One of the strange truths about democratic governments is that they can remain unpopular for much longer than other forms of government. This seems counterintuitive as the whole point of democratic government is to have public policy reflect the general will of the people. In theory any divergence should be rectified in subsequent elections so that over time, the majority support the policy. As we see in the modern West, this is not how things work in “our democracy.”
There is a great example of this in the UK. Immigrant crime has reached a point where even the most teary-eyed immigration romantic has had enough. All of the polling shows that the majority wants an end to immigration. The new Labour government won power largely by hinting they would be tough on immigration. They were lying, of course, and that is clear now. The government only had about thirty percent support at the election, and you can be sure it is lower now.
In other words, the current rulers of the UK have less popular support than the current ruler of Venezuela. The UK is allegedly a democracy, while the democracies all claim Venezuela is a dictatorship. While technically correct, if we redefine democracy to mean having some sort of voting process, the undeniable fact is the ruling class of Venezuela has far more popular support than the ruling class of the UK. Yet, for now at least, the UK government does not fear being overthrown.
Immigration is a great example of how democracy can remain unpopular for much longer than other forms of government. There has never been a time when there was popular support for open borders and unfettered immigration. The issue may not have ranked high on the list of voter concerns, but there was never a clamoring for violent foreigners to be imported into the country. Now there is massive hostility to it, but the policies not only persist, but they get worse.
Immigration is just the latest example of this. The de-industrialization we saw in the 1970’s and 1980’s never had popular support. People in the emerging service industries or technology may have been indifferent, but there were no rallies in the streets demanding the government ship the car parts plant to Mexico. The people in the manufacturing sector certainly cared, but their interests were ignored because the oligarchs saw a quick buck in selling off the manufacturing base.
The point is the so-called democracies of the West have been unpopular for an exceedingly long time, but it persists due to two factors. One is the people assume they can eventually get what they want through the democratic process. The ballots at every election have two options, heads they win and tails you lose, but people insist on picking from those options. It takes a long while, as we are now seeing, for people to lose faith in the democratic system.
The other reason, and perhaps the main reason, why democratic governments can remain unpopular for so long is the people who run the democratic system grow increasingly convinced they can trick and cajole enough people to manufacture a majority in their favor. In fact, as we keep seeing, this becomes the primary focus of the people running the system. It is as if they seek to prove Lincoln wrong and find a way to fool all of the people all of the time.
The guy running Venezuela knows that a large swath of his population thinks the system is rigged. He certainly knows it is rigged. He also knows that unless he keeps that disgruntled portion of the population pacified, he will be swinging from a tree branch, so that is his primary focus. He needs to always be looking to expand popular support for his policies, while at the same time defusing the anger in the portion that is unhappy with him and his policies.
The glue that has held Western democracies together for so long, despite not being particularly popular, is managerialism. The vast administrative state controlled by a permanent ruling class of managers is an unprecedented defense against any threats to the democratic system. Internal opposition is assimilated into the system so quickly that it never has time to flower into a palace coup. External opposition is subverted through the complex network of government affiliated organizations.
If you look closely, for example, at the pro-government protests in response to the anti-immigration protests in the UK, you will see people wearing the colors of groups like Amnesty International, Hope Not Hate and various immigrant charities right next to the cops waiting to crack the skulls of native Brits. Much of the police action, in fact, is coordinated by these “private groups” who “defend our democracy.” All of them are client organizations of the managerial state.
For this reason, managerial polyarchy¹ is highly resistant to popular discontent, even when that discontent is near universal. The problem though is that it is top-heavy, which makes containing internal dissent increasingly difficult. With so many people inside the managerial system or dependent upon it, factionalism is inevitable. It is why the managerial class has its politicians chant about unifying the country. What they really mean is unifying the managerial elite and the oligarchs.
We see a glimpse of this with Elon Musk. When he bought Twitter and reopened it, the system quickly moved to suppress him. Ben Shapiro and the ADL made him pray at the pile of shoes. The trouble is, Musk is the world’s richest man and someone who does not like being pushed around, so Twitter remains largely open. Musk has now weighed in on the two-tiered justice system of the UK. Elon Musk is a serious problem for a system that thinks it needs complete unity.
Why is Elon Musk a serious problem? A society in which the majority is disgruntled but lacks a leader and a method to compel change is like dry leaves and wood in the underbrush of a forest. It is a forest fire waiting to happen. The disgruntled inside the managerial system may look at the disgruntled masses as an army in waiting and decide it is a good time to stage a palace coup. This is why the British government is one step away from declaring war on running dog deviationists.
In the end, government, regardless of form, must not only satisfy the majority, but pacify those unsatisfied so they will not revolt. The present systems in the West have proven quite resistant to this reality, but reality must always prevail. The crisis in the West is over the central question of managerial polyarchy. Can it adapt and reform itself to comport with the demands of the people over whom it rules? If not, then what happens when these long bottled-up forces finally explode?
¹Managerial Polyarchy refers to the fact that large complex society does not have central control. Instead it has nodes that control specific domains, like banking, the media, the academy, and so on. These are networked together by a common understand of their role in society. This polyarchy of institutions shares the ideology of managerialism, thus we get the term Managerial Polyarchy.
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“Two Tier Kier”, the British Joe Stalin wannabe, is arresting Brits for Facebook posts, while ignoring immigrant crime, and the Bobbies seem quite happy with their role as the KGB wannabes…Britain is DOA…
The main enemy of the Brits right now is the police. Make their lives miserable enough that they stop showing up when migrant centers get burned down, and then move up to to terrorizing the petty regime lackeys.They will “change” their opinion overnight on immigration when they feel a quarter of the pain they inflicted on their subjects.
Any of these movements must make peace with the idea of violence against the agents of the state. Paul Revere and his gang did precisely this – for example, in the middle of the night, they’d surround the home of a tax collector while dressed in white, with their night caps pulled down over their faces.
The term for that is terrorism.
Michael Collins’ rules during the Troubles.
The biggest problem with this now is of course smart phones/social media. If this were the late ‘90’s and all of this crap was going on, using Michael Collins’ strategy would be your weapon of choice. Now, forget it. The only way any of that will work is if there is a massive power outage coupled with cell phone jammers.
That is in an urban area, suburban and semi-rural would be different, as always, YMMV.
power outage is purge day.
If you leave your smart phone at home, it’s not really a problem, is it?
*laughs in Palantir*
Leaving your phone at home just gets you profiled. The Dog that Didn’t Bark.
You’re right. It’s hopeless.
The Irish had American and MENA supporters that equipped them with weapons on par with the British forces arrayed against them.
The British people have none of that support and are unlikely to find it. The world does not think highly of them.
And they live inside the Five Eyes panopticon. It appears that like the commonwealth the Brits are going to be crushed by their betters and the foreigners who control the island and they will acquiesce back into serfdom. Learn from their sad example.
They live under a far more complex system, and such systems have far more fragile nodes.
The question is whether long-term and sustained disruptions can be maintained. My guess is they can be even with the panopticon. We and it will see. If that proves out and it starts to damage Those Who Matter economically, I’m not as blackpilled. There is little doubt the British government, which is indistinguishable from the Soviet one at this point, will crack down hard and make matters worse. I think Gdansk is a better analogy than Belfast.
