A change that has happened in the culture of the West that has gone largely unnoticed is the concern for psychological states. A generation ago, what mattered in most cases was the material state of things. Governments cared about the economy in terms of measurables like inflation and GDP. Now they care about how “marginalized groups” are feeling about their social status. Large employers now worry about employee wellness, rather than financial benefits.
This is a shift from the objective to the subjective. Inflation is a thing you can measure, even if there are disputes about how the measures are done. Prices are either rising, falling, or remaining the same. The impact of inflation on the psychological state of consumer is another matter. There is no way to objectively describe such a thing, much less produce a metric for it. The only thing to go on are the opinions of people who claim to be experts in these sorts of soft areas.
You see the same shift in the workplace. In the prior century, managers focused on objective measures like productivity and the cost of labor. The manager in charge of benefits focused on driving down the costs of those benefits, while increasing the value to the employee. Now the point of a benefits plan is to increase employee wellness, which cannot be measured, only assessed. More importantly, there is no way to connect employer behavior to the result.
In every organization of scale, and society as a whole, the focus of attention has shifted from things that are easily measured and understood in terms of practical impact, to things that are not quantifiable. At the same time, it is increasingly assumed and asserted that these intangibles are more important than the tangibles. The practical impact of inflation on the household budget is not important, but whether a political candidate can show they share your values is monumentally important.
You can see this change in how Harris and Trump present themselves. Trump has rattled off a list of things he says he will do if elected, like eliminating taxes on tips and overtime, which he says will boost the middle-class. These are claims that rest on the agreed upon math of economics. Harris, on the other hand, talks about her plan in soft, intangible terms. What matters to her, and what she thinks matters to you, is that she shares your values as a middle-class person.
Notice that no one ever tries to explain exactly what they mean by “share your values” or describe the actual values. Is it even possible to share the values of another person, since values are subjective? This sort of therapeutic language is deliberately vague, as it is entirely emotive. When someone says she shares your values, she is saying you are on the side of good and she is on the side of good. There is nothing more being communicated with those words.
This shift from the objective to the subjective goes beyond how the political candidates present themselves to the public. Increasingly, people and events are viewed not in practical terms but in the context of an evolving set of normative standards that have no clear truth value. What is “wellness” and why do we care? Ask ten people and you get ten answers to those questions. Wellness is a thing we believe exists and it is either good or not good and good is what we should want.
Another example is the reaction to the Israeli terror attack on Lebanon. Blowing up random people is supposed to demoralize Hezbollah. This is a claim that has been repeated, even by Israel haters. Why would anyone think this and so what if it gives some Hezbollah guys the blues for a few days? What is supposed to happen as a result of this case of the sads? Not only does no one know, no one asks. The practical issue is no longer of interest. It is all about the psychological.
The Ukrainians launched an attack on the Kursk region of Russia last month and according to everyone involved, the main purpose was to “psychologically impact Russian civilians” and embarrass Putin. Again, why would anyone think such a result was likely or would matter? Did they think Putin would delete his Twitter account and call off the war, because he got owned on the internet? The answer must be yes, as this has been a theme in the West since the war started.
What we are seeing is an orientalization of the culture. Saving face and losing face are things that we associate with East Asian societies. An important person is found to have failed in his duties, so in order to avoid losing face and shaming his family and associates, he kills himself in a ritualized fashion. His honorable choice in the end absolves him and his associates of his dishonorable behavior. This means behavior is controlled within this cultural construct.
In the West, this shame/lack of shame concept has been embedded into the binary politics of progressivism. Someone like Hillary Clinton, for example, is terrible at all of the practical things related to politics, but she upholds the honor culture of progressive politics, so she is an honored elder of our politics. Trump brings shame to the democracy and refuses to let himself be killed, so he deserves assassination. The fact that he is good at politics and is right about most things is irrelevant.
One reason for this is the feminization of the ruling class. Relations between men are controlled by honor and duty. Relations between women are based in shame, so as women have taken over areas of the ruling class, the values have shifted from a foundation in honor and duty to one of shame. In a world run by people biologically tuned to care about looking good, how things look is paramount, so it is no surprise that a feminized ruling class now cares about saving face.
Probably the biggest fact, however, is the ruling class of the American empire has not had to worry about the duties of a ruling class for a long time. By the end of the Cold War, the domestic stuff was on autopilot. As long as the Fed controlled the money supply, recession and social unrest were not a concern. The only remaining concern was relations with Russia and once the Cold War ended, foreign affairs stopped being a game controlled by adults.
That last bit is the important part. Along with the feminization of the ruling class has come the infantilization of politics. It used to be said that “politics ain’t beanbag” but now it is closer to dodgeball. Instead of serious men making decisions with practical consequences, politics is now a playground for adult children. The reason our politics reflect the language and attitudes of the academy, is like the academy, the political class is an adult daycare center.
This is why the information space is full of assertions about soft concepts like the morale of guerilla fighters in Lebanon or the political class of Moscow. It is also why facts and charts have no impact on public attitudes. Increasingly, the sensibility of the general public reflects the sensibilities of the adult babies who parade across the screen, pointing and jeering at one another. People may not get the government they deserve, but the rulers get the people they desire.
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All very true, but so much of all this was printed in the 1960’s by Saul Alinsky in his rules for radicals book. EVERYTHING the new socialist democratic party does is right out of that book. You would think we would know how to fight it by now, Trump does a fair job.
Yep. Wellness and feelings are girl things. But they are possible only after the food gets on the table.
I have to snort when I hear Trump haters moan about what a great threat Trump is. The only things Trump really threatens are the illusions of his supporters.
I get your point, but … I’m not sure the other side is completely w/o merit. We care about the morale of guerilla fighters in purely masculine terms because moral/rage is what allows that force to continue to fight i.e., unlike a traditional army, each of those fighters can just wake up one day and decide to do something else / disappear into the general populace.
Ditto, albeit to a lesser extent, wrt the political class of Moscow. We care b/c Putin has more flexibility if the rest of the political class is firmly behind him.
