accelerating and worsening. The luxury of erudite debate is an indulgence that will soon be pointless. We need to be ready for when the wheels come off. Militias are already forming and the 2024 election promises to be a trigger for real change, one way or the other. The Stasi is now preparing its standard technique of manufacturing scapegoats and making an example of them as a form of deterrence. Bloody clashes are inevitable, and that is real tragedy because the root… Read more »
Not the same but it rhymes. I think a lot about the British empire and how fast it disappeared. A coupe of word wars plucked the smart and brave from the population.
https://youtu.be/PZGSfFFuujw?si=63C50V2xbcEDwnQy
No reserve currency lasts forever, as seen in this chart…
I’d argue that the dollar is different from other GRCs. Those were all nominally gold backed. But, more importantly, the global financial system is obviously infinitely more complex now and the dollar underpins the entire system.
Moving away from the dollar will be incredibly hard and will take decades at best – especially because there’s simply no alternative. I wish that this wasn’t the case, but it is.
You make a strong argument—as usual—for such. But is such
“world wide” or more Western in nature? I find it harder and harder to believe Russia and China won’t break out of this conundrum in a couple of decades.
I’d suspect that the entire Eurodollar system will need to be reset before China and Russia come up with anything. It’d be at this new Bretton Woods conference that a new system would be created. The Eurodollar system is unstable and will get even more unstable over time if we continue in this direction, so it’s bound to start collapsing. For example, if China, Russia and other countries really do start trading in other currencies, that means less dollars in the system. But there’s more dollar debt outside the US than in the US, so how do they service that… Read more »
What, though, about this latest scare of another 2008?
The quick gist of it is that BoA alone is short on a billion dollars of silver delivery (along with all the other biggies, presumably,) while Chinese citizens are on a tear buying up the physical silver supply. It’s a China-sized short squeeze.
China is also dumping treasuries, that is, or not buying them.
If lynchpin Bank of America can’t deliver, will it “crash” the domestic economy? How would that affect the Eurodollar, since it’s also technically a traded commodity, and thus affecting the US forex?
The Roman Empire was as bloodthirsty as any empire, and lost quite a few epic battles and good men. Yet they lingered on for 600 years after Cannae.
I think the difference is Britain wasn’t all that warlike. They got their empire by know-how and pluck alone. Maybe Britain got lucky while it was riding the wave that all of Western Europe was riding post-Renaissance. Then they caught the liberalism virus which also befell Western Europe.
The Anglos cared more about maintaining this control over the European landmass than they do or did about anything else, even at the cost of maintaining the British empire, the future of their children, or even the future of their civilization as seen in unlimited open non-white immigration, etc. I see the Anglos as a death cult. Of course there are always exceptions to generalizations and I could point to Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of Blood” speech (1968), but the exception does not disprove the rule…
The English/British Empire was run by and for a small number of men who had access to Royal patronage. The average pleb still lived a short and brutal life. For all the wealth of the empire we still had slums and squalor until after WW2. As always, the elite lived high on the hog and the masses could just die as far as they were concerned. When the masses managed to improve their lives in the 1950’s the rulers decided to begin importing savages to knock them back down. The real shame is that the plebs are too stupid to… Read more »
I was thinking about why communism took root in Russia instead of more industrialized nations like England or Germany. Thought maybe Russians rather enjoy hardship. Pain is moral, and all that. Maybe a slavic thing, idk. Eastern Europe seems hardcore to me from across the ocean.
Anglo is more egalitarian— maybe that has to do with the high-handedness. As long as you’re trying to rise up, they’ll try to keep you down. A societal fitness thing? Again, though, my perspective is American. Throw in a bunch of people not wired that way, and the whole thing gets knocked off balance.
Perhaps the newspapers were already an integral part of the establishment and they could keep communism at bay.
That or the English/British didn’t like the whiff of it!
Anglo and its branches got Progress! instead, right? Idk, maybe communism wasn’t sporting enough lol. Our sense of fair play is underrated, I think.
German ,French,Russians have killed many more Europeans than the Anglos. Britain saw Europe as a distraction and largely avoided trying to control Europe-that was more of a Russian/French/German thing.
Balance of power was not about dominating Europe…
France trailblazed importing non-whites before WW2,also the worship of black American culture.