The government with NGO assistance will import more workers by incentivizing more foreigners, including Europeans and indians, to migrate and replace native Britons. Standards will be reduced to subsistence if believed necessary. Impoverishment of natives is a feature and not a bug. Your average Brit will be atomized and erased. It does not look good for them throwing off their yoke.
The Regime does appear to be stepping up the importation, to your point, but resistance is expanding rapidly, too. We need to learn from this, of course, because numerically we are in a far worse place although we also have numerous advantages otherwise.
Wouldn’t they just incent? Why incentivize? It seems too many syllables.
The crackdown, much as it hurts to say it, is part of the rebellion. The over-reaction is the point, followed by the righteous response.
It doesn’t seem far fetched for them to get Russian or Chinese support, but that is more dangerous in terms of a regime crackdown than American support was. Two Tier Keir would love nothing better than to paint them as Russian agents.
The Russians and Chinese will benefit if Britain further declines. They welcome the self-destruction. There is not a single non-commonwealth country that wants the British to sustain other than Americans. Much of the world actively wants the British to disappear.
Live inside? Friend, they are employed by the Five Eyes panopticon, in ways large and small. The system, actually, is wide open, a sitting duck.
This is not Britain falling.
This is Britain rising.
“This is Britain rising.”
I agree. It might take a long, long time, but it is a beginning.
Britain is being reborn.
You can shog off with that noise. The Ar-18 was not some miracle weapon. And if the Brits don’t have global support, well, neither does their government.
You’ve seen these fairy cops in their pride parades and high-heel shoes. Stop that talk.
I’m looking forward to Irish Americans running guns to the British.
May just have to change my name to Ostei O’Keefe…
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to… Read more »
And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation….
That is the key (and why the regime is so intent on cracking down on social media posters). The Russians at least had an excuse.
its been quite sometime since the last solar storm.
Can we get some quotes from “200 Years Together” sometime?
very sad hindsight
Very sad hindsight is watching the Hilldebeeste walk away from you in a two-piece bikini…
Away? Rather, unbounded relief!
made my day. good laugh. ty.
Would.
Butt then I have a walrus fetish, too.
LOL
Yes, that was fantasy writing by Mr. Solzhenitsyn. That’s not how society works ever. Even the most chaotic societies have someone governing. Riots to exert pressure. But it’s mostly just chaos.
As the Z man stated, we need leaders from inside the Cloud People. Ground up revolutions are the mostly the wishful thinking.
Respectfully, stealing this to give it more exposure.
Okay, but ultimately Mr. Solzhenitsyn never took his own advice.
If the construction guys are afraid (or too patriotic) to work on the migrant centers, then what about the maintenance and supply lads for certain institutional buildings?
Expect the admin toffs to empty their own wastecans and vacuum the floor? Or service the printer?
Ha. Not likely. What then about the legal firms that do their grunt work?
Gosh would I like to Micheal Collins the data cable, electrical, and comms techs. Even the plumbers.
One building, one firm, one agency silo at a time.
Alzaebo – That would be one way to do it. But people will continue to quote Solzhenitsyn – and continue to do nothing. The constant and unrelenting surveillance makes any resistance a certain jail/camp/death sentence. And people – even still – have too much to lose. That can and will change, for some. For many others, the loss of their spouses and children to non-White predations have still produced nothing but utter acquiescence.
True, however once you decide, you must be all in. know that you are already dead.
That was the super power of Lt Spears in “Band of Brothers”.
They will continue to quote Solzhenitsyn because it sounds appealing, like a movie. they will continue to do nothing because nothing helps more than his “solution”. I respect the guy, I really do. But we know that he exists because the worst of the Soviet system was when he was young man. Quite simply the USSR was losing control by the 1950’s and ultimately no Russian had to fire a shot.
Thank you, 3g, and it doesn’t really address what this article is about.
I bet they all have names and home addresses.
Pointless unless you are willing to visit and execute them and snuff out their spouse, progeny and pets. Spray painting homes with slogans or threats ain’t gonna produce doodly squat.
You’re so full of shit. The average person is very easy to intimidate. Hell, we’ve all been intimidated by very little.
Yes they do.
The Bobbies used to be the world standard. How they’ve fallen.
Whenever I see the neon yellow vests gesticulating under overcast skies, I get the urge to…you know…
The biggest hurdle to clear for any real right wing reactionary movement is the overwhelming amount of conservatives who still “back the blue” and see the police as allies. Even though there are many that are conservative, they continue to arrest and suppress their own side. You hear the excuses of “they are just following orders” or “they’re just trying to do their time to get their pension.” Since when is this a valid moral excuse? During the Irish war of independence, Michael Collins made members of the RIC one of his primary targets. He saw them as traitors that… Read more »
Dat pension tho. . .
Couldn’t help but bitterly laugh when Michelle Malkin’s “back the blue” rally got their skulls cracked by the blue and antifa.
LOL. That cracked her skull, too, figuratively. Regime war pig shill had her eyes opened over the past 10 years and walked away from it all. Probably had the equivalent of some kind of ideological mental breakdown.
I always liked Malkin; she was always pro heritage America, anti affirmative action, and anti-imvasion. After this Denver event she was red-pilled and then aligned herself with some “far right” figures and seems to have retired now.
She surely has awoken to the fact that her years as a NormieCon who supported the likes of Bush and civnattery was all in vain.
Yeah well thats pretty much every one here.
We can only hope Malkinitis is highly contagious.
The funny thing about a pension is that it’s tough to spend the money from the grave.
think word is getting out. hate to be a policeman these days.
The bigger issue is that law and order matter, even during times of political choas. I’m not about back the blue, but I fail to see how declaring war on the police fixes anything either. They are getting their orders from above, because that’s how society works and always does. We need leaders, not randomness.
Declaring war on the police gets them off our backs and gives us greater freedom of movement. The fear of arrest and prosecution (persecution), as much as anything, is what stays our hands. If we make it too painful for the cops to harrass us, they might just leave us alone and chase after nuggras instead.
No, that’s not how the military/cops work. Resist the cops and they send more cops, who treat people more harshly. We Americans are drinking a little much of our kool-aid, which is largely from Jewish fantasies about revolution.
And if you don’t believe me, go look up how the Whiskey Rebellion turned out. It’s as an American rebellion as it gets.
We can resist by channeling a “grit in the gears” sort of energy. But dreams of civil unrest are just movie fantasies.
Civil unrest, from our people, is happening in the UK right now. It is a fantasy to claim civil unrest is fantasy.
And cops are mere men–and increasingly women. As such, they can be and often are defeated by shows of force. Let’s not make these flat-footed dullards out to be Roman Legions under Scipio Africanus.
Every single rotten thing currently occurring in the Western World is because of White men in law enforcement, the military and the intelligence services. They are the ones protecting the status quo and allowing it to flourish. Men with the Cop mentality are the most psychologically screwed up people on the planet. Mindless guard dogs with no morals.
Yep. A cop is basically a dog — he will be loyal to any master who feeds him.
That’s most people. Control over the paychecks, over money, is everything.