Wellness and Safety and Inclusion and Belonging … … Then there is the most evil and demonic one of them all – Psychological/Emotional Safety. As if a person has so forfeited their agency over their own mind and emotional center that StateMother must intervene anywhere and everywhere to protect someone who is totally defenseless. How sick is this society that so many are so sick that they embrace this state of being and the State that wants you to live in it?
As for the spouting of these words, it is all performative. It is just a performance for the wicked to act like they are moral and for vacuous strivers to degrade themselves in order to keep what they have or get more. For the consciously evil it is an incantation used to assume total and absolute power.
In the end it is demonic. It is interesting to see Bosch and a lot of the Dutch and Flemish depictions of demons in their paintings.
In the end we are confronting demonic evil. The final battle has arrived. Dumping masses of biomass into your city or town or village is the final stand. If Americans accept this without pushback they are finished just as their country that did not legally and physically repudiate the 50s and 60s was finished. The system has abolished all of the rules. So the pushback and I am going for a nice walk in the park.
Occasionally one of our guys gets a bit of space on the Con Inc. Israel First sites.
Raw Egg Nationalist got one and he has an excellent piece that cuts to the heart of the matter for Us.
https://amgreatness.com/2024/09/17/emasculation-nation/
Today’s post touched on feminization and infantilization. There is something to be said about institutionalized sodomy as well.
I have been delving into the positive identity formation project. I have spent a fair amount of time looking into the Nordic culture. First of all its Cosmology is scientifically correct, so its morality and its mythos-reality connection is also correct.
Their stance on male:male sexual practice is one of repudiation not because of, “hate”, but because of practicality. They asked themselves, “If a man is willing to get gorilla fucked by another man or suck another man’s cock, isn’t he a totally compromised man? He permits the penetration of his bodily boundaries so how will he defend our moral, legal and territorial boundaries? If he is an emissary what is to become of us if he is physically subordinating himself to those he sits across the table from or compromises our interests to get his counterpart to subordinate himself?” They also believed that the anus is how evil spirits entered the body. In rituals where they did something without clothing like a King’s funeral, they would cover their anus with a hand to keep stray, evil spirits from entering in. Can we not look at the demonic imagery we see in our libraries and colleges and story hours and say that they were wrong? In sum, this stance wasn’t a matter of morals it was a matter of practical reality.
I do not ordinarily like use of lewd language, but I feel this is in order and topical. We have abandoned use of disgust and shame as practical tools used for practical ends. Is love love? Or is this just some phrase that cackling demons have invented as a cover for demonic entry by promoting and celebrating getting the shaft from another man?
We don’t have to perish at the hands of their seppuku. Take the necessary steps and forge deep connections with those who refuse to accept Our disembowelment.
Way back when Solomon described this way… a continual dripping on a very rainy day & a contentious woman are alike; whoever restrains her restrains the wind, and grasps oil with his right hand.
(I read ‘contentious woman’ as a BOT)
Inside every contentious woman is a sandwich waiting to be made.
This stuff is fun to think about, but wrt what turns the tide, you have to keep in mind the incredible material gains from the 19th century on. We don’t know the misery that makes men change. We might be locked into increasing insanity until that happens.
Maybe. I think it’s not so much misery as we no longer encourage things like risk taking or adventure. We actively discourage them.
The world of the past was when a man would wake up excited, not knowing what the day would hold. Now, he knows. He’s going to fill out the TPS report and use the right cover sheet.
Gawd, is there any more effective way of destroying masculinity?
Now they care about how “marginalized groups” are feeling about their social status. That’s a great way to describe it. That really seems to be the only thing that matters to the regime.
Ironically, the opposite is happening as the “minority” numbers are going up. I’m observing that non-whites are increasingly failing to behave normally around white people in the professional world. They are extremely fake and awkward and just not fun to be around. It’s either that or they act like knockoffs of ghetto African American culture.
It seems like the woke propaganda has left them permanently second guessing themselves, self aware, highlighted their sense of inferiority, and made them hyper paranoid of any perceived racism / slight against them.
I also think the number of white people is just too low to meaningfully assimilate anyone now. Mass immigration is a disaster and those born in the West are somehow turning out to be *less* assimilated than their parents.
Regarding your 2nd to last point, all of these groups have “point people” – for lack of a better term – that give them a basic ground work of what Whites cannot get away with in most settings.
two years ago I was attempting to get some paperwork at the local sheriff’s office civil division and there was a hispanic couple on line in front of me trying to tell the deputy that served them papers for an execution, that he was wrong in doing so. As I watched them, I noticed that the female was attempting to goad the deputy, while the male was discretely filming everything with his phone. At one point another deputy – a hispanic – stepped in in an attempt to mediate the situation. The female then tried the same crap with him and got even angrier. At one point they both stormed out and once I was up I asked the two of them what that was all about and the first deputy explained to me that they got thrown out of an apartment due to the fact that they basically destroyed it. The landlord sued for damages and won, the reason why the couple was there in the first place was because the local hispanic legal foundation told them that they wouldn’t have to pay a dime and they could countersue the landlord on the grounds that she has a bias against latinos.
Don’t ask me how they would accomplish that, but we live in an age of insanity, so who knows. The hispanic deputy remarked that the female became so enraged because he wouldn’t side with her and help her out.
OT, but I replied to your latest reply in yesterday’s thread. It was a mistake on my part. Check it out.
Different “Steve”. No worries. I replied.
If a boss asks a worker what he can do to make his life better, you will see total silence if the worker answers bluntly, “pay me more.” It’s considered an impolite and declasse answer. Insubordinate even.
Hence the meme of “work pizza party”
Shop owner asked me once why I thought I deserved a raise, given that he considered the value I added to his company was “just doing your job”.
I told him that the fire won’t get any hotter unless you pour more coal on it.
If you worked for me, you would have already had your last raise.
Tell me what kinds of projects you should be put on. If you are leadership material, sell that. If you have skills I don’t know about, tell me.
Gimme Dat? Yeah. That’ll work…
Don’t get the downvotes.
“Gimme dat or I’ll keep dragging my feet!”
No, it’s not complementary to be equated to nogs, but…
Never say what you are willing to pay. If you have a job you think is worth $25, and someone says he’ll do it for $15, he’s not worth that. End the interview as quickly and with as little acrimony as possible.