Your rule is based on a very poor reading of European history.
Agricultural revolution and the Industrial revolution both occurred in England.
Britain has won more Nobel prizes in STEM since 2000 than the rest of Europe combined.
Not sure it was just luck.
Great post. I have always gravitated towards the theory that the current “elite” were brilliant Bond villains, effortlessly leading we peasants by the nose. However, whenever I hear Nudelman or Blinken speak, I began to realise that they are just idiots after all. However, the one big proviso is that idiots can get us killed just as easily as Bond villains.
I think this is a product of overpopulation as much as declining IQ. For the next few decades the world will have more people than it ever has had. The US is the third-most populous country. All these people are inheriting a complex society and there are staffing needs. So you get both layers of bureaucracy and incompetence. But I suspect there are more smart people than ever before, but they happen to be in industries you don’t engage with daily. For most of us, we’re dealing with a whole lot of mediocrities, and a whole lot of dumbasses. In… Read more »
The rise in world population is leveling off and will peak in a couple of decades, but it is going from there to decline precipitously. Let’s not leave the audience here with the wrong impression. That being said, the environmentalists are not satisfied and would enact strict population reduction laws to speed the process up.
The world is overpopulated, especially if you want the whole world to live like Europeans. I heard that in 1900, man and his animals made of 5% of vertebrates and now it’s 95%.
There is no reason to believe African population growth is going to follow the trends of Europe or Asia.
Tars, correct. Africa is always the exception pointed out in the predictive stat’s showing the demographic growth cohorts. Africa goes nowhere but up. There, the population reduction will be through war and disease when Western aid dries up due to our shrinking population and inability to afford foreign aid. Our main task for survival will be to repulse the coming invasion of African “refugees”, so far we have done a poor job.
Z-man — I agree that our elites got a lot stupider. However I would argue that they got stupider in the late 1980s. Reaganism showed how to win: Generic Americana, Defense Spending that employed White men, non engagment in risky wars only tomato can victories, enough flag waving to attract Whites without pushing away non-Whites. [There were failures: the border particularly]. Charismatic “Generic” American candidate and restrictive tariffs. And they went with George W. Bush. Dems went with Dukakis, then smarmy Clinton. They forgot the path to victory over the USSR: cheap energy, protective tariffs, welfare for Whites in Defense… Read more »
This remark seems partly unfair: And again you MISS the growing Global Identity. As nations fade, everyone is dividing up into White vs anti-White. He’s on record as saying that your skin will be your uniform, and I doubt that he perceives many immivaders as potential allies. He’s too provincial, though. He can’t or won’t shake off residues of the conditioning and cult indoctrination which turned generations of Europeans in the USA into useful robots. To me, he looks somewhat like a conservative of the crown and altar variety who wants to repudiate the egalitarian founding but otherwise keep the… Read more »
We know the IDF is not what it used to be because there are literally dozens of videos showing lone Hamas fighters dashing out of cover to place an explosive charge on a Merkava tank, then dash back into cover as the charge detonates and destroys the tank.
If they current IDF were a serious, well-trained, well-led force they’d never leave their tanks without the infantry-support to deter such attacks.
Oh wow I guess I need to send more money to Israel now, because as a white person, I’m supposed to, according to you.
Actual Japanese people are becoming more “white adjacent” because they understand that the force(s) arrayed against us are the same, but Asians in the Anglosphere are by far the most extreme anti-white bloc, and they’re becoming more hateful every day.
Junji in Japan is your friend. Junji down the block probably is too, but his children want to eat your heart. You cannot imagine how much the average American-college-educated Chinese girl hates you.
“…Maybe it was that Anglo blood running through the veins of the mulatto mafia that ran the Obama White House, but they did manage to broker a deal with Iran and avoid getting sucked into any new wars.”
Ehhh… I doubt it.
More likely it was the tendency of the Negro blood to sympathize with Muslims and to dislike the Jews.
Well, hey, at least the Muzz didn’t cut the balls off negro slaves and cauterize them with hot pitch before transporting them to the Near East and the Maghreb! Oh, wait…
Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad hated white Christians so much they were willing to overlook that…
Somebody, may have been Sailer, noted that very often when negro males get into hot water–not an uncommon occurence–they convert to Islam. I guess it’s meant as a thumb in the eye of a white society that has the temerity to expect them to behave like civilized human beings.