Some for sure. Some loose all faith after being on the job a while. Sad really, freshface young cop joined to hoping to help make things better.
A few years of dealing with horific shit affects a person.
Thats how i used to see it anyway.
Took me about 47 years to become extremely jaded and cynical. If I’d gone into law inforcement, it would have cut that time in half.
Several years ago some fellows from south africa toured (sud landers, as i recall) america giving presentations to various groups that would likely be simpathetic to the plight of white south africans. Various Irish representing the IRA had done this as well in the past. Many of us donated to the Sud lander cause at the time. During early WW2 many firearms were collected & donated so the home guard of england would be able to resist the nazi hoards expected to invade at any time. Today treasonous government & islamic hordes. I would think there might be people here… Read more »
That had occurred to me. Lugers to Limeys is a program whose time has definitely come.
Too bad they gave up their guns.
Always an invitation to heteronomy.
Katie Hopkins, commenting on the riots, said that the biggest trade right now is in trafficking human flesh. Each pound of flesh moved provides income to centers of power: religions, politicals, ngo’s, charities. Subsidiary industries such as housing, feeding, benefits, transport, and supply also depend on this trade.
We are reaching the final stage of Tikkun Olam, the Perfected World as envisioned by the world’s oldest slave traders. Odd how the century of central banking was also the century of democracy and world war and now, human trafficking.
Hopkins made a diagram that pointed very specifically to three groups that ruled above the politicians, as controllers: religious groups, political groups and NGO’s.
She carefully put those three very close to the top of the paper so people wouldn’t think “hmmm, I wonder what’s above those…”
Katie, like Tommy, is very selective about who she calls out.
Yes. She couldn’t even get herself to say “banks.”
For eff’s sake, she was debanked and exiled from her own country.
But she still has her Youtube channel, doesn’t she?
Being “persecuted” is part of the script. Commie Robinstein went to prison, you don’t mistake him for one of us.
The new Labour government won power largely by hinting they would be tough on immigration.
Labour won because the other guy was a Paki.
In part and less than we should hope.* The main target was the Conservative Party itself, hence the “No Seats” thingy.
*It actually is clarifying and helpful when the puppet is an alien.
Think you mean Pajeet. But, yeah, Labour candidates were careful to wear union jack pins and festoon their party offices in similar fashion. Also, their leader looks British, although he tries so hard to be Jewish. Conservatives (like Republicans in the U.S.) keep running non-British candidates in hopes the idiot electorate will forget they’re the white people’s party. I mean, it worked so well for the Scottish National Party, didn’t it?
Speaking of the Scottish National Party, Humza Yousaf appeared on X to announce he and his family feel unsafe and may leave Britain. Sad.
I should have said “deplorable” electorate, rather than “idiot,” since our ruling class seeks nothing so much as absolution from their original sin of whiteness.
That’s the style. The wogs are brave only when there is no resistance. But give ’em a whiff of grapeshot and they’ll show their heels. If every last one of them gets the fuck out, what’s happening in the UK will be a seminal moment in the history of the West.
The Starmtrooper proudly announced his children are learning about their jewish grandfather’s traditions.
What, like how to do a Bris properly to spread herpes?
Starmtroopers – good one for the thugs, associates them with the obnoxious words of an ahole.
Holding a mirror up to the riot police may work in cases where they have residual sympathy with the victims. They need their paychecks, but shame is a powerful emotion
Two-Tier Kier and the Starmtroopers would be an excellent name for a punk rock band.
Meme incoming!
As good a reason as any, and better than most.
The elite in the west are going to keep on trucking on immigration. The entire purpose is to humiliate and displace the political power of their founding stock populations.
Now that it has reached that tipping point, and the white founding stock can now tangibly “feel it,”there will be mass bloodshed.
It’s reached the point of no return.
Best we can hope for is that the good guys come out on top.
They ruling class will have to genocide millions of whites to win. Tyrants do what they’ve gotta do.
Yep. Those three beautiful British girls were part of a low intensity genocide. It will be attempted at scale soon enough and that assumes it is not in the beginning stages now.
The tragedy of those girls is a “tangibly feel it” event.
Looking at the pictures of those little kids is soul crushing.
I truly believe that was the intent of the attack upon those children—whether realized or not by the attacker. To have the utmost effectiveness, the most innocent of your enemy must be the target. The attack demonstrates your ineffectiveness to protect you and yours and simultaneously the destruction of your future.
Agreed. Trump was a bandaid to keep the plates spinning awhile longer. But the regime is so bloodthirsty, they ripped it off anyway. If they can drag the cackling whore and Tampon Tim to power, a lot of people will awaken to the fact that we will never again have federal representation in the system.
“Managerial Polyarchy refers to the fact that large complex society does not have central control. Instead it has nodes that control specific domains, like banking, the media, the academy, and so on.” -That’s a fancy way of saying that there is a ruling class. The great problem of the Right is that it is resistant to thinking in terms of class, because such thinking is associated with Marxism. The other issue is that class is not all about money, although the ruling class certainly has more access to it than the ruled class. But the fact remains that our politics… Read more »
Yes, but the real problem is the NYU professor goes along fervently while the only benefit she receives is psychological. She gets none of the bribes, inside deals and armed security. She and large percentage of the population are such cheap dates, it costs the regime nothing to keep them in line.
Yes. But the psychological rewards are accompanied by affluence. Not insane riches but ample. It falls apart when they are no longer able to work as a digital nomad and benefit from wage arbitrage or life in the Africanizing city means living in conditions far closer to the colonizers than what was once the norm of the overclass. That is coming. The issue is, is it too late and is there something else they can be offered. I suspect formalized new age communes and psychedelics will be what is on offer. Will it suffice if the commune is subject to… Read more »
The NYU professor is rewarded for being a regime enforcer by being given a sinecure where she can just write word salad academic papers in a comfortable climate controlled office with a nice coffee shop just downstairs.
This is a good observation but I wouldn’t call the rulers a “class.” Sociologically, a class has always been a large swathe of society, something measured in percentages rather than basic raw numbers. What we have is a ruling stratum, whose size is probably less than a million souls (if they had souls). This is a good thing, BTW. Much easier to eliminate a stratum than a class.
Well, it’s not just that there’s a ruling class. Modern managerialism sets up a complex network of mutually reinforcing sub-classes. Together they all buttress the system. Picture a cathedral with its flying buttresses. Case in point, the medical establishment should have known that forcing everyone to wear masks and get vaccinated against Covid was unnecessary, stupid, and perhaps more dangerous than the virus which, for most people, was no more dangerous than the flu. They moved in lockstep to support these policies however. There were largely two reasons for this: They knew that the Covid hysteria expanded their power in… Read more »
The medical establishment is controlled primarily by the CDC in the imperial capital. If the CDC says, “Mask!”, the physicians in Kankakee and Kissimmee ask, “How many?”
I tend to think that the glue that holds Western Democracies together is also money. Bread and circuses and all that. We have an amazing bunch of fat poor people. A lot of folks like to bash ‘normie’, as long as the lights stay on, the water flows, my iPhone works and I can go get beer and snax, what else do I need to worry about?