If he says $35, he’s probably worth $20 or $45+. Those are the guys you need to interview further to figure out which. “That’s more than this job is worth. What extra do you bring to the table? What kind of projects can you add value to?”
That’s how you hire an A.
With respect to the pager caper by Israel, the law of unintended consequences applies. We’ve all been in a fight or two in our lives. If its a standup affair and you exchange a few punches, that’s an honorable exercise no matter who wins or loses. But if the other guy kicks you in the nuts, then its game on and someone’s going to the hospital. That is the fate that awaits the IDF if they invade Lebanon. Its going to be ugly, as it should when fighting an despicable asshole. We The People are being kicked in the nuts. When the rubber band snaps, we will welcome the ugly with an unbridled enthusiasm.
Babble about values establishes the friend/enemy distinction while pretending not to, because exclusionary binaries are not nice, and therefore can only be used by those who do not share Our Values.
It’s like Aristophanes looked into the future and saw the Talmud.
Kekkekkekkek.
That’s because they all know what she means. Their “values” are just the unrestricted ability to murder their own children in utero. That is the only issue that matters to Harris supporters, and it is extremely popular among women voters.
Removing women’s “rights” fixes this.
One wonders what Harris would run on if the SCOTUS hadn’t done what it did. Or if it even would be Harris.
Actually, her “values” are the whole panoply of Leftist views revolving around the adoration of negroes, perverts and to a lesser extent women, combined with the abomination of the Blue-Eyed Ice Devil.
Abortion is merely an offshoot. Their main issue is anti-White and anti-male hatred, which is hatred of God-ordained hierarchy and order.
@3g4me
took my comment away :-). I was going to write this exact thing. Spot on.
“Now the point of a benefits plan is to increase employee wellness, which cannot be measured, only assessed. More importantly, there is no way to connect employer behavior to the result.”
Been there, done that. It finally got so bad at university that I simply stated upfront in consultation discussions: “If you can’t measure it, it doesn’t exist!”
”Assessment” without replicable metric is itself subjective, hence the reason most social studies are irreproducible (see: Journal of Irreproducible Results). 😉
If I had a nickel for every time I asked someone why something is important and they got distressed over the question, this site would be gold-plated. “Why is this measure important?” is often received like I asked to see naked pictures of them. Another question that gets me in trouble is “what do you do with this information?”
I get it since for many people in leadership or management positions their default world view is “I MADE my decision, why in the Hell are you questioning it?” 😒 I myself, nowhere near a leadership or management position (perhaps I am at the lowest of rungs if I am), have to fight the feeling. “Hey, we set this plan up. Why are you changing it?”
But, you too have a point. Way back in college I took a systems analysis class. My professor had a poster in front of their office that said “The most effective question to ask is ‘Why?'”. The gist being, ask someone why they want something, and if they can’t make a simple, solid case for it, DON’T DO IT! A lot of “needed” items are someone’s vanity project or “bright idea”.
As always Z, maximize the amount of work that DOESN’T need to be done. Then move on and plan and work to what does. 👍
Great Comment. My story: My platoon gave regular operations briefings to battalion and brigade commanders. They were fairly canned presentations of operational tempo [we were collecting ELINT across a hostile border]. One day the battalion S-3 decides we need to add a new metric to the briefing. It was some worthless chicken-sh*t thing that I just knew would take a mountain of work to compile each month.
I explained to him the work involved and how little meaning and worth the metric would have. He pointed at the bars on my shoulders, then grinned and tapped the oak leaves on his.
That was the moment I decided to get out of the Army. Not that I haven’t encountered the same kind of thing since, but giving a superior officer the finger is not an option in the military.
[I’ve also gotten “wiser”; I’ve learned the way to handle it is nod along, then blow the thing off. Chances are the dope will forget he asked, and if he does remember, then say you forgot. It beats making the troops bust their ass for some field-grade’s stupid idea.]
When all the basic needs are taken care of, what we’re left with are vanity projects to keep everybody employed.
What do you think the split is now?
80/20 in favor of vanity projects.
“The most effective question to ask is ‘Why?'”
Probably because your professor is an academic. Outside academia, the most effective question is, “How?”
Unlike academia, in the real world, when we ask a question, we don’t know the answer to it.
Let’s not forget the subset of “wellness” and its travelling partner—–“Mental Health”. Bodies are still oozing and the cries go out for more “mental health”….At once both unmeasurable AND undefinable.
The king of objective metrics is alphabetical order. It’s all but historically arbitrary and signifies nothing, but we absolutely need it—to sort stuff.
(Without it, finding a book would depend on somebody remembering where they all are. You know what an asshole that guy is…from his depictions in fiction. Civilization is his unemployment. If he’s around, the apocalypse is winning. Look how smug he is!)
Everyone who’s done a bid in corporate knows: Management numbers are that kind of numbers.
I was just watching Terminator 2, on FX.
A commercial for HIV medication came on and an interracial homosexual male couple was shown kissing in their kitchen.
I do believe I have finally been compelled to get rid of my TV.
The only reason broadcasting corporations can get away with disseminating such vile perversions is because the collective gag reflex has been excised. Whereas in the past extreme disgust caused us to raise hell, now we just stare ahead with glassy eyes and slack jaws.
To our shame,but apparently true.
Michael Hoffman writes upon this phenomenon, arguing that we have been subjected to mass trauma in order to make us malleable.
Mass trauma–that’s a pretty good way to describe the onslaught of propaganda and indoctrination we’ve been receiving for the last half century or so. And it’s succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, no doubt.
I had enjoyed reading crappy but entertaining fiction (TEOTWAWKI, time travel, espionage, etc.) as escapism. Invariably now, even with previously reliable authors, I encounter “x” and his husband, or “y” the magic black nuclear physicist, within the first 25 pages. Amazon has banned me from writing what I thought were carefully worded reviews of such books. Most of my physical books (those we didn’t sell prior to moving ) are still in boxes at another location because our cabin lacks the space.
There is nothing they will not pervert or destroy. Those who think they can avoid choosing a side by retreating to comic books, video games, knitting, or any other past time will ultimately learn the hard way. And by avoiding choosing, they make their allegiances clear.