The decline in American (and UK and European) intelligence is very real, more than 1 IQ point per decade by my calculation from SAT scores..Probable causes..smart people being outbred due to anti-family propaganda, increasing mutation load due to vaccines, pollution in general, neurotoxic fluoride in the water, and terrible public education (marginal effect)…Inbreeding amongst certain groups (Ashkenazi and muslims mainly) has also produced many damaged children…
“and terrible public education (marginal effect)” While this may only have only a marginal (if any) impact on intelligence, it has a major impact on thinking and on the boundaries of what is possible or desirable. I lump public schooling in with TV, press and radio and now internet for creating and dissemination of the mind virus of progressivism and neoliberalism. Without the DEI (DIE) mind virus, the drop in IQ wouldn’t be having anywhere near the same effect. Without the equalitarian mind virus, the drop in IQ probably wouldn’t even be happening to anything like the current rate because… Read more »
I think Feminism is a problem, but not a sufficient cause. Look, birth rates are down in most all countries that achieve some modernity and a rise in SES among the population. Not all seem as rabidly feminist or woke as we are.
When I say feminism, I don’t necessarily mean blue haired man-hating female weirdos. I mean the idea of equality and sameness between the sexes. The normalization of women working full time straight through her fertile years, even if she has a kid. If you refuse to stay home with your first kid and instead turn it into just another expense, why the hell have a second one?
Complexity exacerbates this problem. Yes, the people at the top of government aren’t as sharp as before. But they are also trying to manage a much larger, more complex international empire. I cannot tell whether it’s hubris or neglect, but the People in Charge think that they can run this beast with Jake Sullivan, Tony Blinken, Janet Yellin, Jared Bernstein and Lloyd Austin. These are proven mediocre types. They say Jeff Zienst, the Chief of Staff, is pulling all the strings. He’s a smart guy but it’s such a sh*t show that one smart guy cannot manage it all. So… Read more »
The problem with GAE elites is that they refuse to treat their preferred helots like helots. It’s all well and good to have a tractable class of worker bees toiling away to ensure the elites store more honey; but Israel demonstrates how you make those angry, Africanized (heh) honeybees tractable in dealing with their own Palestinian helots. You feed them and provide the bare necessities of life. You do not educate them. And, like the Spartans, you periodically cull a portion of them as a clear reminder to the remainder of who’s in charge. Instead, AINO lavishes preferential treatment on… Read more »
“…it is undeniable that middle class whites are now slated for the bottom of the hierarchy and eventual genocide.” Much to agree with here, except for the place of whites in a future hierarchy. Non-white migration and miscegenation will no doubt diminish our place in society, which is already blighted by deliberate DEI policies. But those whites who are able to survive such designs will likely figure prominently in what remains of a much-reduced middle class. We see this in South Africa as well as Latin America. Those who will be at greatest risk will be working class whites, who… Read more »
This map proves what I’ve been saying that people’s fixation on IQ scores leaves much to be desired. Specifically look at the Balkans and the Albanian IQ of 82. I can assure you that the Albanians aren’t from some alien genepool like in neighboring countries. They speak a different language maybe, but they look the same as everybody else around there.
Nature and nurture.
The Russians and their mere 97 IQ are currently fighting and defeating the entire collective West.
I doubt AINO’s average IQ is as high as 97. Behold the wages of dieversity.
The last very serious nerdy chart I saw had Belarus as the highest IQ country in the world, barely beating Japan, and that matches my experience. Your pic differs slightly, but not in principle: The best judge of IQ is an intelligent man’s eye.
“This map proves…” Not really. What it proves/shows is a variability wrt the estimation of “g”. As I’ve pointed out recently elsewhere, IQ is a rank order score and the differences of a few points is really difficult to attach much meaning to. Estimating national differences has been even more problematic. However, when the group differences become large as well as the numbers of individuals measured (for validity and reliability) then general statements about group/narional differences can be made. Lynn recognized this as well as the possibility that countries such as Albania and the Balkan’s were perhaps poorly measured. The… Read more »
“The last gasp of this, ironically, was during the Obama years. Maybe it was that Anglo blood running through the veins of the mulatto mafia that ran the Obama White House, but they did manage to broker a deal with Iran and avoid getting sucked into any new wars.”