Agreed, but the State is encouraging friction via replacement migration in anticipation of the day abundance goes away. There seems to have been a resignation that heritage populations cannot simply be used as tax cows so as an alternative they must be disappeared.
Absolutely 100%. Western govts know this too. The two pillars of “stability” are:
*manufacture consent among the managerial class,
*keep the rubes fed and entertained.
This, by the way, is how China remains an empire.
Except that in the interior of China, away from the big cities, there is still massive grinding poverty.
We’re in a position similar to that of blacks, and like them we are going to have to become demanding and unruly or we get stepped on. It’s to the point now where this can be explained to people in common language and to get them on board. No intellectual academic stuff is needed. Just say we are becoming a minority, the government holds us in contempt and has no respect for us because we never fight back, and we don’t like being punished where there are always two of them to one,of us and we are going to band… Read more »
Yep. When you think about it, Britain ironically has become a mirror image of the old South African regime in that a racial minority rules via force against the majority and uses cops from the latter to do so. Come to think of it, that’s been the case to a degree somewhat throughout the West for 80 years.
Yep. We’re the blacks or the Palestinians now.
we better soon nip this in the bud
“demanding and unruly” is what peasants and slaves do. “organized and competing for power” is the actual way to go.
No offense, but I think you are in denial
I am in denial? I think you are not understanding what I am saying. Peasant protests by themselves have never achieved anything ever in the history of mankind. Being unruly is literally what children do. It’s an admission that you lack power and only can throw fits. “Demanding” towards whom? Your masters? This is what the word implies. Instead, Whites need to totally reject the current system and the authority of the people currently ruling our countries. What can actually work is having a secondary dissatisfied elite on your side, being organized, having leaders and most importantly, having thirst for… Read more »
Agreed. However, I wouldn’t underestimate the destabilizing power of massive popular unrest. And it’s not out of question that such unrest could hasten the creation of the secondary elite of which you speak.
Destabilizing without a viable and ready alternative is unlikely to have desirable results.
You are right that a secondary elite may get created (or motivated or activated) by the unrest, but it also may not. It’s better to actively help the process.
People go rage in the streets and then have a sense of accomplishment without actually making any real difference. This is what happens most often.
Sustained popular unrest, which provoked a government crackdown–Bloody Sunday–was a bellwether of the Bolshevik Revolution. Whether or not such events are causative, they are a good sign that all is not well with the Power Structure and that the resistance is gaining strength.
Bolshevik Revolution had everything that Whites are missing – support from certain elites, leaders, organization and a viable alternative to existing government. Which is precisely my point.
And there is nothing to prevent the DR from doing the same thing in conjunction with popular rebellion. But without support from a very angry populace, all of our organizing is just taking a crap in the wind. There will be no revolution without the masses on our side, and they have to be furious or they won’t back revolution.
An angry populace is just taking a crap in the wind. It doesn’t take much of the population to effect change. It does first take state leadership however.
Unfortunately, do-nothings such as yourself appear to be in the ascendant on the Right in AINO. Fortunately, however, the Limeys ignore such nonsense and take matters into their own hands. Bully to them.
The Bolsheviks were also bankrolled by NYC globalists. Excellent commentary here. Civil unrest is very emotionally attractive, but it’s not practical, nor makes things better, and history is littered with the examples of it.
Historically civil unrest makes the immediate problems worse. There’s never “and it solved everything” ending in real life. Yes, the riots in the UK will exert pressure. In the immediate term it will make everything worse. We need leaders who are working with the existing power structures.
I thought I’d made clear that both–civil unrest and leaders of organizations–are desiderated. No army can win without a general, and no general can win without an army.
He’s imperfect, but the nominally richest man in the world has been making noises for some time. There’s a dissatisfied elite, and I’m sure there are others with a lower profile, not that their agendas are a perfect match, not that these things ever are. I hazard to guess the situation is more hopeful by the day, contrary to appearances. These things take time but snowball, and we could be not far off. I get what you’re saying, and it’s been my thinking for a while, but Musk coming out openly for Trump seems significant to me. The reasons he… Read more »
Trump is part of the system, not an alternative.
Musk is interesting.
I think its not denial, but the typical excuse making to justify doing nothing.
”imma gonna sit back and wait for some elite fracture to save me.”
Huh? Did you even read what I wrote?
Sometimes doing nothing is a far superior alternative to doing “something” with the emphasis on “something”. Hun’s excellent posts are not popular, but he’s correct.
Scholars a couple hundred years for now will come to the conclusion that democracies will stay solvent long enough for entire ethnic and religious groups to be utterly destroyed while these same groups defend it. It remains to be seen whether they see that as a good thing or a bad thing.
Aren’t you optimistic. There probably won’t be any scholars of that sort in the future.
There will be. It’s just that they will be Chinese and Russian.
Scholars? I wonder if we’ll even remember how to make paper.
My exact thoughts when I read that too.
One reason for the longevity of our systems is that “democracy” in the West offers copious amounts of hopium in the form of almost inconsequential elections. So instead of saying “that’s it!”, breaking a chair and running up the jolly Roger, people decide to “vote harder”. It’s a tragically effective way of buffering an evil system
Yes. and if a guy who just took a bullet for this country “loses” to the worst ticket in American history by far, “vote harder” will take a huge body blow.
It’s the same psychology at play with a slot machine or scratch off. Just one pull of the handle and the payoff will be yours!
Yes, intermittent reinforcement, Except that the reinforcement is getting your side—Reps or Dems—in office, not in changing your particular physical situation. Hence the term “uniparty” applies.
There is also another interesting phenomenon, “conditioned elation”. That’s when you get reinforced *beyond* your expectation. So when a Trump comes into office, folks go wild (elation) as vs a plain old run of the mill uniparty candidate like Bush III.
Oh, to be a freshman in university once more. Those Psych classes were amazing.
Conditioned elation! Thus, the daily Kamala updates I get.
As MSNBC said, “she brought back the joy”.
Instead it has nodes that control specific domains, like banking, the media, the academy, and so on.
Nodes? Don’t you mean Noses? To their credit, they know how to take control through force multiplication.
I believe Switzerland is one of the most democratic countries in Europe as every citizen can bring up a petition which, if they get enough signatures, has to be put to a Democratic vote. This is why back in a November 2009 referendum, a constitutional amendment banning the construction of new minarets was approved by 57.5% of the participating voters. However, if the demographics shift in the future, it could just as easily go the other way. While Constitutional changes are quite difficult, they are not impossible nor without president as was the case in the USA with the 18th/21st Amendments… Read more »
In a sense you do have a choice. What US citizens lack is the will to enforce their choice. That’s the difference between US and Venezuela – US citizens bend over and take it; Venezuelans bend the ruler over and give it. Probably because we still have it too good here materially.
Which brings to mind the other way to keep the disgruntled satisfied: Enough bread and circuses. But as young White males increasingly have nothing, and therefore nothing to lose, things could get spicy.
You don’t think the current happening in Venezuela doesn’t have massive “nato” support? Remember during Trump’s term when jaun guido or whatever his name was had photo ops of his convoy trying to cross a bridge?
The US “democracy” in practice is inverted. In “democracy,” in theory at least, the people are supposed to decide what direction the country should move in and elect people to oversee that movement.