Saw this today and fits with your comment…
the uprising went unresisted, to a man – even as those men and soldiers saw what was coming. And yet they did not respond accordingly. Terror has that effect. By the time it’s felt, it’s too late…
Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.
We no longer watch any live TV. We have some streaming services, but we watch mostly documentaries and I purchase all of the old movies that I enjoy watching over and over. The days of sitting through these unbearable commercials are over for us.
In the immortal words of a long ago comment on the Z-blog:
If there’s crazy, there’s pussy involved.
A good example of this infantilization of politics came in the last debate; one of the mods asked Trump, “Do you want the Ukraine to win the war?” like it was the Jets/Chiefs game. No consideration of what victory looks like, what the Russian goals are, what can be negotiated, what can be enforced just “do you want the approved narrative good guys to win because the other guys are bad?” Jesus Christ.
Public life today is all adult toddlers with nukes, to keep it interesting
Bam bam! Kamala make Russia go bam bam! Hee hee hee!
xirl economics
Well if we don’t get Xirl Science anymore, we’ll have to make do with Xirl economics eh?
Excellent, Z.
Along with the feminization of the ruling class has come the infantilization of politics.
The question, unanswered here or anywhere else I read, is “why?” My hunch is abundance. Some point to the Rat Utopia experiment, but a reversion to infantilism was not the primary problem that was identified in the study. Feminization certainly became a problem among the rats. Does feminization lead to infantilization? Maybe.
If abundance is indeed the reason and is fleeting, and it almost certainly will not be sustained, masculinity and adulthood will be reasserted in dramatic fashion when it goes away. The Ruling Class cannot have the people they desire over the long term unless that population is feminine and childish and placated. Mass migration, neutered men and all the other half-assed insurance policies ultimately will fail in that regard because pliability is finite. As you frequently point out, the “who” that reasserts itself is what matters, and the ultimate goal must be that it is our people who do so. That raises the question of “how,” and the answer starts with survival.
Again, great piece.
Abundance has indeed allowed people to live carelessly. I know. I have drifted along carelessly for most all my life and things have worked out just swell. I’ve made decisions and choices that would be unthinkable in times of scarcity, because I knew there was enough opportunity and options that something good would turn up.
No generation before the boomers ever had such plenty.
An honest and self-reflective elder. You should be in office, not the other Boomers.
How very true. I’ve got a collection of 20 nice wrist watches, for crying out loud. If one ignores the importance of aesthetics, nothing could be more frivolous. But in times of uncertainty and scarcity, frivolity becomes gross irresponsibility. At least I’m not guilty of that.
Oh I don’t know Brother a nice Rolex is as good as cash and they seem to be beating inflation so can’t really knock yourself for that…
Appreciate it. However, I don’t own a Rolly, or even an Omega or Grand Seiko. I’ve got an odd yen for obscurity and individuality, and my collection reflects that. Still, if need be, I could sell the collection and recoup a good deal of the money spent.
I picked up a nice Rolecks the other day. Dirt cheap. Couldn’t believe it.
Nor will any after
alot of them don’t get this, glad you pointed it out.
Agreed, however with Israel it appears that the blowing up of comms, including radios, is a prelude to invasion. So that’s practical.
Indeed, the entire reaction of Israel has been a divide between those who are practical and those who care about looking good. If you believe reports, Bibi has had both increased protests (those who care about looking good) AND popularity, as many and perhaps most Israelis see a “War to the death” with Hamas and Hezbollah. That after Oct 7 the old ways of pretend strikes and pretend retaliation are simply not possible. The size and scope of Oct 7 was something that Hamas did not anticipate. Their model was that of course the Israelis would continue to care about looking good. Instead they view the conflict with both semi-state actors as one that can only end with themselves dead or their enemies.
This is the same mistake the neocons are making with Russia btw. That of course Putin will simply do the same old things no matter what because he will care more about looking good than survival. This is due to lack of competition and fear that among elites that particularly the early Cold War induced. The elites had to provide a good living for ordinary people to ward off the appeal of communism for those looking to move up in status and wealth. Two cars and a yearly two week vacation were a powerful argument against Communism. They understood adversaries fears as they had them themselves.
The end of history seems to have left elites both over-confident and incompetent. Sort of like a DEI hire.
OT: it would appear the main motivation for Diddy’s arrest is that he has video of Obama engaging in non-straight activities if you catch my drift.
Great comment.
Seems to me like something you would do the morning of the invasion, or no more than 24 hrs prior. Yet we’re still waiting. Perhaps there is more to come.
They may be using the wounded and dead to map out networks for occupation troops to wipe out.
Diddy, jz and all these rap and hip hop guys are ties up with cia. Look up Lyor Cohen.
When we write the obituary of the American Empire three things that are not polite to talk about must be talked about before anything new is begun.
1. Jewish power and its affect on us, especially since 1945.
2. Female power and its affect on us since the 19th amendment.
3. Race realism and why the truth must be told and acted upon or its impossible to build anything new.
Three subjects that are taboo right now but must be faced to build anything new as this order weakens away.
The three classical sticking points from normie to dissident: JQ, WQ, RQ
Truth.. You can’t have the 14 Words without overcoming those sticking points…
I have to say that if I had to choose one of these to focus on, it would be the second, the WQ.
A simple analysis would hold that because we’ll never persuade women to give up their voting (& other) privileges voluntarily, it will be that difference that will distinguish successful societies going forward. And it isn’t just an East vs West distinction either. MacArthur gave Japan a new constitution modeled after the American one and look where it’s led them. Korea has the lowest fertility rate in the world. China is also experiencing a hollowing-out. The entire world has become feminized to varying degrees with plummeting birth rates even in SS Africa. Even Islam isn’t immune. But the only really resistant groups are found in the Islamic world, those of its more radical elements. There are some Christian holdouts, such as that pastor in Texas who said that women shouldn’t be allowed to vote, but he is viewed with horror by the rest of “Christian” society.