Do Syria, Lybia, and Ukraine not count?
the incompetence and the dysfunction of the west is part of the depopulation agenda menu. Turning the west into a worse version of brazil will result in financial global collapse, not just western economy getting destroyed.
The chain reaction will cause plagues, wars and famines to happen.
To succeed they need to take Russia and China down with them, that’s why I expect the wars to continue, that’s why you see world leaders getting killed.
After enough people get culled they can finance another empire and start over.
Given the decline in IQ, demographic trends, and the general tenor of the commentariat that we’re headed towards however one defines the abyss – anyone have an opinion as to what AI may do to delay, reverse, or hasten that (or might it have no effect)?
It will issue your warrant and be the only witness against you, and its testimony will be treated as infallible.
I suspect AI will increase the divide amongst all factions through the distribution of reinforcing information true or false. CRT, 1619, DEI. If you have enough wedge issues you can keep the population distracted until the power goes out and the system crashes. The algorithms already do a good job of providing users with information they already agree with. To improve the system all AI needs to do is hide any information that would cause the users to question their ideology. A divided population are easier to control. No sane American wants the open border. None of us has any… Read more »
Au contraire, Mr.WillS: the regime will have plentiful and reliable electricity.
During the day.
In the summer.
When it isn’t raining.
There will also be plenty of back-up power, so long as the wind is blowing (not too fast/ not too slow) and there are coal/ gas/ nuclear plants running 24/7/365.
Global climate emergency solved!
[…] ZMan points out some inconvenient truth. […]
Hard to understand anyone knowing the history of the region, with all the times Israel has compromised and given up land, to think “the Israel lobby” rather than the Left, is to blame. A piece on Israel that does not mention Oct. 7 or our hostages, but takes time to mention Israel “killing civilians”? (who refuse to turn in Hamas or even vacate when warned by IDF phone calls that, because hamas is hiding underneath their property, that they must leave). A lot of us have a totally different understanding of who’s on our side and who wants the only… Read more »
“The last gasp of this, ironically, was during the Obama years. Maybe it was that Anglo blood running through the veins of the mulatto mafia that ran the Obama White House, but they did manage to broker a deal with Iran and avoid getting sucked into any new wars.”
Trump and his administration did a good job keeping the neocons in check. There was the air strikes on Syria, otherwise “No new wars.”
Can you give the guy credit for any good thing he did? Any damn thing at all.
So much for the “Z man is a tool of ZOG” a loud, confused, chorus spread in the comments 2-3 posts ago?
In that J Thing post he was being a tool of nothing; instead, he cautioned against believing the biggest tree is the forest, and losing a realistic view of the latter.
“The Israeli government has turned a tragic event into a crisis that threatens its existence”
it would be impossible to list all the crises that threatened Jewish existence in the last 3000 years or so.
But then 10 plagues come into Egypt and pharaoh’s firstborn dies, Roman Empire is no more, Haman is hung with his 10 sons, Hitler commits suicide, Stalin dies pissing himself and nothing is left of Raisi
after he promised that nothing will be left of Israel.
Who burned down the temple and scattered jews to the wind for 2000 years? Maybe others will scatter jewish power for good this time since they’re ungrateful alien parasites. No amount of meh holocaust can hide their bloodthirsty mindset anymore.
Or perhaps the Romans had it catisrophically wrong and should have instead deported the quarter million Jews in Rome to Israel and walled off the place as they did Scotland.
Moses wasn’t Jewish, and Israel will never understand that business about blowing into the nostrils (Gen 2:7). So Israel will never understand the allegory about its own formation.
P.S. The big talmudist crackup of 6000 A.M. is just around the corner. No shamayim means no moschiach.
We are conflating the “Jewish State” with Jews and their religion. The commentary today was wrt the State of Israel. Much of your comment pertains to Jews in general and their religion. If Israel goes away, Jews and Judaism will undoubtedly survive, but once again be scattered among those countries willing to accept them and allow such practice—but that’s a different discussion.