In practice, US “democracy” is where the elite decide what they want and then propagandize and/or browbeat the plebs into agreeing.
Even so, the problem is not really the form of government in this case. It is the evil satanic elite that is the trouble. The main caveat here is a different elite would probably exist if we had a different form of government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
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“Inverted totalitarianism reverses things. It is all politics all of the time but politics largely untempered by the political. Party squabbles are occasionally on public display, and there is a frantic and continuous politics among factions of the party, interest groups, competing corporate powers, and rival media concerns. And there is, of course, the culminating moment of national elections when the attention of the nation is required to make a choice of personalities rather than a choice between alternatives. What is absent is the political, the commitment to finding where the common good lies amidst the welter of well-financed, highly… Read more »
Well said.
I wonder how many of todays politicians would be there if that wasn’t the case.
The idea of publicly funded elections is kryptinite to 99.9%
of pols despite their complaining.
The very idea, let alone the practice, of democratically held elections is nothing more than an illusion so the plebs can at least believe they have a say about what goes on in their government every few years. It’s a bit more sinister than that. When you vote, you symbolically kneel to your sovereign and swears him blind loyalty. After you’ve cast your vote, you no longer have a moral right to complain about government overreach, because you agreed to the rules when you decided to participate: the winner gets to spend your monies as he sees fit, even if… Read more »
“Let your members of parliament/House of Reps vote according to that poll: i.e. if the matter returns a 30%/70% yea/nay on the website poll, that’s replicated in chambers.” Concept excellent, implementation dicey. Why? How is one’s vote on the matter at hand determined/counted/audited? Look, we have voting (via paper ballots) at the general electorate level now which seems subject to shenanigans of all sorts, and that is paper and pencil stuff. Supposedly, there’s a ballot to be found for very vote, yea or nay. Yet, the accusation is that “ballots” are often magically created and interjected into the system, or… Read more »
Well, online banks seem to have figured it out, with phishing being the main security problem.
At any rate, I’m not a techbro, so I plan on leaving the matter of fake votes in your – wink-wink – incorruptible hands.
That brought us back to representative democracy
With the important caveat that political parties are no longer gatekeepers of the legislature.
“The point is the so-called democracies of the West have been unpopular for an exceedingly long time …” European and North American democracies were always a farce but today more than ever. If we go back to the French Revolution, it seems to have been about supplanting the monarchy and its allied institutions (aristocracy + church) with an urban bourgeoisie, but needing peasant and urban lumpenproletariat unrest to bring it about. That urban bourgeoisie seems to have morphed over time into a transnational financial oligarchy, largely dominated by members of the Tribe. Now that there’s a crisis of Western “democracy”,… Read more »
Why 1848? I’m just curious as my knowledge of history may be slipping.
Lot’s going on in 1848, but I think it is a reference to the last Presidential hurrah for the Whigs, who dissolved soon thereafter.
Hmmmm, ok, thank you.
I’ve seen so many references to 1848, it seems to have been a Continent-wide communist revolution of some sort.
It was a revolutionary upsurge throughout Europe that lasted over a year but which had an enduring impact on the evolution of Europe. It’s difficult to encapsulate in a few words. Mike Rapport’s book might be one place to start.
Correct. And incidentally, in the aftermath of this revolutionary fervor, Marxism began gaining purchase. If 2024 proves an analogue of 1848 we can only hope the ensuing radicalism veers toward the other end of the ideological spectrum.
Again, thank you.
1848 is called The Spring of Nations, or the Revolutionary Year, because Europe saw a number of monarchies and empires overthrown and replace with democratic nation states.
You know, that should be the period to study, rather than Collins and the Troubles. How to overthrow enmasse an entrenched, creaky, corrupt System.
Yes, that would be the year that modernism started and medieval age ended.
The Middle Ages terminated with the year 1500. 1848 is squarely in the modern period.
I would change Z’s formulation a bit. Hence, Western governments have been unpopular for an exceedingly long time, but the concept of democracy remains popular to this day. However, as governmental legitimacy crumbles, that may be changing. The Grillers may finally be subjecting democracy to a bit of scrutiny, although that’s largely conjecture on my part.
It’s a slow process, in the sense that I once was a griller, and now I’m here, but the grillers are yet legion. The GR and the regime’s technocratic control grid are proceeding at a much faster pace, thus there is unlikely to be any mass “awakening” before it’s too late.
It is an interesting race. The pogrom and the social status portions of the control grid means waking more people up and waking them up faster.
This is where we need organization to funnel them somewhere other than, “fighting the woke.” An explicit advocate based on ethnos/race can arise. As soon as he or a few of them arise, they will have somewhere to go and they will go there.
The regime’s inflation and crumbling economic order is also a source of discontent. All it has in terms of legitimacy is offering financial comfort.
Some relevant quotes by Anglin:
The managerial polyarchs, whose unstated ideology is postmodern fascism, can massage popular discontent only so long as conditions on the ground are at least palatable to the common man. But once the life of the common man become hellish enough, all the soothing words and heartening promises of future redress fall upon deaf ears and stony hearts, and simmering hatreds erupt into mass violence. This is what apparently is happening in the UK. Life for the common Brit has become so miserable, thanks primarily to the savages imported by the Power Structure, that comforting words from on high are not… Read more »
Managerial Polyarchy refers to the fact that large complex society does not have central control Most of the time it looks that way, but during the plandemic all these “nodes” not only quickly but instantly fell into lockstep with previously unimaginable “mandates” that were coming from somewhere. Nor do we see any substantial dissent in the western “polyarchy” against Israel during its Gaza genocide, in spite of some popular dissent. Dissent significant enough that you’d think you’d see a node or two perhaps break off, but that hasn’t happened. The west is even more united in support of Israel than… Read more »
You can say it is de-centralized in that the nodes control the various aspects of society. But it does seem the nodes themselves are controlled, or at least coordinated. There are occasional disagreements among the various nodes, but enough of the nodes appear to be sufficiently controlled to cancel the rebellious ones.
I think the biggest shortcoming in thinking there is no central control is believing that such control needs to be perfect or complete. It just has to be enough to reach the goal.
The nodes cannot break away because their inmates are all of the same mind. They’ve attended the same universities and imbibed the same ideology, and the process has been going on close to 60 years. These are cells of an identical brain. And the brain seems proof against cancer, unfortunately.
The polyarchy is already adapting. Matt Orfalea on X: “EXCLUSIVE: In a newly discovered Zoom recording, the Biden/Harris team reveals how they manipulated voters to think Biden’s mental decline was “disinformation”. 🧵/1 https://t.co/i5Spfxtjkb” / X
There is another piece to this that I did not mention. The people inside the system are unusually good at convincing themselves they have things under control. They convinced no one, for example, that Biden was on top of things. They merely convinced their media organs, who parroted back what they heard, which is what they always do. This was a problem in the Soviet Union, by the way.
True. They also did a shockingly bad job convincing people about the necessity of the Ukraine war. Some of that could have been the hangover from the multitude of Covid lies, but in days of old the public could have been whipped up into a much larger and sustained frenzy over the ol’ debbil Putin.