Is there a more sophisticated analysis that overrides this simple analysis? I don’t see it. It has been observed that Native American societies that were the most bloodthirsty were matrilineal, a step away from matriarchy. There has never been widespread matriarchy until now. Death by a thousand cuts, that’s a uniquely feminine association. A slow death by a thousand cuts would be optimistic except that the franchise on the Bomb has been expanded and tactical nukes are “soberly” debated . So the possibility exists that there will be no successful societies at all going forward except for a few isolated tribes in the Amazon.
Patriarchy is the normal, healthy state of a society. Feminism is an attack on that normal, healthy state.
Very powerful summary. Nice work. I’d only add that white men:
* when affluent, become the most gullible people on the planet (and the most generous).
* have a tendency towards abstract ideology, which no one else in the world shares. We look at a race war and conclude that the conflict is about “communism.”
We look at a race war and conclude that the conflict is about “communism.”
While it is not exactly right, it’s not entirely wrong. Most of what ails us is at least talked about in equalitarian rhetoric and occasionally communism.
The real problem isn’t that anyone views it through a lens of communism so much as their answer to it is just the flip side of communism, egalitarianism.
Really, our preferences should not need rationalizations. I don’t want them here because I don’t want to smell them, look at them or interact with them in any way.
Opening our telecommunications to the rest of the world (cheaply) has made our phone system near useless. Now you have to treat every single caller whose voice is not known to you as a scam of some sort. That is one of the many (very large) costs that isn’t on a spreadsheet somewhere comparing the costs to the benefits this supposedly has. How many of our seniors, who grew up in a society where the phone could be trusted have lost all or a significant portion of their life savings to phone scammers?
More egregiously, most all these spam calls could be stopped in a NY minute. None of these calls are made without payment for the facility use to AT&T (and derivatives—baby bells—across the nation). They have the ability to listen in to these calls and suspend the account (ability to robocall call). There might now be other notable players, but it’s the same choke point. However, they want the revenue, so no action takes place on their end.
I appreciate the fine response Tars. I especially resonate with “our preferences should not need rationalizations.”
However, I submit that if we could wipe away all the white man’s thoughts about communism, and its flip side egalitarianism, we would see our current world more accurately.
“…if we could wipe away all the white man’s thoughts about communism, and its flip side egalitarianism, we would see our current world more accurately.”
Doubtful. Essentially, that is a return to Kantian philosophy, which was replaced with post-Kantianism because it didn’t explain the empirical evidence. “Universalism” was wrong, but there’s no good answer (yet) for what is right. For some reason, people don’t perceive the world as any of the models predict.
Another reason that charts have no impact on the plebes is that they are completely dinnumerable.
I’d estimate that at least 95% of AINO residents are completely innumerate.
Remember:
5/4ths of Americans have trouble understanding fractions.
105% of Americans report problems understanding percentages.
The CDC: some people have more than one personality, thats how the numbers add up. Trust the science
And our most venerated and idolized people, mouth breathing athletes who have 2nd grade educations, always give 110%. The blonde sideline reporter, (maybe they have all been replaced with WOCs ???), nods and smiles and goes back to the box to the commentators who tell you what you are watching as you watch it.
110% + a 2nd grade education (which is probably so degraded it isn’t worth reading to your children at night starting at 4), + a gaggle of dolts in suits for The Win!!!!
RR-
When I do make the mistake of tuning into sportsball these days, I can assure you that all the sideline reporters are white women.
You already know why.
>100% registered voters cast votes in election-critical precincts. Few citizens are interested let alone complain. Women feel it is an awesome indicator of enthusiasm.
Please try to show some compassion. Many Americans, especially women and minorities, struggle to survive while living in fraction-and-percentage deserts.
Maffs, they be discriminatin’ and stuff. 😡
Don’t you be tryin’ no Cramer’s Rule on me, Cracker!
The greatest Ruling Class switcheroo has been to substitute “wellness” and “values” for actual material progress. Mao with his 5-Year Plans and Stalin with his coal production quotas would have never understood this. Our grandparents would have been baffled too. Today’s collectivists have aligned societal goals around abstractions. Obviously Western living standards are declining. But it’s a threshold issue: living standards are high enough that the switcheroo works. This is the greatest paradox of our times. It will take an economic collapse to resolve it.
Or everyone’s favorite closing catchphrase from the Covidian tyranny, “Be Safe!”.
Next time I hear some female politician or bureaucrat prattling on about “keeping us safe” I am going to retch.
Yes. The ruling class, the media, the academy, and even business have become completely feminized. (There are still plenty of cold, steely-eyed capitalists grinding x-number of widgets per out out of the workers for y-profit, but that has all been offshored to China and Mexico and Vietnam where the coolie labor is not unionized or give any pushback for their $2 wages and 14-hour days).
I found this out over 20 years ago in the academy. Upon defending my dissertation, I accepted a job at a very large community college with 30,000 students. I grew up in a blue-collar household and had a very objective, task-oriented approach. I needed employment, period, so I took what was there. (Plus, at the time I believed that community colleges offered the same gen-ed courses as a baccalaureate school without any frills or fraternities or beer pong games. That was perhaps never entirely true but it was truer then than it is now).
Anyway, I stupidly thought that my job was to teach student a discrete body of knowledge and that a junior college would be honored to have somebody with my credentials. Boy, was I ever wrong. It turned out that the place was a giant kaffee klatsch of gossipy left-wing women, virtually all of whom were unqualified or underqualified. My department chair was a micromanaging Karen with only an M.A. The VP for Academic Affairs for the entire institution didn’t have a doctorate, but she was, by God, the “first woman” in the position.
I saw the place hire and give tenure to professors who were utterly incompetent and hated by students but they checked the right boxes for “feelz.”
Needless to say I did not last long, they threw me out post-haste.
Several years after I was defenestrated and enrollment had dropped by a third, the faculty voted no-confidence in the college’s first female president… she decamped for an institution three times bigger with a proportionately bigger paycheck.
You are now going to see this on the national level, where they are trying to kill the guy with actual accomplishments and install the first Bimbo of Color in the White House…
Your experience with [cough] higher education called to mind a old story which isn’t well known in this gruesome civilization.
During the teaching career of Siddhattha Gotama, he was beset with a request by a woman, one of his father’s wives, to admit women into the order of mendicant beggars. Three times she, the woman who had raised Gotama after his mother died, pleaded her case. Three times he refused, after which he departed the area where this interaction occured.
She organized a bunch of women who followed Gotama to the new place where he’d taken up residence. Some time after her arrival, this woman, with feet swollen and her body covered by dust, began crying nearby. Gotama’s personal attendant, Ananda, learned of her cause and so approached Gotama to describe the woman’s condition and sadness. Ananda requested three times that women be admitted to the order. Three more times Gotama refused.
Ananda next employed a new approach. Basically he crossexamined Gotama until the latter conceded that some women were in fact capable of leading the holy life and attaining unbinding, awakening, and the deathless. Ananda also laid a guilt trip on Gotama about the woman having nursed and cared for him in his youth.
Gotama relented, provided that the woman accept eight rules, one of which included the preeminence of all male renunciants over females. Another rule forbade the females to rebuke or abuse any of the males. The woman accepted and received higher ordination thereby. This not the end of the story, though.
Gotama realized that there would be adverse consequences of admitting women. Had they not received permission, he said, the doctrine and discipline would have endured long and the “Sublime Dhamma” (quoting an author named Nārada) would have survived for thousands of years. Yet because women entered the homeless state, the holy life would not last long and the Sublime Dhamma would remain for just 500 years. (It seems to follow that what’s known today is partly inauthentic.)
“Just as, Ananda, houses in which there are many women and but few men are easily violated by burglars, even so, under whatsoever doctrine and discipline women are permitted to renounce the world and enter the homeless state, that Holy Life will not last long. And just as a man would in anticipation build an embankment to a great reservoir beyond which the water should not overpass, even so have I in anticipation laid down these eight Chief Rules for the Bhikkhunis [female beggars] not to be transgressed throughout their lives.”
Women’s superpower: Nagging. We men have a weakness that we Just. Want. Quiet. To rest our weary bones.
Nope.
So we fall into the trap of “OK, if I let you do this will you just be quiet?”
And there the camel gets its toe, er, nose under the tent.
Nagging is just the manifestation of women being unwilling/unable to take no for an answer to something they want
If you have never seen this – one of the greatest videos ever – then do yourself a favor. The video is only one and a half minutes, but this is Man at his most Man. The way she thought she had him, and he just terms it right back at her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YDqm7LXt2g
Yeah and (((baba Wawa))) obviously needed a good slap in the face during interview. What a high and mighty bi**** she thought she was…
Women want to yammer on aimlessly and endlessly. Men want to be left in peace so they can drink a beer and pet the dog. That’s the sort of “safe space” I’d like.
The tongue of both the dog and the women are used for the same purpose, social grooming.
“…the rulers get the people they desire.” Oddly enough, they prefer foreigners and criminals over the country’s law-abiding heritage population — well, as long as they don’t have to personally live among their beloved dusky hordes.
Boy do shitlibs hate it when you point out their hypocrisy on immigration. Reactions bordering on hysteria.
They cherry-pick a few compliant, docile ones to come into their HOA in an old Chevy van and tend their gardens and fix their roofs… then send them packing at 5 pm.
Z today: Put women in charge and it’s all about feelings and emotions.
i would argue about shaming just now becoming a thing. In the past, as the old joke goes, the worst thing to happen to a male politician was “to be caught in bed 🛌 with a dead woman or a live boy”. Men of power who were caught with their pants down (quite literally) were expected to resign in shame.
Now? They flaunt their degeneracy. Let that freak flag 🌈 fly eh? I suppose it’s a legacy of one sex that doesn’t want to be judged on how many sexual partners they’ve had taking over.
Joke indeed.
Chappaquiddick’s dead girl (caught with) was before most of us were born. It improved Kennedy’s image with women, as any actual wise man would predict.* The Senator for life could easily have been president—for life, if they wanted. The deciders were, even then, too media-addled to know it. “Dead girl” is a problem in stories, the land of invented obstacles. In real life, royalty is (indistinguishable from, except in extremis) total freedom.
Current_year is older than we think. Most of it is a lot older than 1969.
*The known facts of the case best fit this crime: As prelude to or during rape, Kennedy beat her so badly he thought she was dead. Maybe he’d never punched a girl before and didn’t know what one hit can do. He staged an accident for the cops to say she died in—and she actually died in it. He saw it happen, her face squashed against the window, and panicked. It took him all night to come to terms with what his lawyers had to explain again and again to him was an unlikely success.
The collective female unconscious deduced this and loved him for it, forever.
Aristotle.
3 modes of persuasion.
Ethos, pathos, logos.
Giggles is pathetic.
“Harris, on the other hand, talks about her plan in soft, intangible terms. What matters to her, and what she thinks matters to you, is that she shares your values as a middle-class person.”
This is patently vacuous bullshit on her part. She’s an apparatchik of the deep state, just like those p.o.s. Biden and Hillary. Not one of them had or has a domestic program worth the name so of course what they say has to be couched in vague and woolly words that evaporate into nothingness on close scrutiny. Harris is Biden 2.0 — just more endless wars and try to maintain the oligarchic status quo domestically. We all know this but a recent piece by Patrick Lawrence at the Unz site provides the sordid details:
https://www.unz.com/article/the-war-party-makes-its-plans/
“What we are seeing is an orientalization of the culture. Saving face and losing face are things that we associate with East Asian societies. An important person is found to have failed in his duties, so in order to avoid losing face and shaming his family and associates, he kills himself in a ritualized fashion.”
I don’t know how far this comparison extends. Japanese seppuku is a painful way to inflict death on yourself. I haven’t seen any Western politician or general do this recently. They seem to be a bunch of craven jackasses who don’t even fight in the wars of choice they initiate, let alone commit ritual suicide. US military policy since 2001 has been one fiasco after another but no-one has even admitted it, let alone been held accountable, let alone committed suicide. When that rabid dog John Bolton was asked about the Iraq fiasco, he replied breezily, “Well, it seemed a good call at the time.” On the other hand, those who bring the details of these fiascos to light are hounded to the ends of the earth. There is no honor or shame among the Western “leadership” at all.