They did a shockingly bad job at convincing 80% of America. The other 20% had Ukraine flags flying in their yards. I live in what is known as a conservative community, and the crossing guard for a local elementary school lived in the house on the corner by the school. He has had a huge Ukraine flag on his fence where the kids cross the street for YEARs. A buddy of mine is a Russia-phile. Lived there for years, and was an attache. He would go on and on about how I just didn’t understand how the Russians think. Ukraine… Read more »
That segment of the population wants to believe the lies. The propaganda fills a need in them. And it is pointless to try to save them.
So true. I keep asking myself how they can fall for lies over and over, with the new lies contradicting the old. But it’s not about the specifics of the lies. It’s about the need to belong to a hive and to feel superior. A large part of this is trying to replace the God they don’t believe in.
Best comment of the day.
hokkoda: It’s like Moses leading the Jews around the desert until all those with the slave mentality died out. There is no changing the vast majority of White people over 50. They will die before giving up on civic nationalism, the ‘melting pot,’ and their fantasy of a mosaic country. One can only hope that a remnant of White people – who identify as such and won’t apologize for their existence – survives and decides not to submit and die out. I hate being the black piller but I think it’s questionable. So many people make excuses for their gay… Read more »
No doubt a substantial number of people want to cling to these fantasies and, yes, they tend to be our age. The propaganda works on them solely because they want to believe it and find comfort in doing so. The red pill, to the degree it is one, is that the Regime is so vicious, violent, impulsive, and ham-handed it may overplay its hand and force those who are not brainwashed and supine to respond. I tend to think that will happening and is happening. The resolution remains unknown but the sorting is the right response. The English have less… Read more »
*white pill, sorry
This is why so many are counting on Trump to win. They see him as a savior. Admitting that he will not save them and that the entire system will need to be replaced is too painful for them.
My neighbor is another one relying on Trump to save the country. He understands race differences, Jay-power, the false flags, etc yet believes in the Q posts and that White hats are currently at work to arrest the regime bad guys.
I finally understood him when I sent the Modern Politics video about the 20,000 Haitians dumped into Springfield, Ohio and he said he didn’t want to watch it because it’s “too depressing.” He previously avoided similar material, which finally clicked with me that he wants to cling to hope. Not uncommon I think.
A bit more time always helps
I see him as a stop-gap measure and a four-year extension to keep prepping and building community.
You are. Not many will go out on a limb untill they have nothing to loose.
Fine. Few of them are worth saving. Our generations-long largesse has nourished hordes of spiteful mutants and useful idiots. A natural culling wouldn’t be the worst thing.
Those people shouldn’t be saved. Let them destroy themselves but be sure they don’t take us with them.
I have no desire to save them. As much as they hate me, it cannot compare to the level of disdain I have for them. I will never help these people if they are in need and I will not have any remorse, sympathy or compassion for them. It’s as raw as it gets. People like me are admittedly a product of the regime. I refuse to apologize for my people’s existence, and I will forever carry that hate to my grave. It is unfortunate, because I’d love to be able to go back to enjoying the things this country… Read more »
“These people cannot be saved.”
Of course not—for the most part. To believe the above you must believe in the equality of all men and the perfectibility thereof.
God and Nature tell me differently. If and when I meet someone with higher authority than those two, I’ll consider a change of mind.
What a stellar comment. I kneel to Truth.
I know true believers who were convinced that Biden is just fine. Don’t underestimate the idiot masses.
There is a vast difference between those who are tricked and those who want to believe. The True Believers are the latter, and, yes, those types are numerous. Propaganda that rests of baseless lies appeals to needs they have.
I get daily updates on the thrilling Kamala rallies.
I just send “Big Tits Matter” memes in reply.
I know a woman who believed that they were only saying he was fine because they really, really just wanted him to be ok. It is very hard for the people on our side to understand how there are real people like this, but there are millions of them. It is truly remarkable.
That, and there are millions of left wing zombies (i.e. your cat lady aunt or cucked brother-in-law) who turn like a flock of migrating birds when they receive new instructions from the magic glowing box and national propaganda radio. It was absolutely hilarious after Biden’s “debate” that the ENTIRE FLOCK immediately changed direction within 2-3 hours. He went from being a modern DaVinci to Uncle Teddy from Arsenic and Old Lace within a day. That is a staggering level of population control. I remember vividly during the plandemic how my brother-in-law took to wearing TWO masks. He and his wife… Read more »
There probably is no counter to it. This is deep psychological damage.
Thats the thing you gotta be at peace with, you may have to cut loose those who will pull you down with the ship.
Choose friends not relitives.
Easy for me as most of mine are already gone.
Or, don’t cut loose, just realize they belong to a different religion. What floats their boat doesn’t float mine.
I keep coming back to this because it is the only thing I recall from the book (not movie) “A Wrinkle in Time” (the rest otherwise forgettable: The scene where the brother and sister finally meet up with the aliens and are being fed steak and potatoes or something. The sister is eating and asks her brother why he isn’t. He explains it is just slop, but they are penetrating your mind enough to make you think it is steak and potatoes. Matrix kind of stole this scene too, except the character knew it was fake, and preferred it to… Read more »
Matrix kind of stole this scene too, except the character knew it was fake, and preferred it to reality.
Great example. Many of this type are among us. “Narrative” really is “Soma.”
Forgot to add: this it the biggest problem we face, too, and it appears to be growing simultaneously with the number of people aware of how things actually are.
Legal pot is “soma”. Narratives are the “feelies” from the novel.
My wife turned on NBC to try and watch the Olympics over dinner. (I have no idea why, she saw clips of that satanic opening ceremony.). 20 minutes into the broadcast they were on their THIRD “human interest story” and had not shown a single competitive event. I had been trying to ignore it, and finally just got up and turned it off. Blessedly, she has not bothered with it since.
Over the last 20 years or so, the Olympics have become globoheauxmeaux’s demonic bacchanale, with the media its amplification. What with the wine-aunt human interest stories and the gratuitious slobbering over every negro and perv competitor, I’d rather scrub public crappers in Shreveport than watch it.
I stopped watching years ago. I did see however a picture of the women’s gymnastic team somewhere on the internet, one White, rest Black. Just like the NBA, there was nothing for me to relate to so why watch?
Don’t remember the last time I watched the Summer Olympics–’96, maybe? But most winter sports are beautiful and compelling, so I stuck with the Winter Olympics considerably longer. But the Left got around to destroying them, too.
(Heh. Old Dads, born in N’Orleans, used to say, “Don’t go on up to Shreepo’ there, that’s Yankee territory.”)
hokkoda: Spot on. Well said.
The counter is separating permanently from these people – or separating them from… well…
We can fool some of the people all the time … and that’s good enough for us.
Britain is moving into naked, in-you-face police state mode. It’s the only way to keep a lid on a multicultural “society”. Z is right that the Brits need a leader – they need a Magoa, a war captain who will do what it takes. If they can’t have peaceful revolution, as JFK said…but if/when they start down the path of violence, they need to be willing to see it through. No half-measures.