“Probably the biggest fact, however, is the ruling class of the American empire has not had to worry about the duties of a ruling class for a long time.”
I think Ken Wark pointed out that this is the most under-performing ruling elite in the history of the world. These bums have no skin of their own in the game.
No analogy is perfect. That is never the point of an analogy. The ritualized suicide in the modern West is the groveling apology, followed by banishment and then a slow rehabilitation, if the person shows sufficient contrition.
Well, simply put: We have shame without honor and managerialism without accountability, feedback or consistent rules.
Reminds me of C.S. Lewis’s book “The Abolition of Man”, where he critiques modern education and its impact on human morality. The exact quote is:
“We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”
Holds as true today as then.
New Amerika is an emasculated nation. Christians and ‘conservatives’ too. They obey their wives, their daughters, and the Sisterhood. Or else.
Not many men are willing to endure ‘or else’ because the Sisterhood WILL destroy your life, if you buck them off. Ask me how I know.
The most terrifying aspect of that Unz link is that the CIA director William Burns is among those claiming that “Putin is bluffing” about responding in kind to a NATO attack directly on Russia. I’ve long thought these deluded clowns would bumble into nuclear war and that has become a probability now.
Burns does have a point. We’re about a month into a NATO invasion of Russia proper and everybody’s just kind of pretending that hasn’t happened.
A month’s delay is starting a nuclear war is not reassuring in the least. It is almost a certitude that an initial strike, likely on Ukraine, is being explored (probably hypersonics initially) and prepared now.
Here’s the sticking point: the invasion has proven disastrous in every way for Ukraine. Their reserves, both men and material, are severely depleted even as their ‘Eastern Front’ is collapsing. Putin’s personal popularity has dropped marginally (by 2 iirc) from some (by American standards) ridiculously high number that no American president has EVER achieved. Also note that the the decrease in satisfaction is amplification of wishing he would intensify the war. The neoliberal traitors substantially left Russia in 2022. There is no evidence that there is some growing signal of “let’s surrender”.
Sure, it makes Putin look bad to low-info Western audiences, but he doesn’t care about that at all, because the opinions of foreign clown trash have zero influence on the only contest that matters: socially cooperative killing until demilitarization and deNazification are achieved. The PR gains might warrant a sentence in a history book, which will be written in Russian, and read by children living inside Russian Federation territory that used to belong to the International Jew colony called ‘Ukraine’. [Your people on your people’s land with your men guarding your borders] is the only thing that matters.
The invasion into Kursk was allowed to happen because it proved Putin’s point that Nato is an existential threat to Russia. Xhi and Modri Aren’t pushing for negotiations as they previously were.
Kind of anecdotal, but my wife occasionally watches America’s Got Talent. I’m usually in another room as I can’t stand that kind of crap anymore. Anyway, if I (unfortunately) tune into the sound, all I hear are girls and women screaming and cheering, non-stop. And in our enlightenment, we’ve allowed these types into positions of power and influence throughout society. When you think about it, it’s no wonder we’re at the current sad pass – and likely to get sadder. The question is will we ever get that genie back in the bottle…
We won’t but some culture that isn’t ruled by women will and it will be a very painful process for all involved…
I usually think of this dynamic in the sense of legions of women screaming their heads off to The Beatles or Elvis. There is no corollary for men behaving this way. The closest you can get is him cheering for his sportsball team, which fails as a comparison, since it lacks the sexual aspect (which is the primary aspect of the woman’s behavior here), and also he only cheers for them when they do well, otherwise he boos or is silent. Whereas they have wet panties regardless. I’ve heard a reliable report of women peeing themselves in excitement at a James Brown concert. This doesn’t happen with men. Anyhow, it’s been decided that they should rule over us.
If we dont reject that last decision Darwin’s going to pull us from the game
Coach Darwin is definitely not a “players’ coach”…
He’s all about the score
Good post but it isn’t just the feminization of the ruling class, it is also the feminization of the managerial class and the increasing role of women in society. For example, young men are starting to turn away from politics while young women are increasing their participation.
Harris’ talk of joy appeals to women because they don’t have to understand boring issues, they just have to want to experience joy. Women also hate being accountable and don’t think in terms of statistics. So tying your advocacy to easily measured goals is a threat to them.
You can see this played out in almost all western white countries. Women in Germany don’t care if the country is deindustrialized. They just want inclusiveness (just not for the ADF).
All of our society is turning into a sitcom run by HR females…It’s about what’s “nice” as defined by single women rather than what works…As Derbyshire wrote long ago, We Are Doomed…..
Nice – from the Latin “nescius” – ignorant and foolish. Gradually morphed into ‘fussy’ and then into ‘agreeable’ and ‘pleasant.’ A useless, meaningless word suited to a world run for useless women.
Agreed, but harsh. Women have the greater role of either sex—child bearing and child rearing. They’vejust been told the “great lie” wrt to their role in society. To which I provide visible proof—even the worst scumbag on earth with take your head off if you screw with their mother, not so much for dad.
Women who eschew marriage and children – their innate biological and social function – to pretend to be police officers or to harass men as office managers – are useless. And yes, every nogger claims eternal fealty to his mama – this is not a sterling example of the maternal role and import. For western Christians, “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife . . . “
Some wag has called them “Brides of the State” (BOTS). What joy they used to get from marriage and family they now get from the false euphoria of worshipping the State and riding the co*k carousel.
The BOTs army. Worth the read.
https://unherd.com/2024/08/the-march-of-kamalas-brides/
Unreadable, site Incessant “sign up” windows. Crap.
“They now get from the false euphoria of worshiping the State and riding the co*k carousel.”
A women’s time to do so doesn’t last very long. One of the reasons they’re pissed. The State won’t be there to hold their hand with love and kindness when they get old and commence to fall apart. And as for the Co*k carousel, face it, gals. That gives out real quick. If you keep to that path, first you’re young and desirable, sticking to the hunt you then become a Cougar, soon after that you’re just ridden hard and put away wet, and after that no more guys and you’re turning into a hag and a lush. Unless you have a million bucks to keep the cosmetic surgery going. And after a certain bit of time on that path, you’re just plain disgusting and Old Scratch is showing up at the end of the driveway. This is the Gollum effect on aging. Women can age nicely if they don’t fight reality. Men look much more distinguished and attractive over 50. Yahoo! Life ain’t fair. Why fight it!