Perhaps they need another Cromwell, a leader to rally the native Britons in a war against all enemies, foreign AND domestic. Perhaps an Arthur…
Exactly. Although a popular, leaderless nationalist organization operating discreetly could destabilize things, take power and force someone like Farage to be the figurehead.
Internal opposition is assimilated into the system so quickly that it never has time to flower into a palace coup. Biden disagrees, as does a series of toppled UK prime ministers (it is doubtful Starmer joins the ranks of the unemployed so quickly only because his party is the government one, but even that could happen). Granted, the internal opposition in these cases is factional rather than inner party/outer party or citizen/Regime, but palace coups are all the rage in these formerly great democracies. That dusky faces show up as Regime enforcers and puppets indicates the actual immediate reason for… Read more »
You are confusing ornaments for the tree. Tossing aside Biden is not a palace coup, because he is just a hired man. The system disposed of him when he ceased to be useful. Ditto for the string of PM’s in the UK.
I was defining palace coups as the swift and bloodless replacement of the puppets, to be clear.
You misunderstand the phrase “palace coup”. The White House is not the palace of the regime; it, too, is an ornament. Rulers live in palaces, not in the stage props of puppet show. Managerial polyarchy has many palaces (and offices), you see, and I’m sure that I’ve ridden past a few of those palaces this summer in the wealthy north shore suburbs of Chicagoland. It’s btw that I’ve not seen any Kamala for President signs in that area, not even in Wilmette this past Sunday. There is, tho, plenty of the the usual cult stuff like crooked pride flags and… Read more »
I’m impressed, few have ever heard of this “religion” I have as some of my relitives were/are into it
. Seems to attract some odd ducks to say the least.
Yhe basic tenet, as i understand is that someday all people will come togeather under one religion & world government & live happy ever after. Drinking sweet bubble up & eating rainbow stew.
Completely ignors human nature, but is there a religion that does’t.
I agree. But what would a true palace coup look like? Presumably, the coup-plotters would have to be people outside the Power Structure.
The West needs an equivalent to the collapse of the communist block.
I’m afraid it cannot be as bloodless due to the importation of violent foreigners.
Right. And additionally, the West’s Power Structure is far more amorphous and diffuse than the Communist Party of the USSR, while being less centralized and more flexible. It’s not so hard to crush a cockroach. Liquidating an amoeba is far trickier.
Elon Musk is multi-faceted. One of those facets is that he is a type of counterweight to George Soros.
Look at where the world would be under the old Twitter regime. You would not know of or hear so many suppressed views.
I readily admit I underestimated the importance of Musk’s acquisition of Twitter. This likely is because I don’t have much use for social media or, frankly, Musk, although he is starting to wear well.
Similar to Trump in 2016, I think Musk saw an underserved market and tapped into it, at least to the extent the regime allows. Gab, for all its faults, is at least closer to what Twitter, stupidly renamed X, should be. Unfortunately for Gab, it just doesn’t have the market share of Twitter, stupidly renamed X. It is the Linux of social media.
TSRX
Is the new
PBUH?
The Elites in the west are wholly insulated from the consequences of their actions. It’s easy to say immigration is good when immigrants never get in your bubble. Trust me, if that poor suppressed Kenyan had his spree within their gated communities, their tune on immigration would change immediately.
Correct. Z has often said that things start to change when rich people start getting killed. It will start happening soon.
Management Polyarchy is an effective adaptation for the Ruling Class in a democracy. It distributes power, so there’s no single point of vulnerability. Nobody can be held responsible for anything. It ameliorates intra-Elite competition. In theory, it should be more flexible because it has more nodes for feedback-gathering and innovation. In practice, it has become Kafka’s Castle.
Speaking of weird – I want to know what’s up with the middle aged white guys who are fully on board with replacement. Not just fully on board, but it seems like their entire life goal is to import as many brown weirdos as possible. The most obvious example is Keir Starmer. In Canada, we have Trudeau, but also Marc Miller and Sean Fraser, 2 white immigration ministers who only care about bringing in as many immigrants as possible. Then you have all the police chiefs, beat cops, etc. You have Joe Biden and Lindsey Graham. What’s going through their… Read more »
My guess would be the beta male traitor profile. Treason is a generic strategy for cowardly beta males. History is full of them, Kim Philby types
Many traitors have been heauxmeaux, too.
Absolutely. There are serious Chesterton’s fence reasons why healthy men don’t trust them
They subscribe to Wokism, which is a postmodernist form of Gnostic Christianity. The Gnostics believed the material universe itself was flawed and sinful and only through the direct knowledge of the hidden true divinity could salvation be obtained. The Woke adherents believe believe that Western civilization is inextricably bound to whiteness (which it is). However, instead of believing that, on balance, Western civilization has been a force for good in the world, the Wokies believe that Western civilization is solely defined by its sins: racism, genocide, slavery, exploitation and colonialism. These sins can only be expiated by the ultimate eradication… Read more »
seen it plenty. mostly at work. zero integrity = no moral code. unfortunately there are legions. it is criminal mind at work.
The forest fire analogy is an apt one. In this example, I attempt to show that forest fire management is a good metaphor for government mismanagement. In much of North America, forest and prarie fires are a problem. The managerial state variously will blame them on “climate change”, as if tinderbox-dry conditions had never happened in history, or paying lip service to environmentalism. After all, cutting down trees is anti-Gaia. What are you, some kind of shill for the timber industry? Less noble motives might be to prioritize limited budgets for more enjoyable uses, perhaps salaries, pensions and “business”… Read more »
I’ve heard that a major part of the fire problem today is 100 years of not allowing forest fires. When you allow periodic natural fires to occur (by not putting them out), it burns away all the brush, all the saplings and very small trees and other vegetation. But by not allowing these smaller fires, fuel builds up which allows a bigger, hotter fire which can then set alight the larger trees that would have survived a small fire.
Arson also seems to be an increasing problem. Recently in southern New Mexico a couple of Mescalero Apaches set multiple fires around the town of Ruidoso. A couple of people died and Ruidoso came fairly close to being reduced to cinders.
That explains the frequency increase, but perhaps not the increasing intensity and damage from such fires. Also, the official Forest Service policy is to check for recorded lightning strikes and other nature causes and if those are not in evidence to *officially* designate the cause of the fire as “man made/caused”.
I’ve never been able to wrap my head around that logic—however, I’m not a government bureaucrat.
Last year or the year before there was a huge fire, I think it was in Canada. Turned out there was a female firefighter’s convention where they were going to set a small fire, though I forget the rationale for it and they were supposed to put it out. Needless to say, they burned down the whole forest. Funny. A quick Google search returns…. From the Washington Free Beacon: “What happened: Female firefighters taking part in a Women-in-Fire Training Exchange program—intended to promote “mental health and gender diversity and inclusion”—accidentally caused an “out of control” forest fire in Banff National… Read more »
God. How much evidence do we need?
Wildfires are not a problem. They are reality. With respect, “common sense land management policy” (like “natural disaster”) is a contradiction in terms. Whose sense? Disaster for/to whom? Risk for who and what? A “common sense homo sapiens management policy” would be more effective and beneficial to all species involved, humans above all. Tars is correct. But full-suppression of all wildfires was only the first step down this road. Who wanted this? At the time basically everyone, but especially the timber industry. The current unpleasantness is the result of dozens of interlocking factors, most of which are grounded in ecological… Read more »
Loss of forests due to excessively hot/intense fire is only part of the problem here in the West. We are losing even more of forests to an infestation of “bark beetle” increased by drought. I’ve flown over bast tracts of forest that are complete dead. Dead as in completely brown, not green. Why? Well it seems trees previously took care of the beetle with sap, however lack of water equals lack of sap and the tree dies. But that’s not entirely due to drought, only exasperated by it as we’ve had droughts on and off for millennia. What we have… Read more »
It’s also important to note that many species of trees (pines for example) actually need fire in order to reproduce. The cones protect the seeds from the fire and then the fire burns off the underbrush releasing nutrients and allowing sun to reach the forest floor.
Feels like there’s a pretty pertinent analogy in there…
“…as last year’s fire in Hawaii can attest.”
Perhaps someone with knowledge can fill in, but I heard that the warning system used in those fires was for “tsunami” events. Those hearing such evacuated inland and into the rushing fires where there was no shelter, nor escape.
Has there been an official investigation of the matter and report? Not that such would not be a whitewash if the above occurred.
Up here in Canuckistan, we had a huge fire rip through Jasper National Park. I have spent much time in the back country there and the forest floors were choked with dead fall and dead vegetation. (Dried pine needles = excellent fire starter.) No one is surprised that in a dry year, it finally caught and burned so fast the locals barely got out of the way. I was there the day before it broke out and there were no signs of local fire…just lightning.
Isn’t Elon Musk the guy that wants to put a chip in everyone’s brain?
Elon Musk also wants the next Sportster to fly though the air, he want to put three hundred people on Mars by… eh… 2024, he wants to put long-haul airlines out of business by sending passengers to Asia on ICBMs, and he wants to have flying trains inside giant vacuum chambers that travel at transonic speeds.
Musk’s best was his creation of underground tunnels to run LA traffic through. As much as I admire the man wrt his out of the box thinking and off the wall ideas, most/many of his visions seem to be out of the old science mag of the 60’s, “Popular Science” that I used to read as a child. Hell, I really thought we’d have flying cars by now and that freeways would guide cars through under pavement wires to provide a hands free experience.
We have diversity instead.
A hands-free experience is what you get when you try to snag the last piece of fried chicken off the platter at a negro fambly reunion…
Elon’s vision of our eternal enslavement requires some fraction of us to be intelligent enough to facilitate the progress his heirs will bask in—in spaaaaaaace! The chip is to keep white people on task. He’s an Operation Paperclip maximizer. (If you think that’s funny, you deserve the chip.)
His peers want whatever kind of eternal enslavement can be arranged, no matter what ruin it leaves them. They’re philanthropists.
Hey, he’s still selling them their fantasies, isn’t he?
Nothing changes until the environment changes. People in the UK are still content with street protests and the occasional riot because they can still buy a pint at the local pub and grouse with like-minded sods. Yes, its slow death by a thousand cuts, and there is a real risk that they will remain asleep until its too late. Best they can do now is remain under the radar and wait for a match to ignite the inferno. Rather than riot chaotically, know what you will do as remedy. Be focused and definitive. If each of us pulls just one… Read more »
“One of the strange truths about democratic governments is that they can remain unpopular for much longer than other forms of government. This seems counterintuitive as the whole point of democratic government is to have public policy reflect the general will of the people.” Given how it works, I would think a non democratic government wouldn’t be as unpopular. Without a “democratic” government, there wouldn’t be all the propaganda and endless news stories about government. There wouldn’t be all the agitation we have today. “Influencers” would be stuck shilling bad food and VPNs. Our approval would not be sought. Our… Read more »
Quite. And this gets to a point Z has made in the past. Namely, that in non-democratic systems the masses tend to their knitting rather than set themselves up as poltical savants for the simple reason that they do not involve themselves in government. In democracy, contrariwise, the masses are morally obligated to participate in government, which personalizes politics to a huge degree. This is a recipe for upheaval when things turn sour.
It’s interesting that when I listen to other like minded people and even normal conservatives in my lifewe all have problems defining just what is it that we face and what do we call ourselves whom oppose what we face? I hear the normal conservatives that I associate with call it socialism or communism and even fascism. I don’t hear many normie conservatives use the term managerialisn yet. Managerialism is a term that sounds like their bosses golf outing but in reality the term that James Burnam coined is an accurate term for what we face. I enjoyed that podcast… Read more »
Names always matter. The matter one helluva lot.
unrighteous dominion
Apparently two tier Kier decided it is time to threaten everyone online who weighs in on the rape of the historic British nation. They really are scum
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/uks-met-police-chief-threatens-keyboard-warriors-terrorism-charges
what a numbskull kier. sounds like a foreign threat to me. calling all londoners, your leaders are now threatening the rest of the world. sound familiar? maybe from a terrorist organization?, say from the middle east. what a simpleton. im surprised the royalty allows him to speak.
There is a long article by James Piereson for the 50th anniversary of the Nixon resignation that analyzes managerial chic through the special-prosecutor fetish. The romance of Watergate is not confined to D.C. people who materially benefited from it and developed a kind of class consciousness as a result, but seems to have spread internationally since the U.S. Dept. Of Journalism became priest-publicists for the lifestyle, pageantry, and priorities of that regional mafia. Thus a publishing house is economically justified to deliver “The Mueller Report” for bookstores to stock and some quotient of status-attuned ladies will judge it fitting to… Read more »
This coming a few days after the 75th anniversary of Mann Gulch, it seems appropriate to continue the fire metaphor. In theory, elections serve the same purpose as naturally occurring fires: they help maintain the forest they played a part in creating. In reality, the managerial state serves the same role as smokejumpers: preventing the natural process in order to maintain the status quo and extract short-term benefits. The difference between the poor jumpers and the polyarchs is that the former had little or no idea of the process or the role they were playing in disrupting the it. Fires… Read more »
If there are any meaningful numbers of disgruntled within the managerial system, what’s it going to take to kick off the palace coup (coop as obomba would say)? Meh, I’ll believe it when I see it. Musk doesn’t strike me as that kind of leader, but maybe he should consider beefing up his security just in case. On another note, this Walz dude seems like a real psycho…
So, according to Google you invented “managerial polyarchy.”
OK. Now let’s spread the word!
As much as I admire Z-man, one needs to look up the phrase’s origination via alternative sources. One such source, ChatGPT. To wit: “The term “managerial polyarchy” was coined by political economist James Burnham in his 1941 book The Managerial Revolution. Burnham used the term to describe a new form of governance that he believed was emerging in the mid-20th century, characterized by the dominance of managers and technocrats in both the public and private sectors. He argued that this new elite, rather than traditional capitalists or proletarians, would become the primary rulers of society, wielding power through bureaucratic and… Read more »
For what it’s worth, the word “polyarchy” does not appear in a text search of my Kindle edition of The Managerial Revolution. I don’t remember seeing it when I read it some time ago. Not to say it isn’t in some editions, but it’s not in mine.
Artificial Intelligence is more artificial than intelligent, so be circumspect when quoting results from it.
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