Women also hate being accountable and don’t think in terms of statistics. So tying your advocacy to easily measured goals is a threat to them
Want to terrify / anger a woman? Make her make a decision and stick to it. 😉
Women will avoid any “decision making” like an ant avoids a child’s magnifying glass in the sun. This of course is directly related to taking responsibility.
Their only responsibility should in rearing children and keeping house…
I watch the YouTube, and every other ad lately is some woman past her childbearing years worrying about abortion or Trump bad because convicted, Kamala shares our community’s values. It’s a woman’s world, and it’s hysterical, failing, careening from one daily crisis to the next. Covid was a plague, Putin is Hitler, Trump is Orange Hitler, etc.
Biased, but I like being a man, prefer being a man. It’s peaceful and orderly by comparison, even if you have to fight sometimes. This is the hell women live through, hence the perennial wisdom of being led by men.
PS guys, you already let the bitch have everything. You’re hanging around for scraps. That ain’t much to lose.
When it comes to manipulating women, compared to the regime the PUAs really are pikers
The regime has the Trump card: ability to steal and give away infinite beta bucks
Around the turn of the century there was a PUA fad on TV. Tucker Max did a show, the guy in the silly pimp hat had a series for years, “manosphere” names we know were judge-panelist-commentators on dating and reality shows, etc.
I didn’t watch any of it but it was popular with women I knew and had a strong Freudian (actual Freud) effect on them. They started wondering aloud about their own decision-making, their susceptibility to manipulation, Why do we fall for obvious crap from obvious creeps?, asking men if they know this stuff and keep it secret, etc. I never met a man who read The Game but I saw it on a few girls’ shelves. As seen on TV.
Corporations don’t have economic motives. Those shows were huge hits with The Demo™—and all canceled at once à la the “Rural Purge.” Their crime? Cultivating a female interest in reality (and maybe getting a few dorks laid).
Yeah, women thrive on hysteria but it makes them miserable. They get a brief shot of joy after a destructive victory then it is off to the next hysteria.
Something i’ve noticed thru out my years (and this is some women, not all women, they like to deflect with that comment) is when you get a woman who is complaining about something stupid she did, if you react to her like her dad would, tell her its her own damn fault and she needs to do this or that and stop making stupid decisions……. you’ll get a text later that night about how you were mean to her, but really she wants more. Strange.
I’ve seen that in Mrs. Steve and a few others, but self reflection like that is not the norm, is it?
I really wonder sometimes if women and their hysteria roller coaster are experiencing a rush and then flush of various hormones that has a similar effect and consequence as being addicted to opiates or stimulants. Are Western womyn just junkies literally hooked on their own supply, doomed to an endless cycle of chemically (and politically) induced ecstasy and despair? We’ll never know of course because the “human sciences” are now like 99% womyn and cucked men so no one will ever look into it.
The nice thing about tabloids and soap operas is that they’re fantasy, and that’s where they should’ve stayed.
Here is a task for you: Pay attention to how many kamala ads you can skip and how many trump ads you can skip. Report back 😉
Right? Trump ads are almost always skippable, Harris ads I’m not sure, but it seems like 50/50 or so. Kind of expect that, but the gynocentrism really sticks out! Even Trump ads don’t seem targeted at bros. It’s the women’s election, God help us.
somebody is paying attention!
You guys see Kamala ads? I don’t even see Trump ads.
PS guys, you already let the bitch have everything. You’re hanging around for scraps. That ain’t much to lose.
That applies to quite a few of our guys sad to say…Number one excuse when I talked to guys about Building Community was my wife would divorce me if I wanted to move or my wife wouldn’t like the cold…
From speaking to people and skimming thousands of online comments, it seems tons of White men would love to have their own piece of land and get out of the city rat race. Their wives? Not so much. Men need to become the heads of their own families before they can even think about wider social issues. And they need to be a lot more careful about whom they marry.
“And they need to be a lot more careful about whom they marry.”
Bingo. I get lambasted whenever I say such. There are plenty of good women around, but not necessarily the hotties you attempt to meet in bars.
Amen.
Yep. Look at young people. They’re screwed. Men already gave in, just clinging to stuff.
Funny thing, but I’ve been getting ads for make up for black women. The one ad has a woman who is as black as coal talking about lipstick.
I cannot wait until my adblocker is updated.
Lucky you lol. Exclusively politics for me right now.
Looks like you made somebody’s black list. That’s the sort of punishment you get for posting on Z.
I’ve said this before, but every single situation at work that created some sort of drama was caused by a woman. My wife works on a team of all females and she is constantly telling me how she can’t stand it because they are constantly causing some sort of ruckus. They have to complain about something incessantly, whether it is real or not. I told a shitlib acquaintance of mine once that women shouldn’t be allowed to vote or be in the boardroom. Her entire head got as red as a tomato and she went into a raging tirade. I loved every second of it since it proved my point entirely. Not to mention, I love seeing them angry and unhinged. They are miserable people who hate themselves and I wish them nothing but the worst that this life could ever offer.
“Her entire head got as red as a tomato and she went into a raging tirade.”
Ha ha ha!
God created a man first then a woman. This is because he didn’t want advise on how to make men.
I mean advice.
“They have to complain about something incessantly, whether it is real or not.”
While I didn’t personally witness this, a very dude-ish friend of mine was once the only man at a female-led company. He called it the “hen house.”
He tells me that there was once a meeting over someone’s use of “passive-aggresive font choice” in an email.
How TF does one even *do* this?
One of the biggest surprises of my life has been how fundamentally selfish most (not all) women are. I don’t think feminism changed female nature, it just revealed it. Even my own mother, who was a traditional stay at home mom, regrets that choice. She wishes that she’d been a girl-boss.
The only urge that is stronger in most women than their selfishness is their desire to be accepted by the winning team of men (the race of the winning team does not matter to most women).
Men’s only choices: insufferable girl-bosses or women who are told that if they want to join the winning team then they must suppress their selfishness and be mothers.
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